Single-Carrier Medicament Dispenser for Combined Dose Delivery

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Solution Overview

Problem

Conventional medicament dispensers for delivering combined medicament doses are complex, costly, prone to mechanical failure, and inefficient, with multiple carriers increasing space occupation and assembly complexity.

Innovation Solution

An elongate form medicament carrier and dispenser that stores distinct medicament dose portions on separate ends, allowing a single combined dosage delivery with a single action, reducing complexity and componentry through a single elongate carrier design.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If multiple elongate form carriers are used to store separate medicament components, then each active component can be stored in an isolated state, but the device complexity increases and mechanical failure tendency increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveability to store multiple distinct medicament componentsVSAvoidmechanical complexity of dispenser

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent merges multiple separate elongate form carriers into a single integrated carrier that can hold multiple distinct medicament components. This single carrier design eliminates the need for multiple separate carriers and their associated storage sections, thereby reducing device complexity while maintaining the ability to store and deliver multiple medicament components in an isolated state until dispensing.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Solution Approach 2:

The single elongate form carrier is designed to perform multiple functions: it stores multiple distinct medicament components, maintains their isolation, and enables their coordinated delivery. This multi-functional design replaces what previously required multiple specialized carriers and storage sections, simplifying the overall device architecture.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

2Adaptability or versatility

If multiple elongate form carriers are used, then separate storage of medicament components is enabled, but space occupation increases and device compactness reduces

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveseparate storage capabilityVSAvoidspace occupation

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSVolume of moving object

Solution Approach 1:

Multiple separate storage sections for different medicament components are merged into a single elongate form carrier structure. This integration allows the carrier to maintain separate storage zones for multiple medicament components while occupying less overall space compared to having multiple discrete carriers and storage sections.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #5Merging (Combining)

3Adaptability or versatility

If multiple elongate form carriers are used, then distinct medicament components can be stored, but assembly complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvemulti-component storageVSAvoidease of device assembly

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSEase of manufacture

Solution Approach 1:

The patent combines multiple carriers and their associated storage sections into a single integrated elongate form carrier. This merger significantly reduces assembly complexity by eliminating the need to assemble and coordinate multiple separate carrier components, making the device easier to manufacture and assemble while still enabling storage of multiple distinct medicament components.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #5Merging (Combining)

4Adaptability or versatility

If multiple elongate form carriers are used, then medicament components can be stored separately, but production cost increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveisolated component storageVSAvoidproduction cost

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSEase of manufacture

Solution Approach 1:

The integration of multiple carriers into a single elongate form carrier reduces the total component count and simplifies manufacturing processes. This merging reduces production costs by eliminating the need to manufacture, quality-check, and assemble multiple separate carrier components, while still providing the capability to store and deliver multiple medicament components in an isolated state.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #5Merging (Combining)

5Productivity

If multiple carriers are used to deliver combined dosage, then all active components can be delivered in a single dosage, but the number of patient actions increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecombined dosage deliveryVSAvoidpatient actions required

Core Design Contradiction:

ProductivityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The patent merges the delivery mechanisms for multiple medicament components into a single coordinated system operated by one patient action. The single elongate form carrier is integrated with a dispensing mechanism that, upon a single patient action, simultaneously or sequentially delivers all required medicament components from their respective storage locations, thereby maintaining combined dosage delivery while minimizing patient actions.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Data Source

PatentUS12569401B2Elongate form medicament carrier and medicament dispenser

Publication Date: 2026.03.10 MERXIN LTD

AI summary

Disclosed is an elongate form medicament carrier and a medicament dispenser. The medicament carrier has a first end, a second end, and a central portion, and carrying multiple distinct medicament dose portions, the medicament dose portions consisting of a first set and a second set of medicament dose portions, the first set of medicament dose portions distributed in a first portion of the elongate form medicament carrier between the first end and the central portion of the elongate form medicament carrier and containing a medicament active, or a mixture of medicament actives, and the second set of medicament dose portions distributed in a second portion of the elongate form medicament carrier between the second end and the central portion of the elongate form medicament carrier and containing a medicament active, or a mixture of medicament actives, wherein the dose portions in the second set of medicament dose portions are different from the dose portions in the first set of medicament dose portions.