Patents by Inventor Reinhold Kramer
Reinhold Kramer 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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Patent number: 9457349Abstract: The invention concerns a packaging cassette for reagent carriers, which is characterized by a base housing containing connected adjacent compartments for reagent carriers, wherein the compartments are separated from one another by partitions and are opened individually, each compartment having its own sealing cover which enables the compartment to be re-sealed.Type: GrantFiled: July 7, 2008Date of Patent: October 4, 2016Assignee: Roche Diagnostics Operations, Inc.Inventors: Stephan Sattler, Reinhold Krämer
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Patent number: 8940230Abstract: A cell for conducting electrochemiluminescence measurements is disclosed. The cell in one embodiment provides a measurement cell housing having a cavity, a fluid inlet channel for inducing fluid into the cavity and a fluid outlet channel for discharging fluid from the cavity at axial ends. The cell also provides at least one working electrode and a counter electrode on or in the cavity, and an optical viewing element for observing electrochemiluminescence effects in the cavity, wherein the fluid inlet channel has an at least approximately continuous curved course in a transition area to the cavity so that the fluid inlet channel at its end which is joined to the cavity is shaped in such a manner as to constitute a continuous course of the transition between the fluid inlet channel and the cavity to generate a largely steady flow profile when inducing fluid into the measurement cell cavity.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2007Date of Patent: January 27, 2015Assignee: Roche Diagnostics Operations, Inc.Inventors: Michael Kühnl, Herbert Buschek, Reinhold Krämer, Petra Ickler
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Patent number: 8544244Abstract: Decapping system for opening or closing reagent containers or cartridge systems closed by a lid which is removed and secured by a rotational movement and method thereof are disclosed. The decapping system has a centering unit at its lower end that provides a snap-in element which engages the lid, and a plurality of simultaneously driven and vertically movable screwing heads which compensates for variable heights and/or sizes of cartridge systems to be processed.Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 2010Date of Patent: October 1, 2013Assignee: Roche Diagnostics Operations, Inc.Inventors: Reinhold Kramer, Stephan Sattler, Uwe Mertsch
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Patent number: 8474225Abstract: Decapping system for opening or closing reagent containers or cartridge systems closed by a lid which is removed and secured by a rotational movement and method thereof are disclosed. The decapping system has a centering unit at its lower end that provides a snap-in element which engages the lid, and a plurality of simultaneously driven and vertically movable screwing heads which compensates for variable heights and/or sizes of cartridge systems to be processed.Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 2012Date of Patent: July 2, 2013Assignee: Roche Diagnostics Operations, Inc.Inventors: Reinhold Kramer, Stephan Sattler, Uwe Mertsch
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Publication number: 20120222389Abstract: Decapping system for opening or closing reagent containers or cartridge systems closed by a lid which is removed and secured by a rotational movement and method thereof are disclosed. The decapping system has a centering unit at its lower end that provides a snap-in element which engages the lid, and a plurality of simultaneously driven and vertically movable screwing heads which compensates for variable heights and/or sizes of cartridge systems to be processed.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 15, 2012Publication date: September 6, 2012Applicant: ROCHE DIAGNOSTICS OPERATIONS, INC.Inventors: Reinhold Krämer, Stephan Sattler, Uwe Mertsch
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Patent number: 8205413Abstract: Decapping system for opening or closing reagent containers or cartridge systems closed by a lid which is removed and secured by a rotational movement and method thereof are disclosed. The decapping system has a centering unit at its lower end that provides a snap-in element which engages the lid, and a plurality of simultaneously driven and vertically movable screwing heads which compensates for variable heights and/or sizes of cartridge systems to be processed.Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 2008Date of Patent: June 26, 2012Assignee: Roche Diagnostics Operations, Inc.Inventors: Reinhold Krämer, Stephan Sattler, Uwe Mertsch
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Patent number: 7981663Abstract: The invention concerns a group of reagent carriers that is combined to form a composite, each one of said carriers having at least one test region located in a shallow trough-like depression, where the reagent carriers in the composite are held together exclusively by interconnected protective covers for the test regions.Type: GrantFiled: July 7, 2008Date of Patent: July 19, 2011Assignee: Roche Diagnostics Operations, Inc.Inventors: Stephan Sattler, Reinhold Krämer
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Publication number: 20100236198Abstract: Decapping system for opening or closing reagent containers or cartridge systems closed by a lid the which is removed and secured by a rotational movement and method thereof are disclosed. The decapping system has a centering unit that the at its lower end provides a snap-in element which engages the lid, and a plurality of simultaneously driven and vertically movable screwing heads which compensates for variable heights and/or sizes of cartridge systems to be processed.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 1, 2010Publication date: September 23, 2010Inventors: Reinhold Krämer, Stephan Sattler, Uwe Mertsch
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Publication number: 20090056285Abstract: Decapping system for opening or closing reagent containers or cartridge systems closed by a lid the which is removed and secured by a rotational movement and method thereof are disclosed. The decapping system has a centering unit that the at its lower end provides a snap-in element which engages the lid, and a plurality of simultaneously driven and vertically movable screwing heads which compensates for variable heights and/or sizes of cartridge systems to be processed.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 25, 2008Publication date: March 5, 2009Applicant: ROCHE DIAGNOSTICS OPERATIONS, INC.Inventors: Reinhold Kramer, Stephan Sattler, Uwe Mertsch
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Publication number: 20090011401Abstract: The invention concerns a group of reagent carriers that is combined to form a composite, each one of said carriers having at least one test region located in a shallow trough-like depression, where the reagent carriers in the composite are held together exclusively by interconnected protective covers for the test regions.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 7, 2008Publication date: January 8, 2009Applicant: ROCHE DIAGNOSTICS OPERATIONS, INC.Inventors: Stephan Sattler, Reinhold Kramer
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Publication number: 20090008395Abstract: The invention concerns a packaging cassette for reagent carriers, which is characterized by a base housing containing connected adjacent compartments for reagent carriers, wherein the compartments are separated from one another by partitions and are opened individually, each compartment having its own sealing cover which enables the compartment to be re-sealed.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 7, 2008Publication date: January 8, 2009Applicant: Roche Diagnostics Operations, Inc.Inventors: Stephan Sattler, Reinhold Kramer
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Publication number: 20080047332Abstract: A cell for conducting electrochemiluminescence measurements is disclosed. The cell in one embodiment provides a measurement cell housing having a cavity, a fluid inlet channel for inducing fluid into the cavity and a fluid outlet channel for discharging fluid from the cavity at axial ends. The cell also provides at least one working electrode and a counter electrode on or in the cavity, and an optical viewing element for observing electrochemiluminescence effects in the cavity, wherein the fluid inlet channel has an at least approximately continuous curved course in a transition area to the cavity so that the fluid inlet channel at its end which is joined to the cavity is shaped in such a manner as to constitute a continuous course of the transition between the fluid inlet channel and the cavity to generate a largely steady flow profile when inducing fluid into the measurement cell cavity.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 23, 2007Publication date: February 28, 2008Applicant: Roche Diagnostics Operations, Inc.Inventors: Michael Kuhnl, Herbert Buschek, Reinhold Kramer, Petra Ickler