Fluid droplet production apparatus and method

US8511581B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• PARI Pharma GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Markus Urich · Birkenfeld, DE
• Samuel Charles William Hyde · Cambridge, GB
• Neil Pollock · Royston, GB
• Andrew Jonathan Sant · Cambridge, GB

Key dates

• Filing date: Mar 8, 2011
• Grant date: Aug 20, 2013
• Expiry date: Jun 16, 2031

Classification

• Technology area (CPC A): Human Necessities
• CPC primary: A61M11/005
• WIPO field: Medical technology
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A fluid dispersion device comprises a substrate having an outer section and an inner section, said inner section of the substrate having an aperture, a dispersion element positioned at said aperture of said substrate, and an actuator arranged to coaxially surround said aperture of said substrate, wherein the outer edge of said inner section of said substrate is coupled to said outer section of said substrate by a plurality of resilient members.