Inhalator

Patent 4334531 Issued on June 15, 1982. Estimated Expiration Date:

June 18, 2000. Estimated Expiration Date is calculated based on simple USPTO term provisions. It does not account for terminal disclaimers, term adjustments, failure to pay maintenance fees, or other factors which might affect the term of a patent.

Abstract Claims Description Full Text

Patent References

3506004

3812853

Medical inhalation device for the treatment of diseases of the respiratory tract
Patent #: 4119096
Issued on: 10/10/1978
Inventor: Drews

Device for dispensing medicaments Patent #: 4206758
Issued on: 06/10/1980
Inventor: Hallworth , et al.

Inventors

Assignee

Bosch-Siemens Hausgerate GmbH

Application

No. 06/160621 filed on 06/18/1980

US Classes:

128/200.14, LIQUID MEDICAMENT ATOMIZER OR SPRAYER128/200.16, Ultrasonic239/102.2, By electric transducer (e.g., piezoelectric crystal)239/338Material atomized in holder (e.g., nebulizer)

Examiners

Primary: Recla, Henry J.

Attorney, Agent or Firm

International Class

A61M 15/00 (20060101)

Foreign Application Priority Data

1979-06-19 DE

Abstract

Inhalator, including a housing having a space formed therein which is accessible from outside the housing, a first fluid container having a pump and a second fluid container without a pump being selectably placeable in the space for emitting fluid, an atomizing element for receiving fluid emitted from the containers, a manually operable actuating element being slideable through a given region for turning the atomizing element on and off and for driving the pump of the first fluid container, and a fixed receptacle for selectably holding the first fluid container so it extends into the given region and for holding the second fluid container out of the given region.