US 11,779,522 B2
Apparatus for manufacturing microtablets
Mir A. Imran, Los Altos Hills, CA (US); Arthur Hsu Chen Chang, San Jose, CA (US); Chang Jin Ong, Fremont, CA (US); and Delia Anna Gratta, San Jose, CA (US)
Assigned to InCube Labs, LLC, San Jose, CA (US)
Filed by InCube Labs, LLC, San Jose, CA (US)
Filed on Dec. 5, 2019, as Appl. No. 16/704,822.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/776,826, filed on Dec. 7, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2020/0179228 A1, Jun. 11, 2020
Int. Cl. B30B 11/00 (2006.01); A61J 3/10 (2006.01); B30B 15/02 (2006.01)
CPC A61J 3/10 (2013.01) [B30B 15/022 (2013.01); B30B 11/00 (2013.01)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A machine for manufacturing a microtablet from a pharmaceutical powder for ingestion by a human, the machine comprising:
a support structure having a receptacle for receiving the powder;
a first movable member carried by the support structure for directing the powder in the receptacle in a first direction;
a second movable member carried by the support structure for compacting the powder in the receptacle in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction to form a compact mass; and
a third movable member carried by the support structure for successively compacting the compact mass in a third direction orthogonal to both the first direction and the second direction.