Patents by Inventor Jerry Grimes

Jerry Grimes 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).

  • Patent number: 4210155
    Abstract: A disposable inhalation spirometer apparatus for prophylactic respiratory maneuver is in expensively constructed and intended for single-patient use. The apparatus includes a tube with an interior respiratory passage communicating through a one-way valve structure to a nebulizer assembly and having a separate visual inhalation meter. The nebulizer assembly includes both a medicant mist dispensing nebulizer and an enlarged, enclosed, mist accumulation chamber which is positioned between the nebulizer and the tube passage. The visual inhalation meter includes a tube defining a chamber and having a transparent portion or window with a scale or indicia thereon and in which is mounted a floating piston movable in response to low differential pressure to indicate relative inspirational ability. A one-way check valve in an end of the tube passage opens to the atmosphere upon exhalation and permits the patient to maintain constant contact with a tube mouthpiece.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 1978
    Date of Patent: July 1, 1980
    Inventor: Jerry Grimes