Pharmaceutical product

US6303143A · kind A · utility

Assignees

• Sarnoff Corporation · US
• Delsys Pharmaceutical Company · US

Inventors

• Suggy Chrai · Cranbury, US
• Ramaswamy Murari · Fryeburg, US
• Eugene S. Poliniak · Willingboro, US
• Hoi-Cheong Steve Sun · Tampa, US
• Nitin V. Desai · Hightstown, US
• Dominic Stephen Rosati · Hillsborough Township, US
• Nalin Kumar · Austin, US
• William R. Roach · Rocky Hill, US
• Lawrence Harrison Hammer · Plainsboro, US
• Peter D. Southgate · Princeton, US
• Bawa Singh · Cherry Hill, US
• Howard Christopher Rivenburg · Princeton, US
• David Keller · Bradenton, US
• Peter John Zanzucchi · Lawrenceville, US
• Aaron William Levine · Lawrenceville, US
• Prince Lal · Cherry Hill, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Jun 10, 1998
• Grant date: Oct 16, 2001
• Expiry date: Jun 10, 2018

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B05B5/08
• WIPO field: Pharmaceuticals
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

A substrate is roboticaly picked up at a station and transported to a measuring station to measure the distance to a reference. The substrate is aligned to a robot before measurement. The measured substrate is then transported to a pharmaceutical or diagnostic powder/grain deposition station where the powder/grains are controllably deposited on the substrate to predetermined thicknesses over a plurality of powder/grain collection zones. The deposited powder/grains are then measured to determine the thickness and area covered by the deposited powder/grains at each collection zone. The substrate is then transported to a lamination station and each collection zone of powder/grains is welded to a cover substrate. The system remembers which collection zones are out of specification so that they can be later selectively discarded.