Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
606183000 | Plural cutting blades | 6 |
20080255598 | Lancing Device With Replaceable Multi-Lancet Carousel - A housing having an actuator mechanism and a replaceable carousel having a series of lancets. The carousel is removably received in the housing and the actuator mechanism is operable to actuate the individual lancets. In exemplary embodiments the lancing device has, amongst other features, key and detent mechanisms for orienting and securing the carousel in the housing, tangentially configured lancets for compactness, actuator alignment features for aligning the actuator with the lancets, charging mechanisms for ease in charging the lancets for launching, and shutter mechanisms for retaining the lancets in the housing after launching. Also included is a method for lancing using a lancing device according to the invention. | 10-16-2008 |
20100094326 | MULTI-LANCET CARTRIDGE AND LANCING DEVICE - A medical lancing device including a clam-shell housing that holds a replaceable multi-lancet cartridge. A control mechanism includes a linear-pull slider that is moved in and out to operate various mechanisms of the device. An interlock mechanism includes at least one rib on the slider that engages at least one finger on the housing to lock the housing closed when the slider is in a retracted or only partially extended position. And the interlock mechanism includes at least one void on the slider that aligns with at least one finger on the housing to permit the housing to be opened when the slider is in a fully extended position. | 04-15-2010 |
20100106174 | LANCING DEVICE AND MULTI-LANCET CARTRIDGE - A medical lancing device including a replaceable multi-lancet cartridge. The lancing device includes a drive mechanism, an activation mechanism, and an advancing mechanism. The advancing mechanism includes a linear-pull slide that is moved in and out to operate an indexing ratchet mechanism, a cam-guided charger mechanism, and a cam-guided lancet cap displacement mechanism. The indexing ratchet mechanism sequentially advances the lancets in the cartridge to an active position. The cam-guided charger mechanism charges the drive mechanism and separates the cap from the active lancet. And the cam-guided cap displacement mechanism moves the separated cap from the lancing stroke path of the active lancet. The activation mechanism then releases the charged active lancet to traverse the unobstructed lancing stroke path to pierce the subject's skin at a desired lancing site. | 04-29-2010 |
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 |
20130289598 | CAP DISPLACEMENT MECHANISM FOR LANCING DEVICE AND MULTI-LANCET CARTRIDGE - A medical lancing device including a replaceable multi-lancet cartridge. The lancing device includes an advancing mechanism that advances lancets within the cartridge into an active position, separates a protective cap from the active lancet, and energize a drive mechanism of the lancing device. A cap displacement mechanism moves the separated cap out of the travel path of the active lancet. In a first example embodiment, the cap displacement mechanism includes a cantilevered spring arm that displaces the detached cap of the active lancet. In a second example embodiment, the cap displacement mechanism includes a spring-biased cam-driven plunger that displaces the detached cap of the active lancet. Then an activation mechanism releases the energized active lancet to traverse the unobstructed lancing stroke path to pierce the subject's skin at a desired lancing site. | 10-31-2013 |
20150039007 | Methods and Structures for Assembling Lancet Housing Assemblies for Handheld Medical Diagnostic Devices - A method of assembling a lancet housing assembly comprising multiple lancets for use in a portable handheld medical diagnostic device for sampling bodily fluids from a skin site of a patient is disclosed. The method includes forming a plurality of lancet structures in a lancet sheet. The lancet sheet has a removable ledge for releasing the lancet structures. The removable ledge of the lancet sheet is flexed for releasing the lancet structures from the removable ledge. | 02-05-2015 |