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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 22, 1998
Filed:
Oct. 09, 1996
Hisatomo Ohki, Isesaki, JP;
Shigemi Nakamura, Isesaki, JP;
Kazunori Ishizeki, Fujimi, JP;
Akira Yanagawa, Yokohama, JP;
Unisia Jecs Corporation, Atsugi, JP;
Dott Limited Company, Yokohama, JP;
Abstract
A medicator for a capsule filled with a powdered drug, comprising: a first member adapted to receive a capsule therein; a second member, having an air supply valve structure, arranged to communicate with the first member and arranged to operatively discharge air sucked from outside the medicator towards the first member in which a capsule is received; an air stream passage formed within the first member and the second member to direct air discharged from the air supply valve structure in a direction towards a capsule received by the first member; a third member removably attached to the first member to spray powdered drug in a capsule out of the medicator with air discharged from the air supply valve structure via the air stream passage; a drug trapping structure formed in the air stream passage to trap part of powdered drug contained in a capsule which falls down into the drug trapping structure; and a drug collecting structure formed in the air stream passage between the drug trapping structure and the air supply valve structure to collectively dam powdered drug from a capsule which falls in a direction opposite to the first member together with air when the air supply valve structure is in an intermediate state between a fully open state and a fully closed state, thereby preventing powdered drug from entering the air supply valve structure.