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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 15, 2017
Filed:
Apr. 29, 2015
Ivax Pharmaceuticals Ireland, Waterford, IE;
Norton (Waterford) Limited, Waterford, IE;
Teva Pharmaceuticals Ireland, Waterford, IE;
Declan Walsh, County Kilkenny, IE;
Derek Fenlon, County Wexford, IE;
Simon Kaar, County Cork, IE;
Jan Geert Hazenberg, County Kilkenny, IE;
Daniel Buck, County Waterford, IE;
Paul Clancy, Waterford City, IE;
Robert Charles Uschold, Leominster, MA (US);
Jeffrey A. Karg, Hopkinton, MA (US);
IVAX PHARMACEUTICALS IRELAND, , IE;
TEVA PHARMACEUTICALS IRELAND, , IE;
NORTON (WATERFORD) LIMITED, , IE;
Abstract
A dose counter for an inhaler, the dose counter having a display tape arranged to be incrementally driven from a tape stock bobbin onto an incremental tape take-up drive shaft, the bobbin having an internal bore supported by and for rotation about a support shaft, at least one of the bore and support shaft having a protrusion which is resiliently biased into frictional engagement with the other of the bore and support shaft with longitudinally extending mutual frictional interaction.