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Device for applying medication fluid on mucus membrane in body cavities

US5857991A · kind A · utility

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21Claims

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Inventors

Hans Grothoff · Dortmund, DE
Hans-Peter Harke · Hamburg, DE
Frank Hennig · Henstedt-Ulzburg, DE
Gerd Neumann · Greding, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Aug 9, 1996
Grant date	Jan 12, 1999
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Aug 9, 2016

Classification

Technology area (CPC A)Human Necessities
CPC primaryA61M2210/1475
WIPO fieldMedical technology
WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

A device for applying medication fluid on mucus membrane in interior of body cavities has a manually actuatable pump element mountable on a medication supply container for discharging a medication fluid and having an outlet, an insertion tube having one end connected with the outlet and provided with a through going longitudinal opening, a distributor body connected with an opposite end of the insertion tube and having an outer shape and a volume to correspond to a body cavity to be treated, the distributor body having a plurality of outlet openings distributed over its outer surface and communicating through an interior of the distributor body with the insertion tube so that a medication fluid supplied under pressure is a discharged from the outlet openings over an outer surface of the distributor body.

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