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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 18, 2014
Filed:
Sep. 25, 2009
Applicants:
Thomas W. Ruckdeschel, Cary, NC (US);
David Harris, Milton, GB;
Inventors:
Thomas W. Ruckdeschel, Cary, NC (US);
David Harris, Milton, GB;
Assignee:
Oriel Therapeutics, Inc., Durham, NC (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61M 15/00 (2006.01); A61M 16/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61M 15/0045 (2013.01); A61M 15/0048 (2014.02); A61M 15/0041 (2014.02); A61M 15/0075 (2014.02); A61M 2202/064 (2013.01);
Abstract
Inhalers with an inhaler housing having a dose container disk having inner and outer perimeters mounted in the housing. The dose container disk has a plurality of circumferentially spaced apart dose containers with dry powder therein. The inhalers also include a piercer carriage with a piercer mounted in the inhaler. The piercer carriage is in communication with a resilient member that radially biases the piercer carriage to radially travel to align the piercer with an underlying or overlying dose container.