Apparatus and method for efficient blood sampling with lancet

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 6210420
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09233298

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A technique for efficiently sampling blood from body tissue by reducing pressure on the body tissue. In the present technique a body tissue is placed under reduced pressure to improve perfusion of blood in the body tissue before lancing. An embodiment of this apparatus includes a lancet carried by a piston slidable in a housing, a mechanism for transmitting mechanical energy internally in the apparatus for creating the reduced pressure on the body tissue. The apparatus also includes a driver that drives the lancet for lancing. The apparatus has a head in the housing for contacting the body tissue in an air-tight manner against suction forces. In the head facing the body tissue is a channel in which the air pressure can be reduced.

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  • SANOFI-AVENTIS DEUTSCHLAND GMBH

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Dias, J Fleming Menlo Park, CA 24 1397
Mauze, Ganapati R Sunnyvale, CA 32 3102

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