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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 26, 2013
Filed:
Jan. 23, 2009
Applicants:
Ralf Thoemmes, Ingelheim am Rhein, DE;
Jessica Frentzel-beyme, Ingelheim am Rhein, DE;
Inventors:
Ralf Thoemmes, Ingelheim am Rhein, DE;
Jessica Frentzel-Beyme, Ingelheim am Rhein, DE;
Assignee:
Boehringer Ingelheim International GmbH, Ingelheim am Rhein, DE;
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61M 15/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An inhaler for delivery of a powder-form inhalation formulation from a blister strip has a plurality of blister pockets and uses a pivotable mouthpiece cover to move the blister strip onward. The mouthpiece cover is drivingly coupled with a conveyor wheel to drive the conveying wheel and to move the blister strip onward, and the axis of the actuator and of the conveying wheel is identical to the cover axis of the mouthpiece cover.