Patents by Inventor Alexander Schrörs

Alexander Schrörs 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: 11285253
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a blood treatment apparatus having of each at least one control device; one user interface; one receiving section for releasably receiving an organizer, wherein the organizer comprises components releasably connected thereto for the extracorporeal blood treatment options, in particular dialysis method being executable by the blood treatment apparatus, wherein the blood treatment apparatus comprises in particular in the area of its reception section or in the area corresponding thereto a device for the releasable fastening or fixing of the organizer (on)to the blood treatment apparatus and/or at least a device for acting on components of an organizer which is releasably received in or on the receiving section. Furthermore, an organizer is specified.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: Fresenius Medical Care Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Alexander Schrörs, Jürgen Klewinghaus
  • Patent number: 11087869
    Abstract: An operation checking unit for a dialysis apparatus (such as a hemodialysis or peritoneal dialysis machine) is disclosed which comprises an identification unit which is configured to detect a user identity of a user. The operation checking unit also comprises a sensor unit which is configured to detect an operating action of the identified user as an ACTUAL-operation data set, and a processing unit which is configured to compare the detected ACTUAL-operation data set with a DESIRED-operation data set stored in a memory in order to generate a user-specific message in the event of a discrepancy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: Fresenius Medical Care Deutschland GMBH
    Inventors: Alexander Schrörs, Vanessa Nadig
  • Patent number: 10556051
    Abstract: A medical device includes: at least one input device; at least one output device; at least one operating component; and a control unit. The control unit has data access to at least one file pertaining to the medical device, wherein text passages or graphics of the at least one file pertaining to an operating component are selectable. The control unit is configured to, after selection of a text passage or a graphic, cause at least one operating parameter of the operating component and/or at least one output variable that is created by the operating component to be read out as output, and/or facilitate input of an adjustable operating parameter for the operating component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2020
    Assignee: Fresenius Medical Care Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Jan-Willem Appel, Jürgen Klewinghaus, Stefan Rudolph, Alexander Schrörs, Georg Verch, Stefan Wittzack
  • Publication number: 20190237180
    Abstract: An operation checking unit for a dialysis apparatus (such as a hemodialysis or peritoneal dialysis machine) is disclosed which comprises an identification unit which is configured to detect a user identity of a user. The operation checking unit also comprises a sensor unit which is configured to detect an operating action of the identified user as an ACTUAL-operation data set, and a processing unit which is configured to compare the detected ACTUAL-operation data set with a DESIRED-operation data set stored in a memory in order to generate a user-specific message in the event of a discrepancy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 7, 2019
    Publication date: August 1, 2019
    Inventors: Alexander Schrörs, Vanessa Nadig
  • Patent number: 10314964
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a tube covering for a tubing system, especially for monitoring a vascular access for an extracorporeal blood treatment. The inventive tube covering has at least one flexible bottom layer on which a section of the at least one tubing and/or a connection system of at least one tubing may be placed and has at least one flexible top layer for covering the section of the at least one tubing and/or the connection system of the at least one tubing. The bottom layer and the top layer are joined to one another such that they form an openable wrapping for inserting the section of the at least one tubing and/or the connection system of the at least one tubing, fastening means for detachably joining the top layer and the bottom layer being provided on the top layer and bottom layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2019
    Assignee: Fresenius Medical Care Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: John Heppe, Michael-Paul Jestram, Axel Kort, Maria Millan-Galante, Alexander Schrörs, Andreas Wüpper
  • Publication number: 20190022299
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a blood treatment apparatus having of each at least one control device; one user interface; one receiving section for releasably receiving an organizer, wherein the organizer comprises components releasably connected thereto for the extracorporeal blood treatment options, in particular dialysis method being executable by the blood treatment apparatus, wherein the blood treatment apparatus comprises in particular in the area of its reception section or in the area corresponding thereto a device for the releasable fastening or fixing of the organizer (on) to the blood treatment apparatus and/or at least a device for acting on components of an organizer which is releasably received in or on the receiving section. Furthermore, an organizer is specified.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2017
    Publication date: January 24, 2019
    Inventors: Alexander Schrörs, Jürgen Klewinghaus
  • Publication number: 20180039750
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an error processing unit for a medical machine (e.g., a hemodialysis machine or a peritoneal dialysis machine). The error processing unit is configured to detect a number of consecutive confirmation inputs in response to each currently output machine error message, representing a status—requiring a message—of the dialysis machine, as an ACTUAL value. When a preconfigured TARGET value is exceeded by the ACTUAL value, a modified machine control is triggered and results in additional or modified outputs being output on a graphical user interface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2017
    Publication date: February 8, 2018
    Inventor: Alexander Schrörs
  • Publication number: 20170326284
    Abstract: A control and/or regulation device, which is connected via signal link to a first input device, which in particular is operable by a doctor, and to a second input device, which in particular is operable by a patient, wherein the control or regulation device is programmed to control and/or regulate in signal link with a blood treatment
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2015
    Publication date: November 16, 2017
    Inventors: Erik Dülsner, Alexander Schrörs, Wolfgang Wehmeyer
  • Publication number: 20170128648
    Abstract: A medical device includes: at least one input device; at least one output device; at least one operating component; and a control unit. The control unit has data access to at least one file pertaining to the medical device, wherein text passages or graphics of the at least one file pertaining to an operating component are selectable. The control unit is configured to, after selection of a text passage or a graphic, cause at least one operating parameter of the operating component and/or at least one output variable that is created by the operating component to be read out as output, and/or facilitate input of an adjustable operating parameter for the operating component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2016
    Publication date: May 11, 2017
    Inventors: Jan-Willem Appel, Jürgen Klewinghaus, Stefan Rudolph, Alexander Schrörs, Georg Verch, Stefan Wittzack
  • Patent number: 9132218
    Abstract: A medical blood-treating apparatus for the extra-corporeal treatment of blood has an extra-corporeal blood circuit. An arrangement for the extra-corporeal treatment of blood and an arrangement for electrical muscle stimulation (EMS) with which muscles of the patient can be stimulated in a targeted fashion during the dialysis treatment are provided. For this purpose, the arrangement for EMS has a means of generating electrical pulses, and has one or more electrodes connected to the means of generating electrical pulses. To enable targeted stimulation, the electrodes are applied to the patient's skin, e.g., the legs, during the blood treatment. Muscle stimulation during blood treatment may result in the dialysis treatment being more tolerable for the patient and increase the efficiency of the blood treatment. The blood-treating apparatus according to the invention allows an improvement in the efficiency of the blood treatment without any active sporting activity or exercise by the patient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2015
    Assignee: Fresenius Medical Care Deutschland GmbH
    Inventor: Alexander Schrörs
  • Publication number: 20110022103
    Abstract: A medical blood-treating apparatus for the extra-corporeal treatment of blood has an extra-corporeal blood circuit. An arrangement for the extra-corporeal treatment of blood and an arrangement for electrical muscle stimulation (EMS) with which muscles of the patient can be stimulated in a targeted fashion during the dialysis treatment are provided. For this purpose, the arrangement for EMS has a means of generating electrical pulses, and has one or more electrodes connected to the means of generating electrical pulses. To enable targeted stimulation, the electrodes are applied to the patient's skin, e.g., the legs, during the blood treatment. Muscle stimulation during blood treatment may result in the dialysis treatment being more tolerable for the patient and increase the efficiency of the blood treatment. The blood-treating apparatus according to the invention allows an improvement in the efficiency of the blood treatment without any active sporting activity or exercise by the patient.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2008
    Publication date: January 27, 2011
    Inventor: Alexander Schrörs
  • Patent number: 7837845
    Abstract: A sensor card for determining analytes in liquid and gas samples with films connected to one another in sheetlike fashion, namely a sensor film facing the sample with openings and a covering film remote from the sample with openings for electrical tapping, at least one sensor being provided and arranged between the sensor film and the covering film. There is provided between the sensor film and the covering film at least one intermediate film, in which cutouts are provided, the sensor being arranged in one of the cutouts. The sensor card provides a homogeneous thickness, which brings about a reliable sealing of the flow channels for the liquid sample if the sensor card is connected to a plate that partially forms the flow channels within the analysis system. Furthermore, the invention relates to a method for producing such a sensor card.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2010
    Assignee: Fresenius Medial Care Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Petra Abel, Alexander Schrörs, Gabriele Chemnitius, Gerhard Mager, Jürgen Häcker
  • Publication number: 20090321258
    Abstract: A sensor card for determining analytes in liquid and gas samples with films connected to one another in sheetlike fashion, namely a sensor film facing the sample with openings and a covering film remote from the sample with openings for electrical tapping, at least one sensor being provided and arranged between the sensor film and the covering film. There is provided between the sensor film and the covering film at least one intermediate film, in which cutouts are provided, the sensor being arranged in one of the cutouts. The sensor card provides a homogeneous thickness, which brings about a reliable sealing of the flow channels for the liquid sample if the sensor card is connected to a plate that partially forms the flow channels within the analysis system. Furthermore, the invention relates to a method for producing such a sensor card.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2004
    Publication date: December 31, 2009
    Inventors: Petra Abel, Alexander Schrors, Gabriele Chemnitius, Gerhard Mager, Jurgen Hacker