Transcorneal drug-release system

US6132755A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Boehringer Ingelheim GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Joachim Eicher · Karlsruhe, DE
• Bernd Zierenberg · Ingelheim am Rhein, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jun 16, 1998
• Grant date: Oct 17, 2000
• Expiry date: Jun 16, 2018

Classification

• Technology area (CPC A): Human Necessities
• CPC primary: A61M2037/003
• WIPO field: Medical technology
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

The invention refers to a transcorneal system for the actively controlled transcorneal delivery of a medicament into a subject comprising an active substance reservoir and a device provided with a plurality of micro-pins or micro-blades adapted in use to penetrate the stratum corneum of the subject and connected with reservoir via a liquid conveying connection and thereby allow active substance to pass from the reservoir through capillary openings of the micro-pins or along the micro-blades into the subject.