EP2346555A1 - Dispositif d'inhalation compactable - Google Patents
Dispositif d'inhalation compactableInfo
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- EP2346555A1 EP2346555A1 EP09806421A EP09806421A EP2346555A1 EP 2346555 A1 EP2346555 A1 EP 2346555A1 EP 09806421 A EP09806421 A EP 09806421A EP 09806421 A EP09806421 A EP 09806421A EP 2346555 A1 EP2346555 A1 EP 2346555A1
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Definitions
- the invention relates to an inhalation device for the administration of inhaled treatments for the care of bronchopulmonary diseases.
- the invention relates more particularly to an inhalation device, in particular for the administration of inhaled treatments for the care of bronchopulmonary diseases, comprising a substantially tubular axial reservoir delimiting an inhalation chamber of which a first end is metered to a metered dose inhaler containing an active ingredient and a second end opposite is terminated at a means of defusion treatment, including a mouthpiece or a face mask.
- anti-asthmatic drugs intended to treat pathologies such as bronchopulmonary diseases, asthma, bronchopathies, or even broncholitis, are administered using metered dose inhalers.
- the use of the only metered dose inhaler requires a good synchronization between the actuation of the aerosol and the inspiration of the patient.
- the use of the metered dose inhaler alone is not controlled by many patients, and in particular by children.
- An inhalation chamber as known in the state of the art consists for the most part in a reservoir which is interposed between the metered dose inhaler which fits on one side, and a tube, in particular terminated by a valve fixed to the other end, on which one can adapt a diffusion means, such as a rigid or flexible mouthpiece, disposable or reusable, or a face mask, especially for young children.
- a diffusion means such as a rigid or flexible mouthpiece, disposable or reusable, or a face mask, especially for young children.
- the active principle is sent into the chamber by pressure on the aerosol dispenser, is diffused in the tank, and is inhaled by the patient who breathes calmly in the mouthpiece or in the mask by the mouth.
- This design avoids handling errors due to poor coordination between the actuation of the aerosol and the inspiration of the patient. It is often essential to treat infantile asthma, or bronchiolitis in young children in winter. Combined with a pediatric mask, the inhalation chamber is the most practical way to deliver aerosols to young patients.
- Inhalation chambers are usually made of plastic or metal. They are rigid and of a certain volume, so that the "cloud" of active principle that is projected inside remains suspended until the moment of inspiration by the patient and does not deposit prematurely on the walls.
- Chambers of this type known in the state of the art have the disadvantage of being compatible only with dosing aerosol tips or diffusion means, a determined d iameter, the sealing clearance near .
- the known chambers of the state of the art can not adapt to tips of different sizes.
- the invention proposes an inhalation device of the type described above, characterized in that at least one end of the reservoir comprises an orifice for introduction and coupling with an end of the aerosol metering device and / or the deflating means, the diaameter of which is adjustable, to allow its adaptation to dosing aerosol tips and / or diffusion means of different sizes.
- the introduction and coupling orifice is delimited by an annular bead of elastic material of a variable diameter between two minimum and maximum determined diameters
- the introduction orifice is delimited by a bead comprising an inflatable annular chamber of variable diameter between two minimum and maximum diameters determined, the bead having on its outer wall at least one inflation valve communicating with the inside of its inflatable annular chamber,
- the first movable wall is a flexible wall; the first flexible movable wall is armed by means of mobile rigification between a compact position and an extended position; -
- the stiffening means comprises a second flexible wall, doubling the first flexible wall, which delimits sealingly with the first flexible wall an inflatable cavity, to allow the reservoir to occupy a reduced volume when the cavity is deflated and to allow the reservoir to be deployed in a rigid tubular form when the cavity is inflated, the first flexible wall having at least one cavity inflating valve,
- the first movable flexible wall is armed with a helical spring forming the movable stiffening means between a compression position of the spring and a decompression position of the spring, to allow the reservoir to occupy a reduced volume when the spring is compressed and for allow the tank to be deployed in a rigid tubular form when the spring is uncompressed,
- the first flexible wall is bellows shaped to allow the reservoir to occupy a reduced volume when the bellows is compressed and to allow the reservoir to be deployed in a substantially tubular rigid form when the bellows is uncompressed,
- the first movable wall consists of a succession of concentric wall-shaped rigid tubular sections of increasing diameter forming a mobile telescopic wall to allow the tank to occupy a reduced volume when the sections are coaxially received in each other and to allow the reservoir to be deployed in a rigid tubular form when the sections are deployed axially,
- the wall of the reservoir is made of a so-called shape memory elastomeric material which is capable of occupying each of the positions deployed and compacted in a stable manner, passing through a plurality of unstable intermediate positions,
- the mobile wall has a substantially tubular shape and it comprises at least two tubular sections coaxial of different diameters to each other which are movable between:
- a first relative position associated with the deployed position of the movable wall, in which the sections extend axially end to end,
- a second relative position associated with the compact position of the movable wall, in which at least one section is returned elastically and is received in or on another section, so that the wall occupies axially only the length of a only stretch
- the movable wall comprises a succession of coaxial tubular sections of odd and even rank of decreasing diameters which are movable between: a first relative position, associated with the deployed position of the movable wall, in which all the sections extend; axially butt,
- a second relative position associated with the compact position of the movable wall, in which each section of even rank is returned at least in or on a section of even rank immediately following, so that the wall occupies axially only the length of a single section,
- An opposite second end of the reservoir comprises a neck with a coupling port for the aboucher by means of infusion of the treatment.
- the neck is intended to receive in its insertion and coupling orifice an inspiration / expiration dispenser, comprising at least one inspiration valve for the gases contained in the reservoir and a valve for exhaling the gases discharged by the user, which is interposed between the inhalation chamber and the diffusion means,
- the inspiration / expiration dispenser is composed of a first element and a second substantially tubular element assembled to one another, the first tubular element being received in a complementary tubular bearing surface of the diffusion means, the second tubular element being a tubular element being received in the coupling orifice and receiving internally the inspiration valve, and the exhalation valve being interposed between the first and second elements,
- the second end of the reservoir comprises a tubular coupling surface whose free end comprises the coupling orifice, of which an internal bore has at least one shoulder transverse face, and which is intended to receive the second tubular element; , a first annular section of the second element being received in abutment on the free end face of the tubular coupling surface, a second tubular section of the second element being received in the internal bore of the tubular coupling bearing surface on the shoulder transverse face and a sealing bead of the second tubular section being received in a corresponding groove of the internal bore of the tubular coupling surface,
- the inspiration valve is made of a flexible elastomer material and comprises a first split frustoconical section which is received at least partly in the second tubular section of the second element and a second annular section which is clamped between a free end of the second section; tubular element of the second element and the shoulder transverse face of the internal bore of the tubular coupling surface,
- the exhalation valve is made of a flexible elastomer material and has the shape of a washer whose inner edge is clamped between the first annular section of the second element and the free end face of the tubular coupling surface, and whose outer edge rests freely on a shoulder transverse face formed inside the first tubular element,
- the first element comprises a first tubular section which is received in a complementary tubular surface of the diffusion means and a second frustoconical tubular section which internally comprises the transverse shoulder face,
- the inspiratory / exhalation dispenser is fitted into the elastomeric tubular neck formed in the second end of the reservoir;
- the inspiratory / exhaling dispenser comprises an external tubular element made of elastomeric material forming an expiration valve, which is fitted into the elastomeric material tubular neck formed in the second extremity of the reservoir, and an internal tubular element forming an inspiration valve, which is coaxially engaged in the outer tubular member forming the exhalation valve,
- the neck of the second end of the reservoir comprises at least a first and a second collar section of first and second inner diameters which are arranged on either side of a third neck section said to be a throat iameter interior reduced it
- the outer tubular member forming the exhalation valve comprises at least a third and a fourth section of high external diameters, respectively complementary to the first and second neck sections, arranged on both sides of a fifth section of outer diameter, complementary to the third neck section, to allow the interlocking of the outer tubular member forming the expiration valve in the neck
- the outer tubular element forming the exhalation valve comprises at least one sixth and one seventh section of high inner diameter which are arranged on either side of an eighth section of reduced internal diameter forming an annular groove
- internal tubular element forming a valve of inspiration comprises at least a ninth section consisting of an annular bead which is fitted into the eighth section of reduced inner diameter of the outer tubular element, to allow the interlocking of the internal tubular element forming a flap of inspiration in the outer tubular member forming the exhalation valve
- the sixth, seventh and eighth sections of the outer tubular element forming the exhalation valve coincide respectively with the third, fourth and fifth sections of said outer tubular element
- the first collar section is formed at a free end of the tank, the elastomer material of which it is made is of a determined stiffness, and the corresponding third section of the outer tubular element, which is received in the said first collar section, comprises at least one piercing through the thickness of said third section, the elastomeric material of the first section being movable between a rest position in which it is applied to the outer surface of the third section and closes the piercing and an expiratory position in which it is lifted from the outer surface of the third section and releases the bore when said third section is subjected internally to an exhalation pressure,
- the internal tubular element forming an inspiration valve comprises at least one tenth section, which is attached to the ninth annular bead section, and which is turned towards the free end of the reservoir, said tenth section having a frustoconical shape and comprising its free end a transverse slot defining two lips which are likely to deviate from one another to allow the passage of the inspiration gases.
- FIG. 1 represents a first embodiment of an inhalation device according to the invention
- FIG. 2 represents a second embodiment of an inhalation device according to the invention
- FIG. 3 represents a third embodiment of an inhalation device according to the invention.
- FIG. 4 represents a fourth embodiment of an inhalation device according to the invention.
- FIG. 5 is a perspective view of a fifth embodiment of an inhalation device according to the invention.
- FIG. 6 is a perspective view of the single reservoir of the device of FIG. 5 in the deployed position of the mobile wall;
- FIG. 7 is a perspective view of the single tank of the device of Figure 5 in the compact position of the movable wall;
- FIG. 8 is a sectional view of the second end of the reservoir of FIG. 5 and of a first embodiment of an inspiratory / expediting d istributor enabling it to be coupled by means of defusion of the treatment,
- FIG. 9 is a sectional view of the second extremity of the reservoir of FIG. 5 and of a second embodiment of an inspiration / expiration dispenser enabling it to be coupled to the treatment diffusion means.
- FIGS. 1 to 5 show different embodiments of an inhaling device 10 made in accordance with the invention.
- a device 10 is intended to allow the administration of inhaled treatments for the care of bronchopulmonary diseases, asthma, bronchopathies, or bronchiolitis.
- the device 1 0 comprises a reservoir
- inhalation chamber 14 substantially axial tubular delimiting an inhalation chamber 14 having a first end 16 is terminated at a tip 34 of a metered dose inhaler 18 containing an active ingredient and a second opposite end 19 is terminated at a tip 22 of a means 20 of diffusion treatment, including a mouthpiece 20, a face mask, or a nasal duster.
- the deflusion means 20 comprises a main duct forming the end piece 22 inside which is arranged a valve 24 forming a nonreturn valve.
- the opening of this valve 24 is triggered by the depression caused by the inspiration of the user and the closure of this valve 24 is caused by the relaxation of the inspiration.
- valve 24 could be arranged, for all embodiments of the invention, in the second end 1 9 of the tank 12, without changing the nature. of the invention.
- the tank 1 2 comprises at least a first wall 26 that is movable between a compact position (not shown) and an extended position, shown in the figures, so as to allow said tank 12 to occupy a first position in which it occupies a reduced volume for transport and a second position in which it is deployed in a substantially rigid form for its use.
- the first movable wall 26 is a flexible wall.
- the first movable flexible wall 26 can, as illustrated by first and second embodiments of the invention, be armed by a stiffening means 28 which is movable between a compact position and an unfolded position.
- the stiffening means comprises a second flexible wall 28, doubling the first flexible wall 26, which delimits in a sealed manner with the first flexible wall 26 a inflatable cavity 30.
- the first flexible wall 26 has at least one valve 32 for inflating the cavity 30.
- This configuration allows the reservoir 12 to occupy a reduced volume when the cavity 30 is deflated, or on the contrary to be deployed in a rigid tubular form when the cavity 30 is inflated, as shown in FIG.
- the chamber 12 becomes a fully operational inhalation chamber whose volume can become much higher than that of the current small rooms.
- Inflation can be done by the patient himself or by anyone around him.
- the first movable flexible wall 26 is armed with a helical spring 28 forming the mobile stiffening means.
- This spring 28 is movable between a compression position (not shown) of the spring 28 and a decompression position of the spring 28 shown in Figure 2, to allow the reservoir 12 to occupy a reduced volume when the spring 28 is compressed axially and to allow the reservoir 12 to be deployed in a rigid tubular form when the spring 28 is decompressed.
- the first flexible wall 26 can be glued directly to the spring 28.
- the wall 26 could be obtained by a molding process and in this case the spring 28 would preferably be embedded in the wall 26, the wall 26 being then overmolded on the spring 28.
- a means for holding the wall 26 and the spring 28 in the compressed position, such as a link or a strap making it possible to hold the reservoir 12 in a compressed position, in order to facilitate transportation. of the device 10.
- the first flexible wall 26 is bellows shaped to allow the reservoir 1 2 to occupy a reduced volume when the bellows is compressed axially and to allow the tank 1 2 to be deployed in a substantially tubular rigid form when the bellows is decompressed.
- This third embodiment is based on a principle of operation substantially in the second embodiment, at this difference that the first wall 26 is not armed.
- the simple conformation of the wall 26, obtained for example during the manufacture of ladite wall 26 by molding, is sufficient to im confer axial elasticity for compression and decompression.
- a means for holding the wall 26 in a compressed position, such as a link or a strap making it possible to hold the reservoir 12 in a compressed position, this in order to facilitate the transport of the device 10.
- the first movable wall 26 is constituted by a succession of rigid tubular sections of wall 26a, 26b, 26c, 26d concentric in diameter croissants forming a movable telescopic wall 26. These sections 26a, 26b, 26c, 26d can be received coaxially within each other in a compact position (not shown) to allow the reservoir to occupy a reduced volume or deployed axially as shown in FIG. to be deployed in a rigid tubular form.
- first movable wall 26 could comprise a greater or smaller number of sections without changing the nature of the invention.
- the movable wall 26 of the reservoir 12 is advantageously made of a so-called "shape memory" elastomeric material which is likely to occupy each of the positions deployed and compacted stably through a plurality of unstable intermediate positions.
- the movable wall 26 has a substantially tubular shape and it comprises at least two coaxial tubular sections 25a, 25b, 25c of different diameters bonded to each other.
- the reservoir 12 is molded in its entirety in the elastomeric material. It comprises three coaxial sections 25a, 25b 25c, the end sections 25a and 25c being intended to receive respectively the metering aerosol and the diffusion means 20.
- the movable wall 26 consisting of the coaxial sections 25a, 25b and 25c is, for its part, capable of being moved manually between its extended position of FIG. 6 and its compact position of FIG. 7.
- the coaxial tubular sections 25a, 25b and 25c are relatively movable relative to each other.
- the coaxial sections 25a, 25b and 25c are thus movable between:
- FIG. 6 a first relative position, represented in FIG. 6, which is associated with the deployed position of the movable wall 26, in which the sections 25a, 25b, 25c extend axially end to end,
- a second relative position associated with the compact position of the mobile wall 26, in which at least one section 25b is elastically returned and is received in or on another section 25a, 25c, so that the movable wall 26 occupies axially only the length of a single section 25c.
- the section 25b is capable of being elastically turned in the manner of a sock to be received in the section 25c, and the section 25b is simultaneously returned elastically in the manner of a sock on the section 25a so that all the sections 25a, 25b, 25c occupies more than the axial length of the single section 25c.
- the movable wall could comprise a succession of coaxial tubular sections odd and even rank of diameters increasing or decreasing which would be mobile between:
- each section of Even rank would be returned at least in or on an odd-consecutive straight-line section so that the wall occupies axially only the length of a single section.
- every second section would be returned in or on the neighboring section.
- This configuration is particularly advantageous because it makes it possible to obtain a tank 12 of great length by multiplying the number of sections.
- the reservoir 12 thus formed is not only capable of being compacted axially, but it is also capable of being compacted radially, insofar as the elastomer material which constitutes it can easily be crushed to allow, for example, the storage of the reservoir 12 in a bag, a bag, or a pocket of a garment.
- Several arrangements can be envisaged to ensure the seal between the reservoir 12 and the metered dose inhaler 18 and / or the diffusion means 20.
- At least one end 16 or 19 of the reservoir 12 has a hole 36 or 38 for coupling and introducing a tip 34 of the aerosol dispenser 16 and / or a tip 22 of the diffusion means 20.
- the diameter of this orifice 36, 38 is adjustable to allow it to be adapted to nozzles 34, 22 of dosing aerosols and / or diffusion means of different sizes.
- the orifice 36, 38 may, as illustrated in Figures 2, 4 and 9 be defined by an annular bead 40, 42 of elastic material expandable to a variable diameter between two minimum diameters and maximum determined.
- the opening 36, 38 of introduction and coupling may be delimited by a bead 44, 46 having an associated inflatable annular chamber 48, 50 with a variable diameter adjustable between two minimum and maximum diameters determined.
- the bead 44, 46 has on its outer wall at least one inflatable valve 52, 54 communicating with the interior of its inflatable annular chamber 48, 50.
- the higher or lower inflation of the annular chamber 48, 50 makes it possible to increase or reduce the diameter of the orifice 36, 38 at will as a function of the diameter of the tip 40, 22 which must be introduced therein.
- the opposite second end 19 of the reservoir 12 comprises a neck 242 provided with the introduction and coupling orifice 38 making it possible to terminate it by means of diffusion of the treatment.
- the reservoir 12 is not coupled directly to the treatment diffusion means 20, but an inspiration / expiration dispenser 36 is interposed between the reservoir 12 and the diffusion means 20.
- an inspiration / expiration dispenser 36 is interposed between the reservoir 12 and the diffusion means 20.
- the inspiration / expiration dispenser 36 which has been shown in FIG. 8, it is the coupling orifice 34 which is thus intended to receive the inspiration / expiration dispenser 36.
- This distributor 36 which is interposed between the inhalation chamber and the diffusion means, comprises at least one valve 138 for inspiration of the gases contained in the reservoir and a valve 140 for exhaling the gases discharged by the user.
- the inspiration / expiration dispenser 36 is composed of a first substantially tubular member 142 and a second substantially tubular member 44 assembled to each other.
- the first tubular element 42 is received in a complementary tubular bearing 146 of the nozzle 22 of the diffusion means 20 and the second tubular element 44 is received in the orifice 38.
- the second tubular element 44 also receives internally the valve 138 of inspiration.
- the exhalation valve 140 is interposed between the first and second elements 142, 144.
- This tubular coupling surface 148 is thus intended to receive the second tubular element 144.
- the inspiration valve 138 is made of a flexible elastomeric material and it comprises a first frustoconical split portion 164 that is received at least in part in the second tubular section 1 58 of the second element 144.
- the Inspiration valve 1 38 also has a second annular section 166 which is clamped between an end 168 of the second tubular section 1 58 of the second element 144 and the transverse shoulder face 152 of the internal bore. 1 50 of the tubular bearing surface 148 of coupling.
- the exhalation valve 40 is made of a flexible elastomer material and has the shape of a washer whose inner edge 1 70 is clamped between the first annular section 1 54 of the second element 144 and the end-end face 156 of the mating tubular bearing surface 148, and of which an outer edge 172 rests freely on a shoulder transverse face 174 formed inside the first tubular element 142.
- the exhalation valve 140 When a user of the diffusion means exhales, the exhalation valve 140 is subjected to pressure from the diffusion means 20 and its outer edge 172 rises from the shoulder face 174, thus allowing the passage of the gases. .
- the exhalation valve 140 is subjected to a vacuum from the diffusion means and its outer edge 172 is pressed against the shoulder face 174, thereby preventing the passage of gases.
- the first element 142 comprises a first tubular section 176 which is received in a tubular surface 178 complementary to the endpiece 22 of the diffusion means 20.
- the first element 142 further includes a second frustoconical tubular section 180 which internally comprises the shoulder transverse face 174.
- the inspiration / expiration dispenser 36 is fitted into the tubular neck 242 of elastomeric material formed in the second end 19 of the tank.
- the inspiration / expiration dispenser 36 comprises an external tubular element 244 made of elastomeric material forming an expiration valve, which is fitted into the tubular collar 242 made of elastomeric material formed in the second end 19 of the reservoir 12, and an element internal tubular 246 forming inspiration valve, which is nested coaxially in the tubular element 244 forming the exhalation valve.
- the neck 242 of the second end 19 of the tank 12 comprises at least a first and a second section 248, 250 neck of first and second inner diameters. high which are arranged on either side of a third section of said collar neck throat 252 reduced.
- the external tubular element 244 forming the exhalation valve comprises at least third and fourth sections 254, 256 of high external diameters, respectively complementary to the first and second neck sections 248 and 250, which are arranged on both sides. another of a fifth section 258 of outer diameter, complementary to the third section 252 of neck, to allow the interlocking of the outer tubular member 244 forming the exhalation valve in the neck 242.
- the nesting of the d istributeur 36 inspiration / expiration is of course made by deforming the neck 242 elastomeric material so during its introduction into said neck 242.
- the outer tubular element 244 forming the exhalation valve comprises at least one sixth and one seventh sections 260, 262 of high inner diameters which are arranged on either side of a hu itmai section 264 of dameter inside reducing it forming an annular groove.
- the internal tubular element 246 forming the inspiration valve comprises at least one ninth section 266 consisting of an annular bead which is fitted into the eighth section 264 of reduced inner diameter of the outer tubular element 244, to allow the interlocking of the internal tubular element 246 forming the inspiration valve in the outer tubular element 244 forming the exhalation valve.
- the sixth, seventh and eighth sections 260 are desirable for this purpose, the sixth, seventh and eighth sections 260,
- the first neck section 248 is formed at a terminal end 19 of the reservoir 12, and the elastomer material of which it is made is stiffness determined.
- the corresponding third section 254 of the outer tubular element 244, which is received in said first collar section 248, comprises at least one hole 268 passing through the thickness of said third section 254.
- the elastomeric material of the first section is movable between a rest position, shown in the figure ic, in which it is applied to the outer surface of the third section 248 and closes the hole 268 and an expiry position (not shown) in which it is lifted from the outer surface of the third section 248 and bores the hole 268 when said third section 248 is internally subjected to an exhalation pressure.
- the internal tubular element 246 forming an inspiration valve comprises at least a second section 270, which is attached to the ninth segment 266 forming an annular bead, and which is turned towards the end of the fluid 1 9 reservoir 1 2, and that has a frustoconical shape.
- This second section 70 having at its end the fiber has a transverse slot 272 defining two lips that are likely to deviate from one another to allow the passage of the inspiration gases.
- the internal element forming 246 forming the inspiration valve is first inserted into the external element 244 forming the exhalation valve, and then the assembly thus formed in the neck 242 of the tank 1 2.
- the invention therefore proposes a device 10 which, when it occupies its compact position, can be reduced to a very small volume, and can thus fit in a pocket, a bag handbag, a school bag or whatever.
- the chamber 12 of the device 10 0 is, in this state, much less voluminous and bulky than are the current inhalation chambers for ambulatory treatment.
- the device 10 can be assembled very easily.
- the invention thus provides an inhalation device which can be easily transported, particularly convenient and inexpensive.
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