US 12,036,356 B2
Energy storage mechanism for an inhaler
Adam J. Stuart, Loughborough (GB); and Stephen J. Howgill, Leicester (GB)
Assigned to Kindeva Drug Delivery L.P., Woodbury, MN (US)
Appl. No. 16/331,295
Filed by KINDEVA DRUG DELIVERY L.P., St. Paul, MN (US)
PCT Filed Sep. 5, 2017, PCT No. PCT/US2017/050049
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Mar. 7, 2019,
PCT Pub. No. WO2018/048786, PCT Pub. Date Mar. 15, 2018.
Claims priority of application No. 1615186 (GB), filed on Sep. 7, 2016.
Prior Publication US 2019/0298943 A1, Oct. 3, 2019
Int. Cl. A61M 15/00 (2006.01)
CPC A61M 15/0026 (2014.02) [A61M 15/0066 (2014.02); A61M 15/009 (2013.01); A61M 15/0091 (2013.01); A61M 2205/8281 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An inhaler comprising:
a housing having a patient port and a cover rotatable about a cover axis between a closed position in which the cover covers the patient port, and an open position in which the patient port is accessible;
an energy storage arrangement within the housing, the energy storage arrangement comprising a resilient member that defines a void for receiving a medicament container;
in which the cover axis intersects the void, and in which the cover is configured to drive the resilient member to store energy therein upon rotation from the closed position towards the open position.