Abstract: A powder medicine administering device includes a main body formed with a powder medicine discharge passage for discharging a powder medicine, and a nozzle member removably attached to the main body, and formed with a nozzle passage connected with the powder medicine discharge passage of the main body, and arranged to receive the powder medicine in a closed state. The nozzle member is arranged to be changed from the closed state to an opened state when the nozzle member is attached to the main body, to discharge the powder medicine received in the nozzle passage.

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 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 medicine administering device for nasal cavities includes (a) a medicine accommodating chamber configured to accommodate at once a powdery medicine used in a plurality of administrations; (b) a spray nozzle for spraying the powdery medicine into nasal cavities, the spray nozzle communicating with the medicine accommodating chamber; and (c) a pump for supplying an air into the medicine accommodating chamber and forcing the powdery medicine by the air out of the spray nozzle into the nasal cavities.

Abstract: A blister pack for an 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 stored in the storage chamber.

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: An inhalator including an inhalator body including a powder receiving chamber for receiving a powder, an air-powder mixture reservoir for temporarily storing an air-powder mixture flowing from the powder receiving chamber, and a diluent air passage for introducing a diluent air into the air-powder mixture reservoir. The air-powder mixture is formed within the powder receiving chamber when an air is introduced into the powder receiving chamber. The air-powder mixture within the air-powder mixture reservoir is admixed with a diluent air introduced thereinto through the diluent air passage. The diluted air-powder mixture is discharged from an air-powder mixture outlet into a user's oral or nasal cavity. A powder composition for inhalators includes at least two kinds of fine particles different in particle diameter.

Abstract: An inhalator including an inhalator body including a powder receiving chamber for receiving a powder, an air-powder mixture reservoir for temporarily storing an air-powder mixture flowing from the powder receiving chamber, and a diluent air passage for introducing a diluent air into the air-powder mixture reservoir. The air-powder mixture is formed within the powder receiving chamber when an air is introduced into the powder receiving chamber. The air-powder mixture within the air-powder mixture reservoir is admixed with a diluent air introduced thereinto through the diluent air passage. The diluted air-powder mixture is discharged from an air-powder mixture outlet into a user's oral or nasal cavity. A powder composition for inhalators includes at least two kinds of fine particles different in particle diameter.

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: An inhalator including an inhalator body including a powder receiving chamber for receiving a powder, an air-powder mixture reservoir for temporarily storing an air-powder mixture flowing from the powder receiving chamber, and a diluent air passage for introducing a diluent air into the air-powder mixture reservoir. The air-powder mixture is formed within the powder receiving chamber when an air is introduced into the powder receiving chamber. The air-powder mixture within the air-powder mixture reservoir is admixed with a diluent air introduced thereinto through the diluent air passage. The diluted air-powder mixture is discharged from an air-powder mixture outlet into a user's oral or nasal cavity. A powder composition for inhalators includes at least two kinds of fine particles different in particle diameter.

Abstract: An inhalant medicator includes a medicator body 1 which is formed therein with a cylindrical fit hole 2, an inhalant port 3, an inflow air passageway 5, and an outflow air passageway 6, and a medical powder storage cylindrical member 8 which is installed or fitted into the cylindrical fit hole 2 in a manner so as to open or close the air passageways 5 and 6 with respect to a medical powder storage chamber 12. The inhalant medicator is constructed by two component parts, namely the medicator body 1 and the medical powder storage cylindrical member 8, thus ensuring simplified structure and reduced production costs. Additionally, powder-and-granular medicine or medical powder 16 is tightly encapsulated within the medical powder storage chamber 12 by means of the medical powder storage cylindrical member 8, thus preventing loss of flow of the medical powder 16.

Abstract: An inhalant medicator includes a medicator body 1 which is formed therein with a cylindrical fit hole 2, an inhalant port 3, an inflow air passageway 5, and an outflow air passageway 6, and a medical powder storage cylindrical member 8 which is installed or fitted into the cylindrical fit hole 2 in a manner so as to open or close the air passageways 5 and 6 with respect to a medical powder storage chamber 12. The inhalant medicator is constructed by two component parts, namely the medicator body 1 and the medical powder storage cylindrical member 8, thus ensuring simplified structure and reduced production costs. Additionally, powder-and-granular medicine or medical powder 16 is tightly encapsulated within the medical powder storage chamber 12 by means of the medical powder storage cylindrical member 8, thus preventing loss of flow of the medical powder 16.

Abstract: An inhalant medicator comprises a medicator body formed at one axial end with a capsule housing hole and at another axial end with an inhalant port, an inflow air passageway having an axial inflow passage extending in an axial direction of the medicator body and a first pin insertion hole extending in a radial direction of the medicator body for communicating the capsule housing hole with the atmosphere, an outflow air passageway having an outflow passage extending in the axial direction of the medicator body and a second pin insertion hole extending in the radial direction of the medicator body for communicating the capsule housing hole with the inhalant port, and a boring tool having pins insertable toward a capsule through the first and second insertion holes for pricking holes in the capsule accommodated in the capsule housing hole with the pins.

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 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.