Patent ID: 6371111
Filing Date: 2002-04-16
Classification: A61M

Abstract:
An inhalant medicator comprising:a medicator body formed with a cylindrical fit hole opening at one axial end and formed at the other axial end with an inhalant port; an inflow air passageway formed in the medicator body for supplying air into the cylindrical fit hole; an outflow air passageway formed in the medicator body for discharging air from the cylindrical fit hole into the inhalant port; and a medical powder storage cylindrical member fit to the cylindrical fit hole of the medicator body and having a cylindrical portion defining therein a medical powder storage hole whose internal space stores a medical powder, wherein a portion of the inflow air passageway and a portion of the outflow air passageway are formed in the medical powder storage cylindrical member, and the portions of the inflow air passageway and the outflow air passageway act to establish and block fluid communication between the inflow and outflow air passageways formed in the medicator body and the medical powder storage hole by movement of the medical powder storage cylindrical member relative to the medicator body.