Gerald A. Thoe,James G. Skakoon,David A. Schuelke,Thomas W. Ruckdeschel,David Harris,Scott Alexander Lewis,Andrew Murray Gow,Jonathan David Tuckwell
申请号：
US13744923
公开号：
US08985103B2
申请日:
2013.01.18
申请国别(地区):
US
年份:
2015
代理人:
摘要：
A dry powder inhaler includes a dose container assembly having a dose container disk with opposing upper and lower surfaces, a first row of circumferentially spaced apart dose containers at a first radius and a second row of circumferentially spaced apart dose containers at a second radius. The dose containers have dry powder therein and are sealed via a first flexible sealant over apertures in the upper surface and a second flexible sealant over apertures in the lower surface. A piercing mechanism includes two reciprocating piercers that serially alternate between the two rows of dose containers in the dose container disk. A rotatable ramp disk includes first and second sets of circumferentially spaced-apart ramp elements in staggered, concentric relationship that are configured to move the first and second piercing members between retracted and extended positions.
