Generally, drug release from controlled release oral dosage forms would be affected by pH, gastrointestinal motility and the presence of food in gastrointestinal tract. Osmotic controlled-release oral delivery system, which utilizes osmotic pressure as the driving force for controlled delivery of active agent(s), however is not influenced by these factors, and it is possible to predict the release characteristics from the known properties of the drug and the dosage form [1][2][3] . The simplest design of elementary osmotic pump consists of an osmotic core (comprising a drug with or without an osmogent) coated with a semi-permeable membrane. After coming in contact with the gastrointestinal fluids [4,5] , it absorbs water at a rate determined by the fluid permeability of the membrane and osmotic pressure of core formulation. This osmotic imbibitions of water results in the formation of a saturated solution of drug within the core, which is dispensed at a controlled rate from the delivery orifice in the membrane [6,7] . In addition, there are numerous factors that affect the drug release from osmotic pumps (i.e. drug solubility, osmotic pressure, delivery orifice and types or characteristics of the film). The membrane permeability is one of the important factors that need to be concerned when designing the system because the delivery of drug from oral osmotic systems is controlled by the influx of solvent across the semipermeable membrane, which in turn carries the agent to the outside environment [2,8] . Water influx into basic osmotic pump system can be described by the following Eqn. [3] , dv/dt = A×Lp×(σ∆π-∆P)/h, where dv/dt is water influx, A and h are the film area and thickness, respectively; Lp is mechanical