With Rupture Means For Access Patents (Class 206/532)
  • Publication number: 20150041357
    Abstract: The pillbox comprises a pill receptacle comprising a number of pill compartments; and a cover sheet attached to the pill receptacle. The cover sheet has a sealing sheet with cells defining borders above each pill compartment. The cover sheet also has a protective sheet removably attached to the bottom surface of the sealing sheet. Protective tab tearing lines are provided on the protective sheet that allow portions of the protective sheet to be removed from the sealing sheet while other portions of the protective sheet remain attached to the sealing sheet in the form of protective tabs. Tearable tab tearing lines are provided on the sealing sheet that are disposed to form tearable tabs on the sealing sheet, the protective tabs corresponding to respective the tearable tabs. The tearable tab tearing lines define, for each the tearable tab, a tearable tab main portion and a tearable tab tongue portion linking the tearable tab main portion to one of the cell borders.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2013
    Publication date: February 12, 2015
    Applicant: Richards Packaging Inc. -Emballages Richards Inc.
    Inventors: Alain Proulx, Mario Therrien
  • Publication number: 20150041339
    Abstract: An outer sleeve includes first and second opposed side panels edges, hinge panels interconnecting the first and second side panels such that at least one chamber is defined between the first and second side panels, at least one of the hinge panels being hingedly connected to at least one of the first and second side panels along one of the opposed side edges of the at least one side panel, and at least one inner panel positioned at least in part inside the at least one chamber. The at least one inner panel includes a slide card locking mechanism for releasably locking at least one slide card in a locked position within the at least one chamber. The at least one side panel includes a release button positioned proximate the slide card locking mechanism of the at least one inner panel. The at least one inner panel is hingedly connected to one of the end edges of the at least one panel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2014
    Publication date: February 12, 2015
    Inventors: Steven P. JONES, Marty JONES, Robert WORKMAN
  • Patent number: 8925726
    Abstract: Blister packages are described that comprise a blistered base sheet including one or more cavities and a lid bonded to said blister package. The cavities may include a void, a dome structure, and a shelf. The shelf may be configured to hold a cartridge, and the cartridge may contain a pharmaceutical formulation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: MannKind Corporation
    Inventor: Michael S. Bergey
  • Patent number: 8915370
    Abstract: A blister-type packaging unit having a front wall (2) and a rear wall (1) defining an article-receiving space (6) between them. The front wall (2) and the rear wall (1) have a circumferential joint (4). Inwardly of said circumferential joint (4) a weakened region (7) is present in at least one of the front and rear walls (1,2), which weakened region (7) is tearable by a user to separate the front and rear walls (1,2). Said weakened region (7) has two end portions which are located inwardly of said peripheral region, so that the weakened region (7) can be torn after the user has made a cut in the walls (1,2).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2014
    Assignee: Koninklijke Philips N.V.
    Inventors: Niels Arno Prinsen, Rhonda Kay Parton, Clay Steven Stricklin, Caroline Van Hoff-Brekelmans
  • Patent number: 8905237
    Abstract: A blister card with a back side and a front side opposite the back side. The front side has a plurality of blisters and each blister contains a unit dose and each unit dose contains an active. Each blister card contains from about 12 hours to about 24 hours of unit doses according to the dosage instructions. The actives can be the same or different.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2014
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Rosa Manuela Leon Alonso, Kelly Lee Schmeichel, Isabelle LaFosse-Marin, Angela Jane Deutsch, Thomas Alfred Inglin, Kurt Franklin Trombley, Diane Danheiser Powers, Eduardo de Abreu Mangione, Craig Andrew Hawkins, Jay Robert Morosey, Jr.
  • Patent number: 8875891
    Abstract: A press-through package for articles such as medicines which can reliably prevent a recipient from accidentally swallowing the whole package without opening it, including solid medicines M stored in a plurality of pockets of a base sheet one by one and the pockets sealed by a cover film having attached to the rear surface of the base sheet, wherein the entire package of the press-through package is made in a cylindrical form which cannot allow a recipient from accidentally swallowing and from which the medicines can be taken out easily.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2014
    Assignees: Yamashita Works, Co., Ltd., Titan Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenji Yamashita, Akiyoshi Yasusato, Tetsuya Yamashita, Kenji Hamada, Goro Kuratani, Masakazu Sugino, Yuko Hanazono, Yoshihiko Matsuoka
  • Patent number: 8865283
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a security label for securing medications retained in an individual packaging, comprising a base layer (10, 20, 30) that can be adhesively bonded to the individual packaging (12, 22, 32), wherein at least one opening cut (17, 37, 47, 57, 67, 77, 87, 97, 107, 117, 127, 137, 147, 157) per medication (16) is provided in the base layer (10, 20, 30) in the area of the expected medications (16), wherein the opening cut (17, 37, 47, 57, 67, 77, 87, 97, 107, 117, 127, 137, 147, 157) has at least one first and one second partial cut, and wherein the first partial cut and the second partial cut meet or cross, wherein two, three, four, or five opening cuts (17, 37, 47, 57, 67, 77, 87, 97, 107, 117, 127, 137, 147, 157) are provided in the area of the expected medication (16), and the opening cuts (17, 37, 47, 57, 67, 77, 87, 97, 107, 117, 127, 137, 147, 157); are arranged exclusively along a segment of the contour of the medication (16) or along a segment of the contour of the medication
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2014
    Assignee: Faubel & Co Nachfolger GmbH
    Inventors: Frank Ludwig, Reinhard Kuge, Marco Dieling
  • Patent number: 8833576
    Abstract: The re-closable container (1) for fluid products, particularly for medical, pharmaceutical and cosmetic products, includes: a hollow body (2) for containing a fluid product, which extends to a neck (4) having at least a dispensing mouth (5) for the product, and closing elements (7) for closing the dispensing mouth (5), which include: a flat-plane gripping member (8), from which a shutter pin (9) of the dispensing mouth (5) extends substantially coplanar, an annular collar (12), which is associated with the flat-plane gripping member (8) along at least a pre-established breaking area (13) and which is rigidly associable with the neck (4), and a resting base (17) suitable for allowing the flat-plane gripping member (8) to rest on a supporting surface (18) in a resting configuration in which the shutter pin (9) remains lifted with respect to the supporting surface (18).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 4, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2014
    Assignee: Lameplast S.p.A.
    Inventor: Antonio Fontana
  • Patent number: 8820529
    Abstract: A film container includes a bottom film and a top film connected thereto for forming at least one accommodating chamber for a filling, in particular a pharmaceutical active substance formulation. A detachably fastened sliding element which covers the accommodating chamber is assigned to the accommodating chamber as a safeguard.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2014
    Assignee: Boehringer Ingelheim International GmbH
    Inventors: Stephan Kurtze, Stefan Lustenberger, Rolf Kuhn
  • Patent number: 8795607
    Abstract: The invention relates to a container (1) for a fluid for metering a reagent into a microfluidic system. The container comprises a chamber (4) and a first film (3) which seals off the chamber (4) so that the fluid is encapsulated in the chamber. Advantageously, the first film (3) is an aluminum sealing film. A second film (7) is sealingly arranged on the first film, for example by adhesive bonding of the film layers. The films differ in their tear strength such that when pressure is applied simultaneously to both films the first film tears while the second film deforms elastically and/or plastically. By tearing the first film a connection is produced between the container chamber and an inlet channel so that a fluid contained in the chamber flows into the microfluidic system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignee: Boehringer Ingelheim Microparts GmbH
    Inventors: Dirk Kurowski, Berthold Lange, Dirk Osterloh
  • Publication number: 20140197066
    Abstract: A laminated film for production of molded packaging, in particular blister packs, with a layer structure comprising an inner first plastic layer, in particular of HDPE, an aluminum layer, which is connected with the first plastic layer by way of a connecting layer, and on the side opposite the first plastic layer is connected, preferably by way of a primer layer and a further connecting layer, to a second plastic layer, in particular comprising OPA. The second plastic layer is connected to a PET layer by way of a connecting layer and that the PET layer has a thickness between 150 ?m and 300 ?m, preferably a thickness between 200 ?m and 300 ?m.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2012
    Publication date: July 17, 2014
    Applicant: AMCOR FLEXIBLES SINGEN GMBH
    Inventors: Oliver Brandl, Peter Claessens, Angelika Merthan
  • Publication number: 20140183096
    Abstract: Methods and systems for a cartridge assembly for use with an injection system are provided. An example cartridge assembly may include an ampule containing a pharmaceutical product that is sealed at a distal end with a pierceable diaphragm. The cartridge assembly may also include a hub comprising a proximal portion defining a cavity that is configured to engage the distal end of the ampule and a piercing member positioned within the cavity. The piercing member may include a fluid pathway between a proximal end portion comprising an opening and a distal end in fluid communication with a distal opening of the hub. The proximal end portion may engage the pierceable diaphragm, and the piercing member may apply a force to the pierceable diaphragm in the inactivated position without penetrating the pierceable diaphragm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2013
    Publication date: July 3, 2014
    Applicant: Hospira, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert John Oshgan, John C. Tanner, II
  • Patent number: 8757381
    Abstract: A sealing sheet for closing a container-defining sheet having a top surface comprising a given number of spaced apart cavities embossed therein, each of the cavities being upwardly opened and defining a container surrounded by a flange. The sealing sheet includes a top layer having a lower surface covered with pressure sensitive adhesive glue, and a bottom layer having an upper surface detachably fixed to the lower surface of the top layer by pressure sensitive adhesive glue. The bottom layer being peelable from the lower surface of the top layer to allow fixation of the sealing sheet onto the top surface of the container-defining sheet in order to close the containers defined in the same. The sealing sheet also includes an additional layer that is tearable into additional elements that are foldably attached on top of each of the containers and on which additional information may be printed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2014
    Assignee: 9155-0020 Quebec Inc.
    Inventor: Chantel Hebert
  • Patent number: 8752704
    Abstract: A daily blister card housing a unit dose includes a back side and a front side opposite the back side. The front side includes a manufacturer indicator visible on the front side. A face has an outer periphery and a total planar area bounded by the outer periphery. One or more blisters extend outwardly at the face that contain at least three unit doses that are visible from outside the one or more blisters. Each of the one or more blisters includes a shoulder contacting a cavity backing surface and a projected cavity area bounded by the shoulder that is projected onto the cavity backing surface. A total projected cavity area of the one or more blisters is no more than about 45 percent of the total planar area bounded by the outer periphery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2014
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Rosa Manuela Leon Alonso, Kelly Lee Schmeichel, Isabelle LaFosse-Marin, Angela Jane Deutsch, Thomas Alfred Inglin, Kurt Franklin Trombley, Diane Danheiser Powers, Eduardo de Abreu Mangione, Craig Andrew Hawkins, Jay Robert Morosey, Jr.
  • Patent number: 8739783
    Abstract: A fluid dispenser device comprising: at least one predosed reservoir (10) that is hermetically sealed and that contains a single dose of powder; an expulsion channel (20) that is terminated by a mouthpiece; and a reservoir opening system (30), each reservoir (10) including a closure layer (12) that is suitable for being pierced and/or torn by said opening system (30) so as to enable the powder that is contained in said reservoir (10) to be expelled through said expulsion channel (20), said reservoir opening system (30) comprising at least two piercer elements (31) that are actuated so as to create at least two distinct openings (25, 26) in said closure layer (12), forming at least one inlet passage (25) for the flow of gas, in particular air, and at least one outlet passage (26) for the powder entrained by said flow of gas, and said device including an inhalation trigger system (50) that creates a flow of gas in said expulsion channel (20) only when a user inhales at or above a predetermined inhalation thresh
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2014
    Assignee: Aptar France SAS
    Inventors: Olivier Fourment, Pascal Bruna
  • Patent number: 8727156
    Abstract: A package suitable for storing liquids therein, having a pocket (16) being formed between superposed front and rear sheets (10; 12), which are joined together peripherally by a liquid-tight seal (14), a top package portion comprising an end of a neck portion (20), which extends from the pocket (16), a top part (22) of the neck portion (20) being narrower than the pocket (16), at least one reinforcement portion (28) being arranged at the top package portion and extending on at least one side of the top part (22) of the next portion (20). The front sheet (10) and the rear sheet (12) each have a substantially uniform rupture strength along the extension of the pocket (16) and the neck portion (20). In order to open the package, the neck portion (20) is ruptured by bending the top package portion backwards.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2014
    Assignee: Intervet Inc.
    Inventors: Gary Skwarek, Sam Tan
  • Publication number: 20140107086
    Abstract: This invention relates to a low cost rapid response diagnostic system to determine cortisol levels in patients selected as potential candidates for GCR (glucocorticoid receptor) antagonist therapy utilizing a GCR antagonist, such as ORG 34517. The rapid, sensitive, and inexpensive test can be used to determine patients who have non-normal cortisol production or disordered circadian rhythms as a method for selecting subjects for GCR antagonist therapy for whom it is likely to have beneficial and/or therapeutic effects, and can also be used to monitor changes in cortisol levels in response to treatment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2013
    Publication date: April 17, 2014
    Applicant: Pop Test Cortisol LLC
    Inventors: Randice Lisa Altschul, Neil David Theise, Myron Rapkin, Rebecca O'Brien
  • Patent number: 8640873
    Abstract: A plastic ampule comprising a body portion, a head portion provided continuously to the mouth portion of the body portion through a cut-off portion, and a knob portion provided continuously to the head portion the ampule being unsealed by twisting the knob portion with fingers to cut the head portion off the mouth portion, wherein the hollow portion in the head portion is formed in the shape of a bowl. Since the hollow portion is formed in the shape of a bowl, content liquid remaining in the hollow portion can be discharged easily, the plastic ampule can be unsealed easily, and the content liquid remaining in the hollow portion is not scattered easily at the time of unsealing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2014
    Assignee: Nippon Zoki Pharamaceutical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideshi Nakano, Hideo Nishimura
  • Patent number: 8631941
    Abstract: A dispenser assembly has a rupturable inner container and a cover member. The rupturable inner container contains a first flowable material. The cover member encapsulates the inner container. The cover member is impregnated with a second material, wherein the inner container is rupturable wherein the first flowable material contacts the cover member and interacts with the second material to form a mixture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2014
    Assignee: James Alexander Corporation
    Inventor: Francesca Fazzolari
  • Patent number: 8627957
    Abstract: A pharmaceutical product supply is disclosed in the form of a container, a pharmaceutical product receiver, pharmaceutical product, an adhesive, and at least one release liner. The pharmaceutical product receiver includes a plurality of receptacles for pharmaceutical product. The container is initially disposed in a first configuration where all of the pharmaceutical product receiver receptacles may be accessible. The container is thereafter disposable in a second configuration where no covering for any of the pharmaceutical product receiver receptacles is accessible through any openable access incorporated by the container. One or more release liners may be moved to expose adhesive for disposing and retaining the container in its second configuration. The noted second configuration of the container facilitates disposal of the pharmaceutical product supply (e.g.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2014
    Assignee: Mallinckrodt LLC
    Inventors: Robert J. Ziemba, Vernon D. Ortenzi
  • Patent number: 8607982
    Abstract: A packaging blank includes a first panel and a second panel. The first panel defines at least one blister aperture and at least one tool portion. The second panel defines at least one tab strip and at least one tool access portion. The at least one tab strip is at least partially severable from the packaging blank. The at least one tool access portion is substantially completely severable from the packaging blank. The first panel and the second panel are configured to be positioned relative to one another in a face contacting arrangement such that a first portion of a given tool portion is to be operably aligned with a corresponding tool access portion. As such, the first portion of the given tool portion thereby is capable of being accessed by a tool via the corresponding tool access portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2013
    Assignee: MeadWestvaco Corporation
    Inventor: Steve P. Jones
  • Patent number: 8602246
    Abstract: A dual-chamber container with independent or combined access includes two individual chambers made of a breach-able material such as, but not limited to, a paper product. The container can be made from a unitary blank that is foldable to create a substantially triangular body. The triangular body includes a first and a second superimposed triangular chamber, each chamber having a distinct interior space for holding a dispensable substance. A first and a second access fin are positioned at each of a respective first and a second corner of the body, each access fin contiguous with a respective one of the first and the second chamber. The interior space of each chamber is individually accessible by removing a respective one of the access fins, thereby breaching it's respective chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2013
    Inventor: Daniel M. Frohwein
  • Patent number: 8585659
    Abstract: Devices for delivery of medical compositions in either liquid or powder form include a piercing device for piercing a flexible sheet material in which when contained in a flexible blister dosage form, the piercing device serves as a delivery channel for compositions contained in the blister. The device is configured to reduce or inhibit puncture flap interference with the delivered spray or mist by forming a substantial non-contact drape in the material prior to puncture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2013
    Assignee: Mystic Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
    Inventor: Christopher D. Shay
  • Patent number: 8579116
    Abstract: Tamper evident devices and methods including devices that can be used with pill bottles and other packages to provide evidence of tampering by an unauthorized user are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2013
    Assignee: Oneworld Design and Manufacturing Group, Ltd.
    Inventors: Fred Pether, Rich Costa
  • Patent number: 8573403
    Abstract: A blister sheet (1) has a generally rectangular blister (2) formed with one pair of longer side walls (7) having parallel steps (8) and a second pair of shorter side wall (9) devoid of steps. The side walls serve to space a front face (5) of the blister from the plane of a rupturable foil backing sheet (4) which retains medication doses (nor shown) inside the blister until they are to be taken. The medication doses are ejected from the cavity of the blister (2) by depressing its front face with finger pressure so that they are forced against the backing sheet (4) with sufficient force to rupture it. During the application of finger pressure to the front face (5) it bows downwardly in its central region as indicated by the broken outline. Simultaneously the end walls (9) tilt inwardly towards one another so that any medication doses lying against them are forced into the central region of the blister from which they can be ejected more easily by the descending front face (5).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2013
    Assignee: Manrex Pty Ltd
    Inventors: Gerard Stevens, Ian Stevens
  • Patent number: 8573202
    Abstract: A blister pack for use with inhalation therapy inhalers comprises an elongate bottom element having an overlying top element defining a plurality of spaced top crowned areas containing powder or liquid medications or drugs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2013
    Assignee: Microdose Therapeutx, Inc.
    Inventor: Anand V. Gumaste
  • Publication number: 20130287472
    Abstract: A portable cosmetic container is disclosed. The portable cosmetic container includes a tube that has a receiving space with an opening at one end, and a crease is located at a bottom portion of the receiving space, so that a user can easily break the tube from the crease to form the opening of the receiving space. Substance is partially filled in the receiving space, and air therein is extracted to form a negative pressure status. It is advantageous that when a user breaks the tube from the crease, the substance will not randomly spray out since the air pressure moves towards the opening to keep the substance in the receiving space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2012
    Publication date: October 31, 2013
    Applicant: DAAN BIOTECH CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Chin-Chung Cheng
  • Patent number: 8544650
    Abstract: The present invention is a novel, theft-resistant, and senior-friendly packaging for consumer and retail products that is cheap and easy to manufacture. The packaging is designed to prevent individuals from gaining access to the enclosed product through tampering with the packaging while at the same time meeting or exceeding federal child-resistant and senior-friendly guidelines. The packaging incorporates plastic material and multiple cuts to be tear-resistant and to halt the propagation of a tear, if one should occur.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2013
    Assignee: Key-Pak Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Wade E. Williams-Hartman
  • Patent number: 8534461
    Abstract: A non-reclosable package for products which are prejudicial to health, such as pharmaceutical products. The package comprises a first packaging material element and a second packaging material element. The two packaging material elements are arranged on top of each other. The package has at least one first surface section, at the margin or margins of which the two packaging material elements are releasably connected with each other. At least one cavity, which is enclosed on all sides and receives the product to be packaged, is formed between the two packaging material elements. The package has at least one second surface section lying outside or adjoining the first surface section, and at the margin or margins of which the two packaging material elements are releasably connected with each other. At least one of the two packaging material elements has at least one structure extending within the second surface section and enables the packaging material element(s) to be torn.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2013
    Assignee: LTS Lohmann Therapie-Systeme AG
    Inventors: Karin Ludwig, Michael Horstmann
  • Patent number: 8528736
    Abstract: A frangible container having a body, a lid, and a cover together defining a cavity for storing dispensable contents so that the body and lid are openable by breaking a frangible connection which joins the lid and body about a hinge formed by the cover, thereby allowing the contents to be dispensed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2013
    Assignee: Sands Innovations Pty Ltd.
    Inventors: Bradley Donald Teys, Glenn Michael Bevan, Kevin James Mobbs
  • Patent number: 8501109
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a disinfection system, arrangement comprising at least two sequentially arranged disinfection systems and containers comprising various chambers usable for the disinfection system. In particular, the present invention relates to a disinfection system comprising at least one chamber adapted for containing at least one first chamber adapted to contain disinfectant and at least one second chamber adapted to contain at least one swab and/or sponge, said at least one swab and/or sponge and additional separated space for taking up the disinfectant. The system is designed such that a predetermined amount of disinfectant is brought into contact with the at least one swab and/or one sponge immediately before use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2013
    Assignee: Georg-August-Universtaet Goettingen
    Inventors: Abdolhamid Huschmand Nia, Reinhold Wegener
  • Patent number: 8490794
    Abstract: A pack (1) has a basic body (2) and a carrier (3) which is mounted in a displaceable manner therein and is intended for blisters or the like. The basic body (2) is of two-part design and comprises a floor part (5) made of cardboard and a moulding (6) made of plastics material. For childproofing purposes, the blister carrier (3) has a latching tongue (11), which is articulated in a resilient manner on a base portion (13), and the basic body (2) has a housing wall with a latching shoulder (10), wherein the latching shoulder (10) interacts with the latching tongue (11) in order to create a latching connection in the rest position. The latching shoulder (10) is formed here by a step in the housing wall in the region of the upper side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2013
    Assignee: Rondo AG
    Inventors: Alfred Kälin, Martin Krause
  • Patent number: 8479921
    Abstract: A child and bite resistant package having a tray and a plurality of spaced apart cavities that are formed therein is provided. A sheet material overlies the tray such that a product disposed in a cavity is enclosed and sealed therein. The sheet material includes a plurality of zones of weakening that are each disposed above a corresponding cavity. Each of the zones of weakening is formed by a plurality of microperforations that are formed in the sheet material. The plurality of microperforations, and hence, each zone of weakening covers from about 5 to 90% of the surface area of the sheet material that overlies each of the individual compartments. To access a product, the product is pushed against the lidding in the zone of weakness with sufficient force to rupture the lidding. Since the majority of the surface area above each compartment is non-rupturable, the compartments are difficult to access by a child by either hand manipulation or biting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2013
    Assignee: Amcor Flexibles, Inc.
    Inventor: Brian Ingraham
  • Publication number: 20130160408
    Abstract: The blister pack is composed of two sheets bonded together at least one sheet being made of plastic film and forming receptacles around a plurality of tablets or other objects to be stored and dispensed. The objects are arranged in rows and columns. An imperforate tear line is provided along a linear path traversing each of the objects in each column so that one or more objects can be freed with one pull along the tear line. Preferably, the imperforate tear line is formed by orienting the plastic material and/or forming shallow grooves or score lines in the film sheet. Both sheets can be made of plastic film, and both can have imperforate tear lines. The tear lines preferably are positioned so that only a small portion of the tablet is exposed by the tear [so that the tablet will tend to be retained in the receptacle until it is deliberately removed].
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2011
    Publication date: June 27, 2013
    Inventor: Gregor N. Neff
  • Patent number: 8470266
    Abstract: Provided is a sample packing device for packing a sample with respect to a microchip for performing reaction of a micro component contained in the sample, the microchip at least including: a sample reservoir; a reaction reservoir; and a channel connected between the sample reservoir and the reaction reservoir, in which a package including a sample chamber packed in advance with the sample is mounted on the microchip so as to pack the sample in the sample chamber into the sample reservoir.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2013
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Minoru Asogawa, Hisashi Hagiwara, Tohru Hiramatsu
  • Patent number: 8459458
    Abstract: A disposable rigid package containing pharmaceutical compositions which protects tablets, capsules, soft shell pills against hard transporting conditions and undesired rupture. The package allows for personal transportation, e.g. in a pocket, and it is easy and convenient to open for people of all level of ability and dexterity. Its design allows for transport as standard mail withstanding temperature fluctuation, vibrations and shocks, mechanical pressure and variation in atmospheric pressure which may occur during transport.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2013
    Assignee: MedComb Holding ApS
    Inventors: John Wagner, Flemming Wagner
  • Patent number: 8443977
    Abstract: Disclosed are blister package apparatuses and methods for use with tablets such as soft or breakable tablets that cannot be forced through a push-through layer. Specifically, a package for soft tablets can include a pair of blister strips, each blister strip having a plastic sheet, a plurality of recesses formed in the plastic sheet, and a peel-away backing layer for covering the recesses. A plurality of support posts can secure the blister strips together, and a spacer element can extend from one of the blister strips towards the other blister strip, the spacer element extending between two or more of the recesses for maintaining the blister strips in a spaced-apart configuration. The plurality of recesses formed in each blister strip can be offset with respect to the recesses formed in the other blister strip such that the recesses of one blister strip can nest between the recesses of the other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2013
    Assignee: GSK LLC
    Inventors: Fred M. Killinger, Christopher A. Mills, Vincent P. Pisculli, Jr.
  • Publication number: 20130087475
    Abstract: A pharmaceutical product supply is disclosed in the form of a container, a pharmaceutical product receiver, pharmaceutical product, an adhesive, and at least one release liner. The pharmaceutical product receiver includes a plurality of receptacles for pharmaceutical product. The container is initially disposed in a first configuration where all of the pharmaceutical product receiver receptacles may be accessible. The container is thereafter disposable in a second configuration where no covering for any of the pharmaceutical product receiver receptacles is accessible through any openable access incorporated by the container. One or more release liners may be moved to expose adhesive for disposing and retaining the container in its second configuration. The noted second configuration of the container facilitates disposal of the pharmaceutical product supply (e.g.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2012
    Publication date: April 11, 2013
    Applicant: MALLINCKRODT LLC
    Inventor: MALLINCKRODT LLC
  • Patent number: 8403161
    Abstract: The invention relates to a package suitable for containing a perishable product, comprising a first shell element provided with an upright circumferential edge and a central portion for accommodating said perishable product, as well as a closure element provided with a circumferential edge which closure element is placed with its circumferential edge on the upright circumferential edge of said first shell element in an adhering and closing manner and wherein said closure element is provided at its circumferential edge with a protruding lip, which lip does not adhere to the circumferential edge of said first shell element, for the purpose of peeling off said closure element from said first element. Near said lip the two circumferential edges are provided with a closed channel being in communication with said central portion, and wherein at least one of said circumferential edges is provided with a fracture line extending substantially perpendicularly to said channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2013
    Assignee: H.J. Heinz Company
    Inventor: Alexander Josephus Maricus Van Puijenbroek
  • Publication number: 20130062244
    Abstract: A non-reclosable package for products which are prejudicial to health, such as pharmaceutical products. The package comprises a first packaging material element and a second packaging material element. The two packaging material elements are arranged on top of each other. The package has at least one first surface section, at the margin or margins of which the two packaging material elements are releasably connected with each other. At least one cavity, which is enclosed on all sides and receives the product to be packaged, is formed between the two packaging material elements. The package has at least one second surface section lying outside or adjoining the first surface section, and at the margin or margins of which the two packaging material elements are releasably connected with each other. At least one of the two packaging material elements has at least one structure extending within the second surface section and enables the packaging material element(s) to be torn.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2012
    Publication date: March 14, 2013
    Applicant: LTS Lohmann Therapie-Systeme AG
    Inventor: LTS Lohmann Therapie-Systeme AG
  • Patent number: 8382728
    Abstract: An emergency medication storage and integrated single use device for providing oral dissolving medications strips in a convenient transparent transfer environment. A thin card size dispenser holds a single medicated strip in user access orientation positioned for direct card insertion to the user's mouth assuring proper dispensing of the medication in an emergency situation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2013
    Inventor: Sam Gibson
  • Patent number: 8376140
    Abstract: A vehicle to carry a powered medication that addresses the limitations of the prior art. It includes a system and method. A powder delivery system includes a first panel and a second panel coupled together around a periphery of the panels to form a sealed void therebetween, each the panel having a width and length about equal to a standard credit card width and length, respectively; and a powder, disposed in the void, having a quantity at least about equal to an active dose of the powder; wherein a thickness of the panels with the powder disposed therebetween is not greater than about 0.1 inches and more preferably not greater than about 0.03 inches.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2013
    Assignee: Breakthrough Products, Inc.
    Inventor: Jordan Eisenberg
  • Patent number: 8342331
    Abstract: A pharmaceutical product supply is disclosed in the form of a container, a pharmaceutical product receiver, pharmaceutical product, an adhesive, and at least one release liner. The pharmaceutical product receiver includes a plurality of receptacles for pharmaceutical product. The container is initially disposed in a first configuration where all of the pharmaceutical product receiver receptacles may be accessible. The container is thereafter disposable in a second configuration where no covering for any of the pharmaceutical product receiver receptacles is accessible through any openable access incorporated by the container. One or more release liners may be moved to expose adhesive for disposing and retaining the container in its second configuration. The noted second configuration of the container facilitates disposal of the pharmaceutical product supply (e.g.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2013
    Assignee: Mallinckrodt LLC
    Inventors: Robert J. Ziemba, Vernon D. Ortenzi
  • Patent number: 8333510
    Abstract: A peelable pouch (1) comprises: a first layer (2), a second layer (3), a compartment (4) for housing the product (7), the compartment (4) being formed between the first and second layers (2, 3) by peelably sealing the first and second layers (2, 3) along a compartment sealing portion (40), which extends along the proximal portion (23, 33) and along at least a part of the two lateral portions (20, 21, 30, 31) of the first and second layers (2, 3) as well as along first (24, 34) and second branch portions (25, 35), a first tear promoting means (50) provided on the first layer (2) only, a second tear promoting means (51) provided on the second layer (3) only, and a third tear promoting means (52) provided on both the first and second layers (2,3) and extending in a direction towards the location (26) where the first and second branch portions (24, 34, 25, 35) meet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2012
    Assignee: Novartis AG
    Inventors: Marco Ackermann, Christian Saclier
  • Patent number: 8329309
    Abstract: A paper-based lidding material includes a paper layer and a layer containing a cyclic olefin copolymer. The material is useful for blister packaging and particularly suitable for push-through pharmaceutical and food blister packaging. In one embodiment, the lidding material is formed by extrusion coating and includes at least one paper layer, at least one primer layer, at least one tie layer, at least one barrier layer containing one or more cyclic olefin copolymers, and at least one sealant layer in that order. In another embodiment, the paper-based lidding material includes a paper layer laminated to one or more barrier layers containing one or more cyclic olefin copolymers adjacent to one or more sealant layers. Embodiments of the invention can be sealed to a variety of blister films, including films that are chloride-free, to provide environmentally benign blister packages having good moisture properties.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2012
    Assignee: Winpak Heat Seal Packaging, Inc.
    Inventors: Ludovic Leplatois, Hojjat Nasseri
  • Patent number: 8317026
    Abstract: A child-resistant package including two panels having one or more blister apertures and a particular manner of accessing the product within the blister apertures. One manner of accessing the product involves applying pressure to punch tabs defined by staggered perforations. Another manner of accessing the product uses tooled access slots designed to receive a tool to peel away tab strips to facilitate product access. Yet another manner of accessing utilizes tab strips, one or more folding lines and one or more crevice forming lines where the crevice forming lines are designed to receive a tool used to obtain access to the tab strips, and thus, facilitate access to the products. Still another uses dual tabs that need to be sequentially peeled away from the child resistant package housing to facilitate access to the product contained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Assignee: MeadWestvaco Corporation
    Inventors: Caleb S Loftin, William Roger Rigby
  • Patent number: 8317027
    Abstract: A re-usable dispensing container (10) for pills, tablets or capsules, includes a base portion (20) having a plurality of compartments (25). An adhesive-free sealing sheet (50) is arranged to cover openings of the compartments such that the sheet may be ruptured to provide access individually to the compartments. A sealing sheet retainer (30), having apertures thorough which the sheet may be ruptured, is removably closable over the sealing sheet removably to retain the sealing sheet between the sealing sheet retainer and the base. A lid (40) is provided to cover the sealing sheet retainer (30) and is lockable to the base with a tamper-evident locking pin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Inventors: Alpa Shantilal Pabari, Hiten Shantilal Pabari
  • Patent number: 8307983
    Abstract: A non-reclosable package for products which are prejudicial to health, such as pharmaceutical products. The package comprises a first packaging material element and a second packaging material element. The two packaging material elements are arranged on top of each other. The package has at least one first surface section, at the margin or margins of which the two packaging material elements are releasably connected with each other. At least one cavity, which is enclosed on all sides and receives the product to be packaged, is formed between the two packaging material elements. The package has at least one second surface section lying outside or adjoining the first surface section, and at the margin or margins of which the two packaging material elements are releasably connected with each other. At least one of the two packaging material elements has at least one structure extending within the second surface section and enables the packaging material element(s) to be torn.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2012
    Assignee: LTS Lohmann Therapie-Systeme AG
    Inventors: Karin Ludwig, Michael Horstmann
  • Publication number: 20120261275
    Abstract: A package comprising a blister pack (50) having a plurality of blister pockets (52) formed therein, a foil layer (54) overlying the blister pockets (52), an outer sleeve (10) comprising a top wall (12), a bottom wall (14) and a pair of side walls (16, 18), a floating panel (21) extending from one of the walls and being located interiorly of the outer sleeve (10) adjacent to the blister pack (50), the blister pack (50) being interior of the outer sleeve, a locking member (60) on the blister pack (50), the locking member (60) being engageable and disengageable with the floating panel (21) so as to deny or permit the blister pack to slide out of the outer sleeve (10) to permit access to the blister pockets (52).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2010
    Publication date: October 18, 2012
    Inventor: Derek Intini
  • Publication number: 20120228185
    Abstract: The invention relates to a security label for protecting medicaments contained in an individual packaging, comprising a base layer (11, 111, 211) that can be stuck to the individual packaging (10, 110), at least one opening cut (26, 226) being formed in the base layer (11, 111, 211), in the region of the medicament (16) to be inserted. A security layer (10, 110) is stuck to the base layer (11, 111, 211), and removable elements (19) are formed in the security layer (10, 11) in the region of the medicaments (16) to be inserted, in such a way that cuts (18) are made in the security layer (10, 110) on the edge of the removable elements (19), said cuts (18) following a virtual cut strip. Furthermore, a means for reducing or eliminating the adhesive force of the adhesive of the security layer (10, 110) is applied to the base layer (11, 111, 211) in the region of the removable elements (19).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2010
    Publication date: September 13, 2012
    Inventors: Frank Ludwig, Reinhard Kuge, Marco Dieling