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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 26, 2016
Filed:
Aug. 18, 2014
Applicant:
Pfizer Limited, Sandwich Kent, GB;
Inventors:
Peter John Houzego, Cambridge, GB;
John Kelshaw Conway, Cambridge, GB;
Martin Douglas Pearl, Cambridgeshire, GB;
Andrew Mark Bryant, Cambridgeshire, GB;
Assignee:
PFIZER LIMITED, Sandwich Kent, GB;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61M 15/00 (2006.01); G06M 1/24 (2006.01); B65D 83/04 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61M 15/0058 (2014.02); A61M 15/0021 (2014.02); A61M 15/0026 (2014.02); A61M 15/0031 (2014.02); A61M 15/0045 (2013.01); A61M 15/0048 (2014.02); A61M 15/0061 (2014.02); A61M 15/0068 (2014.02); A61M 15/0073 (2014.02); G06M 1/248 (2013.01); A61M 2202/064 (2013.01); B65D 83/0445 (2013.01);
Abstract
A device for dispensing individual doses of powder from respective pockets of a disc-shaped carrier by outwardly rupturing a lidding foil by means of pressure on an opposite side surface, the device providing individual respective deaggregation flow paths for each pocket, split airstreams allowing improved entrainment of powder, a cam mechanism for outwardly rupturing the pockets, an indexing mechanism linked to the cam mechanism and a dose counter.