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).

  • Patent number: 9457349
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: Roche Diagnostics Operations, Inc.
    Inventors: Stephan Sattler, Reinhold Krämer
  • Patent number: 8940230
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2015
    Assignee: Roche Diagnostics Operations, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Kühnl, Herbert Buschek, Reinhold Krämer, Petra Ickler
  • Patent number: 8544244
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2013
    Assignee: Roche Diagnostics Operations, Inc.
    Inventors: Reinhold Kramer, Stephan Sattler, Uwe Mertsch
  • Patent number: 8474225
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2013
    Assignee: Roche Diagnostics Operations, Inc.
    Inventors: Reinhold Kramer, Stephan Sattler, Uwe Mertsch
  • Publication number: 20120222389
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2012
    Publication date: September 6, 2012
    Applicant: ROCHE DIAGNOSTICS OPERATIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Reinhold Krämer, Stephan Sattler, Uwe Mertsch
  • Patent number: 8205413
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2012
    Assignee: Roche Diagnostics Operations, Inc.
    Inventors: Reinhold Krämer, Stephan Sattler, Uwe Mertsch
  • Patent number: 7981663
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2011
    Assignee: Roche Diagnostics Operations, Inc.
    Inventors: Stephan Sattler, Reinhold Krämer
  • Publication number: 20100236198
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2010
    Publication date: September 23, 2010
    Inventors: Reinhold Krämer, Stephan Sattler, Uwe Mertsch
  • Publication number: 20090056285
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2008
    Publication date: March 5, 2009
    Applicant: ROCHE DIAGNOSTICS OPERATIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Reinhold Kramer, Stephan Sattler, Uwe Mertsch
  • Publication number: 20090011401
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2008
    Publication date: January 8, 2009
    Applicant: ROCHE DIAGNOSTICS OPERATIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Stephan Sattler, Reinhold Kramer
  • Publication number: 20090008395
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2008
    Publication date: January 8, 2009
    Applicant: Roche Diagnostics Operations, Inc.
    Inventors: Stephan Sattler, Reinhold Kramer
  • Publication number: 20080047332
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2007
    Publication date: February 28, 2008
    Applicant: Roche Diagnostics Operations, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Kuhnl, Herbert Buschek, Reinhold Kramer, Petra Ickler