Drug delivery device
AssigneeN.V. Organon
InventorsKarin DE VRIES, Wim JANSEN
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Abstract
A dispenser for administering a pharmaceutical substance in the form of a plurality of separate unit doses of the substance, comprising a housing, an actuator, a delivery outlet for administering at least one unit dose at a time, a transport mechanism for bringing the unit doses sequentially in operative association with the delivery outlet and a delaying arrangement to impose a lockout interval between administering sequential doses
Claims21
A dispenser for administering a pharmaceutical substance in the form of a plurality of separate unit doses of the substance, comprising:
- a housing;
- an actuator;
- a delivery outlet for administering at least one unit dose at a time;
- a transport mechanism for bringing the unit doses sequentially in operative association with the delivery outlet;
- and
- a delaying arrangement to impose a lockout interval between administering sequential doses, wherein the delaying arrangement comprises a mechanical timing system coupled to the transport mechanism such that a main spring of the mechanical timing system is wound by or during transport of the doses and the lockout interval is initiated by operating the actuator.
A dispenser for administering a liquid pharmaceutical substance in the form of a plurality of separate unit doses of the substance contained within blisters on a strip, the dispenser comprising:
- a housing;
- a manually actuated actuator arranged to cause rupture of a blister on application of pressure to release the liquid for delivery;
- a delivery nozzle for administering at least one unit dose at a time;
- a transport mechanism for bringing the unit doses sequentially in operative association with the delivery nozzle and the actuator;
- and
- a delaying arrangement to impose a lockout interval between administering sequential doses, wherein the delaying arrangement comprises a mechanical timing system coupled to the transport mechanism such the mechanical timing system is armed by transport of the doses.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.