US 4,731,054 A · Medical repository probe

Abstract

The repository probe or drug dispenser consists of a tube which is divided into a probe head and a probe end part. In addition, a series of medicine carriers are disposed in the probe head which contain active ingredients and which have an axial length of at most three times the outside diameter of the tube. In addition, openings are provided in the tube transversely of each medicine carrier for the passage of fluids. Joint zones are provided between the segments of the tube in which the medicine carriers are placed. Because of the limitation on the axial length of the medicine carriers and the joint zones, the flexibility of the probe head between the relatively stiff medicine carriers is increased without distortion or a closing of the openings to the medicine carriers when deflecting the probe.

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Dependent claims

A medical repository probe comprising

a tubular probe head having a plurality of individual mutually separated segments and a plurality of flexible joint zones disposed in alternating arrangement with said segments;
a plurality of medicine carriers in said probe head, each said carrier being disposed in a respective segment and having an axial extent of at most three times the longest linear cross-sectional dimensions of said probe head;
and
a tubular probe end part extending from said probe head.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Medical repository probe

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Medical repository probe

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Abstract

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