Abstract: An inhaler, such as a breath-actuated metered-dose inhaler, for delivering medicament to a patient. The inhaler includes a housing for holding the medicament and having an air inlet and a medicament delivery port which together define an air flow path into which the medicament is dispensed. The air inlet includes an array of elongate apertures formed in the housing, the long sides of adjacent apertures facing each other. Each aperture is provided with a respective different opening in an outer surface of the housing. The opening of each aperture extends in two different planes such that, if at least a part of the opening is covered in one of the two different planes during inhalation by the patient, a void space is created between the cover and the aperture so as to provide an air flow path through the void space to the at least one aperture.
Type:
Application
Filed:
June 8, 2010
Publication date:
July 12, 2012
Applicant:
IVAX PHARMACEUTICALS IRELAND (a trading name of IVAX International B.V.)
Inventors:
Simon Kaar, Declan Walsh, Derek Fenlon, Dan Buck
Abstract: A manually operated metered dose inhaler includes a dose counter chamber including a dose display tape driven by a ratchet wheel which is driven in turn by an actuator pawl actuated by movement of a canister, the tape unwinding from a stock bobbin during use of the inhaler, a rotation regulator being provided for the stock bobbin and including a wavelike engagement surface with concavities which engage against control elements in the form of protrusions on resilient forks of a split pin thereby permitting incremental unwinding of the stock bobbin yet resisting excessive rotation if the inhaler is dropped onto a hard surface.
Type:
Application
Filed:
May 18, 2011
Publication date:
November 24, 2011
Applicants:
IVAX PHARMACEUTICALS IRELAND (a trading name of IVAX International B.V.), TEVA PHARMACEUTICALS IRELAND (a trading name of IVAX International B.V.), NORTON WATERFORD (a trading name of IVAX International B.V.)
Inventors:
Declan Walsh, Derek Fenlon, Simon Kaar, Jan Geert Hazenberg, Dan Buck, Paul Clancy, Robert Charles Uschold, Jeffrey A. Karg