Power medicine applicator for nasal cavity
AssigneeBioactis Limited
InventorTatsuo Tsutsui
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AssigneeBioactis Limited
InventorTatsuo Tsutsui
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Improvement for the device to deliver the powdery medicine into nasal cavities in which a capsule setting/detaching part 40 is built drawably in the capsule housing/holding part 30, and cutting blades 60A, 60B are built in both axial ends of the capsule setting/detaching part 40 of the capsule housing/holding part 30 for cutting both axial ends of the capsule thereby perforating the capsule. A medicine capturing/collecting part 32 and a one-way valve 33 are built in a lower portion of the capsule housing/holding part 30, and a pump 50 having an air inlet valve 54 is built in the air flow inlet side thereof. A medicine delivery part 20 is built in the air exit of the capsule housing/holding part 30, a nozzle 22 is installed and medicine in the capsule can be dosed to the nasal cavities of the user by pressing the pump 50.
A device to deliver the powdery medicine into the nasal cavity comprising a capsule housing/holding part for housing and holding a capsule filled with a powdery medicine, a pump installed in the capsule housing/holding part for supplying dosing air to the capsule housing/holding part, a medicine delivery part with one or branched top end installed in the capsule housing/holding part for delivering and dosing the medicine in the capsule of the capsule housing/holding part by air supplied by way of an air flow passage built in the capsule housing/holding part from the pump to the nasal cavity of a user, a capsule setting/detaching part built in the capsule housing/holding part so as to move the capsule in the lateral direction relative to the axial direction of the capsule for setting and the detaching capsule and for perforating both axial ends of the capsule, and cutting blades built in the capsule housing/holding part so as to be movable laterally with respect to the axial of the capsule for perforating both axial ends of the capsule.
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