Patents by Inventor Alan Anthony Wilson
Alan Anthony Wilson has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Publication number: 20190314587Abstract: An inhalation device having at least one elongate medicament carrier including, but not limited to, a pair of sheets sealed together and a plurality of medicament powder doses positioned at spaced-apart locations between said sealed sheets, an outlet for a user to inhale from, and a mechanism for stepwise advancement of the at least one elongate medicament carrier.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 25, 2019Publication date: October 17, 2019Inventors: Gregor John McLennan ANDERSON, Stanley George BONNEY, Michael Birsha DAVIES, Daniel Thomas LINTELL, Alan Anthony WILSON
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Publication number: 20170224939Abstract: An inhalation device having at least one elongate medicament carrier including, but not limited to, a pair of sheets sealed together and a plurality of medicament powder doses positioned at spaced-apart locations between said sealed sheets, an outlet for a user to inhale from, and a mechanism for stepwise advancement of the at least one elongate medicament carrier.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 28, 2017Publication date: August 10, 2017Inventors: Gregor John McLennan ANDERSON, Stanley George Bonney, Michael Birsha Davies, Daniel Thomas Lintell, Alan Anthony Wilson
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Patent number: 9636471Abstract: There is provided a medicament dispenser for use with plural elongate form medicament carriers, each having multiple distinct medicament dose portions carried thereby, the dispenser having a dispensing mechanism for dispensing the distinct medicament dose portions carried by each of the plural medicament carriers. The mechanism comprises a receiving station for receiving each of the plural medicament carriers; a release for releasing a distinct medicament dose portion from each of the plural medicament carriers on receipt thereof by the receiving station; an outlet, positioned to be in communication with the distinct medicament dose portions releasable by said a release; and an indexer for individually indexing the distinct medicament dose portions of each of the plural medicament carriers.Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 2013Date of Patent: May 2, 2017Assignee: Glaxo Group LimitedInventors: Gregor John McLennan Anderson, Stanley George Bonney, Michael Birsha Davies, Daniel Thomas Lintell, Alan Anthony Wilson
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Publication number: 20150343159Abstract: There is provided an inhaler device comprising a housing, a mouthpiece, a seat for receiving a unit dose blister and a punch for piercing a lid of the unit dose blister. The housing comprises a base and a lid pivotally joined by a hinge, such that the lid is pivotable from a first ‘closed’ position in which it abuts the base to define a cavity, to a second ‘open’ position in which the cavity can be accessed. The seat and the punch are adapted to lie within the cavity when the lid is in the first ‘closed’ position and moving the lid from the ‘open’ position to the ‘closed’ position causes the punch to pierce a lid of a unit dose blister received in the seat. Only the lid of the unit dose blister is pierced.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 4, 2013Publication date: December 3, 2015Inventors: Philip William FARR, John DEAMER, Mark Gregory PALMER, Alan Anthony WILSON, Stephen Maurice Pitson
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Publication number: 20140158704Abstract: There is provided a medicament dispenser for use with plural elongate form medicament carriers, each having multiple distinct medicament dose portions carried thereby, the dispenser having a dispensing mechanism for dispensing the distinct medicament dose portions carried by each of the plural medicament carriers. The mechanism comprises a receiving station for receiving each of the plural medicament carriers; a release for releasing a distinct medicament dose portion from each of the plural medicament carriers on receipt thereof by the receiving station; an outlet, positioned to be in communication with the distinct medicament dose portions releasable by said a release; and an indexer for individually indexing the distinct medicament dose portions of each of the plural medicament carriers.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 19, 2013Publication date: June 12, 2014Applicant: Glaxo Group LimitedInventors: Gregor John McLennan Anderson, Stanley George Bonney, Michael Birsha Davies, Daniel Thomas Lintell, Alan Anthony Wilson
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Patent number: 8511304Abstract: There is provided a medicament dispenser for use with plural elongate form medicament carriers, each having multiple distinct medicament dose portions carried thereby, the dispenser having a dispensing mechanism for dispensing the distinct medicament dose portions carried by each of the plural medicament carriers. The mechanism comprises a receiving station for receiving each of the plural medicament carriers; a release for releasing a distinct medicament dose portion from each of the plural medicament carriers on receipt thereof by the receiving station; an outlet, positioned to be in communication with the distinct medicament dose portions releasable by said a release; and an indexer for individually indexing the distinct medicament dose portions of each of the plural medicament carriers.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 2003Date of Patent: August 20, 2013Assignee: Glaxo Group LimitedInventors: Gregor John McLennan Anderson, Stanley George Bonney, Michael Birsha Davies, Daniel Thomas De Sansmarez Lintell, Alan Anthony Wilson
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Patent number: 7650733Abstract: There is provided a method of loading a container with a defined quantity of product which comprises the steps of a) closing off a perforation (12a, 12b) in a perforated plate (10); b) directing powder (30) into said closed-off perforation; and c) transferring the contents of the perforation to said container.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2008Date of Patent: January 26, 2010Assignee: Glaxo Group LimitedInventors: Alan Anthony Wilson, Phillip William Farr, Marcus Edward Pike
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Publication number: 20090013652Abstract: There is provided a method of loading a container with a defined quantity of product which comprises the steps of a) closing off a perforation (12a, 12b) in a perforated plate (10); b) directing powder (30) into said closed-off perforation; and c) transferring the contents of the perforation to said container.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 22, 2008Publication date: January 15, 2009Applicant: GLAXO GROUP LIMITEDInventors: Alan Anthony Wilson, Phillip William Farr, Marcus Edward Pike
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Patent number: 7426815Abstract: There is provided a method of loading a container with a defined quantity of product which comprises the steps of a) closing off a perforation in a perforated plate; b) directing powder into said closed-off perforation by the action of a first leveller blade moveable in a sweeping path relative to the perforated plate; and c) transferring the contents of the perforation to said container, and an apparatus for achieving such method.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2000Date of Patent: September 23, 2008Assignee: Smithkline Beecham CorporationInventors: Alan Anthony Wilson, Phillip William Farr, Marcus Edward Pike
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Patent number: 6065509Abstract: A blind cavity is filled with a predetermined quantity of fine powder from a hopper by bringing the cavity into a position beneath the hopper and causing the predetermined quantity of powder to flow from the hopper into the cavity. The powder is in free flowing agglomerated form and is made to flow from the hopper by subjecting the hopper to vibration, the powder flow being stopped by cessation of vibration when the cavity is filled with the predetermined quantity of powder. An apparatus for carrying out the method is also described.Type: GrantFiled: February 2, 1998Date of Patent: May 23, 2000Assignee: Glaxo Wellcome Inc.Inventors: Stanley George Bonney, Alan Anthony Wilson
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Patent number: D769438Type: GrantFiled: July 7, 2014Date of Patent: October 18, 2016Assignee: Glaxo Group LimitedInventors: Gary Thomas Crosby, John Deamer, Philip William Farr, Stephen Maurice Pitson, Alan Anthony Wilson
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Patent number: D814019Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2016Date of Patent: March 27, 2018Assignee: Glaxo Group LimitedInventors: Gary Thomas Crosby, John Deamer, Philip William Farr, Stephen Maurice Pitson, Alan Anthony Wilson