Iontophoretic drug delivery system

Details Iontophoretic drug delivery system Iontophoretic drug delivery system

1997-07-25

1999-12-28

Coggins, Wynn Wood

Surgery

Means for introducing or removing material from body for...

Infrared, visible light, ultraviolet, x-ray or electrical...

604 75, A61N 130

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060093447

ABSTRACT:
An iontophoretic drug delivery system of the present invention includes a controller interconnectable with a drug-filled patch. The controller includes electronic circuitry which monitors and controls the supply of electrical current to the drug-filled patch during delivery of at least one drug, and the electronic circuitry includes a circuit for causing a voltage step in a battery of a plurality of serially-connected cells. Specifically, the circuit causes one or more of the cells to discharge through a resistor at a higher rate than the other cells, thus producing a voltage step when the faster discharging cell dies before the other cells. A reverse-biased diode is connected in parallel to the faster discharging cell to cause the current to bypass the faster discharging cell after it has died, thus preventing it from reverse charging. This circuitry may be controlled to adjust the higher rate of discharge, and thus the time of occurrence of the voltage step.

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