Patents by Inventor Mark Teucher

Mark Teucher has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20240131271
    Abstract: A drive train for a wind-up injection device is described. The drive train includes a torsional energy storage adapted to be loaded or unloaded by a rotatable element, a rotatable user handle, a rotationally driveable expelling mechanism adapted to expel the liquid drug, and a clutch element coupled with the torsional energy storage via the rotatable element and including a ratchet for maintaining the rotatable element at one of a number of discrete angular positions against the torque of the torsional energy storage. The clutch element is adapted to transmit the torque from the user handle to the torsional energy storage, or alternatively from the torsional energy storage to the expelling mechanism. The ratchet is switchable from one position to an adjacent position by a torque transmitted from the user handle to the torsional energy storage. The drive train is adapted to dampen torque peaks visco-elastically and/or visco-frictionally.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2023
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Inventors: Michael Jugl, Stefan Blancke, Axel Teucher, Ralph Donald Quentin Collings, James Robert Coop, James Anthony West, Stephen Francis Gilmore, Daniel David Higgins, Mark Digby Teucher, Anthony Paul Morris, Matthew Meredith Jones, William Geoffrey Arthur Marsh, Samuel Keir Steel
  • Patent number: 11951073
    Abstract: A device for transferring a liquid from a first vial to a second vial is disclosed having a dome portion configured to create an air flow when activated by compression and re-expansion, and a support body tightly supporting the dome portion to form a chamber with air therein. The support body includes first and second vial seats, and a transfer conduit. The first and second vial seats are arranged to receive the first and second vials. When the first and second vials are received in the first and second vial seats, the transfer conduit is arranged to establish a fluid connection between the first vial and the second vial. Upon activation of the dome portion, air is delivered into the first vial, thereby creating a pressure rise in the first vial which causes the liquid to transfer from the first vial to the second vial through the transfer conduit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: HOFFMANN-LA ROCHE INC.
    Inventors: Maxime Gaillot, Roberta Leah, Declan Reilly, Thomas Thueer, Jack Carroll, James Coop, Edward Sims, Mark Teucher
  • Patent number: 11951036
    Abstract: A device for providing a droplet of a liquid stored in an interior of a vial is disclosed that includes a support body and a resilient dome portion mounted to the support body to form a chamber having air, with the dome portion being configured to create an air flow when activated by compression. The support body includes a vial seat, a nozzle, and air flow and transfer conduits. The support body is arranged, when the vial is received by the vial seat, such that the air flow conduit establishes an air connection between the vial interior and the chamber, the transfer conduit establishes a fluid connection between the vial and the nozzle, and, upon activation of the dome portion, the air flow delivers air into the vial that causes liquid to be transferred from the vial to the nozzle through the transfer conduit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: HOFFMANN-LA ROCHE INC.
    Inventors: Maxime Gaillot, Roberta Leah, Declan Reilly, Thomas Thueer, Jack Carroll, James Coop, Edward Sims, Mark Teucher
  • Publication number: 20210401621
    Abstract: A device for providing a droplet of a liquid stored in an interior of a vial is disclosed that includes a support body and a resilient dome portion mounted to the support body to form a chamber having air, with the dome portion being configured to create an air flow when activated by compression. The support body includes a vial seat, a nozzle, and air flow and transfer conduits. The support body is arranged, when the vial is received by the vial seat, such that the air flow conduit establishes an air connection between the vial interior and the chamber, the transfer conduit establishes a fluid connection between the vial and the nozzle, and, upon activation of the dome portion, the air flow delivers air into the vial that causes liquid to be transferred from the vial to the nozzle through the transfer conduit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2018
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Inventors: Maxime GAILLOT, Roberta LEAH, Declan REILLY, Thomas THUEER, Jack CARROLL, James COOP, Edward SIMS, Mark TEUCHER
  • Publication number: 20210196571
    Abstract: A device for transferring a liquid from a first vial to a second vial is disclosed having a dome portion configured to create an air flow when activated by compression and re-expansion, and a support body tightly supporting the dome portion to form a chamber with air therein. The support body includes first and second vial seats, and a transfer conduit. The first and second vial seats are arranged to receive the first and second vials. When the first and second vials are received in the first and second vial seats, the transfer conduit is arranged to establish a fluid connection between the first vial and the second vial. Upon activation of the dome portion, air is delivered into the first vial, thereby creating a pressure rise in the first vial which causes the liquid to transfer from the first vial to the second vial through the transfer conduit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2018
    Publication date: July 1, 2021
    Inventors: Maxime GAILLOT, Roberta LEAH, Declan REILLY, Thomas THUEER, Jack CARROLL, James COOP, Edward SIMS, Mark TEUCHER
  • Patent number: 10417937
    Abstract: The training device for medicine injection devices comprises a plunger slidably arranged in the cavity of a body. The plunger comprises a compressible element arranged at a distal end of the plunger and adapted to provide a resistance between compressible element and inner wall if the cavity of the body when the plunger is moved in the cavity towards the distal end of the body. The resistance corresponds to an injection resistance of a medicine injected into a patient. The invention also comprises a reset device for resetting the training device from a used status to a condition for reuse.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: F. Hoffmann-La Roche AG
    Inventors: Maxime Gaillot, Mark Anthony Chipperfield, Mark Teucher, Paul Hayton
  • Publication number: 20160293058
    Abstract: The training device for medicine injection devices comprises a plunger (43) slidably arranged in the cavity of a body (2). The plunger comprises a compressible element (44) arranged at a distal end of the plunger (43) and adapted to provide a resistance between compressible element (44) and inner wall of the cavity of the body (2) when the plunger (43) is moved in the cavity towards the distal end of the body. The resistance corresponds to an injection resistance of a medicine injected into a patient. The invention also comprises a reset device for resetting the training device from a used status to a condition for reuse.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2014
    Publication date: October 6, 2016
    Inventors: Maxime Gaillot, Mark Anthony Chipperfield, Mark Teucher, Paul Hayton
  • Publication number: 20150328044
    Abstract: A guide device for assisting the application of a liquid from a dispenser to the eye of a subject has a mount to hold the liquid dispenser in the guide device, a rest to align the guide device with the subject head, and an indicator, selectively visible to indicate when the guide device is tilted at or beyond a minimum guide angle. Preferably, the indicator is selectively visible to indicate when the guide device is tilted at, or between, the minimum guide angle and a maximum guide angle. Said minimum guide angle corresponds with a minimum predetermined tilt of the subject head suitable for delivery of the liquid from the dispenser. The maximum guide angle corresponds with a maximum predetermined tilt of the subject head suitable for delivery of the liquid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2013
    Publication date: November 19, 2015
    Inventors: James Coop, Gary Thomas CROSBY, Howard Peter DUFFIELD, Mark Andrew Hailey, Mark Teucher, James WEST
  • Patent number: 7060998
    Abstract: The invention relates to a component support (29) for use in a radioisotope generator, the component support comprising a latching member (5) movable between an engaging position and an open position characterised by further including a bracing member (13) mechanically associated with the latching member and adapted to prevent movement of the latching member to the open position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2006
    Assignee: GE Healthcare Limited
    Inventors: Terence Robert Frederick Forrest, Mark Teucher, Philip Walsh
  • Publication number: 20050104016
    Abstract: The invention relates to a component support (29) for use in a radioisotope generator, the component support comprising a latching member (5) movable between an engaging position and an open position characterised by further including a bracing member (13) mechanically associated with the latching member and adapted to prevent movement of the latching member to the open position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2002
    Publication date: May 19, 2005
    Inventors: Terence Forrest, Mark Teucher, Philip Walsh