Abstract:
A medicine administering device for nasal cavities of a patient suffering from nasal allergy or the like. The medicine administering device comprises a medicine administering device main body including a part defining a powdery medicine accommodating chamber, and a spray nozzle located at a tip end side of the main body. A pump is disposed at a base end side of the medicine administering device main body to discharge air within the pump through the powdery medicine accommodating chamber to the spray nozzle upon being pressed from an outside of the pump. Additionally, a restricting device is disposed within the pump to restrict a displacement amount of the pump in accordance with first and second kinds of pressing positions at which the pump is pressed. The first and second kinds of pressing positions lie respectively in first and second directions which are perpendicular to each other.
Abstract:
A blister pack for an inhalant medicator has a plurality of medical powder storage chambers spaced apart from each other in a circumferential direction. The inhalant medicator includes a pricking tool with a pair of parallel pins that prick inflow and outflow holes in one of the medical powder storage chambers during a preliminary operation of inhalant medication. The inflow and outflow holes are spaced apart from each other by a predetermined distance in a direction parallel to a lid panel of the blister pack to produce turbulent airflow within the medical powder storage chamber during inhalation during which the medical powder is inhaled by a patient's breathing. The medical powder storage chambers are dimensioned and designed to properly regulate or control properties of the airflow passing through the medical storage chamber, to ensure the airflow is suitable for the medical powder stored in the storage chamber.
Abstract:
An inhalator including an inhalator body including a powder receiving chamber for receiving a powder, an air-powder mixture reservoir for temporarily storing an air-powder mixture flowing from the powder receiving chamber, and a diluent air passage for introducing a diluent air into the air-powder mixture reservoir. The air-powder mixture is formed within the powder receiving chamber when an air is introduced into the powder receiving chamber. The air-powder mixture within the air-powder mixture reservoir is admixed with a diluent air introduced thereinto through the diluent air passage. The diluted air-powder mixture is discharged from an air-powder mixture outlet into a user's oral or nasal cavity. A powder composition for inhalators includes at least two kinds of fine particles different in particle diameter.
Abstract:
A capsule holder 2 of a medicine administering device 1 for nasal cavities comprises a movable member 8 which is axially movable, and a fixed member 3, in which the movable member 8 is formed at its outer periphery with an external thread 8D which is to be threadedly engaged with an internal thread 19C of a medicine spraying section 19. An air inflow hole H is formed by a perforating end 27A of a pin 27 when a capsule K is thrust into a one-side capsule hole 11, while the movable member 8 is raised so that the perforating end 27A is extracted from the air inflow hole H1 when the capsule holder 2 and the medicine spraying section 19 are incorporated with each other. An air outflow hole H2 is formed by a pin 28. A perforating tool is housed in the medicine administering device 1, in which a hole formation action for the air inflow hole H1 is also made during installation of the capsule K. The whole body can be made compact since the longitudinal dimension of the pin 27, 28 is decreased while the outer peripheral surface of the capsule holder 2 is covered with a pump section 15.
Abstract:
An inhalation type medication delivery device includes a dispenser body having a powder containment chamber at one axial side thereof and an inhalation port for drawing in a powder type medication on the another. An attached lid is provided on the dispenser body for opening and/or closing the powder containment chamber. In addition, an air passage is defined in the body allowing a powder type medication to be introduced into an airflow toward the inhalation port according to inhalation by a user. One end of the air passage opens through the lid towards the outside atmosphere and the other end communicates with the inhalation port while passing through the powder containment chamber. Also, a check valve is installed in the lid to prevent air drawn into said inhalation port from flowing in an outward direction opposite a medication delivery direction toward the inhalation port. Additional efficiency may be achieved by further providing a supplementary passage communicating between the inhalation port and the outside atmosphere independently of the air passage to generate additional suction force during inhalation.
Abstract:
An inhaling piece 1 is formed with an inhaling mouth 3 and a holder accommodating section 2. A capsule holder 6 is formed with a capsule accommodating hole 7 and air flow passages 8, 8 which extend axially, and is further formed with pin insertion holes 10, 11 which extend diametrically and are in communication with these air flow passages 8. When a capsule 17 is accommodated in the capsule accommodating hole 7 and the pins 16 are inserted into the pin insertion holes 10, 11, through-holes H, H, . . . are formed in the capsule 17. When the patient intends to inhale medicine, inhaling is made by first returning the pins 16 to the inhaling piece 1 so that the medicine can be securely and effectively carried to the lungs of the patient under the action of air flow.
Abstract:
A motion guide device has a moving block mounting surface 501 of an end plate 5 formed in a planar shape and a thinned-down portion 52 formed in an opposing moving block mounting surface 502. Moreover, in this motion guide device, a lubrication path 30 includes: a first lubrication path 30a formed extending in a horizontal direction from a surface of side surfaces parallel to a longer direction of a track rail 1 in the end plate 5 to a central portion of the end plate 5; a second lubrication path 30b formed in the central portion of the end plate 5; and a third lubrication path 30c connected to the second lubrication path and formed in a groove shape in the moving block mounting surface 501 of the end plate 5, and, moreover, the first lubrication path 30a is formed in a hollow shape continuous to inside a built-up portion 52a appended to the thinned-down portion 52 of the end plate 5. Having such a configuration enables this motion guide device to achieve an average dispersal of lubricant to each of rolling element circulation paths regardless of mounting position of a greasing nipple with respect to the end plate, type of lubricant, and so on.
Abstract:
A powder medicine administering device includes a main body, an air supply section, and a movable member slidably attached to the main body, and arranged to be moved relative to the main body from a first position through a second position to a third position. One of the main body and the movable member includes a side wall portion defining a medicine storage chamber including an opening closed by a sliding surface of the other of the main body and the movable member at the second position of the movable member, and a medicine discharge passage. The other of the main body and the movable member is formed with a medicine carrying chamber connected with the opening of the medicine storage chamber at the first position of the movable member, and connected with the medicine discharge passage at the third position of the movable member.
Abstract:
Medicine powder is prevented from adhering to the tongue and the like when the medicine powder is being inhaled, discomfort due to the sense of taste is relieved, and a prescribed amount of medicine powder is enabled to be administered efficiently. With regard to a long mouthpiece 16, the length L of its held-in-the-mouth area 16C to be held in the mouth 19 is set at approximately 80 mm. This enables one end of the held-in-the-mouth area 16C to be inserted deep into the oral cavity 22 when the held-in-the-mouth 16C is held in the mouth 19. Accordingly, the medicine powder can be discharged in a position beyond sweetness sensing parts 24A, saltiness sensing parts 24B, sourness sensing parts 24C and bitterness sensing parts 24D of the tongue 24. Thereby, a patient can inhale the medicine powder comfortably without sensing bitterness, sourness, sweetness and the like of the medicine powder. In addition, the held-in-the-mouth area 16C of the long mouthpiece 16 can press down the tongue 24, thus enabling the medicine powder to be prevented from adhering to the tongue and the like.
Abstract:
A powder medicine administering device includes a main body formed with a powder medicine discharge passage for discharging a powder medicine, and a nozzle member removably attached to the main body, and formed with a nozzle passage connected with the powder medicine discharge passage of the main body, and arranged to receive the powder medicine in a closed state. The nozzle member is arranged to be changed from the closed state to an opened state when the nozzle member is attached to the main body, to discharge the powder medicine received in the nozzle passage.