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Oral dosing device and method

  • US 9,549,877 B2
  • Filed: 03/13/2014
  • Issued: 01/24/2017
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/13/2014
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. An oral dosing device comprising:

  • a housing having a proximal end, a distal end, and an interior space defined between a first end and a second end;

    a medicine cartridge disposed within the housing and having a movable plunger at least partially disposed within the medicine cartridge;

    a flexibly compliant oral applicator tip positioned at the distal end and shaped to slidably engage an inner surface of a mouth, wherein a fluid conduit defined in the distal end extends from the medicine cartridge to a distal port of the flexibly compliant oral applicator tip, wherein the flexibly compliant oral applicator tip is flexibly compliant along its entire distal length extending to the distal port, the distal end of the flexibly compliant oral applicator tip is configured and sized according to a cheek of a human infant, and the compliant oral applicator tip is configured to orally dispense the selected dosage amount to the human infant;

    a dosage selector device positioned along the housing, the dosage selector device being configured to receive a manual user selection and configured to display a value indicative of a selected dosage amount;

    a dose activator positioned along the housing and being different from the dosage selector device, wherein in response to user actuation of the dose activator relative to the housing, the moveable plunger is displaced by a distance based on the selected dosage amount displayed by the dosage selector.

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