Abstract: A powder medicine administering apparatus includes: an upper body including a lower surface, and a medicine storage chamber having an upper opening portion opened on the lower surface; a lower body including an upper surface, and a medicine receiving chamber which has a lower opening portion, and which is recessed in a downward direction from the lower opening portion. The lower body is relatively slid with respect to the upper body so that the lower surface of the upper body is slidably moved on the upper surface of the lower body to be switched between a connection state and a non-connection state. The medicine receiving chamber is arranged to be moved in a one section from the standby position to the discharge position so that entire of the lower opening portion of the medicine receiving chamber is within the upper opening portion of the upper body.

Abstract: A body section 2 is formed with a capsule insertion hole 6. A movable section 3 includes a capsule puncture needle 9 arranged to be moved into or out of the capsule insertion hole 6. The body section 2 and the movable section 3 are connected to be relatively pivoted at least between a posture in which the capsule insertion hole 6 is exposed, and a posture in which the capsule insertion hole 6 is hid by the body section 2. The body section 2 (a side wall 6e of a protrusion 6a) is arranged to restrict the advancing movement of the capsule puncture needle 9 in the state in which the body section 2 and the movable section 3 are in the posture in which the capsule insertion hole 6 is exposed.

Abstract: A powder medicine administering device includes a main body, an air supply section, and a movable member slidably attached to the main body, and arranged to be moved relative to the main body from a first position through a second position to a third position. One of the main body and the movable member includes a side wall portion defining a medicine storage chamber including an opening closed by a sliding surface of the other of the main body and the movable member at the second position of the movable member, and a medicine discharge passage. The other of the main body and the movable member is formed with a medicine carrying chamber connected with the opening of the medicine storage chamber at the first position of the movable member, and connected with the medicine discharge passage at the third position of the movable member.

Abstract: A powder medicine administering apparatus includes: an upper body including a lower surface, and a medicine storage chamber having an upper opening portion opened on the lower surface; a lower body including an upper surface, and a medicine receiving chamber which has a lower opening portion, and which is recessed in a downward direction from the lower opening portion. The lower body is relatively slid with respect to the upper body so that the lower surface of the upper body is slidably moved on the upper surface of the lower body to be switched between a connection state and a non-connection state. The medicine receiving chamber is arranged to be moved in a one section from the standby position to the discharge position so that entire of the lower opening portion of the medicine receiving chamber is within the upper opening portion of the upper body.

Abstract: A medicine administering device for nasal cavities of a patient suffering from nasal allergy or the like. The medicine administering device comprises a medicine administering device main body including a part defining a powdery medicine accommodating chamber, and a spray nozzle located at a tip end side of the main body. A pump is disposed at a base end side of the medicine administering device main body to discharge air within the pump through the powdery medicine accommodating chamber to the spray nozzle upon being pressed from an outside of the pump. Additionally, a restricting device is disposed within the pump to restrict a displacement amount of the pump in accordance with first and second kinds of pressing positions at which the pump is pressed. The first and second kinds of pressing positions lie respectively in first and second directions which are perpendicular to each other.

Abstract: A medicine cartridge including a medicine accommodating body having a plurality of medicine accommodating sections formed side by side with each other in a peripheral direction of the medicine accommodating body. Each medicine accommodating section accommodates therein medicine in powder form. A section defining an inflow hole is formed at the inner peripheral side of the medicine accommodating body to supply air into the medicine accommodating section. A section defining an outflow hole is formed at the outer peripheral side of the medicine accommodating body to flow out the medicine introduced by air.

Abstract: A mouthpiece 15 is configured to be provided with a plurality of air nozzles 22 which are positioned around an admission port, and from which the air to enclose the surroundings of medicine powder flow discharged from the admission port 20 is blown off. Accordingly, when the breath is inhaled while an outer body 21 of the mouthpiece 15 is being held in the mouth, the air to be blown off from the air nozzles 22 forms an air curtain 24 to enclose the surroundings of the medicine powder flow 23 discharged from the admission port 20. Thereby, medicine powder included in the medicine powder flow 23 is prevented, by the air curtain 24, from adhering to the surface of the tongue, the internal surface of the oral cavity and the like. Thus, the medicine powder can be inhaled comfortably while unnecessary taste of the medicine powder such as sweetness, saltiness, sourness, bitterness and the like, is not being sensed.

Abstract: A blister pack for a inhalant medicator has a plurality of medical powder storage chambers spaced apart from each other in a circumferential direction. The inhalant medicator includes a pricking tool with a pair of parallel pins that prick inflow and outflow holes in one of the medical powder storage chambers during a preliminary operation of inhalant medication. The inflow and outflow holes are spaced apart from each other by a predetermined distance in a direction parallel to a lid panel of the blister pack to produce turbulent airflow within the medical powder storage chamber during inhalation during which the medical powder is inhaled by a patient's breathing. The medical powder storage chambers are dimensioned and designed to properly regulate or control properties of the airflow passing through the medical storage chamber, to ensure the airflow is suitable for the medical powder storage chamber.

Abstract: A medicine administering device for nasal cavities of a patient suffering from nasal allergy or the like. The medicine administering device comprises a medicine administering device main body including a part defining a powdery medicine accommodating chamber, and a spray nozzle located at a tip end side of the main body. A pump is disposed at a base end side of the medicine administering device main body to discharge air within the pump through the powdery medicine accommodating chamber to the spray nozzle upon being pressed from an outside of the pump. Additionally, a restricting device is disposed within the pump to restrict a displacement amount of the pump in accordance with first and second kinds of pressing positions at which the pump is pressed. The first and second kinds of pressing positions lie respectively in first and second directions which are perpendicular to each other.

Abstract: A gas ejection valve includes a valve casing including first and second blocks that cooperate to define a holder groove and have a first mating face formed with an annular space, an inner peripheral seal ring disposed on the inner periphery of the valve casing to be in close contact with the outer periphery of a valve pin and being received in the holder groove, and an auxiliary seal ring received in the annular space for preventing communication between the inside of the gas container and the holder groove.

Abstract: A diffusion chamber block 14 is provided in a block mounting hole 13A of an inhalant port 13, and a granular medicine diffusion chamber 17 is formed in the diffusion chamber block 14. The granular medicine diffusion chamber 17 is formed at a side of the inhalant port 13 with a granular medicine inflow opening 17A and at a side of a capsule housing hole 9 with a granular medicine outflow opening 17B. A diffusion chamber in flow passage 18 is provided to communicate an outflow air passageway 12 with the granular medicine inflow opening 17A, whereas a diffusion chamber outflow passage is provided to communicate the granular medicine outflow opening 17B with the inhalant port 13. When inhaling granular medicines in the capsule housing hole 9 via the inhalant port 13 by way of breathing action, there results in counter-flow vortex within the granular medicine diffusion chamber 17.

Abstract: A valve and an inhalator with the valve are disclosed. A valve case is secured to a container storing pressurized fluid. A valve pin is moveably mounted to the valve case. First and second seals are arranged in a spaced relation in an axial direction of the valve pin. The first seal is mounted onto a piston portion of the valve pin that is received in the valve case and exposed to the pressurized fluid. The valve pin is formed with a fluid passage having an outlet communicating with the outside of the container and an inlet communicating with a space between the piston portion and the valve case and arranged between the seals in a spaced relation.

Abstract: A cylindrical main body 3 of a medicine administering device main body 1 is formed with a holder accommodating section 5, in which a capsule holding section 9 of a capsule holder 8 is disposed to be able to get in and out of the holder accommodating section 5. Accordingly, the capsule can be installed in a capsule fitting depression 10 formed in the capsule holding section 9, or the capsule after use can be taken out at a drawn-out position where the capsule holding section is drawn out of the holder accommodating section 5, so that installation and taking-out operations for the capsule can be easily made without decomposing respective parts like in a conventional technique. Additionally, the capsule can be located at a pushed-in position by pushing the capsule holding section 9 in the holder accommodating section 5.

Abstract: An inhalant medicator comprises a medicator body having a granular medicine accommodation chamber and an inhalant port, and air passageways disposed in the medicator body and communicating the inhalant port via the granular medicine accommodation chamber to the atmosphere for supplying granular medicines into the inhalant port. Also provided is a granular medicine diffusion means located downstream of the granular medicine accommodation chamber for efficiently diffusing the granular medicines. A cylindrical adapter 10 is detachably installed in the inhalant port 9.

Abstract: A gas injection valve comprises a valve casing fitted to a gas bottle, a valve pin slidably received in the valve casing, first and second seal rings fitted to the inner peripheral wall of the valve casing, and a fixed-quantity chamber defined between the first and second seal rings for capturing therein a fixed amount of gas before injection. The valve pin has a gas passage bore for intercommunicating a first port formed in the upper face of the tip of the valve pin and a second port formed in the outer peripheral wall of the valve pin. The second port is located to open into the substantially cylindrical hollow of the casing above the second seal ring with the valve pin kept in a lifted-up position and to open into the fixed-quantity chamber below the second seal ring during one-step pushing action and two-step pushing action of the valve pin.

Abstract: A medicine administering apparatus, suitable for administering granular medicine to a patient, comprises a main body which has a medicine passage and a medicine accommodating chamber. The apparatus further includes a location changing member formed with a medicine loading chamber. The location of the medicine loading chamber is changed between a first position, where the medicine loading chamber is separate from the medicine passage, and a second position, where the medicine loading chamber is in the medicine passage. Movement of the location changing member changes the position of the medicine loading chamber. A medicine loading member compresses a predetermined amount of the medicine into the medicine loading chamber at the first position, the predetermined amount corresponding to one dose. Medicine within the medicine loading chamber may be inhaled through the medicine passage by a patient when the patient breathes in.

Abstract: A medicine administering device for nasal cavities, comprising a capsule holding section formed with a capsule containing powder-state medicine. An air supply section is connected to the lower end of the capsule holding section and formed with an air supply passage which is in communication with the capsule accommodating chamber. A branched passage section is connected to the upper end of the capsule holding section and has an air flow passage in communication with the capsule accommodating chamber. The air flow passage is bifurcated to form first and second outlet passage portions which are arranged to form a generally Y-shape. First and second medicine passages are formed such that air from the branched passage section flows therethrough to carry the medicine in the capsule into right-side and left-side nasal cavities of a patient. The first and second passages are respectively in communication with the first and second outlet passages of the branched passage section.

Abstract: A capsule holder 2 of a medicine administering device 1 for nasal cavities comprises a movable member 8 which is axially movable, and a fixed member 3, in which the movable member 8 is formed at its outer periphery with an external thread 8D which is to be threadedly engaged with an internal thread 19C of a medicine spraying section 19. An air inflow hole H is formed by a perforating end 27A of a pin 27 when a capsule K is thrust into a one-side capsule hole 11, while the movable member 8 is raised so that the perforating end 27A is extracted from the air inflow hole H1 when the capsule holder 2 and the medicine spraying section 19 are incorporated with each other. An air outflow hole H2 is formed by a pin 28. A perforating tool is housed in the medicine administering device 1, in which a hole formation action for the air inflow hole H1 is also made during installation of the capsule K.

Abstract: A capsule holder is provided with a capsule accommodating hole and a supplying valve. A pump section having a sucking valve is provided at the air inflow-side of the capsule holder, while a medicine spraying section having two medicine passages diverging from the capsule accommodating hole and spraying holes is provided at the air outflow-side of the capsule holder. A perforator is housed in the medicine spraying section. A capsule is accommodated in the capsule accommodating hole, and through-holes are formed in the capsule with the perforator, upon which the medicine within the capsule can be administered to the left and right nasal cavities of a patient under the action of air from the pump section. Additionally, a spreading chamber is provided to be formed at the downstream side of the capsule accommodating hole.

Abstract: A medicator for a capsule filled with a powdered drug, comprising: a first member adapted to receive a capsule therein; a second member, having an air supply valve structure, arranged to communicate with the first member and arranged to operatively discharge air sucked from outside the medicator towards the first member in which a capsule is received; an air stream passage formed within the first member and the second member to direct air discharged from the air supply valve structure in a direction towards a capsule received by the first member; a third member removably attached to the first member to spray powdered drug in a capsule out of the medicator with air discharged from the air supply valve structure via the air stream passage; a drug trapping structure formed in the air stream passage to trap part of powdered drug contained in a capsule which falls down into the drug trapping structure; and a drug collecting structure formed in the air stream passage between the drug trapping structure and the air