Patent ID: 8251958

Claim:
A dermal delivery device comprising: a housing comprising a chamber, an inlet port communicating with said chamber, and an outlet port communicating with said chamber; a cartridge, wherein said cartridge comprises a passage, a fluid receiving opening and a fluid discharge opening, both openings communicating with said passage wherein said cartridge comprises opposed ends and said ends have convex surfaces; a medicament; a microdelivery device sized to penetrate into the stratum corneum, intradermal space, or to disrupt the stratum corneum, without substantially penetrating into the underlying dermis; at least one burstable membrane sealingly attached to one of said ports or openings to retain said medicament within said chamber wherein said burstable membranes comprise a uniaxially oriented polyolefin film on one of said opposed ends of said cartridge and is oriented at approximately right angles to the uniaxially oriented polyolefin film on the opposed end of said cartridge; a mechanical puncturing element for puncturing at least one of said at least one burstable membrane; and an adapter communicating with said inlet port and adapted to communicate with a source of a fluid diluent.