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Article: Maine Inventors Develop Patient Exhaled Air Peak Flow Meter
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- September 11, 2007
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ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 11 -- Walter Manchester and Donald Parent, both of Windham, Maine, Ronald P. Marcotte of Gray, Maine, Donald Henton of Brunswick, Maine, and Tully Gehan of Portland, Maine, have developed a patient exhaled air peak flow meter.
According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "peak flow meter for measuring a peak flow or air exhaled by a patient. The preferred peak flow meter includes a substantially hollow housing having a top portion, a bottom portion, an air inlet and at two air outlets. A flow restriction is disposed within the housing and in fluid communication with the air inlet. A vane assembly is disposed within the housing and ...