Patents by Inventor Frank Deck
Frank Deck 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).
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Publication number: 20080007141Abstract: The invention relates to a drive unit for a medical device such as an insulin pump, lancing device, or test strip magazine. The drive unit comprises an actuator for charging a mechanical energy storage element. The actuator oscillates and executes travel strokes which are transmitted by means of a step-up element to a nonreturn rotor or traveler for prestressing the mechanical energy storage element and driving a movement element.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 1, 2007Publication date: January 10, 2008Inventor: Frank Deck
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Publication number: 20080009767Abstract: A system is provided for withdrawing small amounts of body fluid from an animal or human. The system includes a holder and a disposable lancing unit attached to the holder. The lancing unit also includes an open capillary channel for transporting the body fluid and piercing the skin.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 20, 2007Publication date: January 10, 2008Applicant: ROCHE DIAGNOSTICS OPERATIONS, INC.Inventors: Carlo Effenhauser, Heinz-Michael Hein, Karl-Heinz Koelker, Frank Deck
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Publication number: 20070293882Abstract: The present invention provides a pricking device for taking blood comprising a contact element for being placed into contact with an extraction surface, an actuating element for manual actuation of the pricking device, a pricking element which is used to perforate the extraction surface, the pricking element being arranged in the contact element in such a way that it does not protrude from the contact element before the pricking procedure is initiated, and in such a way that a defined pricking depth is obtained during the pricking procedure. The pricking device further includes a return spring for automatically retracting the pricking element into the contact element after a pricking procedure has been completed and a locking mechanism for locking the pricking device after completion of a single pricking procedure and thereby preventing additional use of the pricking device.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 4, 2007Publication date: December 20, 2007Inventors: Herbert Harttig, Sven Winheim, Frank Deck
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Patent number: 7291159Abstract: System for withdrawing body fluid from a body part in particular the finger pad, comprising a compression unit that is deformed when the body part is pressed against it and increases the internal pressure in a region of the body part, and a withdrawal device. Deformation of the compression unit partially converts the primary pressing movement into a secondary movement which leads to an increase in the internal pressure in a region of the body part. The invention also comprises a system for stimulating the outflow of body fluid using a deformable compression unit.Type: GrantFiled: April 9, 2003Date of Patent: November 6, 2007Assignee: Roche Diagnostics Operations, Inc.Inventors: Guenther Schmelzeisen-Redeker, Thomas Weiss, Frank Deck, Klaus Peter Ebert
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Patent number: 7288073Abstract: The present invention generally relates to a system for withdrawing small amounts if body fluid from an animal or human. The system comprises a holder and a disposable lancing unit attached to the holder. The lancing unit also comprises an open capillary channel for transporting the body fluid and piercing the skin.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2001Date of Patent: October 30, 2007Assignee: Roche Diagnostics Operations, Inc.Inventors: Carlo Effenhauser, Heinz-Michael Hein, Karl-Heinz Koelker, Frank Deck
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Publication number: 20070219572Abstract: The present invention provides an integrated measuring device that includes a blood collection system for collecting blood for diagnostic purposes. The blood collection system comprises an electric motor which provides energy for propelling a lancet. The blood collection system comprises a mechanical energy store in which the electric energy that is converted by the motor is stored in the form of mechanical energy. The use of a mechanical energy store allows the use of known mechanical drive elements. The blood collection system can also be electrically activated and is thus easy to use for the operator. The motor can also be coupled to another system component, such as a test strip or lancet drum, to operate it.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 27, 2007Publication date: September 20, 2007Inventors: Frank Deck, Joachim Doepper, Christian Hoerauf, Rudolf Pachl, Juergen Rasch-Menges, Joerg Scherer, Guenther Schmelzeisen-Redeker, Wilfried Schmid, Jochen Schulat, Bruno Thoes, Sven Winheim
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Publication number: 20070100365Abstract: A device and a method are disclosed for positioning a body part (16) on an analytical device (14) for body fluids includes a flexible compression element (24) for pressing against the body part (16) while increasing the pressure and a rigid support part (26) to hold the compression element (24) on a housing (12) of the analytical device (14). The compression element (24) has an engaging member (34) for the body part (16) which can be pressed into the housing (12) such that a withdrawal region (56) of the body part (16) is exposed in the interior (18) of the housing (12) in order to remove liquid.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 21, 2006Publication date: May 3, 2007Inventor: Frank Deck
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Publication number: 20070004990Abstract: The present invention provides a hand-held analysis instrument for analyzing a body fluid. The instrument comprises a housing with a housing opening to which a body part, in particular, a finger, can be applied to generate a puncture wound, an analysis unit for analyzing a sample of a body fluid obtained at the puncture wound, and a piercing unit including a lancet and lancet drive for generating a puncture movement of the lancet. The piercing unit, including the lancet drive, is movable between an operating position and a rest position, the piercing unit being located at the housing opening in the operating position in such a manner that by means of the lancet a puncture wound can be generated in a body part pressed against the housing opening, and the piercing unit being remote from the housing opening in the rest position in such a manner that the space in front of the housing opening is free for the analysis unit, so that it can be moved into a position for receiving blood.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 21, 2006Publication date: January 4, 2007Inventors: Michael Kistner, Frank Deck
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Patent number: 7101169Abstract: The production of pouch-shaped or pot-shaped parts is undertaken in two steps. In the first step, a film located above a die is pressed by a stamp into a cavity that reproduces the part and is subsequently pressed apart in the lower region of the cavity by deformation of the stamp in this region. The device has a rubber-like stamp that expands out on all sides once it has reached the bottom wall of the cavity and causes the film to conform to the shape of the cavity. The stamp is preferably designed in two parts, wherein a stamp insert is guided within a stamp guide and the stamp insert then has at least one deformable region. For removal of the formed film, provision is made that the die can be swung open.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2002Date of Patent: September 5, 2006Assignee: Preh-Werke GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Juergen Fick, Frank Deck, Michael Fritz, Martin Frank
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Publication number: 20050023730Abstract: The production of pouch-shaped or pot-shaped parts is undertaken in two steps. In the first step, a film located above a die is pressed by a stamp into a cavity that reproduces the part and is subsequently pressed apart in the lower region of the cavity by deformation of the stamp in this region. The device has a rubber-like stamp that expands out on all sides once it has reached the bottom wall of the cavity and causes the film to conform to the shape of the cavity. The stamp is preferably designed in two parts, wherein a stamp insert is guided within a stamp guide and the stamp insert then has at least one deformable region. For removal of the formed film, provision is made that the die can be swung open.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 24, 2004Publication date: February 3, 2005Inventors: Frank Deck, Michael Fritz, Martin Frank
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Publication number: 20040141881Abstract: This invention relates to test element analysis system for the analytical investigation of body liquids. An evaluation instrument, pertaining to the system, comprises a storage container, where a plurality of test elements is held ready for use, a sample application position, where one test element at a time is brought into contact with the sample, a measuring device for the determination of a measurable variable characteristic for the analysis, and a transport device, by which one test element at a time is taken out of the test element storage container at the take out position and transported to the sample application position.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 29, 2003Publication date: July 22, 2004Inventors: Martin Frank, Michael Fritz, Frank Deck
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Publication number: 20040034318Abstract: The present invention includes a system for withdrawing body fluids. The system includes a drive unit having a plunger which is moved from a resting position into a lancing position in order to carry out a lancing process and a lancing unit containing a lancet with a needle. The plunger and lancet are coupled together by a form fit in order to carry out a lancing process. The invention additionally concerns a method for temporarily extending a needle from a device for withdrawing body fluid as well as a lancing unit that can be attached to the drive unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 30, 2003Publication date: February 19, 2004Inventors: Michael Fritz, Klaus-Dieter Sacherer, Hans List, Thomas Weiss, Frank Deck, Claudio Immekus
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Publication number: 20040030353Abstract: System for withdrawing body fluid from a body part in particular the finger pad, comprising a compression unit that is deformed when the body part is pressed against it and increases the internal pressure in a region of the body part, and a withdrawal device. Deformation of the compression unit partially converts the primary pressing movement into a secondary movement which leads to an increase in the internal pressure in a region of the body part. The invention also comprises a system for stimulating the outflow of body fluid using a deformable compression unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 9, 2003Publication date: February 12, 2004Inventors: Guenther Schmelzeisen-Redeker, Thomas Weiss, Frank Deck, Klaus Peter Ebert
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Patent number: 6679852Abstract: System for withdrawing body fluid from a body part in particular the finger pad, comprising a compression unit that can be deformed when the body part is pressed against it and increases the internal pressure in a region of the body part, and a withdrawal device. Deformation of the compression unit partially converts the primary pressing movement into a secondary movement which leads to an increase in the internal pressure in a region of the body part. The invention also comprises a system for stimulating the outflow of body fluid using a deformable compression unit.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2000Date of Patent: January 20, 2004Assignee: Roche Diagnostics CorporationInventors: Guenther Schmelzeisen-Redeker, Frank Deck, Richard Forster, Thomas Weiss
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Patent number: 6616616Abstract: The invention concerns a lancet system comprising a plurality of essentially needle-shaped lancets, a drive unit which has a drive element which is moved from a resting position into a lancing position in order to carry out a lancing process, a storage area to store the lancets, a withdrawal area to guide at least the tip of the lancet out of the system during the lancing process and a transport unit which can transport lancets from the storage area into the withdrawal area, wherein the drive element is arranged in such a manner that in the withdrawal area it can act on the lancet located there to carry out a lancing process and thus move the lancet from a resting position into a lancing position and wherein the system has a retraction device in the withdrawal area which can interact with the lancet located in the withdrawal area in order to move the lancet after completion of the lancing process from the lancing position into the resting position and it concerns a lancet magazine adapted to the system, a corType: GrantFiled: September 26, 2001Date of Patent: September 9, 2003Assignee: Roche Diagnostics CorporationInventors: Michael Fritz, Hans List, Thomas Weiss, Frank Deck, Herbert Argauer, Claudio Immekus
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Publication number: 20030153939Abstract: The invention concerns lancets with a lancet needle, the tip of the lancet needle being embedded in an elastic material. Furthermore the invention concerns lancets where the tip of the lancet needle is surrounded by a hollow body which partially consists of an elastic material that can be pierced by the tip of the lancet needle during the lancing process and which reseals the tip of the lancet needle in the hollow body when it is retracted. In addition the invention concerns a lancet magazine in which the lancets are accommodated in individual chambers, each chamber having an opening through which the tip of the lancet needle can pass, which is sealed by an elastic material. Finally the invention concerns the use of an elastic material as a component of a lancet or a lancet magazine to maintain the sterility of at least the tip of a lancet needle in the unused state and to hygienically protect at least the tip of a lancet needle in the used state.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 27, 2002Publication date: August 14, 2003Inventors: Michael Fritz, Herbert Argauer, Hans List, Thomas Weiss, Frank Deck, Claudio Immekus
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Patent number: 6589260Abstract: System for withdrawing body fluid from a body part in particular the finger pad, comprising a compression unit that is deformed when the body part is pressed against it and increases the internal pressure in a region of the body part, and a withdrawal device. Deformation of the compression unit partially converts the primary pressing movement into a secondary movement which leads to an increase in the internal pressure in a region of the body part. The invention also comprises a system for stimulating the outflow of body fluid using a deformable compression unit.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2000Date of Patent: July 8, 2003Assignee: Roche Diagnostics CorporationInventors: Guenther Schmelzeisen-Redeker, Thomas Weiss, Frank Deck, Klaus Peter Ebert
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Publication number: 20030018282Abstract: System for withdrawing small amounts of body fluid comprising a drive unit which has a holder which is moved from a first into a second position when the drive unit is activated, and a disposable lancing unit which has a holding area that is removably positioned in the holder, the proximal end of an elongate capillary structure comprising at least one capillary channel for transporting body fluid being connected to the holding area and the distal end of the capillary structure being suitable for piercing skin, wherein the distal end of the capillary structure is located outside the skin when the holder is arranged in a first position and in the second position is inserted into the skin up to the puncture depth, characterized in that the at least one capillary channel is open to the outside in an area which comprises at least a part of the longitudinal extension of the capillary structure.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 30, 2001Publication date: January 23, 2003Inventors: Carlo Effenhauser, Heinz-Michael Hein, Harl-Heinz Koelker, Frank Deck
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Publication number: 20020120216Abstract: TOe invention concerns a lancet system comprising a plurality of essentially needle-shaped lancets, a drive unit which has a drive element which is moved from a resting position into a lancing position in order to carry out a lancing process, a storage area to store the lancets, a withdrawal area to guide at least the tip of the lancet out of the system during the lancing process and a transport unit which can transport lancets from the storage area into the withdrawal area, wherein the drive element is arranged in such a manner that in the withdrawal area it can act on the lancet located there to carry out a lancing process and thus move the lancet from a resting position into a lancing position and wherein the system has a retraction device in the withdrawal area which can interact with the lancet located in the withdrawal area in order to move the lancet after completion of the lancing process from the lancing position into the resting position and it concerns a lancet magazine adapted to the system, a corType: ApplicationFiled: September 26, 2001Publication date: August 29, 2002Inventors: Michael Fritz, Hans List, Thomas Weiss, Frank Deck, Herbert Argauer, Claudio Immekus