Methods of operating and fabricating inhalers with airway disks having discrete airway channels
US9597465B2 · kind B2 · utility
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| Filing date | Jan 24, 2014 |
| Grant date | Mar 21, 2017 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | May 4, 2035 |
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- Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
- CPC primaryY10T29/49826
- WIPO fieldMedical technology
- WIPO sectorInstruments
Abstract
Methods of fabricating and operating dry powder inhalers that include dose disks and airway channel disks with sealant layers, the airway channel disks forming radially-extending discrete, typically dose-specific, airway channels serially forming a portion of the inhalation pathway to deliver dry powder to a user using the inhalers.
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