Collector Combined With Lancet Patents (Class 600/583)
  • Publication number: 20140171832
    Abstract: A vacuum assisted lancing system for blood extraction can include a tubular body having a vacuum chamber, a lancing mechanism configured to removably couple with a lance, a vacuum mechanism including a piston slideably coupled within the body, a release mechanism for selectively holding the vacuum mechanism in an energized state, and an opening for allowing fluid communication between the vacuum chamber and an atmosphere surrounding the vacuum chamber. The system can include means for selectively commencing dissipation of the vacuum and a fixed or adjustable depth controller. A method of manipulating a surface for blood extraction can include coupling the lancing system to the surface, blocking the opening, creating a vacuum, moving the lance coupler from a first position distal from the surface to a second position proximal to the surface, maintaining the vacuum for a period of time, and commencing dissipation of the vacuum by unblocking the opening.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2014
    Publication date: June 19, 2014
    Inventor: Christopher A. Jacobs
  • Patent number: 8753289
    Abstract: A pricking system includes lancets for producing a prick wound, sampling devices for collecting a sample of a body fluid from the prick wound, a housing having an opening for application of a body part in which the prick wound is to be produced, a drive arranged in the housing for moving one of the lancets to produce the prick wound and to then move one of the sampling devices to the prick wound so produced, a coupling part for coupling to the drive one of the lancets for a pricking movement and then coupling to the drive one of the sampling devices for a sampling movement, the coupling part being moved, during the pricking movement and the sampling movement, respectively, from a starting position into an end position by an advancing movement, and from the end position back into the starting position by a reversing movement, respectively, and a motion control which, during the sampling movement, causes the coupling part to reach an end position that differs from the end position reached by the coupling part d
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2014
    Assignee: Roche Diagnostics Operations, Inc.
    Inventors: Ahmet Konya, Herbert Harttig
  • Publication number: 20140163341
    Abstract: The biological test kit is a device for drawing and, optionally, testing biological samples. The biological test kit is an array of lancets set in wells in a rigid base. Each lancet well is covered by a protective cover which when deformed permits the lancet to puncture a user or other patient. In one embodiment the biological test kit employs distinct covers for each lancet and in another the covers are formed from sheet material formed into blisters which cover the lancet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2014
    Publication date: June 12, 2014
    Applicant: BIRCH NARROWS DEVELOPMENT LLC
    Inventors: Curtis Jerome Christensen, Daniel William Davis, Erik Daniel Davis
  • Patent number: 8747335
    Abstract: A bodily fluid sampling device is operable to breach the skin surface and allow bodily fluid to emerge from the breach location. The bodily fluid sampling device further evaluates the amount of bodily fluid emerged from breach location and determines whether the amount is sufficient or insufficient for a particular purpose, such as sampling and testing. The determination is accomplished automatically without moving the device. The user may also intervene to perform a variety of tasks following the determination of the amount of bodily fluid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2014
    Assignee: Roche Diagnostics Operations, Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel Wong, Christopher D. Wiegel
  • Patent number: 8740813
    Abstract: A sample of a body fluid such as blood or interstitial fluid is obtained from a body by lancing a portion of a user's skin, preferably in an area other than a finger tip, to form an incision. After the needle has been removed from the incision, a force is applied to depress the skin in a manner forming a ring of depressed body tissue in surrounding relationship to the incision, causing the incision to bulge and the sides of the incision to open, whereby body fluid is forced out through the opening of the incision. A stimulator member is mounted to an end of a lancet-carrying housing for applying the force. The stimulator member can be movable relative to the housing, and can be either heated or vibrated to promote movement of the body fluid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2014
    Assignee: Roche Diagnostics Operations, Inc.
    Inventors: Joel S. Douglas, Jeffrey N. Roe, Henry M. Grage
  • Patent number: 8734365
    Abstract: An analytic magazine is proposed, which comprises at least one chamber with at least one analytic aid. The analytic aid comprises at least one test element for detecting at least one analyte in a sample of a bodily fluid. The test element has at least one test field with at least one test chemical. The test field is at least partly arranged within the chamber, wherein at least one wall of the chamber at least partly covers the test field and at least partly delimits a test-field surface that is accessible from the chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2014
    Assignee: Roche Diagnostics Operations, Inc.
    Inventor: Joachim Hoenes
  • Patent number: 8728009
    Abstract: The present invention provides a biosensor with finger-positioning function, comprising: a bottom plate, a cover, and a test-strip socket; wherein the cover mounted on the bottom plate has a front end provided with a guiding plate for positioning a finger, and the guiding plate has a center line and a guiding surface, in which the center line passes through a center of the guiding surface; and the test-strip socket is formed at the front end of the cover. When using the biosensor, the user can rest his/her wrist and palm on the cover of the biosensor and rest the punctured finger on the guiding surface provided at the front end of the cover to align the test strip with the blood drop on the finger so as to simplify the measurement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2014
    Assignee: BroadMaster Biotech Corp.
    Inventors: Hsin-Yu Tsai, Li-Wei Yu, Lung-Te Pan
  • Publication number: 20140135653
    Abstract: An analyte and detecting apparatus includes a housing, an access door and a front end aperture. A module is positionable in the housing. A penetrating member is positioned in the module and upon launch passes through the front end aperture. An analyte sensor is positioned in the module. A penetrating member driver is configured to be coupled to the penetrating member. A mechanism is included that moves an arm coupled to the penetrating member driver into a launch position and allows motion of the penetrating member driver.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2010
    Publication date: May 15, 2014
    Inventor: Don Alden
  • Publication number: 20140128776
    Abstract: A tissue penetrating system has a housing member. A plurality of penetrating members are positioned in the housing member. A tissue stabilizing member is coupled to the housing. A penetrating member sensor is coupled to the plurality of penetrating members. The penetrating member sensor is configured to provide information relative to a depth of penetration of a penetrating member through a skin surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2014
    Publication date: May 8, 2014
    Applicant: SANOFI-AVENTIS DEUTSCHLAND GMBH
    Inventor: Dominique M. Freeman
  • Patent number: 8702624
    Abstract: An analyte and detecting apparatus includes a housing, an access door and a front end aperture. A module is positionable in the housing. A penetrating member is positioned in the module and upon launch passes through the front end aperture. An analyte sensor is positioned in the module. A penetrating member driver is configured to be coupled to the penetrating member. A mechanism is included that moves an arm coupled to the penetrating member driver into a launch position and allows motion of the penetrating member driver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2014
    Assignee: Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland GmbH
    Inventor: Don Alden
  • Patent number: 8696596
    Abstract: A device and method for lancing a patient, virtually simultaneously producing and collecting a small fluid sample from a body. The device comprises a blood collection system including a lancing needle (16), drive mechanism (11), kneading or vibration mechanism (25), optional suction system (7), and sample ejection mechanism. The device is preferably sized to be hand-held in one hand and operable with one hand. The device can optionally contain integral testing or analysis component (83) for receiving the sample and providing testing or analysis indication or readout for the user. A method involves piercing the skin at a rapid rate, kneading the surrounding area by ultrasonic action, piezoelectric or mechanical oscillation to stimulate the blood flow from the wound, drawing the fluid using a pumping system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2014
    Assignee: Roche Diagnostics Operations, Inc.
    Inventors: Joel S. Douglas, Jeffrey N. Roe, Ryszard Radwanski, Henry M. Grage, Michael S. Sanchez
  • Publication number: 20140100482
    Abstract: The invention relates to a lancing device (1) for taking blood samples, comprising a housing (2), an axially displaceable lancet holder element (32) for holding a lancet (12), and a display apparatus (40) for displaying the respective operating states (41, 42) of the lancing device (1), the display apparatus (40) comprising a release element (13) for initiating a lancing procedure, in which the axially displaceable lancet holder element (32) is accelerated in a lancing direction (18), in which, when the lancing device (1) is in an operating state (41) ready for lancing, the release element (13) is arranged in a disengaged display position (43) projecting further outwards over the outer housing surface (15) than when the lancing device (1) is in a different operating state (42).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2013
    Publication date: April 10, 2014
    Applicant: GERRESHEIMER REGENSBURG GMBH
    Inventors: Julia VOLKMUTH, Andreas EDER
  • Publication number: 20140100483
    Abstract: A body fluid sampling device for use on a patient includes at least one penetrating member positioned in the cartridge and a sample port for receiving a body fluid. A channel is coupled to the sample port and the sample chamber. At least a portion of the channel is a capillary channel positioned adjacent to the sample chamber. A mesh membrane is and provides that the body fluid contacts the channel regardless of an orientation of body fluid sampling device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2013
    Publication date: April 10, 2014
    Applicant: Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland GmbH
    Inventor: Paul Lum
  • Publication number: 20140100481
    Abstract: The invention relates to a lancing device (1) for taking blood samples, comprising a housing (2), an axially displaceable lancet holder element (32) for holding a replaceable lancet (12), a drive unit (30) comprising at least a lancing spring element (31) for driving the axially displaceable lancet holder element (32) in a lancing direction (18), and a tensioning carriage part (26) which can be fixed in a tensioning position (36) for tensioning the lancing spring element (31), according to the invention the fixable tensioning carriage part (26) being temporarily axially fixed in this tensioning position (36) by means of a latching apparatus (35) which can be latched to the axially displaceable lancet holder element (32).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2013
    Publication date: April 10, 2014
    Applicant: Gerresheimer Regensburg Gmbh
    Inventors: Julia VOLKMUTH, Andreas EDER
  • Patent number: 8690796
    Abstract: A tissue penetrating system has a housing member. A plurality of penetrating members are positioned in the housing member. A tissue stabilizing member is coupled to the housing. A penetrating member sensor is coupled to the plurality of penetrating members. The penetrating member sensor is configured to provide information relative to a depth of penetration of a penetrating member through a skin surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2014
    Assignee: Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Dominique M. Freeman, Dirk Boecker, Don Alden
  • Patent number: 8690798
    Abstract: A sampling device for sampling body fluid includes a lancet for making an incision, a capillary tube for drawing-up body fluid from the incision, and a test strip affixed to an upper end of the capillary tube for receiving the fluid. An absorbent pad can be disposed between the test strip and capillary tube for spreading-out the fluid being transferred to the test strip. An on-site analyzer such as an optical analyzer and/or an electrochemical analyzer can be mounted in the device for analyzing the fluid. Alternatively, a test strip can be slid through a slot formed in the bottom end of the device so that by passing the device against the skin after an incision has been formed, the test strip will directly contact body fluid emanating from the incision.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2014
    Assignee: Roche Diagnostics Operations, Inc.
    Inventors: Joel S. Douglas, Jeffrey N. Roe, Ryszard Radwanski, Brent G. Duchon
  • Patent number: 8690797
    Abstract: A piercing system has a carrier band carrying piercing elements with test elements disposed in-between. The carrier band holder, which is coupled to a piercing drive, holds a segment of the carrier band and moves together with the segment and a piercing element at the segment during lancing. A wind-up roll displaces the band in a band transport direction. A measuring device measures analyte concentration of a bodily fluid sample received by a test element. A segment of the band having an unused test element is guided past a carrier band segment disposed in the holder or behind the holder in the band transport direction. The two carrier band segments are pressed against each other for transferring the sample from the piercing element to the test element. A method for transferring a bodily fluid sample from a piercing element to a test element is described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2014
    Assignee: Roche Diagnostics Operations, Inc.
    Inventor: Ahmet Konya
  • Patent number: 8691150
    Abstract: The invention relates to a system for testing a sample of bodily fluid, comprising a carrier band, which carries a plurality of consumable elements, wherein one end of the carrier band is attached to a wind-up device for winding the carrier band, together with used consumable elements, onto a reel for the band transport, and comprising a display for displaying information regarding the supply of yet unused consumable elements of the carrier band. According to the invention, it is provided that information regarding the supply of yet unused consumable elements of the carrier band is obtained from an angle of rotation and from a band transport length by which the carrier band is moved with a rotation of the reel about said angle of rotation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2014
    Assignee: Roche Diagnostics Operations, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Lorenz, Kai-Oliver Schwenker
  • Patent number: 8684949
    Abstract: The invention concerns an analytical instrument for assaying body fluids, the instrument having the following features: a) a housing provided with a receiving element for engaging a body part, b) an abutment for the body part which can be moved between a release position and an operating position relative to the receiving element, c) a lancing unit having a lancing element that can pierce the body part resting against the abutment in a linear lancing stroke, d) a test tape unit having a test tape for receiving body fluid issuing from the body part, and e) a detection unit for examining the body fluid applied to a section of the test tape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2014
    Assignee: Roche Diagnostics Operations, Inc.
    Inventors: Joachim Hoenes, Hans List, Uwe Kraemer, Karl Miltner, Juergen Rasch-Menges, Guenther Schmelzeisen-Redeker, Volker Zimmer, Peter Hess, Paul Jansen
  • Patent number: 8684950
    Abstract: Apparatus for eliciting a blood sample comprises: a housing; a shaft mounted within the housing; an aperture in the housing, the aperture being configured to receive a part of a user; a member rotatably mounted on the shaft; a lancet protruding from one position at an edge of the member, and a blood collection part located at a second, different position at the edge of the member. The apparatus is configured such that: when the member is in a first rotational position the lancet is shielded by the housing, when the member is in a second rotational position the lancet is operable to lance the part of the user received at the aperture, and when the member is in a third rotational position the blood collection part is presented such as to receive blood from the part of the user received at the aperture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2014
    Assignee: Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Ross MacArthur, Frank Richter
  • Patent number: 8679407
    Abstract: This invention is in the field of medical devices. Specifically, the present invention provides portable medical devices that allow real-time detection of analytes from a biological fluid. The methods and devices are particularly useful for providing point-of-care testing for a variety of medical applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2014
    Assignee: Theranos, Inc.
    Inventors: Elizabeth A. Holmes, Ian Gibbons, John Howard, Shaunak Roy, Chengwang Wang, Timothy M. Kemp
  • Patent number: 8679033
    Abstract: A sampling module includes a module body portion with a lancet channel, a lancet slidably disposed within the lancet channel. A cover sheet is disposed over the lancet and a lancet channel that captures the lancet shaft in the lancet channel, and a sample reservoir for collection of a sample obtained by lancing a patient with the lancet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2014
    Assignee: Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Dominique Freeman, Dirk Boecker, Don Alden, Barry Dean Briggs, Jon Hewitt Leonard, Ray Freeman, George Gogue
  • Patent number: 8679144
    Abstract: A puncture needle cartridge 20 detachably mounted on a puncturing device body to form a puncturing device is provided with a needle body 21 having a puncturing portion 212a, and also with a casing 22 for housing the needle body 21 and having openings 223, 224 that are respectively formed in front of and behind the needle body 21. The needle body 21 is mounted so as to be movable between a retracted position, wherein the tip 212c of the puncturing portion is retraced in the casing 22, and an extended position, wherein the tip 212c of the puncturing portion is projected outward from the casing 22 by receiving a pressing force from the puncturing device body. The needle body 21 has a biasing means for biasing the needle body 21 from an extended position towards a retracted position. The puncture needle cartridge can be mass-produced at low cost, and enables a user to perform puncturing safely and easily.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2014
    Assignee: Lightnix, Inc.
    Inventor: Mitsuo Fukuda
  • Publication number: 20140081173
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device for storing and supplying lancets for obtaining bodily fluids, the device comprising a lancet magazine having a lancet storage unit for a plurality of needle-shaped lancets and a drive unit for carrying out a piercing process of a lancet, and there being a retraction unit which moves the lancet back from the piercing position to the rest position thereof after the piercing process is carried out.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2012
    Publication date: March 20, 2014
    Applicant: Gerresheimer Regensburg GMBH
    Inventors: Julia Volkmuth, Michael-Martin Strehl
  • Patent number: 8671543
    Abstract: In a process for producing a microneedle (12) that can be inserted into body tissue in which a needle tip (20) and a preferably capillary collecting channel (14) having a distal inlet for body fluid formed at the needle tip (20) are formed, it is provided that at least part of a preform (38) prefabricated from a flat material is shaped into a tubular structure (22) so that the collecting channel (14) is at least substantially annularly closed in the cross-section in the area of the tubular structure (22).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2014
    Assignee: Roche Diagnostics Operations, Inc.
    Inventor: Hans-Peter Haar
  • Publication number: 20140073992
    Abstract: Apparatuses and methods are disclosed herein for extracting bodily fluids. The apparatus consists of a housing, a releasable lancet stored in the housing, an inlet flow channel formed in the housing, a mechanically powered vacuum generator, and a storage area formed in the housing. The releasable lancet is released to pierce the skin of the subject to allow fluid to be extracted from the subject. The vacuum generator generates a partial vacuum within the inlet flow channel. After the lancet has pierced the skin of the subject, the partial vacuum draws fluid from the subject and into the inlet flow channel. The storage area is in fluid connection with the inlet flow channel, and receives the fluid drawn from the subject from the inlet flow channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2012
    Publication date: March 13, 2014
    Inventors: Kevin A. Hufford, Hoi-Cheong S. Sun
  • Patent number: 8668656
    Abstract: A system and method is provided for the capture of bodily fluid upon lancing of a patient. In one embodiment, the fluid sample capture aperture mesh (320) ring is placed in the pathway of a finger penetrating member (340). The aperture mesh ring has a center clearance area that allows the penetrating member to pierce the skin unobstructed. The aperture mesh ring may contain a series of fluid sampling meshes as to allow the release bodily fluid to “wick” into the fluid sampling meshes for transport to the respective sensor. The invention may also relate to a method of improving the fluidic flow through a membrane mesh structure for the transportation of bodily fluids from a point of sampling to a point of measurement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2014
    Assignee: Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Paul Lum, Ganapati Mauze, Tomasz Poplonski, Rebecca Shatsky
  • Patent number: 8657763
    Abstract: A vacuum assisted lancing system for blood extraction can include a tubular body having a vacuum chamber, a lancing mechanism configured to removably couple with a lance, a vacuum mechanism including a piston slideably coupled within the body, a release mechanism for selectively holding the vacuum mechanism in an energized state, and an opening for allowing fluid communication between the vacuum chamber and an atmosphere surrounding the vacuum chamber. The system can include structure for selectively commencing dissipation of the vacuum and a fixed or adjustable depth controller. A method of manipulating a surface for blood extraction can include coupling the lancing system to the surface, blocking the opening, creating a vacuum, moving the lance coupler from a first position distal from the surface to a second position proximal to the surface, maintaining the vacuum for a period of time, and commencing dissipation of the vacuum by unblocking the opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2014
    Inventor: Christopher A. Jacobs
  • Patent number: 8657762
    Abstract: A blood test device (21) ensuring successful measurement wherein fingers scarcely slip out from the blood test device and blood never sticks to other sites in the course from the puncture of the patient's skin to the completion of the blood test. This blood test device (21) comprises a cartridge (24) in which sensors (23) pooling blood oozing out from the punctured skin are stored in a layered state, a transport unit transporting a single sensor sheet (23) from the inside of the cartridge (24) to the outside, a holder (25) holding the transported sensor (23), a laser emitting unit (26) puncturing the skin in the state where the sensor (23) is held by the holder (25), and a pump (28) keeping the inside of the holder (25) and the inside of the cartridge (24) under negative pressure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2014
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Tetsuya Takashima, Masaki Fujiwara, Takeshi Nishida, Yoshinori Amano, Toshiki Matsumoto, Kenichi Hamanaka, Keisuke Matsumura, Yohei Hashimoto
  • Publication number: 20140052025
    Abstract: A supply of lancets for a multi-use lancing device are carried by a tape and sequentially brought from a storage position to an activating position by advancing the tape around a bend. In the lancets' activating position they extend from the tape such that their sharp tips are available for lancing tissue. The carrying tape can be arranged in reel-to-reel format in a housing having a lancing opening. The lancets can be integral with the tape and activated to move the lancet through the lancing opening by moving the tape along its tape path or by translating a dedicated service loop of the tape. The lancets can also be independent from the tape and activated through the lancing opening by a separate lancing actuator. A test media can be included on the carrying tape and the housing can contain a sensor to yield an integrated lancing and testing device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2013
    Publication date: February 20, 2014
    Applicant: Roche Diagnostics Operations, Inc.
    Inventors: Steven N. Roe, Charles C. Raney
  • Publication number: 20140052024
    Abstract: A blood sampling device includes a housing and a lancet supporting a lancet needle or tip, the lancet and needle being urged or urgeable in a pricking direction. A trigger mechanism is moveable to a fire position for releasing the lancet to travel in the pricking direction. A removable safety cap initially covers the lancet needle. The lancet has an initial position in which movement of the trigger mechanism to its fire position is blocked and an intermediate position in which the trigger mechanism may be moved to its fire position. The intermediate position is obtainable only on removal of the safety cap.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2012
    Publication date: February 20, 2014
    Inventors: Clive Nicholls, Christopher Hudson
  • Publication number: 20140052023
    Abstract: A single use, spring-driven lancet assembly having a housing, a removable cap, a lancet, a lancet trigger member and a spring. The lancet trigger comprises a nose that extends from the front of the housing. When the lancet assembly is pressed against the skin or vice versa, the trigger is pushed toward the rear of the housing. A pair of flexible trigger arm members in contact with cocking lugs on the lancet body push the lancet to the rear and compress the spring. As the trigger and lancet move to the rear within the housing, the flexible arm members of the trigger are spread apart and the released lancet is propelled forward. The spring recoils into a neutral position and draws the lancet and its needle back into the housing. The lancet assembly cannot be re-cocked and the lancet needle cannot be intentionally or accidentally extended from the housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2012
    Publication date: February 20, 2014
    Inventor: Charles D. Starnes
  • Patent number: 8652068
    Abstract: An integrated lancet and testing striplet for measuring a body analyte level in a health care regimen includes a skin piercing member and an analyte sensor coupled together.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2014
    Assignee: Abbott Diabetes Care Inc.
    Inventors: Alexander G. Ghesquiere, Clive Nicholls, John J. Cabrall, Scott A. Matula, Simon Andrew Hector, Javier Prieto, Adrian Petyt, Geoffrey Roger Chambers
  • Patent number: 8652069
    Abstract: Apparatus for eliciting a blood sample comprises: a member rotatably mounted on a shaft and configured to rotate between a first position and a second position; and a curved lancet protruding from the member and configured to co-rotate with the member such as to provide skin penetration by the lancet when the member is in the second position. At least 1 mm of the end portion of the curved lancet is coincident with a line that is concentric with respect to the shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2014
    Assignee: Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Ross MacArthur, Frank Richter
  • Patent number: 8647575
    Abstract: A blood glucose meter includes a front attachment part to which a test piece is attached, a measurement part for measuring a component of blood collected via a blood guide passage in the test piece, and a monitor for displaying the measurement results obtained by the measurement part. When the device is placed on a horizontal plane by referring to the display face of the monitor as the upper side and the opposite side as the lower side and placing the display face of the monitor upward, the central axis of the test piece extends obliquely downward toward the front side. The blood glucose meter comprises a main part provided with the monitor and a linking part between the main part and the front attachment part. The top face of the linking part is placed roughly parallel to the central axis line and is provided with an ejector lever.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2014
    Assignee: Terumo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hirotaka Ohashi
  • Patent number: 8641643
    Abstract: A tissue penetration device and method of using same that may include a lancet module or sampling module. The sampling module may optionally be in a cartridge configuration and include sampling and analyzing functions, which may be integrated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2014
    Assignee: Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Dominique M. Freeman, Dirk Boecker, Don Alden, Hans-Joachim Hartmann, Lutz Weber
  • Patent number: 8636675
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method and a device for piercing a body part and determining whether a sufficient volume of blood has been withdrawn. A lancing element is rapidly inserted into a body part in a forward phase and retracted quickly to a lesser puncturing depth. Subsequently, the lancing element is retracted slower than during the first retraction movement and the distance retracted during the second retraction is shorter than the first retraction movement. During the second retraction movement, body fluid is collected in a collection phase by a capillary structure of the lancing element. Contact between the lancing element and the body fluid is detected after the forward phase at the beginning and the end of a waiting period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2014
    Assignee: Roche Diagnostics Operations, Inc.
    Inventors: Heinz-Michael Hein, Reto Abt, Stephan Korner, Irio Giuseppe Calasso, Emad Sarofim, Patrick Griss, Rainer Jaeggi
  • Patent number: 8636673
    Abstract: A tissue penetration device and method of using same. The tissue penetration device may optionally include sampling and analyzing functions, which may be integrated. An embodiment provides control of a lancet used for sampling blood. Electric field coils or solenoids may drive the lancet using electromagnetic force. Advancement and retraction of a lancet may be controlled by a feedback loop monitoring the position and velocity of the lancet embodiments of the lancet driver can be configured to follow a predetermined tissue lancing profile. Embodiments of the invention include a lancet and method for using a lancet to maintain the patency of the wound tract once the lancet has cut into the skin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2014
    Assignee: Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Dominique Freeman, Barry Dean Briggs, Don Alden
  • Patent number: 8636672
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides methods and systems to collect blood from a patient using a lancet integrated with a test strip. The present disclosure provides integrated test strips having an integrated lancet, as well as meters for actuating the lancet integrated within a test strip. The analyte test strip comprises a first test strip substrate material and a second test strip substrate material. At least one test strip substrate material comprises an elongate cavity. The test strip further comprises a reaction test site for testing analyte concentrations in blood. The test strip further comprises at least one opening communicating with the at least one cavity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2014
    Assignee: Nipro Diagnostics, Inc.
    Inventors: Gary Neel, Allan Javier Caban
  • Patent number: 8636674
    Abstract: An integrated sampling device defines a first opening and a second opening. The first opening is connected to a channel for drawing fluid automatically towards a test media upon incision by an incision portion. The second opening is positioned over the test media allowing manual sampling of fluid if the channel fails to draw a sufficient amount of fluid onto the test media.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2014
    Assignee: Roche Diagnostics Operations, Inc.
    Inventor: Jeffrey N. Roe
  • Patent number: 8632730
    Abstract: In one aspect, a diagnostic test system includes a receptacle, optical detectors, and a logic circuit. Each of the optical detectors has a corresponding view in the receptacle and produces an electrical signal at a respective detector output in response to light from the corresponding view. The logic circuit includes logic inputs that are respectively coupled to the detector outputs and that produce an output logic signal corresponding to a logical combination of signals received at the logic inputs. In another aspect, respective detection signals are produced in response to light received from respective ones of multiple views of the test strip, and at least one output logic signal corresponding to a respective logical combination of the detection signals is generated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2014
    Assignee: Alverix, Inc.
    Inventors: John F. Petrilla, Daniel B. Roitman
  • Publication number: 20140018701
    Abstract: The present invention provides a liquid sampling, storage, transfer and delivery device comprising housing containing a porous nib. The porous nib in the device contacts the sample, collects the sample, stores the sample, transports the sample inside its porous matrix and releases the sample from the porous matrix upon demand.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2012
    Publication date: January 16, 2014
    Applicant: POREX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Guoqiang Mao, James P. Wingo
  • Patent number: 8622930
    Abstract: An agent injection device is provided that is capable of injecting an agent to a known predetermined tissue depth. An injection member has an elongate injection shaft with an outlet port configured to dispense an agent at a controllable time. A controllable driver is coupled to the elongate injection shaft and is configured to drive the injection member into target tissue. A velocity control system is in communication with the controllable driver and is configured to control the velocity of the elongate injection shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2014
    Assignee: Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Dominique Freeman, Dirk Boecker, Don Alden, Barry Dean Briggs, Jon Hewitt Leonard, Ray Freeman, George Gogue
  • Patent number: 8621828
    Abstract: A lancet integrated test element tape includes a plurality of lancet integrated test elements. The lancet integrated test elements each include a lancet configured to form an incision in tissue and a test element configured to analyze body fluid from the incision in the tissue. A cartridge includes a supply compartment configured to store an unused section of the tape. The tape is folded within the supply compartment to limit damage to the lancet integrated test elements. The cartridge can further include a waste compartment in which a used section of the tape is stored. An indexing mechanism moves the tape between the supply and waste compartments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2014
    Assignee: Roche Diagnostics Operations, Inc.
    Inventors: Frank A. Chan, Daniel Wong
  • Patent number: 8622929
    Abstract: A device (1410) for collecting a blood sample from an animal has a holder for holding a sampling media (1456), one or more spikes (1418) that first pass through the sampling media (1456) and penetrate into the flesh of the animal to create a puncture site to allow blood emerging from the site to be collected by the sampling media (1456) during and/or after penetration of the flesh. The device has a retainer (1427) for temporarily retaining the device (1410) on the animal whilst blood is collected and for allowing the device (1410) to be removed from the animal substantially intact for subsequent removal of the sampling media (1456) from the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2014
    Assignee: Noble House Group Pty. Ltd.
    Inventors: Craig Douglas Wilson, Ian Patrick Berrell, Craig Andrew Burke, Stephanie Norrell, Rita M Calnan
  • Publication number: 20130338537
    Abstract: A lancing device having a drive mechanism whereby unidirectional motion of the drive mechanism drives a lancet along an advancing portion and a retraction portion of a lancing stroke. A rotationally mounted crank member or a translationally mounted shuttle of the drive mechanism operate upon an associated linkage and/or a cam path portion of the lancet carrier to drive the carrier along the lancing stroke. Spring biased members optionally drive the mechanism and/or limit its extent of travel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2013
    Publication date: December 19, 2013
    Inventors: Lauren R. PUSEY, Carmine L. CUDA
  • Publication number: 20130338536
    Abstract: An adjustable depth endcap for a lancing device includes a base member, a cover or cap member, and a dial member. The base member includes engagement features for movably mounting the dial thereto and engagement features for the attachment of the cap member. Actuation of the dial adjusts the positioning of an internal stop surface internal of the cap member without repositioning of the cap member such that the overall length of the lancing device remains constant regardless of the penetration depth setting, consistent depth control is provided, and utilization of space in the device housing for depth control features is not necessary.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2013
    Publication date: December 19, 2013
    Inventor: Kathleen HELLER
  • Patent number: 8608669
    Abstract: Lancets comprising a piercing element for puncturing the skin of a patient, a test region containing detection reagents for determining an analyte concentration of a body fluid sample, a capillary structure arranged in the piercing element for transporting a body fluid sample to the test region, and a sterile protection element, which encloses the tip of the piercing element. The capillary structure is blocked in a section surrounded by the sterile protection element. Also provided are methods for producing a lancet, comprising: producing a piercing element, which on the upper side has an upwardly open capillary structure; covering a section of the upper side of the piercing element and blocking the capillary channel in this section using a first material; covering a section of the underside using a second material; sterilizing the piercing element; and attaching a test region containing detection reagents to the piercing element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2013
    Assignee: Roche Diagnostics Operations, Inc.
    Inventor: Herbert Harttig
  • Patent number: 8608667
    Abstract: A device is disclosed for obtaining body fluid, in particular blood, comprising a lancing element having a tip for puncturing the skin of a body part and an actuator coupled with the lancing element for a forward and backward movement of the lancing element, where the lancing element can be inserted into the skin up to an optionally adjustable puncture position. The actuator is adapted to drive the lancing element forwardly to a penetration speed of at most 0.7 m/s when the lancing element penetrates the skin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2013
    Assignee: Roche Diagnostics Operations, Inc.
    Inventors: Christian Hoerauf, Hans List, Volker Zimmer
  • Patent number: 8608668
    Abstract: A unique technique for maintaining the sterility and integrity of a lancet tip. One or more lancet tips are sandwiched between a first web and a second web of material to protect the sterility of the lancet tips. The first and second webs are heat fused together to form a structure that covers and encapsulates the lancet tips to protect the integrity of the lancet tips. The structure is cut to form individual protective caps to detachably cover each of the lancet tips.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2013
    Assignee: Roche Diagnostics Operations, Inc.
    Inventor: Frank A. Chan