Patents by Inventor Derek Fenlon

Derek Fenlon 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: 9737674
    Abstract: An inhaler for inhaling medicament includes a body for retaining a medicament store and a dose counter. The dose counter has a moveable actuator and a chassis mounted on the body. The chassis is heat staked in position on the body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2017
    Assignees: IVAX PHARMACEUTICALS IRELAND, TEVA PHARMACEUTICALS IRELAND, NORTON (WATERFORD) LIMITED
    Inventors: Declan Walsh, Derek Fenlon, Simon Kaar, Jan Geert Hazenberg, Daniel Buck, Paul Clancy, Robert Charles Uschold, Jeffrey A. Karg
  • Patent number: 9731087
    Abstract: A dose counter for an inhaler, the dose counter having a display tape arranged to be incrementally driven from a tape stock bobbin onto an incremental tape take-up drive shaft, the bobbin having an internal bore supported by and for rotation about a support shaft, at least one of the bore and support shaft having a protrusion which is resiliently biased into frictional engagement with the other of the bore and support shaft with longitudinally extending mutual frictional interaction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2017
    Assignees: IVAX PHARMACEUTICALS IRELAND, TEVA PHARMACEUTICALS IRELAND, NORTON (WATERFORD) LIMITED
    Inventors: Declan Walsh, Derek Fenlon, Simon Kaar, Jan Geert Hazenberg, Daniel Buck, Paul Clancy, Robert Charles Uschold, Jeffrey A. Karg
  • Publication number: 20170072146
    Abstract: An inhaler for inhaling medicament includes a body for retaining a medicament store and a dose counter. The dose counter has a moveable actuator and a chassis mounted on the body. The chassis is heat staked in position on the body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2016
    Publication date: March 16, 2017
    Inventors: Declan Walsh, Derek Fenlon, Simon Kaar, Jan Geert Hazenberg, Daniel Buck, Paul Clancy, Robert Charles Uschold, Jeffrey A. Karg
  • Publication number: 20170007785
    Abstract: A tape system for a dose counter for an inhaler, the tape system having a main elongate tape structure, dosing indicia located on the main elongate tape structure, tape positioning indicia located on the main elongate tape structure, a tape size marker located on the main elongate tape structure indicating a number of dosing indicia on the tape, and priming indicia located on the main elongate tape structure, the priming indicia being located between the dosing indicia and one end of the tape.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2016
    Publication date: January 12, 2017
    Inventors: Declan Walsh, Derek Fenlon, Simon Kaar, Jan Geert Hazenberg, Daniel Buck, Paul Clancy, Robert Charles Uschold, Jeffrey A. Karg
  • Publication number: 20170000962
    Abstract: An inhaler includes a main body having a canister housing, a medicament canister retained in a central outlet port of the canister housing, and a dose counter having an actuation member for operation by movement of the medicament canister. The canister housing has an inner wall, and a first inner wall canister support formation extending inwardly from a main surface of the inner wall. The canister housing has a longitudinal axis X which passes through the center of the central outlet port. The first inner wall canister support formation, the actuation member, and the central outlet port lie in a common plane coincident with the longitudinal axis X such that the first inner wall canister support formation protects against unwanted actuation of the dose counter by reducing rocking of the medicament canister relative to the main body of the inhaler.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2016
    Publication date: January 5, 2017
    Inventors: Declan Walsh, Derek Fenlon, Simon Kaar, Jan Geert Hazenberg, Daniel Buck, Paul Clancy, Robert Charles Uschold, Jeffrey A. Karg
  • Publication number: 20170000961
    Abstract: A dose counter for an inhaler, the dose counter having a display tape arranged to be incrementally driven from a tape stock bobbin onto an incremental tape take-up drive shaft, the bobbin having an internal bore supported by and for rotation about a support shaft, at least one of the bore and support shaft having a protrusion which is resiliently biased into frictional engagement with the other of the bore and support shaft with longitudinally extending mutual frictional interaction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2016
    Publication date: January 5, 2017
    Inventors: Declan Walsh, Derek Fenlon, Simon Kaar, Jan Geert Hazenberg, Daniel Buck, Paul Clancy, Robert Charles Uschold, Jeffrey A. Karg
  • Patent number: 9533111
    Abstract: A method of assembling an inhaler for inhaling medicament, the inhaler having a body for retaining a medicament store and a dose counter having a moveable actuator and a chassis mounted on the body, the method including heat staking the chassis of the dose counter onto the body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2017
    Assignees: NORTON (WATERFORD) LIMITED, TEVA PHARMACEUTICALS IRELAND, IVAX PHARMACEUTICALS IRELAND
    Inventors: Declan Walsh, Derek Fenlon, Simon Kaar, Jan Geert Hazenberg, Dan Buck, Paul Clancy, Robert Charles Uschold, Jeffrey A. Karg
  • Publication number: 20160375208
    Abstract: A dose counter for an inhaler includes a counter display arranged to indicate dosage information, and a drive system arranged to move the counter display incrementally in a first direction from a first station to a second station in response to actuation input. A regulator is provided which is arranged to act upon the counter display at the first station to regulate motion of the counter display at the first station to incremental movements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2016
    Publication date: December 29, 2016
    Inventors: Declan Walsh, Derek Fenlon, Simon Kaar, Jan Geert Hazenberg, Daniel Buck, Paul Clancy, Robert Charles Uschold, Jeffrey A. Karg
  • Patent number: 9526851
    Abstract: An inhaler for inhaling medicaments has a body for retaining a medicament store; the body including a dose counter, the dose counter having a moveable actuator and a return spring for the actuator, the return spring having a generally cylindrical and annular end; the body having a support formation therein for supporting the end of the return spring, the support formation comprising a shelf onto which the end of the return spring is engageable and a recess below the shelf.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2016
    Assignees: IVAX Pharmaceuticals Ireland, Norton (Waterford) Limited, TEVA Pharmaceuticals Ireland
    Inventors: Declan Walsh, Derek Fenlon, Simon Kaar, Jan Geert Hazenberg, Daniel Buck, Paul Clancy, Robert Charles Uschold, Jeffrey A. Karg
  • Patent number: 9526850
    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: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2016
    Assignees: IVAX Pharmaceuticals Ireland, Norton (Waterford) Limited, TEVA Pharmaceuticals Ireland
    Inventors: Declan Walsh, Derek Fenlon, Simon Kaar, Jan Geert Hazenberg, Daniel Buck, Paul Clancy, Robert Charles Uschold, Jeffrey A. Karg
  • Patent number: 9463289
    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: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2016
    Assignees: IVAX Pharmaceuticals Ireland, Norton (Waterford) Limited, Teva Pharmaceuticals Ireland
    Inventors: Declan Walsh, Derek Fenlon, Simon Kaar, Jan Geert Hazenberg, Daniel Buck, Paul Clancy, Robert Charles Uschold, Jeffrey A. Karg
  • Publication number: 20160022907
    Abstract: Described is a medicament container carrier (1) adapted to hold a first medicament container (2) having a first predetermined size and capable of containing more than a first volume of a medicament. The container carrier (1) comprises a body, and an adapter (4) coupled to the body. The adapter (4) is adapted to hold a second medicament container (3) having a second predetermined size different from the first predetermined size and capable of containing no more than the first volume of the medicament.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2014
    Publication date: January 28, 2016
    Applicant: Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland GMBH
    Inventors: Derek Fenlon, Pascal Launois, Julian McDonnell, Martina Moyne, Conor Mulcahy
  • Patent number: 9216260
    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: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2015
    Assignees: IVAX Pharmaceuticals Ireland, Norton Waterford, Teva Pharmaceuticals Ireland
    Inventors: Declan Walsh, Derek Fenlon, Simon Kaar, Jan Geert Hazenberg, Dan Buck, Paul Clancy, Robert Charles Uschold, Jeffrey A. Karg
  • Patent number: 9174013
    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: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2015
    Assignees: Teva Pharmaceuticals Ireland, Norton Waterford, IVAX Pharmaceuticals Ireland
    Inventors: Declan Walsh, Derek Fenlon, Simon Kaar, Jan Geert Hazenberg, Dan Buck, Paul Clancy, Robert Charles Uschold, Jeffrey A. Karg
  • Publication number: 20150246191
    Abstract: An inhaler for inhaling medicament and having a body, the body have a main part thereof for retaining a medicament store; and a dose counter, the dose counter being located in a dose counter chamber of the body which is separated from the main part of the body, the dose counter chamber of the body having a dosage display and a perforation so as to permit the evaporation of water or aqueous matter in the dose counter chamber into the atmosphere.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2015
    Publication date: September 3, 2015
    Inventors: Declan Walsh, Derek Fenlon, Simon Kaar, Jan Geert Hazenberg, Dan Buck, Paul Clancy, Robert Charles Uschold, Jeffrey A. Karg
  • Publication number: 20150246193
    Abstract: A method of assembling an inhaler for inhaling medicament, the inhaler having a body for retaining a medicament store and a dose counter having a moveable actuator and a chassis mounted on the body, the method including heat staking the chassis of the dose counter onto the body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2015
    Publication date: September 3, 2015
    Inventors: Declan Walsh, Derek Fenlon, Simon Kaar, Jan Geert Hazenberg, Dan Buck, Paul Clancy, Robert Charles Uschold, Jeffrey A. Karg
  • Publication number: 20150246190
    Abstract: An inhaler for inhaling medicaments has a body for retaining a medicament store; the body including a dose counter, the dose counter having a moveable actuator and a return spring for the actuator, the return spring having a generally cylindrical and annular end; the body having a support formation therein for supporting the end of the return spring, the support formation comprising a shelf onto which the end of the return spring is engageable and a recess below the shelf.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2015
    Publication date: September 3, 2015
    Inventors: Declan Walsh, Derek Fenlon, Simon Kaar, Jan Geert Hazenberg, Dan Buck, Paul Clancy, Robert Charles Uschold, Jeffrey A. Karg
  • Publication number: 20150246180
    Abstract: Described is a medicament delivery device (1) comprising a case (2) adapted to hold a container (3) of a medicament, a drive mechanism (5) adapted to expel the medicament from the container (3), and a trigger button (6) disposed on the case (2) and operably coupled to the drive mechanism (5). The trigger button (6) has a concave position and a convex position. Movement of the trigger button (6) from the convex position to the concave position causes activation of the drive mechanism (5).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2013
    Publication date: September 3, 2015
    Inventors: Derek Fenlon, Pascal Launois, Julian McDonnell, Martina Moync, Conor Mulcahy
  • Publication number: 20150246192
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a series of incremental dose counters for inhalers, which includes manufacturing the dose counters with nominal canister fire and dose count positions of a dose counter actuator relative to a dose counter chassis or inhaler main body, and which includes building the dose counters with an average dose count position in the series being, in canister fire process, at or after an average canister fire position in the series.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2015
    Publication date: September 3, 2015
    Inventors: Declan Walsh, Derek Fenlon, Simon Kaar, Jan Geert Hazenberg, Dan Buck, Paul Clancy, Robert Charles Uschold, Jeffrey A. Karg
  • Publication number: 20150238714
    Abstract: A dose counter for a metered dose inhaler includes an incremental counting system for counting doses. The incremental counting system has a main body, an actuator arranged to be driven in response to canister motion and to drive an incremental output member in response to canister motion. The actuator and incremental output member are configured to have predetermined canister fire and count configurations in a canister fire sequence. The canister fire configuration is determined by a position of the actuator relative to a datum at which the canister fires medicament and the count configuration is determined by a position of the actuator relative to the datum at which the incremental count system makes an incremental count. The actuator is arranged to reach a position in the count configuration at or after a position in the canister fire configuration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2015
    Publication date: August 27, 2015
    Inventors: Declan Walsh, Derek Fenlon, Simon Kaar, Jan Geert Hazenberg, Dan Buck, Paul Clancy, Robert Charles Uschold, Jeffrey A. Karg