Patent ID: 6699234
Filing Date: 2004-03-02
Classification: A61M

Abstract:
A thin and bendable medicine infusion apparatus attachable to the user's skin or carried under the user's clothes comprising:a monitor and controller composed of separated compartments linked with soft cables; an air pump for pumping the air when supplied with commands; any number of thin and small reservoir cells each including: a flexible membrane which is transformable by a pressure of the air; a medicine compartment and an air compartment which are formed in said reservoir cell by said membrane; a medicine delivery portion in said reservoir cell for delivering the medicine into or out of said medicine compartment; and an air introduction portion in said reservoir cell for delivering the air pumped by said air pump into said air compartment; soft cables linking said monitor and controller and said air pump; soft air pipes linking all said air introduction portion and said air pump; and soft medicine pipes linking all said medicine delivery portion and the insertion device; wherein the air pumped by said air pump is introduced into said air compartments through said air introduction portions to increase the inner pressure of said air compartments to press said membranes, the medicine in said medicine compartments is delivered through said medicine delivery portions by the pressure of said membranes, and said medicine infusion apparatus is bendable.