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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 27, 1994
Filed:
Jul. 15, 1993
Michael T Newhouse, Hamilton, Ontario, CA;
W Douglas Baines, Mississauga, Ontario, CA;
Other;
Abstract
A powder inhaler and process are provided for aerosolizing finely powdered or pulverized medication and a gas provided in a pillow or blister-type container of extremely thin elastic suitable plastic construction. The pillow is compressed between an anvil with a conical depression and a confronting conical piston. The conical depression has a small orifice at its apex, and the periphery of the pillow is restrained so that compression between the conical pillow and the conical depression produces explosive rupture of the pillow and exit of the gas and medication at a very high speed up to supersonic through said orifice. Medication particle clumps are very efficiently separated into separate particles, and the gas/medication exiting from the orifice are conveyed through a very small area linear or curved tube to a dispersal chamber or directly to a patient, movement through the tube producing a shearing action further enhancing separation of aggregated particles of powder medication.