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US 11,077,263 B2Granted
Disposable ampoule for an aerosol generating device
AssigneePARI Pharma GmbH
InventorsMihaela Loenner, Thomas Gallem, Uwe Hetzer
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Abstract
Disposable ampoule for use in an aerosol generating device, comprising: a medicament container that contains a medicament and is formed of a container body and a container bottom, and a predetermined break point that at least partly surrounds the container bottom, characterised by a collar that surrounds the predetermined break point at its outside and extends the container body over and beyond the container bottom.
Claims15
A disposable ampoule for use in an aerosol generating device, comprising:
- a medicament container that contains a medicament and is formed of a container body and a container bottom extending in a plane perpendicular to a longitudinal direction of the ampoule,
- a predetermined break point that at least partly surrounds the container bottom, and
- a fixing groove formed in the container body, the fixing groove being provided centrally or closer to the container bottom in the longitudinal direction of the ampoule to absorb forces required to open the ampoule in the aerosol generating device and which arise when breaking the predetermined break point, wherein the ampoule at least at its inner contour tapers inwardly toward the container bottom in a first functional area of the container body and containing the container bottom, and a second functional area of the container body is substantially configured as a hollow cylinder, wherein the fixing groove includes an annular indentation into the container body and first and second portions of the container body located on opposite sides of the annular indentation, the first and second portions being raised with respect to a bottom part of the annular indentation and defining the annular indentation between them wherein the fixing groove is located between the first functional area and the second functional area, wherein at least one reinforcing rib is provided on the container body and wherein the reinforcing rib extends over a partial area of the container body, over and beyond the container bottom and over at least a partial area of a collar that surrounds the predetermined break point at its outside and extends the container body over and beyond the container bottom, an open end of the collar being spaced from the container body.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.