Patents by Inventor Michael Keil

Michael Keil 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).

  • Patent number: 10779759
    Abstract: The present application concerns a system for the withdrawal of body fluids comprising a coupled tensioning and triggering mechanism, wherein the triggering mechanism is mechanically coupled to the tensioning mechanism in such a manner that the puncturing process is automatically triggered by successive continuation of the tensioning movement when the tensioning mechanism is actuated and wherein the lancing process triggered in this manner is carried out by a lancet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignee: ROCHE DIABETES CARE, INC.
    Inventor: Michael Keil
  • Patent number: 10690566
    Abstract: The invention relates to a test disc system having at least one test disc for testing the seal of a glove which is installed in a port of an insulator. The test disc (1) can be connected in a hermetically sealed fashion to the port, wherein the glove encloses with the test disc (1) a glove volume which can be placed under overpressure by the test disc (1). The test disc (1) has a base body in which electronic components for recording and storing a pressure profile in the glove volume, and at least one data interface are arranged. The test disc (1) also has a reading device for reading both a first identification element which is arranged on the glove and a second identification element which is assigned to the port.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Inventor: Michael Keil
  • Patent number: 10602969
    Abstract: A lancet magazine for use in a lancing aid is described comprising a plurality of lancets each having a lancet body at the proximal end of the lancet and a lancet tip at the distal end of the lancet, where the proximal end of the lancet points in the direction of the proximal end of the housing of the lancet magazine and the distal end of the lancet is aligned in the direction of the distal end of the housing and the lancets in the unused state are completely surrounded by the housing. Furthermore, an extension unit is movably connected to the housing in such a manner that the housing can be extended by movement of the extension unit in the direction of the distal end of the housing such that the lancet is prevented from emerging from the lancet magazine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: Roche Diabetes Care, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard Forster, Susanne Gentsch, Andreas Gorshöfer, Michael Keil, Thomas Weiss, Robert Wessel
  • Patent number: 10537357
    Abstract: An insertion device including an insertion needle holder and a drive mechanism for linearly moving the insertion needle holder in a puncturing direction. The insertion needle holder also includes at least one actuating element for actuating a drive mechanism. The drive mechanism converts a driving motion of the actuating element, which extends transversely or opposite to the puncturing direction, into a puncturing motion of the insertion needle holder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2020
    Assignee: Roche Diabetes Care, Inc.
    Inventors: Frank Deck, Christian Hoerauf, Michael Keil, Ahmet Konya, Thomas Weiss, Oliver Kube, Karl-Peter Ebert
  • Publication number: 20190257709
    Abstract: The invention relates to a test disc system having at least one test disc for testing the seal of a glove which is installed in a port of an insulator. The test disc (1) can be connected in a hermetically sealed fashion to the port, wherein the glove encloses with the test disc (1) a glove volume which can be placed under overpressure by the test disc (1). The test disc (1) has a base body in which electronic components for recording and storing a pressure profile in the glove volume, and at least one data interface are arranged. The test disc (1) also has a reading device for reading both a first identification element which is arranged on the glove and a second identification element which is assigned to the port.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2019
    Publication date: August 22, 2019
    Inventor: Michael Keil
  • Patent number: 10357193
    Abstract: A puncturing system has a carrier tape carrying multiple lancets, a device housing comprising a conveying facility for moving the lancets into a usage position consecutively by moving the carrier tape in a conveying direction, a puncturing drive for accelerating one of the lancets that is positioned in the usage position in a puncturing motion, an opening in the device housing for touching against a body part in which a puncture is to be made by the puncturing motion of one of the lancets, an actuation facility for driving the conveying facility, and an unlockable interlock comprising a stop that blocks further transport of the carrier tape as soon as one of the lancets has reached the usage position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2019
    Assignee: Roche Diabetes Care, Inc.
    Inventors: Ahmet Konya, Hans-Juergen Kuhr, Frank Deck, Hans List, Michael Keil, Christian Hoerauf, Thomas Weiss, Marcus Schlothauer
  • Patent number: 10317308
    Abstract: The invention relates to a test disc system having at least one test disc for testing the seal of a glove which is installed in a port of an insulator. The test disc (1) can be connected in a hermetically sealed fashion to the port, wherein the glove encloses with the test disc (1) a glove volume which can be placed under overpressure by the test disc (1). The test disc (1) has a base body in which electronic components for recording and storing a pressure profile in the glove volume, and at least one data interface are arranged. The test disc (1) also has a reading device for reading both a first identification element which is arranged on the glove and a second identification element which is assigned to the port.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2019
    Inventor: Michael Keil
  • Patent number: 10317310
    Abstract: A test system and a corresponding method for testing the seal of a glove which is installed in a port of an isolator, including a test disc which can be connected in a hermetically sealed fashion to the port. The glove and test disc define a sealed glove volume which can be placed under excess pressure. The test disc has a pressure-measuring device with a microprocessor and a memory for recording and storing a pressure profile in the glove volume and a data interface. The glove and port have identification elements which are read by a reading device of the test disc and information concerning the pressure profile along with the identities of the glove and port are transmitted wirelessly to an evaluation unit which estimates and records a residual period of use of the glove. A plurality of gloves in ports can be tested simultaneously.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2019
    Inventor: Michael Keil
  • Patent number: 10317309
    Abstract: A test system and a corresponding method for testing the seal of a glove which is installed in a port of an isolator, including a test disc which can be connected in a hermetically sealed fashion to the port. The glove and test disc define a sealed glove volume which can be placed under excess pressure. The test disc has a pressure-measuring device with a microprocessor and a memory for recording and storing a pressure profile in the glove volume and a data interface. The glove and port have identification elements which are read by a reading device of the test disc and information concerning the pressure profile along with the identities of the glove and port are transmitted wirelessly to an evaluation unit which estimates and records a residual period of use of the glove. A plurality of gloves in ports can be tested simultaneously.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2019
    Inventor: Michael Keil
  • Patent number: 10278631
    Abstract: Disclosed is a puncturing system for generating a puncture wound for obtaining a sample of a body fluid, comprising a press-on part to be pressed onto a body part in which a puncture wound is to be generated, a trigger, by the actuation of which a user can trigger a puncturing motion of a puncturing element after the press-on part is pressed on, and a testing facility for determining at least one test parameter on which a sample-obtaining probability depends. A securing facility is also provided that, in a locked state, locks the trigger such that no puncturing motion can be triggered, and, in a triggering state, releases the trigger such that a puncturing motion can be triggered by actuation thereof, whereby the securing facility is transitioned from the locked state to the triggering state by the testing facility when the test parameter determined by the testing facility meets defined minimum requirements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2019
    Assignee: Roche Diabetes Care, Inc.
    Inventors: Hans List, Christian Hoerauf, Frank Deck, Thomas Weiss, Michael Keil, Guenther Schmelzeisen-Redeker, Heinrich Fruhstorfer, Hans-Peter Haar, Uwe Kraemer, Joachim Hoenes, Karl Miltner
  • Publication number: 20190011326
    Abstract: A test system and a corresponding method for testing the seal of a glove which is installed in a port of an isolator, including a test disc which can be connected in a hermetically sealed fashion to the port. The glove and test disc define a sealed glove volume which can be placed under excess pressure. The test disc has a pressure-measuring device with a microprocessor and a memory for recording and storing a pressure profile in the glove volume and a data interface. The glove and port have identification elements which are read by a reading device of the test disc and information concerning the pressure profile along with the identities of the glove and port are transmitted wirelessly to an evaluation unit which estimates and records a residual period of use of the glove. A plurality of gloves in ports can be tested simultaneously.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2018
    Publication date: January 10, 2019
    Inventor: Michael Keil
  • Publication number: 20190003922
    Abstract: An apparatus for the moiré measurement of an optical test object includes a grating arrangement made of a first grating (25, . . . ) which is positionable in the optical beam path upstream of the test object and a second grating (11, . . . ) which is positionable in the optical beam path downstream of the test object, an evaluation unit having at least one detector (12, . . . ), for evaluating moire structures produced by superposition of the two gratings in a detection plane situated downstream of the second grating in the optical beam path, and at least one aperture stop (14, . . . ), by way of which the light distribution which was produced after the light exit from the second grating can be shadowed in a region-wise fashion such that only light of a subset of all field points on the second grating reaches the detection plane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2018
    Publication date: January 3, 2019
    Inventors: Michael Samaniego, Peter Schade, Michael Keil, Jaenker Bernd
  • Publication number: 20180231433
    Abstract: A test system and a corresponding method for testing the seal of a glove which is installed in a port of an isolator, including a test disc which can be connected in a hermetically sealed fashion to the port. The glove and test disc define a sealed glove volume which can be placed under excess pressure. The test disc has a pressure-measuring device with a microprocessor and a memory for recording and storing a pressure profile in the glove volume and a data interface. The glove and port have identification elements which are read by a reading device of the test disc and information concerning the pressure profile along with the identities of the glove and port are transmitted wirelessly to an evaluation unit which estimates and records a residual period of use of the glove. A plurality of gloves in ports can be tested simultaneously.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2018
    Publication date: August 16, 2018
    Inventor: Michael Keil
  • Publication number: 20180132772
    Abstract: A lancet magazine for use in a lancing aid is described comprising a plurality of lancets each having a lancet body at the proximal end of the lancet and a lancet tip at the distal end of the lancet, where the proximal end of the lancet points in the direction of the proximal end of the housing of the lancet magazine and the distal end of the lancet is aligned in the direction of the distal end of the housing and the lancets in the unused state are completely surrounded by the housing. Furthermore, an extension unit is movably connected to the housing in such a manner that the housing can be extended by movement of the extension unit in the direction of the distal end of the housing such that the lancet is prevented from emerging from the lancet magazine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2017
    Publication date: May 17, 2018
    Inventors: Richard Forster, Susanne Gentsch, Andreas Gorshöfer, Michael Keil, Thomas Weiss, Robert Wessel
  • Patent number: 9920002
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for preparing sulfuric diamides of the general formula I R1R2N—S(O)2—NH2??(I) in which R1 and R2 are each independently a primary alkyl radical having from 1 to 8 carbon atoms, a secondary alkyl radical having from 3 to 8 carbon atoms or a cycloalkyl radical having from 5 to 8 carbon atoms, or, together with the nitrogen atom, form a 5- to 8-membered, saturated nitrogen heterocycle which, as well as the nitrogen atom, may have a further heteroatom selected from O and S as a ring member, where the nitrogen heterocycle is unsubstituted or may have 1, 2, 3 or 4 alkyl groups having in each case from 1 to 4 carbon atoms as substituents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2018
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Axel Pleschke, Thomas Schmidt, Joachim Gebhardt, Sandra Loehr, Michael Keil, Jan Hendrik Wevers
  • Patent number: 9895093
    Abstract: A lancet magazine for use in a lancing aid is described comprising a plurality of lancets each having a lancet body at the proximal end of the lancet and a lancet tip at the distal end of the lancet, where the proximal end of the lancet points in the direction of the proximal end of the housing of the lancet magazine and the distal end of the lancet is aligned in the direction of the distal end of the housing and the lancets in the unused state are completely surrounded by the housing. Furthermore, an extension unit is movably connected to the housing in such a manner that the housing can be extended by movement of the extension unit in the direction of the distal end of the housing such that the lancet is prevented from emerging from the lancet magazine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2018
    Assignee: Roche Diabetes Care, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard Forster, Susanne Gentsch, Andreas Gorshoefer, Michael Keil, Thomas Weiss, Robert Wessel
  • Publication number: 20170234760
    Abstract: A test system and a corresponding method for testing the seal of a glove which is installed in a port of an isolator, including a test disc which can be connected in a hermetically sealed fashion to the port. The glove and test disc define a sealed glove volume which can be placed under excess pressure. The test disc has a pressure-measuring device with a microprocessor and a memory for recording and storing a pressure profile in the glove volume and a data interface. The glove and port have identification elements which are read by a reading device of the test disc and information concerning the pressure profile along with the identities of the glove and port are transmitted wirelessly to an evaluation unit which estimates and records a residual period of use of the glove. A plurality of gloves in ports can be tested simultaneously.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2017
    Publication date: August 17, 2017
    Inventor: Michael Keil
  • Publication number: 20170219457
    Abstract: The invention relates to a test disc system having at least one test disc for testing the seal of a glove which is installed in a port of an insulator. The test disc (1) can be connected in a hermetically sealed fashion to the port, wherein the glove encloses with the test disc (1) a glove volume which can be placed under overpressure by the test disc (1). The test disc (1) has a base body in which electronic components for recording and storing a pressure profile in the glove volume, and at least one data interface are arranged. The test disc (1) also has a reading device for reading both a first identification element which is arranged on the glove and a second identification element which is assigned to the port.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2015
    Publication date: August 3, 2017
    Inventors: Michael KEIL, Christopher KEIL
  • Publication number: 20170156753
    Abstract: There is disclosed an insertion device comprising an insertion needle holder and a drive mechanism for linearly moving the insertion needle holder in a puncturing direction. The insertion needle holder also includes at least one actuating element for actuating a drive mechanism. The drive mechanism converts a driving motion of the actuating element, which extends transversely or opposite to the puncturing direction, into a puncturing motion of the insertion needle holder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2017
    Publication date: June 8, 2017
    Inventors: Frank Deck, Christian Hoerauf, Michael Keil, Ahmet Konya, Thomas Weiss, Oliver Kube, Karl-Peter Ebert
  • Patent number: 9629958
    Abstract: An insertion device includes an insertion needle holder and a drive mechanism for linearly moving the insertion needle holder in a puncturing direction. The insertion needle holder also includes at least one actuating element for actuating a drive mechanism. The drive mechanism converts a driving motion of the actuating element, which extends transversely or opposite to the puncturing direction, into a puncturing motion of the insertion needle holder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2017
    Assignee: Roche Diabetes Care, Inc.
    Inventors: Frank Deck, Christian Hoerauf, Michael Keil, Ahmet Konya, Thomas Weiss, Oliver Kube, Karl-Peter Ebert