Patent ID: 9713686
Date: 2017-07-25
CPC Classifications: A61M

Claim:
1. An inhalation chamber ( 1 ) to be built into a circuit of a mechanical-ventilation respiratory device ( 100 ) and to be crossed by a gas stream, the inhalation chamber ( 1 ) comprising an upper portion on a side of a longitudinal axis ( 32 ) and a lower portion on an other side of the longitudinal axis ( 32 ) and comprising a first opening, a second opening, a third opening, and a fourth opening, which open on an internal volume ( 30 ), the first and the second opening ( 10 , 11 ) being for connection with a circuit of a respirator and defining the longitudinal axis therebetween, the first opening ( 10 ) for entry of a gas stream, the second opening ( 11 ) for exit of the gas stream, the third opening ( 12 ) for receiving a pressurized metered-dose inhaler ( 3 ) and the fourth opening ( 13 ) for receiving a nebulizer ( 2 ), the chamber having sections of which one larger section ( 36 ) has a width (L) greater than widths of all other sections of the inhalation chamber, and one narrower section ( 37 ) has a narrower width (e) than the larger section, the third opening ( 12 ) being provided in the narrower section ( 37 ) and the fourth opening ( 13 ) being provided in the larger section ( 36 ), wherein the third and the fourth openings ( 12 , 13 ) for receiving the inhaler ( 3 ) and the nebulizer ( 2 ) are both entirely comprised on a same one of the upper and the lower portion of the inhalation chamber ( 1 ) with respect to the longitudinal axis ( 32 ), and wherein the fourth opening ( 13 ) is located downstream of the third opening ( 12 ) with respect to the longitudinal axis ( 32 ).