BigPatents India

An electrokinetic delivery device for personal use and self-administration of a medicament to an individual’s treatment site, comprising: a base assembly having a portion thereof shaped for manual manipulation by the hand of the individual, and a tactile electrode formed of electrically conductive material and exposed on said base assembly for electrical contact with the individual’s hand; a self-contained power source within said base assembly and in electrical contact with said tactile electrode; an applicator electrode carried by said base assembly, said applicator electrode having a porous substrate including an electrokinetically transportable medicament in electrical contact with said power source and a surface of said porous substrate for contact with the individual’s treatment site; said device being operable to electrokinetically transport said medicament from said applicator electrode to the individual’s treatment site in contact with said surface in response to completion of an electrical circuit with said power source via at least a portion of the individual’s hand through said tactile electrode and said applicator electrode surface and the individual’s treatment site.