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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 19, 2010
Filed:
Jul. 19, 2006
Applicants:
Yuki Kasashima, Tokyo, JP;
Ippei Kurimoto, Tokyo, JP;
Hitoshi Kawai, Tokyo, JP;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Astellas Pharma Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61K 9/24 (2006.01); A61K 9/16 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Regarding an object of sufficient suppression of unpleasant taste in the oral cavity and quick dissolution in the gastrointestinal tract, which is generated when a drug having a strong unpleasant taste such as bitterness, astringency and the like is applied to a quickly disintegrating preparations in the oral cavity, this invention has achieved the aforementioned object for the first time by employing a constitution of coating a coat of a water-soluble polymer and a specified ratio of a pH-independent water-insoluble polymer and hydroxypropylcellulose.