Medicine dispensation device

US8944054B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Boehringer Ingelheim International GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Herbert Wachtel · Ingelheim am Rhein, DE
• Johannes Geser · Gerlingen, DE
• Burkhard Metzger · Ingelheim am Rhein, DE
• Michael Spallek · Ingelheim am Rhein, DE
• Michael Krueger · Ingelheim am Rhein, DE
• Hubert Kunze · Dortmund, DE
• Achim Moser · Pocking, DE
• Elmar Mock · Bienne, CH
• Antonino Lanci · Bern, CH
• Andre Klopfenstein · La Neuveville, CH

Key dates

• Filing date: Apr 13, 2007
• Grant date: Feb 3, 2015
• Expiry date: Oct 24, 2030

Classification

• Technology area (CPC A): Human Necessities
• CPC primary: A61M2202/064
• WIPO field: Medical technology
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A medicine dispensation device, in particular a multi-dose powder inhalator, for the dispensing of individual doses of medicine that has a number of medicine chambers contained in a medicine magazine shaped like a continuous loop. The medicine chambers form groups in such a manner that a mouthpiece reaches the different groups by an essentially complete rotation of the medicine magazine. This enables several medicine chambers—typically one, two or three—to be situated between two successive intake positions, which allows for a high density of medicine chambers and thus creates an inhalation device, which can be handled comfortably even when containing a great number of individual doses.