Patent ID: 7559321
Filing Date: 2009-07-14
Classification: A61M,B05B

Abstract:
1. A method for controlling the minimum time interval between the self-administration of a plurality of prescribed unit doses of an intranasal pharmaceutical composition intranasally by a patient capable of self-administering the composition, the method comprising: (a) providing a plurality of sealed vials, each vial having an access orifice and containing the prescribed unit dose of the pharmaceutical composition; (b) providing a drug delivery device having means for securing a plurality of the sealed vials containing the pharmaceutical composition in a predetermined array and dispensing means for recovering the pharmaceutical composition from each of the vials and dispensing the pharmaceutical composition in the form of a spray for intranasal administration in response to a manual activation force applied to the drug delivery device by the patient; (c) securing a plurality of the sealed vials to a supporting member rotably mounted in the drug delivery device in the predetermined array; (d) sequentially moving each of the vials containing the pharmaceutical composition relative to the dispensing means at the end of a prescribed time interval following activation of the dispensing means to intranasally administer a dose of the liquid composition.