Patent ID: 8763607

Claim:
An inhaler ( 1 ) for delivery of an inhalation formulation from a band-shaped blister strip ( 2 ) with a plurality of blister pockets ( 3 ) containing the inhalation formulation in doses, comprising: a conveyor ( 5 ) for stepwise onward movement of the blister strip ( 2 ), and a piercing member ( 7 ) to puncture a lid ( 27 ) of an aligned blister pocket ( 3 ), wherein the inhaler ( 1 ) is designed such that by breathing in during inhalation, an air stream ( 9 ) of ambient air can be sucked or delivered in order to discharge the respective dose from an opened blister pocket ( 3 ) and to deliver it with the ambient air as an aerosol cloud ( 11 ), and wherein the piercing member ( 7 ) comprises two piercing elements ( 25 , 26 ) extending parallel to each other, and where the main axes of said two piercing elements ( 25 , 26 ) extend parallel to each other and are bent in order to be inclined to: the lid ( 27 ) to be punctured, a surface or main plane of the lid ( 27 ) or blister strip ( 2 ), and/or a longitudinal extension of the blister strip ( 2 ).