Patent ID: 6814072
Filing Date: 2004-11-09
Classification: A61M

Abstract:
A device for dispensing powdered medicament by inhalation, comprising a medicament container for receiving a plurality of medicament doses; extending into the interior of the medicament container an axially movable metering rod equipped with a dosing hole, which dosing hole extends through the entirety of the metering rod in the direction perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the rod, the metering rod being movable between a filling position, in which the dosing hole can receive a metered dose of a powdered medicament, and an inhalation position, in which the dosing hole, when filled, is presented to an air channel such that a dose in the dosing hole is ready to be inhaled by the user from the filled dosing hole while the metering rod is in the inhalation position.