Patent ID: 8201555
Filing Date: 2012-06-19
Classification: A61M

Abstract:
1. A dry powder inhaler comprising an inhaler body including an air passageway and a medicament container, the medicament container holding a dose of medicament and being provided with at least one dispensing aperture through which the medicament may be drawn from the medicament container, the medicament container being displaceable from a first position, in which the at least one dispensing aperture is occluded, to a second position, in which the at least one dispensing aperture is open and air is able to flow along the air passageway, characterised in that in the first position the air passageway is occluded by the medicament container, and wherein, in the second position, the medicament container resides within a dispensing region of the air passageway that is of enlarged dimensions such that air can flow past the medicament container.