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).
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Publication number: 20150238715Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: April 29, 2015Publication date: August 27, 2015Inventors: Declan Walsh, Derek Fenlon, Simon Kaar, Jan Geert Hazenberg, Dan Buck, Paul Clancy, Robert Charles Uschold, Jeffrey A. Karg
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Publication number: 20150231342Abstract: An incremental dose counter for a metered dose inhaler having a body arranged to retain a canister for movement of the canister relative thereto, the incremental dose counter having a main body, an actuator arranged to be driven and to drive an incremental output member in a count direction in response to canister motion, the actuator being configured to restrict motion of the output member in a direction opposite to the count direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 29, 2015Publication date: August 20, 2015Inventors: Declan Walsh, Derek Fenlon, Simon Kaar, Jan Geert Hazenberg, Dan Buck, Paul Clancy, Robert Charles Uschold, Jeffrey A. Karg
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Patent number: 9108010Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 11, 2013Date of Patent: August 18, 2015Assignees: Teva Pharmaceuticals Ireland, Norton Waterford, IVAX Pharmaceuticals IrelandInventors: Declan Walsh, Derek Fenlon, Simon Kaar, Jan Geert Hazenberg, Dan Buck, Paul Clancy, Robert Charles Uschold, Jeffrey A. Karg
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Publication number: 20150157813Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: December 11, 2013Publication date: June 11, 2015Applicants: IVAX PHARMACEUTICALS IRELAND, TEVA PHARMACEUTICALS IRELAND, NORTON WATERFORDInventors: Declan Walsh, Derek Fenlon, Simon Kaar, Jan Geert Hazenberg, Dan Buck, Paul Clancy, Robert Charles Uschold, Jeffrey A. Karg
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Patent number: 8978966Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 18, 2011Date of Patent: March 17, 2015Assignees: Teva Pharmaceuticals Ireland, Norton Waterford, IVAX Pharmaceuticals IrelandInventors: Declan Walsh, Derek Fenlon, Simon Kaar, Jan Geert Hazenberg, Dan Buck, Paul Clancy, Robert Charles Uschold, Jeffrey A. Karg
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Patent number: 8931476Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 8, 2010Date of Patent: January 13, 2015Assignee: IVAX Pharmaceuticals IrelandInventors: Simon Kaar, Declan Walsh, Derek Fenlon, Dan Buck
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Publication number: 20140373832Abstract: This invention relates to a pressurised metered dose inhaler comprising a canister, wherein the canister contains a formulation comprising a tiotropium salt and an HFA propellant, wherein the inhaler is an inhalation-actuated inhaler.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 12, 2012Publication date: December 25, 2014Inventors: Xian-Ming Zeng, Derek Fenlon
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Publication number: 20140116428Abstract: An inhaler including a medicament-containing vessel; an actuator body for receiving the vessel and having a medicament delivery outlet, wherein the vessel is releasably attachable to the actuator body; a dose counter integrated into the actuator body; and a first indicium on the vessel and a second indicium on the actuator body, wherein the first indicium and the second indicium identify the vessel and the actuator body to be part of the same metered-dose inhaler. Also provided is a kit including the metered-dose inhaler and at least one pair of stickers and a method for manufacturing the metered-dose inhaler.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 7, 2014Publication date: May 1, 2014Applicant: IVAX PHARMACEUTICALS IRELANDInventor: Derek Fenlon
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Publication number: 20140096356Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: December 11, 2013Publication date: April 10, 2014Applicants: IVAX PHARMACEUTICALS IRELAND, TEVA PHARMACEUTICALS IRELAND, NORTON WATERFORDInventors: Declan Walsh, Derek Fenlon, Simon Kaar, Jan Geert Hazenberg, Dan Buck, Paul Clancy, Robert Charles Uschold, Jeffrey A. Karg
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Publication number: 20140096349Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: December 11, 2013Publication date: April 10, 2014Applicants: IVAX PHARMACEUTICALS IRELAND, TEVA PHARMACEUTICALS IRELAND, NORTON WATERFORDInventors: Declan Walsh, Derek Fenlon, Simon Kaar, Jan Geert Hazenberg, Dan Buck, Paul Clancy, Robert Charles Uschold, Jeffrey A. Kang
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Publication number: 20140096711Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: December 11, 2013Publication date: April 10, 2014Applicants: IVAX PHARMACEUTICALS IRELAND, TEVA PHARMACEUTICALS IRELAND, NORTON WATERFORDInventors: Declan Walsh, Derek Fenlon, Simon Kaar, Jan Geert Hazenberg, Dan Buck, Paul Clancy, Robert Charles Uschold, Jeffrey A. Karg
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Publication number: 20140096769Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: December 11, 2013Publication date: April 10, 2014Applicants: Ivax Pharmaceuticals Ireland, Teva Pharmaceuticals Ireland, Norton WaterfordInventors: Declan Walsh, Derek Fenlon, Simon Kaar, Jan Geert Hazenberg, Dan Buck, Paul Clancy, Robert Charles Uschold, Jeffrey A. Kang
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Publication number: 20120174918Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: June 8, 2010Publication date: July 12, 2012Applicant: IVAX PHARMACEUTICALS IRELAND (a trading name of IVAX International B.V.)Inventors: Simon Kaar, Declan Walsh, Derek Fenlon, Dan Buck
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Patent number: 8132712Abstract: A metered dose inhaler dose counter, the counter includes: an actuator; a rotary gear wheel having a plurality of ratchet teeth; a driver for driving the rotary gear in a step-wise fashion in response to displacement of the actuator; a pawl that prevents reverse rotation of the rotary gear; and a display coupled to the rotary gear.Type: GrantFiled: April 1, 2008Date of Patent: March 13, 2012Assignee: Ivax Pharmaceuticals IrelandInventor: Derek Fenlon
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Publication number: 20110283997Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: May 18, 2011Publication date: November 24, 2011Applicants: 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
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Publication number: 20100101566Abstract: An inhaler including a medicament-containing vessel; an actuator body for receiving the vessel and having a medicament delivery outlet, wherein the vessel is releasably attachable to the actuator body; a dose counter integrated into the actuator body; and a first indicium on the vessel and a second indicium on the actuator body, wherein the first indicium and the second indicium identify the vessel and the actuator body to be part of the same metered-dose inhaler. Also provided is a kit including the metered-dose inhaler and at least one pair of stickers and a method for manufacturing the metered-dose inhaler.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 26, 2008Publication date: April 29, 2010Applicant: Ivax Pharmaceuticals IrelandInventor: Derek Fenlon
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Publication number: 20100078490Abstract: A metered dose inhaler dose counter, the counter includes: an actuator; a rotary gear wheel having a plurality of ratchet teeth; a driver for driving the rotary gear in a step-wise fashion in response to displacement of the actuator; a pawl that prevents reverse rotation of the rotary gear; and a display coupled to the rotary gear.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 1, 2008Publication date: April 1, 2010Inventor: Derek Fenlon
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Publication number: 20080142007Abstract: An inhaler for administering a predetermined dose of a medicament. The inhaler includes a screw-threaded mechanism which is operable to dispense the predetermined dose for inhalation. The inhaler can include a rotatable threaded member mounted within a casing. The inhaler can also include an internally threaded sleeve mounted on the rotatable threaded member. The sleeve can be moved linearly by rotation of the threaded member. Medicament can be provided in a tray of the sleeve, and can be aligned with a mouth piece of the inhaler for inhalation by the linear movement of the sleeve.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 15, 2006Publication date: June 19, 2008Applicant: Norton Healthcare LtdInventor: Derek Fenlon