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Kafe 바로가기국가/구분 | United States(US) Patent 등록 |
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출원번호 | US-0237261 (2002-09-05) |
등록번호 | US-7344507 (2008-03-18) |
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출원인 / 주소 |
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대리인 / 주소 |
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인용정보 | 피인용 횟수 : 187 인용 특허 : 951 |
A lancet driver is provided wherein the driver exerts a driving force on a lancet during a lancing cycle and is used on a tissue site. The driver comprises of a drive force generator for advancing the lancet and a processor coupled to the drive force generator capable of changing the direction and m
A lancet driver is provided wherein the driver exerts a driving force on a lancet during a lancing cycle and is used on a tissue site. The driver comprises of a drive force generator for advancing the lancet and a processor coupled to the drive force generator capable of changing the direction and magnitude of force exerted on the lancet during the lancing cycle. The driver further includes a human interface on the housing providing at least one output for communicating with the patient.
What is claimed is: 1. A lancet driver configured to exert a driving force on a lancet during a lancing cycle and used on a tissue site, said device comprising: a housing; a drive force generator; and a processor coupled to the drive force generator capable of changing the direction and magnitude o
What is claimed is: 1. A lancet driver configured to exert a driving force on a lancet during a lancing cycle and used on a tissue site, said device comprising: a housing; a drive force generator; and a processor coupled to the drive force generator capable of changing the direction and magnitude of force exerted on the lancet during the lancing cycle, the processor having a control algorithm that provides an input to the drive force generator of a real time measurement of a penetrating member depth of penetration in said tissue site using the real time measurement to drive the penetrating member to a numerical depth that has been set through a feedback control system; and a human interface on said housing providing at least one output, wherein said drive force generator holds said lancet at a fixed position against tenting force from said tissue site without contacting a mechanical stop. 2. A lancet driver configured to exert a driving force on a lancet during a lancing cycle and used on a tissue site, said device comprising: a housing; a drive force generator; a processor coupled to the drive force generator capable of changing the direction and magnitude of force exerted on the lancet during the lancing cycle; a human interface on said housing providing at least one output; and wherein the processor actuates said drive force generator to drive the lancet at velocities in time that follow a selectable lancing velocity profile said selectable lancing velocity profile is selected from a set of alternative lancing velocity profiles having characteristic phases for lancet advancement and retraction, wherein said processor optimizes said velocity profile for subsequent lancing based upon elastic tenting associated with skin deformation in previous lancing events. 3. A lancet driver configured to exert a driving force on a lancet during a lancing cycle and used on a tissue site, said device comprising: a housing; a drive force generator; a processor coupled to the drive force generator capable of changing the direction and magnitude of force exerted on the lancet during the lancing cycle; a human interface on said housing providing at least one output; and wherein the processor actuates said drive force generator to drive the lancet at velocities in time that follow a selectable lancing velocity profile said selectable lancing velocity profile is selected from a set of alternative lancing velocity profiles having characteristic phases for lancet advancement and retraction, wherein said lancet penetrating to a depth in the tissue site based on impedance measurements from a distal portion of the lancet in said tissue site. 4. A lancet driver configured to exert a driving force on a lancet during a lancing cycle and used on a tissue site, said device comprising: a housing; a drive force generator; and a processor coupled to the drive force generator capable of changing the direction and magnitude of force exerted on the lancet during the lancing cycle; a human interface on said housing providing at least one output; and a sensor coupled to the drive force generator for signaling said generator to change the direction and magnitude of force exerted on the lancet during the lancing cycle, said sensor communicating with said processor, wherein the processor calculates an appropriate lancet diameter and geometry to collect a blood volume required by a user. 5. A lancet driver configured to exert a driving force on a lancet during a lancing cycle and used on a tissue site, said device comprising: a housing; a drive force generator; and a processor coupled to the drive force generator capable of changing the direction and magnitude of force exerted on the lancet during the lancing cycle; a human interface on said housing providing at least one output; and a sensor coupled to the drive force generator for signaling said generator to change the direction and magnitude of force exerted on the lancet during the lancing cycle, said sensor communicating with said processor, wherein said processor has logic for learning and recording characteristics of said tissue site to optimize control of lancet velocity and lancet position in a manner that minimizes pain to the patient while drawing body fluid for sampling. 6. A lancet driver configured to exert a driving force on a lancet during a lancing cycle and used on a tissue site, said device comprising: a housing; a drive force generator; and a processor coupled to the drive force generator capable of changing the direction and magnitude of force exerted on the lancet during the lancing cycle; a human interface on said housing providing at least one output; and a processor that actuates said drive force generator to drive the lancet at velocities in time that follow a selectable lancing velocity profile said selectable lancing velocity profile is selected from a set of alternative lancing velocity profiles having characteristic phases for lancet advancement and retraction. 7. A lancet driver configured to exert a driving force on a lancet during a lancing cycle and used on a tissue site, said device comprising: a housing; a drive force generator; a processor coupled to the drive force generator capable of changing the direction and magnitude of force exerted on the lancet during the lancing cycle; a human interface on said housing providing at least one output; and wherein the processor actuates said drive force generator to drive the lancet at velocities in time that follow a selectable lancing velocity profile said selectable lancing velocity profile is selected from a set of alternative lancing velocity profiles having characteristic phases for lancet advancement and retraction, wherein the lancing velocity profile is selectable by a user of the lancing device. 8. A lancet driver configured to exert a driving force on a lancet during a lancing cycle and used on a tissue site, said device comprising: a housing; a drive force generator; a processor coupled to the drive force generator capable of changing the direction and magnitude of force exerted on the lancet during the lancing cycle; a human interface on said housing providing at least one output; and wherein the processor actuates said drive force generator to drive the lancet at velocities in time that follow a selectable lancing velocity profile said selectable lancing velocity profile is selected from a set of alternative lancing velocity profiles having characteristic phases for lancet advancement and retraction, wherein said lancing velocity profile provides a lancet withdrawal velocity sufficiently slow to allow blood flowing from punctured blood vessels to flow into a wound channel in the tissue site created by the lancet, to follow the lancet out of the wound channel, and flow to a skin surface. 9. A lancet driver configured to exert a driving force on a lancet during a lancing cycle and used on a tissue site, said device comprising: a housing; a drive force generator; a processor coupled to the drive force generator capable of changing the direction and magnitude of force exerted on the lancet during the lancing cycle; a human interface on said housing providing at least one output; and wherein the processor actuates said drive force generator to drive the lancet at velocities in time that follow a selectable lancing velocity profile said selectable lancing velocity profile is selected from a set of alternative lancing velocity profiles having characteristic phases for lancet advancement and retraction, wherein said velocity profile includes a lancet deceleration phase, after said lancet penetrates said tissue site and prior to withdrawal from said tissue site wherein said lancet velocity follows a programmable deceleration profile having said lancet stopping in the tissue site without a sudden hard stop. 10. A lancet driver configured to exert a driving force on a lancet during a lancing cycle and used on a tissue site, said device comprising: a housing; a drive force generator; a processor coupled to the drive force generator capable of changing the direction and magnitude of force exerted on the lancet during the lancing cycle; a human interface on said housing providing at least one output; and wherein the processor actuates said drive force generator to drive the lancet at velocities in time that follow a selectable lancing velocity profile said selectable lancing velocity profile is selected from a set of alternative lancing velocity profiles having characteristic phases for lancet advancement and retraction, wherein the lancing velocity profile is selected by the lancing device based on optimization of lancing parameters from information obtained in previous lancing events. 11. A lancet driver configured to exert a driving force on a lancet during a lancing cycle and used on a tissue site, said device comprising: a housing; a drive force generator; a processor coupled to the drive force generator capable of changing the direction and magnitude of force exerted on the lancet during the lancing cycle; a human interface on said housing providing at least one output; and wherein the processor actuates said drive force generator to drive the lancet at velocities in time that follow a selectable lancing velocity profile said selectable lancing velocity profile is selected from a set of alternative lancing velocity profiles having characteristic phases for lancet advancement and retraction, wherein said processor optimizes said velocity profile for subsequent lancing based upon success of obtaining a blood sample from said user in previous lancing events. 12. A lancet driver configured to exert a driving force on a lancet during a lancing cycle and used on a tissue site, said device comprising: a housing; a drive force generator; a processor coupled to the drive force generator capable of changing the direction and magnitude of force exerted on the lancet during the lancing cycle; a human interface on said housing providing at least one output; and wherein the processor actuates said drive force generator to drive the lancet at velocities in time that follow a selectable lancing velocity profile said selectable lancing velocity profile is selected from a set of alternative lancing velocity profiles having characteristic phases for lancet advancement and retraction, wherein said processor optimizes said velocity profile for subsequent lancing based upon blood volume obtained from said user in previous lancing events. 13. A lancet driver configured to exert a driving force on a lancet during a lancing cycle and used on a tissue site, said device comprising: a housing; a drive force generator; and a processor coupled to the drive force generator capable of changing the direction and magnitude of force exerted on the lancet during the lancing cycle; a human interface on said housing providing at least one output; and a mechanical damper disposed to minimize oscillation of the lancet in the tissue site when the lancet reaches an end point of its penetration stroke into said tissue site; and a position sensor configured to detect lancet position during the lancing cycle. 14. The device of claim 13, wherein said at least one output is selected from the group consisting of: stick number, lancets remaining, time, alarm, profile information, force in last stick, and last stick time. 15. The device of claim 13, wherein said human interface is selected from the group consisting of: an LED, an LED digit display, an LCD display, a sound generator, a buzzer, and a vibrating device. 16. The device of claim 13, further comprising an input device on a housing, said input device selected from the group consisting of: one or more pushbuttons, a touch pad independent of the display device, and a touch sensitive screen on the LCD display. 17. The device of claim 13, further comprising a data exchange device for coupling said lancing device to support equipment. 18. The device of claim 13, further comprising a data exchange device for coupling said lancing device to support equipment selected from the group consisting of one of the following: personal computer, modem, PDA and a computer network. 19. The device of claim 13, further comprising a data interface device for coupling said lancing device to support equipment using a data interface selected from the group consisting of one of the following: Serial RS-232, modem interface, USB, HPNA, Ethernet, optical interface, IRDA, RE interface, BLUETOOTH interface, cellular telephone interface, 2 way pager interface, a parallel port interface standard, near field magnetic coupling, and RE transceiver. 20. The device of claim 13, wherein said human interface includes a real time clock and one or more alarms a user can set for reminders of when a next lancing event is needed. 21. The device of claim 13, further comprising memory for storing at least one of the following: number of lancets used; number of lancing events for this day; time and date of the last N lancing events, wherein N is an integer; or time interval between alarm and lancing event. 22. A lancet driver configured to exert a driving force on a lancet during a lancing cycle and used on a tissue site, said device comprising: a housing; a drive force generator; and a processor coupled to the drive force generator capable of changing the direction and magnitude of force exerted on the lancet during the lancing cycle; a human interface on said housing providing at least one output; wherein said force generator is configured to achieve a penetration stroke of the lancet at a lancet velocity between about 0.8 and 20.0 meter per second, and a position sensor configured to detect lancet position during the lancing cycle. 23. The device of claim 22, wherein said at least one output is selected from the group consisting of: stick number, lancets remaining, time, alarm, profile information, force in last stick, and last stick time. 24. The device of claim 22, wherein said human interface is selected from the group consisting of: an LED, an LED digit display, an LCD display, a sound generator, a buzzer, and a vibrating device. 25. The device of claim 22, further comprising an input device on a housing, said input device selected from the group consisting of: one or more pushbuttons, a touch pad independent of the display device, and a touch sensitive screen on the LCD display. 26. The device of claim 22, further comprising a data exchange device for coupling said lancing device to support equipment. 27. The device of claim 22, further comprising a data exchange device for coupling said lancing device to support equipment selected from the group consisting of one of the following: personal computer, modem, PDA and a computer network. 28. The device of claim 22, further comprising a data interface device for coupling said lancing device to support equipment using a data interface selected from the group consisting of one of the following: Serial RS-232, modem interface, USB, HPNA, Ethernet, optical interface, IRDA, RF interface, BLUETOOTH interface, cellular telephone interface, 2 way pager interface, a parallel port interface standard, near field magnetic coupling, and RE transceiver. 29. The device of claim 22, wherein said human interface includes a real time clock and one or more alarms a user can set for reminders of when a next lancing event is needed. 30. The device of claim 22, further comprising memory for storing at least one of the following: number of lancets used; number of lancing events for this day; time and date of the last N lancing events, wherein N is an integer; or time interval between alarm and lancing event. 31. A lancet driver configured to exert a driving force on a lancet during a lancing cycle and used on a tissue site, said device comprising: a housing; a drive force generator; and a processor coupled to the drive force generator capable of changing the direction and magnitude of force exerted on the lancet during the lancing cycle; a human interface on said housing providing at least one output; and a sensor coupled to the drive force generator for signaling said generator to change the direction and magnitude of force exerted on the lancet during the lancing cycle, said sensor communicating with said processor, wherein said processor determines relative position and velocity of the lancet based on relative position measurements of the lancet with respect to time. 32. The device of claim 31, wherein said at least one output is selected from the group consisting of: stick number, lancets remaining, time, alarm, profile information, force in last stick, and last stick time. 33. The device of claim 31, wherein said human interface is selected from the group consisting of: an LED, an LED digit display, an LCD display, a sound generator, a buzzer, and a vibrating device. 34. The device of claim 31, further comprising an input device on the housing, said input device selected from the group consisting of: one or more pushbuttons, a touch pad independent of the display device, and a touch sensitive screen on the LCD display. 35. The device of claim 31, further comprising a data exchange device for coupling said lancing device to support equipment. 36. The device of claim 31, further comprising a data exchange device for coupling said lancing device to support equipment selected from the group consisting of one of the following: personal computer, modem, PDA and a computer network. 37. The device of claim 31, further comprising a data interface device for coupling said lancing device to support equipment using a data interface selected from the group consisting of one of the following: Serial RS-232, modem interface, USB, HPNA, Ethernet, optical interface, IRDA, RF interface BLUETOOTH interface, cellular telephone interface, 2 way pager interface, a parallel port interface standard, near field magnetic coupling, and RE transceiver. 38. The device of claim 31, wherein said human interface includes a real time clock and one or more alarms a user can set for reminders of when a next lancing event is needed. 39. The device of claim 31, further comprising a memory for storing at least one of the following: number of lancets used; number of lancing events for this day; time and date of the last N lancing events, wherein N is an integer; or time interval between alarm and lancing event. 40. A lancet driver configured to exert a driving force on a lancet during a lancing cycle and used on a tissue site, said device comprising: a housing; a drive force generator; and a processor coupled to the drive force generator capable of changing the direction and magnitude of force exerted on the lancet during the lancing cycle; a human interface on said housing providing at least one output; a sensor coupled to the drive force generator for signaling said generator to change the direction and magnitude of force exerted on the lancet during the lancing cycle, said sensor communicating with said processor; and a memory for storage and retrieval of a set of alternative lancing profiles which the processor uses to modulate the drive force generator. 41. The device of claim 40, wherein said at least one output is selected from the group consisting of: stick number, lancets remaining, time, alarm, profile information, force in last stick, and last stick time. 42. The device of claim 40, wherein said human interface is selected from the group consisting of: an LED, an LED digit display, an LCD display, a sound generator, a buzzer, and a vibrating device. 43. The device of claim 40, further comprising an input device on a housing, said input device selected from the group consisting of: one or more pushbuttons, a touch pad independent of the display device, and a touch sensitive screen on the LCD display. 44. The device of claim 40, further comprising a data exchange device for coupling said lancing device to support equipment. 45. The device of claim 40, further comprising a data exchange device for coupling said lancing device to support equipment selected from the group consisting of one of the following: personal computer, modem, FDA and a computer network. 46. The device of claim 40, further comprising a data interface device for coupling said lancing device to support equipment using a data interface selected from the group consisting of one of the following: Serial RS-232, modem interface, USB, HPNA, Ethernet, optical interface, IRDA, RF interface, BLUETOOTH interface, cellular telephone interface, 2 way pager interface, a parallel port interface standard, near field magnetic coupling, and RE transceiver. 47. The device of claim 40, wherein said human interface includes a real time clock and one or more alarms a user can set for reminders of when a next lancing event is needed. 48. The device of claim 40, further comprising memory for storing at least one of the following: number of lancets used; number of lancing events for this day; time and date of the last N lancing events, wherein N is an integer; or time interval between alarm and lancing event. 49. A lancet driver configured to exert a driving force on a lancet during a lancing cycle and used on a tissue site, said device comprising: a housing; a drive force generator; and a processor coupled to the drive force generator capable of changing the direction and magnitude of force exerted on the lancet during the lancing cycle; a human interface on said housing providing at least one output; and a sensor coupled to the drive force generator for signaling said generator to change the direction and magnitude of force exerted on the lancet during the lancing cycle, said sensor communicating with said processor, wherein the processor modulates the lancet driver by comparing an actual profile of the lancet to the profile and maintaining a preset error limit between the actual profile and the profile. 50. The device of claim 49, wherein said at least one output is selected from the group consisting of: stick number, lancets remaining, time, alarm, profile information, force in last stick, and last stick time. 51. The device of claim 49, wherein said human interface is selected from the group consisting of: an LED, an LED digit display, an LCD display, a sound generator, a buzzer, and a vibrating device. 52. The device of claim 49, further comprising an input device on a housing, said input device selected from the group consisting of: one or more pushbuttons, a touch pad independent of the display device, and a touch sensitive screen on the LCD display. 53. The device of claim 49, further comprising a data exchange device for coupling said lancing device to support equipment. 54. The device of claim 49, further comprising a data exchange device for coupling said lancing device to support equipment selected from the group consisting of one of the following: personal computer, modem, PDA and a computer network. 55. The device of claim 49, further comprising a data interface device for coupling said lancing device to support equipment using a data interface selected from the group consisting of one of the following: Serial RS-232, modem interface, USB, HPNA, Ethernet, optical interface, IRDA, RF interface, BLUETOOTH interface, cellular telephone interface, 2 way pager interface, a parallel port interface standard, near field magnetic coupling, and RF transceiver. 56. The device of claim 49, wherein said human interface includes a real time clock and one or more alarms a user can set for reminders of when a next lancing event is needed. 57. The device of claim 49, further comprising memory for storing at least one of the following: number of lancets used; number of lancing events for this day; time and date of the last N lancing events, wherein N is an integer; or time interval between alarm and lancing event.
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