Portable nebulizer apparatus

• US 5,299,565 A
• Filed: 10/19/1992
• Issued: 04/05/1994
• Est. Priority Date: 10/19/1992
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: James N. Brown
• Original Assignee: James N. Brown
• Inventors: Brown, James N.
• Primary Examiner(s): Wiecking, David A.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Asher, Kimberly L.
• Application Number:
  US07/962,930
• Time in Patent Office: 533 Days
• Field of Search: 128/200.14, 128/200.21, 128/200.24, 128/203.12, 128/203.17, 128/203.25, 128/203.27, 128/203.29, 128/204.18, 128/205.11 , 128/205.24, 128/205.25
• US Class Current: 128/200.21
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 11/06 of the injector type
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 15/00 Inhalators drug delivery in endotracheal tubes A61M16/04
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 16/00 Devices for influencing the respiratory system of patients by gas treatment, e.g. mouth-to-mouth respiration; Tracheal tubes stimulating the respiratory movement by mechanical, pneumatic or electrical means, iron lungs combined with gas breathing means A61H31/00
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 16/0063 Compressors
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 16/021 operated by electrical means A61M16/202 – A61M16/205 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A62B 7/00 Respiratory apparatus for medical purposes A61M16/00

Abstract

A portable breathing apparatus is arranged to permit utilization within an automotive vehicle by employing a portable compressor having a twelve volt cigarette lighter adapter plug operative through a nebulizer structure to permit admixing of fluid medicant relative to compressed air. The organization is arranged to further optionally include an oxygen tank directing oxygen through the nebulizer into an associated breathing arrangement for an individual.

Claims

1. A portable breathing apparatus, comprising,

an air compressor, the air compressor having an air inlet and an air outlet, the air outlet having a flexible outlet conduit extending therefrom, and

the air compressor including an electrical conduit directed therein for directing electrical energy into the air compressor, and

an electrical plug arranged for reception within a vehicular cigarette lighter mounted to a free distal end of the electrical conduit, and

the flexible outlet conduit directed into a reservoir container and directed therethrough, and the reservoir container having a container cap, with the first conduit directed into the reservoir cap through the container in pneumatic isolation relative to the reservoir container, and

a second conduit extending from the first conduit from within the container cap extending into the reservoir container, with the reservoir container having a container floor and the second conduit arranged in adjacency relative to the container floor, and

a head member mounted to the container cap, the head member having an outlet nozzle, and a mixing chamber mounted within the head member in pneumatic communication with the first conduit, with a fluid medicant arranged for reception with the reservoir container for projection through the second conduit into communication with the first conduit when compressed air is directed through the first conduit from the outlet conduit and the air compresor, and

the outlet nozzle includes a flexible respirator conduit mounted to the outlet nozzle and a respirator mask mounted to the respirator conduit, and

first control means directed into the second conduit for adjusting fluid flow through the second conduit from the reservoir container, wherein the first control means includes a first control valve rod reciprocatably mounted into the second conduit, and the first control valve rod includes a first shank threadedly received within the container cap, and a first handle mounted to the first shank, wherein the first handle is positioned exteriorly of the container cap, whereupon rotation of the first handle effects reciprocation of the first control valve rod relative to the first conduit, and

a third conduit directed into the head member into communication with the mixing chamber, and the third conduit including a third conduit nipple projecting exteriorly of the head member, and an oxygen canister, and an oxygen canister hose in pneumatic communication between the oxygen canister and the third conduit in surrounding relationship relative to the nipple.

2. An apparatus as set forth in claim 1 including second control means threadedly directed into the head member for adjusting fluid flow from the third conduit into the mixing chamber, wherein the second control menas includes a second control valve rod reciprocatably mounted into the third conduit, and a second shank threadedly directed into the second head mounting the second control valve rod thereon, and a second handle mounted to the second shank, with the second handle positioned exteriorly of the head member, whereupon rotation of the second handle effects reciprocation of the second control valve rod relative to the third conduit.