Filter system for use in medical devices

US9827382B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Boehringer Ingelheim International GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Matthias Hausmann · Rees, DE
• Steffen Schuy · Mainz, DE
• Joachim Eicher · Karlsruhe, DE
• Johannes Geser · Gerlingen, DE
• Martin Meisenheimer · Appenheim, DE
• Florian Witte · Bad Kreuznach, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Feb 1, 2016
• Grant date: Nov 28, 2017
• Expiry date: Feb 1, 2036

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10T29/49826
• WIPO field: Medical technology
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A medical hand-held device, in particular an atomizer, for dispensing a liquid pharmaceutical preparation from a container with a discharge nozzle for the pharmaceutical preparation and located upstream from the discharge nozzle there is a multiple-stage filter system.