Patents by Inventor Erik J. Frenkel

Erik J. Frenkel 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: 5603693
    Abstract: A device in three separable modules, for the transdermic administration of drugs by electrophoresis or iontophoresis, comprises a first active module provided with at least one system of elecrodes and one drug reservoir, a second power module provided with a power supply and a third electronic module provided with an electronic circuit, control organs and a display screen, in which the power module is situated between the two other modules and comprises, in addition to the power supply formed by one or more batteries, mechanical assembly means and electrical connection or interconnection means with the two other modules means for attaching the device to the body of a patient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 1994
    Date of Patent: February 18, 1997
    Assignee: Asulab S.A.
    Inventors: Erik J. Frenkel, Jean-Jacques Born, Konrad Schafroth
  • Patent number: 5594986
    Abstract: Method of manufacturing an electrical connection, and connection thus obtained between a strip of a plastic material (1) having a conductive coating on a single face (5) and a second conductor (15) positioned on the non-conductive side (3) of said strip consisting of forming into a loop the lug (7), formed by the end portion of said strip, by thermoforming between two parallel cylinders of which at least one is heated, driven in rotation to come to press the non-conductive face of the lug (7) against a non-conductive portion of the strip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 1994
    Date of Patent: January 21, 1997
    Assignee: Asulab S.A.
    Inventors: Erik J. Frenkel, Jean-Jacques Born
  • Patent number: 5559761
    Abstract: An electronic timepiece having an analog or digital display delivering time information in silent, tactile manner in which the control elements (L, C, B.sub.1, B.sub.2) provided on the exterior of a closed housing cooperate via the intermediary of an interpretation circuit with the electronic coding means (22) to drive the vibration generating device (23) by means of pulse strings to emit vibration strings representative of an item of time information or of the accuracy of a time instruction or non-time instruction introduced by means of said control elements.The timepiece presents a conventional appearance, but enables a visually impaired person to know the time, to correct the internal time and to set an alarm time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 1995
    Date of Patent: September 24, 1996
    Assignee: Asulab S.A.
    Inventors: Erik J. Frenkel, Jean-Jacques Born
  • Patent number: 5395504
    Abstract: A small sensor for an electrochemical measuring system composed of a measuring apparatus (50) having an electronic circuit (60), a connecting device (64), a positioning and advancing device (56, 57) and an eliminating device (59, 53). The apparatus is adapted to receive the sensor (40), which has a plurality of active, successively disposable measuring zones (34). The sensor has applications in the quantitative analysis of glucose in the blood.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 1994
    Date of Patent: March 7, 1995
    Assignee: Asulab S.A.
    Inventors: Eric Saurer, Erik J. Frenkel, Jean-Paul Randin, Eric Hoffmann
  • Patent number: 5378628
    Abstract: A sensor for measuring the amount of a component in solution is disclosed. The sensor has a measuring electrode with at least one current collector, electrically connected to one of the electrical contacts and coated with a mixture comprising at least one oxidation-reduction enzyme specific to said component and at least one mediator transferring the electrons between said enzyme and said current collector wherein the mediator is a transition metal complex with at least one bipyridine, terpyridine or phenanthroline ligand substituted by at least one electron donor group. This sensor is particularly useful in the detection of glucose.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 1992
    Date of Patent: January 3, 1995
    Assignee: Asulab, S.A.
    Inventors: Michael Gratzel, David Fraser, Shaik M. Zakeeruddin, Jean-Paul Randin, Erik J. Frenkel