Patent ID: 8671934

Claim:
A nebulizer, comprising: a body comprising an air channel section, a medication reservoir and a nebulizer outlet configured to be received within an oral cavity of a patient; an air line having an inlet at one end and extending through the air channel section and having a venturi nozzle at an outlet end configured to form a low pressure mixing chamber, where the air line provides continuous pressure between the input end and the outlet end; a primary suction line extending from the medication reservoir to the low pressure mixing chamber through which medication is drawn upward and mixed with air passing through the venturi nozzle and nebulized for discharge through the nebulizer outlet; wherein the venturi nozzle, primary suction line, low pressure mixing chamber and air channel section are configured such that at standard temperature and pressure (STP), a differential pressure results in no medication being drawn upward through the primary suction line for nebulization and discharge through the nebulizer outlet until a predetermined negative inspiratory pressure is created from inhalation by a user, and upon user inhalation that creates the negative inspiratory pressure, air flow begins through the venturi nozzle and medication is drawn upward through the primary suction line and nebulized by the air flowing through the venturi nozzle to be discharged through the nebulizer outlet.