Implantable drug delivery device
AssigneeEcole Polytechnique Federale De Lausanne (Epfl)
InventorsNikolaos Stergiopulos, Michel Bachmann
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Abstract
The implantable drug delivery device comprises at least an implantable pump, a reservoir and a delivery chamber.
Claims31
An implantable delivery device comprising at least a body, an inlet and an outlet and actuating means, wherein the actuating means comprise at least an actuator displacing a piston in a rotating cylinder forming at least one variable volume chamber, the volume of which is varied by rotation of said cylinder thereby pumping liquid such as a drug from a reservoir through said inlet and expelling said pumped liquid from said variable volume chamber through at least a first temporary chamber and said outlet by variation of said volume.
A drug delivery system that can be implanted through a trocar.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.