Additional improvements in powder compaction and enrobing
US7785089B2 · kind B2 · utility
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| Filing date | Mar 24, 2005 |
| Grant date | Aug 31, 2010 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | May 8, 2026 |
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- Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
- CPC primaryY10T428/24116
- WIPO fieldMedical technology
- WIPO sectorInstruments
Abstract
An apparatus and method is disclosed for forming a compacted powder slug coated with a film. The powder, e.g. of a medicament, is compacted and enrobed to produce compacted powder slugs by preferably mechanically compacting a powder and forming a film of a material, preferably hydroxy propyl methyl cellulose, by vacuum or pressure differential, about the surface of the powder thus compacted.
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