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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 01, 2016
Filed:
Jan. 15, 2014
Applicant:
Map Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Irvine, CA (US);
Inventor:
Alfred Sugianto, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Assignee:
MAP Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Irvine, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61M 11/00 (2006.01); A61M 15/00 (2006.01); A61M 11/04 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61M 15/0065 (2013.01); A61M 11/04 (2013.01); A61M 15/009 (2013.01); A61M 15/0026 (2014.02); A61M 15/0076 (2014.02); A61M 15/0081 (2014.02); A61M 15/0091 (2013.01);
Abstract
A medicament dispenser, in particular a metered dose inhaler, which is able to count the number of time the dispenser is activated and then disable the device, which then prevents any additional medicament from being dispensed. Additional embodiments include a medicament dispenser which are adapted to display either the number of activations that have occurred or the number of activations remaining.