Device for administering metered amounts of a liquid medicament

US6090070A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Rhone-Poulenc Rorer Limited · DE

Inventors

• Jorg Hager · Cologne, DE
• Kurt N. Gebhart · Cologne, DE
• Helmut Lowenich · Jüchen, DE
• Ulrich Pastewka · Bonn, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Feb 10, 1997
• Grant date: Jul 18, 2000
• Expiry date: Feb 10, 2017

Classification

• Technology area (CPC A): Human Necessities
• CPC primary: A61M5/204
• WIPO field: Medical technology
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A sale unit for the parenteral application of liquid pharmaceutical products by the user is described, whereby the unit comprises at least one cannula, a device to emit a given liquid amount of the pharmaceutical product in single doses, as well as at least one vessel filled with the pharmaceutical product, the vessel being arranged within the device and emptied in single doses by means of the device, and whereby each single dose corresponds to the given liquid amount of the pharmaceutical product.