Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080249555 | Puncturing System - A puncturing system for obtaining a body fluid sample includes a lancet that is accelerated by a puncturing drive for a puncturing motion in the direction of puncturing, whereby the puncturing system comprises an adjustment facility for adjusting the puncturing depth up to which a lancet penetrates into the body of a patient during a puncture. The adjustment facility includes a limit stop element that can be moved transverse to the direction of puncturing and comprises a first side that faces the body of a patient during a puncture and a second side having a limit stop surface against which a limit stop that is connected to the lancet hits during a puncture. The distance from the limit stop surface to the first side of the limit stop element with respect to the lancet changes as the limit step element is moved in a direction transverse to the direction of puncturing. Accordingly, movement of the limit stop element transverse to the direction of puncturing may be used to adjust the distance that the tip of a lancet projects beyond a first side of the limit stop element during a puncture. | 10-09-2008 |
20080269791 | KINKED LANCET - A device for obtaining body fluid is described which has at least one lancet comprising a lancet body and a tip. The lancet has at least one structure with an altered stiffness which can also be referred to as a bending region. This structure preferably has a lower or reduced stiffness than the remaining lancet body such that the lancet can be bent in this region when a force acts thereon. In this process, the orientation of the tip is changed relative to the remaining lancet body. This change in orientation is preferably out of the lancet body plane. | 10-30-2008 |
20090177118 | MULTI-LANCET DEVICE - The invention concerns a device for collecting body fluids which has at least one lancet comprising a lancet body with at least two tips of different lengths. The device is characterized in that it has a selection means with the aid of which only one tip is selected before the lancing. This selection means can have different functions and shapes. The selection means is used to select a tip from a plurality of lancet tips which have different lengths and make only this tip available for use in the lancing process. Since the various tips are attached to a lancet body, it is, for example, possible to use a bending element which bends one of the various tips out of the plane of the lancet body in order to provide only one lancet tip for use. This is especially preferable for lancet tips that are arranged linearly relative to one another. | 07-09-2009 |
20090212109 | ANALYTE DISPOSABLE MEANS AND DEVICE FOR READING INFORMATION - An arrangement is provided for reading information from a disposable with an information carrier which comprises a code formed by graphic symbols for the machine-readable provision of information and an optical reading device for the code which has a light source and a sensor. Generally according to the embodiments of the present invention, the information. carrier comprises a code applied to a transparent or translucent substrate which can be read under stationary transillumination by means of the light source as a shadow image projected onto the sensor. | 08-27-2009 |
20090287117 | PUNCTURING DEVICE - The invention relates to a piercing device for creating a puncture wound for collecting a sample of body fluid, comprising a rubber elastic pressure part to be pressed onto a body part from which a sample of body fluid is to be removed, and a piercing drive mechanism by means of which a piercing element inserted into the piercing device can be driven in a piercing movement. According to the invention, an electrical deformation sensor is provided for detecting an elastic deformation of the pressure part by means of an electrical and/or magnetic measurement. | 11-19-2009 |
20100049092 | Puncturing system - A puncturing system for obtaining a sample of body fluid comprises at least one magazine that comprises a lancet carrier that carries several lancets, a puncturing device comprising a compartment for the magazine, an incremental advancing mechanism for moving the lancets successively to a puncturing position, and a puncturing drive for accelerating one of the lancets that is positioned in the puncturing position in a puncturing motion, wherein the magazine comprises a coupling facility with a receptacle for the lancet carrier, said receptacle being mobile with respect to a magazine housing, and wherein the lancets that are carried by the lancet carrier can be moved relative to the receptacle by actuating the incremental advancing mechanism, and wherein the receptacle is adapted to couple the puncturing drive to one of the lancets positioned in the puncturing position for transmitting a driving force generated by the puncturing drive during a puncture to the lancet positioned in the puncturing position. | 02-25-2010 |
20100063417 | LANCING SYSTEM FOR THE EXTRACTION OF A BODY FLUID - Lancing system for extracting a body fluid from the skin of a human or animal comprising a needle element ( | 03-11-2010 |
20100094325 | Pricking system - A pricking system includes lancets for producing a prick wound, sampling devices for collecting a sample of a body fluid from the prick wound, a housing having an opening for application of a body part in which the prick wound is to be produced, a drive arranged in the housing for moving one of the lancets to produce the prick wound and to then move one of the sampling devices to the prick wound so produced, a coupling part for coupling to the drive one of the lancets for a pricking movement and then coupling to the drive one of the sampling devices for a sampling movement, the coupling part being moved, during the pricking movement and the sampling movement, respectively, from a starting position into an end position by an advancing movement, and from the end position back into the starting position by a reversing movement, respectively, and a motion control which, during the sampling movement, causes the coupling part to reach an end position that differs from the end position reached by the coupling part during the pricking movement, wherein the end position reached by the coupling part in the sampling movement is laterally displaced relative to the end position reached by the coupling part in the prickling movement. | 04-15-2010 |
20100121369 | Puncturing system, lancet reservoir system and manufacturing method, and method for positioning functional elements on carrier tape - A puncturing system includes a carrier tape carrying multiple lancets and having position marks, a device housing that comprises a conveying facility for positioning the lancets consecutively in a usage position by moving the carrier tape in a conveying direction and has a housing opening for touching against a body part in which a puncture is to be made by a puncturing motion of one of the lancets, a puncturing drive for accelerating one of the lancets that is positioned in the usage position for the puncturing motion, a storage medium on which distance values for the lancets are stored, the distance values depending on distances between the lancets of the carrier tape and position marks allocated to the respective lancets, a a sensor for detecting position marks in a detection position through which the position marks proceed upon a motion of the carrier tape that is effected by the conveying facility, and a control unit that is connected to the sensor for controlling the conveying facility, wherein, in order to position a lancet in the usage position, the control unit is configured for stopping the conveying facility as soon as the carrier tape has been moved by a positioning distance starting from a tape position, in which a position mark has reached the detection position, wherein the length of the positioning distance depends on the distance between the lancet to be positioned and the detected position mark and is determined by the control unit by utilizing the distance value that is stored on the storage medium for the lancet to be positioned. | 05-13-2010 |
20100122807 | Cooler / Heater Arrangement - The present invention relates to a device for heating and cooling an object in a controlled manner permitting a good thermal contact between the thermal block, the element for heating and cooling and the heat sink without the need for using a thermal interface material, an instrument comprising such a device and a method for conducting a thermal profile using the device. | 05-20-2010 |
20100198109 | PUNCTURING SYSTEM AND TAPE CASSETTE - The invention relates to a puncturing system with a support tape ( | 08-05-2010 |
20100204462 | PIPETTE TIP WITH SEPARATION MATERIAL - The present invention provides an attachment or extension for pipettes and pipette tips. The attachment comprises separation materials which are preferably suitable for isolating nucleic acids from liquids. The separation materials are present in the form of a filter disc in a holder which only slightly increases the pipette volume and thus generates little dead volume. | 08-12-2010 |
20100216246 | COMBINATION DRIVE FOR A SAMPLING SYSTEM FOR COLLECTING A LIQUID SAMPLE - A sampling system for collecting a liquid sample, having at least one analytic auxiliary means is proposed. The sampling system has a coupling element for coupling onto the analytic auxiliary means and at least one drive unit for driving a movement of the coupling element from a rest position into a deflected position. The drive unit comprises an energy transducer which is designed to generate a rotational movement with different rotational directions. The drive unit furthermore has a coupling device with at least one rotational-direction sensitive element, wherein the coupling device is designed to couple the energy transducer to a first system function in a first rotational direction, and to couple said transducer to a second system function which differs from the first system function in a second rotational direction which differs from the first rotational direction. | 08-26-2010 |
20100222799 | JOINING FOILS WITH LASER FOR STERILE LANCETS - A process for manufacturing packaged lancets, comprising the steps:
| 09-02-2010 |
20100249567 | MANUAL DEVICE FOR EXAMINING A BODY FLUID - The present invention provides a portable blood sugar measuring device comprising a tape unit for winding a test tape forward in sections, a detection unit for detecting measured values on the sections of tape to which body fluid has been applied, and a housing to hold the tape unit and detection unit. The tape unit and/or the detection unit can be deflected relative to the housing from an operating position against a flexible restoring element when subjected to a shock load. Also disclosed is a novel cover having open and closed positions. The cover is positioned at an opening of the housing through which the receiving site of the tape unit protrudes. The cover thus protects the receiving site from external effects when the cover is in the closed position. Similarly, the receiving site is accessible to apply body fluid thereto when the cover is in the open position. | 09-30-2010 |
20110000286 | TEST ELEMENT WITH NANOFIBERS - The invention concerns test elements, in particular diagnostic test elements, for determining the presence or concentration of biological, medical or biologically or medically effective substances including nucleic acids, proteins, viruses, microorganisms and cells, characterized in that these test elements contain nanofibers. | 01-06-2011 |
20110004077 | CONTAINER CONTAINING REFERENCE SOLUTION - The present disclosure provides a container containing reference solution for clinical chemistry, whereby the container includes a closure part-covered outlet at which reference solution can be removed by puncturing with a puncturing element. The disclosure further provides a wick that is soaked with the reference solution and arranged in the container to extend from the outlet and such that a majority of its length extends into an interior space of the container. | 01-06-2011 |
20110009726 | TAPE CASSETTE FOR A MEDICAL HANDHELD DEVICE AND BLOOD SUGAR MEASURING SYSTEM - A tape cassette for a medical handheld device. The inventive tape cassette includes a carrier tape with a plurality of functional elements which may take the form of test fields for analyzing a sample of a human or animal body fluid and/or a plurality of lancets. During use, the carrier tape slides past friction points. To reduce friction between the carrier tape and at least one of the friction points, the at least one friction point includes a surface made of a fluoropolymer. The tape cassette may have a housing that includes a sealed compartment with a tape exit opening wherein the friction point is disposed proximate the tape exit opening. A cover element may also be positioned to cover the tape exit opening. The cover element may also include a fluoropolymer material engageable with the carrier tape. A method of manufacturing such tape cassettes is also disclosed. | 01-13-2011 |
20110117561 | Magnetic Pigment - Magnetic particles with an outer glass surface being essentially poreless or having pores of a diameter of less then 10 nm as well as ferromagnetic particles with a glass surface are preferentially useful for the isolation of biological material from samples. They provide a quick and reliable purification. | 05-19-2011 |
20110132778 | TEST ELEMENT CODING APPARATUSES, SYSTEMS AND METHODS - Certain exemplary embodiments include a test element operable to receive a sample and to provide an indication of an analyte of the sample to a meter. In one form test element comprises a substrate and an optically readable pattern provided on the substrate which encodes information relating to the test element. | 06-09-2011 |
20110166431 | TAPE CASSETTE FOR A MEDICAL HANDHELD DEVICE - A tape cassette for a medical handheld device is disclosed as comprising a carrier tape, which carries test fields for assaying a sample of a human or animal bodily fluid and/or lancets as functional elements, a supply chamber, in which a supply section of the carrier tape comprising unused functional elements is positioned, a winding unit, in order to wind up the carrier tape and draw it through a tape exit opening of the chamber, so that the functional elements may be brought sequentially into a usage position. The carrier tape in the tape exit opening is oriented transversely to the supply section positioned in the supply chamber. | 07-07-2011 |
20110212532 | ANALYTICAL SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ITS OPERATION - An analytical system comprising a replaceable magazine ( | 09-01-2011 |
20110263456 | TEST ELEMENT WITH NANOFIBERS - The invention concerns test elements, in particular diagnostic test elements, for determining the presence or concentration of biological, medical or biologically or medically effective substances including nucleic acids, proteins, viruses, microorganisms and cells, characterized in that these test elements contain nanofibers. | 10-27-2011 |
20120009102 | FOLDED CARRIER TAPE HAVING CONSUMABLE ELEMENTS - The invention relates to a carrier tape which carries a plurality of consumable elements for a system for determining an analyte concentration of a human or animal bodily fluid and is folded into a stack. According to the invention, the consumable elements are disposed on the carrier tape in groups, wherein the distance between adjacent groups in the longitudinal direction of the carrier tape is greater than that between adjacent consumable elements within a group. | 01-12-2012 |
20120022246 | Magnetic Pigment - Magnetic particles with an outer glass surface being essentially poreless or having pores of a diameter of less then 10 nm as well as ferromagnetic particles with a glass surface are preferentially useful for the isolation of biological material from samples. They provide a quick and reliable purification. | 01-26-2012 |
20120022345 | LANCET HAVING CAPILLARY CHANNEL AND STERILE PROTECTION ELEMENT AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SUCH A LANCET - Lancets comprising a piercing element for puncturing the skin of a patient, a test region containing detection reagents for determining an analyte concentration of a body fluid sample, a capillary structure arranged in the piercing element for transporting a body fluid sample to the test region, and a sterile protection element, which encloses the tip of the piercing element. The capillary structure is blocked in a section surrounded by the sterile protection element. Also provided are methods for producing a lancet, comprising: producing a piercing element, which on the upper side has an upwardly open capillary structure; covering a section of the upper side of the piercing element and blocking the capillary channel in this section using a first material; covering a section of the underside using a second material; sterilizing the piercing element; and attaching a test region containing detection reagents to the piercing element. | 01-26-2012 |
20120045825 | DIAGNOSTIC TEST TAPE FOR LIQUID SAMPLES - A diagnostic test tape for liquid samples is provided comprising a flexible transport tape and a plurality of test fields applied to the transport tape that are distributed in the longitudinal direction of the tape, where said test fields comprise a detection layer and a spreading net spanning the detection layer for a planar uptake of liquid sample, wherein the spreading net is formed from a lattice-like fabric comprising fabric threads that cross at right angles. In order to prevent the fabric from arching up under tape tension it is proposed that the fabric is oriented obliquely to the transport tape such that all fabric threads run obliquely to the longitudinal direction of the tape. | 02-23-2012 |
20120165698 | CONTROL DEVICE FOR A MEDICAL TEST SYSTEM - The invention concerns a control device for a medical test system which has a lancing element that can be inserted into body tissue to collect body fluid and a lancing drive for the lancing element. A sensor element for body fluid is arranged on the lancing element and a control unit is coupled to the sensor element for detecting a fault when collecting body fluid. In order to improve the success rate, the control unit actuates the lancing drive for an automatic puncture repetition in less than 1 second when a fault, e.g., inadequate wetting of a detection field, occurs. | 06-28-2012 |
20120189496 | SPREADING LAYER AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING AN ANALYSIS ELEMENT SPREADING LAYER - Methods of producing an analysis spreading layer for absorbing a liquid to be analyzed, by: supplying a porous membrane having a bottom, a top and a thickness D, the size of the pores of the membrane increasing over its thickness D; cutting the membrane at a predefined distance, the spreading layer being a sublayer with a thickness d less than the starting thickness D, the pores of the spreading layer having a fluid connection to one another in such a manner that it is permeable to a liquid. The membrane surface is formed by removing a sublayer of the membrane being the liquid outlet side of the spreading layer. The mean size of the pores on the liquid outlet side is at least 1 μm. | 07-26-2012 |
20120224996 | STACK OF TEST STRIPS AND METHOD FOR THE PRODUCTION THEREOF - A stack of test strips comprises individual test strips which are stacked over each other and carry a test field for examining a bodily fluid sample. Test strips lying one on top of the other are detachably adhesively bonded to each other so that the test strips can be individually removed from the stack, wherein the test fields are packed in chambers and adjacent test strips form the bottom and the lid of such a chamber. A method for producing such a stack of test strips is also disclosed. | 09-06-2012 |
20120229810 | METHOD FOR CONTROLLING A PHOTOMETRIC MEASURING UNIT OF A MEASURING DEVICE FOR OBTAINING AND EXAMINING A BODILY FLUID SAMPLE AND MEASURING SYSTEM - There is disclosed a method for controlling a photometric measuring unit of a measuring device for a bodily fluid sample, wherein a test field partially wetted by a bodily fluid sample is illuminated and light from a measuring area that covers a portion of the test field of the measuring unit is fed to a detector of the measuring unit, and the measuring area is displaced relative to the test field toward a partial surface wetted by the fluid sample and past the partial surface. The intensity of a detector signal is detected during the displacement, an extreme value in the course of the detector signal is determined, the measuring area is brought back to the position in which an extreme detector signal was previously measured, and the position of the measuring area in which the detector signal is extreme is used for a photometric determination of concentration. | 09-13-2012 |
20120281219 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR ANALYZING A BODY FLUID - Methods and devices for analyzing body fluids, in particular for determining blood glucose. Body fluid is applied to a test element for single-use in a test device and the test element is optically coupled to a photometric measuring unit by means of an optical transmission system, wherein a time course of measuring values is recorded after the body fluid has been applied in order to detect a component of the body fluid on the test element. The transmission behavior of the optical transmission system may be controlled by recording measuring values at two different measurement wavelengths. | 11-08-2012 |
20130003043 | MEASURING SYSTEM AND MEASURING METHOD, IN PARTICULAR FOR DETERMINING BLOOD GLUCOSE - A measuring system for determining blood glucose includes a photometric measuring unit with a light source and a detector, and an analytical test element, to which a body fluid sample can be applied, and which can be placed in a beam path between the light source and the detector for optical detection of an analyte. For an improved multi-wavelength measurement, it is proposed that the light source includes a first emitter that can be actuated in a first wavelength range to emit pulsating alternating light and a second emitter that can be excited in a second wavelength range to emit fluorescent light. | 01-03-2013 |
20130066171 | Lancet Magazine and Method for the Production Thereof - A lancet magazine is disclosed which includes a housing and a plurality of lancets each of which is enclosed in a sterile chamber of the housing, wherein the chambers each have a puncturing opening which is closed with a foil, wherein the lancets include a sample receiving device for receiving body fluid and the chambers each include a further opening which is closed with a membrane that is permeable to gas and fluid and includes a lower side that faces the lancet and serves to receive body fluid from the sample receiving device and an upper side that serves to transfer body fluid to a test field arranged on the membrane. | 03-14-2013 |
20130085415 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING A MEMBRANE RING OR TEST STRIP RING AND RING MAGAZINE - A method for producing a membrane ring or test strip ring for a diagnostic test device includes an elongate strip that is divided into segments by cuts running transversely to the longitudinal direction of the strip, where the cuts are made only as far as a residual width of the strip so that a material bridge remains intact between the segments adjacent to the cuts ( | 04-04-2013 |
20130137950 | METHOD AND STERILIZING DEVICE FOR STERILIZING AN IMPLANTABLE SENSOR - A method for sterilizing an implantable sensor for sensing an analyte in a body tissue. The implantable sensor has a sensor part which can be introduced into the body tissue, at least one sensor electrode for sensing the analyte, and at least one electronics part. The electronics part has at least one electronic component and is connected to the sensor part. The method includes (a) introducing the implantable sensor into a package, the package sealing the implantable sensor from bacteria and accommodating a radiation shield, (b) irradiating the implantable sensor in the package with sterilizing radiation from at least one irradiating direction, in particular with electron radiation, the radiation shield shielding the electronic component of the electronics part from the sterilizing radiation, the radiation shield being arranged in such a way that the sensor part is sterilized by the sterilizing radiation. | 05-30-2013 |
20130150753 | ANALYTIC TEST UNIT AND TEST SYSTEM - This disclosure relates to an analytic test unit for use in a test device for detecting an analyte in a bodily fluid, having at least one test element with a carrier film and a reagent layer, the latter being affixed on the carrier side of the carrier film and it being possible to apply bodily fluid on said reagent layer, wherein the light-transparent carrier film can be positioned in the beam path of a photometric measuring unit for optically scanning the reagent layer. According to this disclosure, it is proposed that the carrier film has a surface, modified by a raised surface structure, for reducing reflections in the beam path of the measuring unit. | 06-13-2013 |
20140001043 | PRINTED MEMORY ON STRIP | 01-02-2014 |
20140005492 | Device for Monitoring at Least One Body Function of a User and Method for Manufacturing the Same | 01-02-2014 |
20140005510 | APPARATUS FOR ACQUIRING AND ANALYZING A BLOOD SAMPLE | 01-02-2014 |
20140042017 | SENSOR ELEMENTS WITH A TANTALUM- OR NIOBIUM-CONTAINING BASE LAYER AND METHODS OF PRODUCING THE SAME - Sensor elements are disclosed for the electrochemically analyzing a body fluid, as well as methods of producing and using the same. The sensor elements include an electrically conductive layer structure applied to a non-conductive carrier substrate, where the layer structure includes a continuous base layer of tantalum, niobium or an alloy thereof, and a metallic cover layer formed on the base layer that covers the base layer either over the entire surface or in some regions. The metallic cover layer includes a more noble metal when compared to the base layer. | 02-13-2014 |
20150053564 | Method for Making a Dry Sensor Element for an Enzymatic Determination of an Analyte in a Body Fluid, Dry Sensor Element and Article - A method for making a dry sensor element for an enzymatic determination of an analyte in a body fluid includes providing a substrate, producing a working electrode on the substrate, comprising depositing an active enzymatic electrode layer on a working electrode base structure provided on the substrate, the active enzymatic electrode layer containing an enzyme, producing a counter electrode on the substrate, and producing electric connectors on the substrate connected to the working electrode and the counter electrode, wherein the step of depositing the active enzymatic electrode layer on the working electrode base structure comprises depositing PEDOT:PSS by electropolymerization. A dry sensor element for an enzymatic determination of an analyte in a body fluid is also disclosed. | 02-26-2015 |