International Technidyne Corporation

International Techndyne Corporation

Donald W Allen

James A Mawhirt

Donald A Foggia

Anthony F Kuklo, Jr

Michael Gavin

A low cost safety lancet device for creating a skin incision. The lancet contains a unitarily formed plastic body, thereby making the lancet device easy to manufacture at a low cost. The lancet device includes a blade beam having a cutting blade disposed at one end for generating an incision in a patient's skin. The blade beam is pivotally coupled within the device, engages a beam keeper arm in a first position and disengages the beam keeper arm in a second position. Upon activation of the device, the blade beam member resiliently deflects in a first direction as the beam keeper arm moves from the first position to the second position thereby causing a buildup of a biasing force in the beam member. When the blade beam disengages the beam keeper arm in the second position, the biasing force built up in the beam member causes the beam member to pivot, thereby accelerating the cutting blade through an aperture in the lancet device to incise the user's skin. The acceleration of the blade beam and cutting blade resiliently deflects the blade beam into a second direction, building up a second biasing force which causes the blade beam to return to a non-deflected position thereby withdrawing the cutting blade from the user's skin and back through the aperture.

Low cost disposable lancet

A cuvette based testing device for use in testing or otherwise analyzing a fluid sample. A cuvette is provided that defines at least one conduit, wherein the fluid sample is introduced into the various conduits. Reagents are disposed within the conduits that are intended to be mixed with the fluid sample. The fluid sample is drawn into the conduits by the force of a pneumatic pump. As the fluid sample contacts the various reagents, the reagents mix with the sample. Mixing is further conducted by moving the fluid sample back and forth across an obstruction in the conduit. The obstruction causes turbulent flow in the fluid sample, thereby mixing the sample with any reagent also present. The conduit is preferably transparent. The fluid sample is brought to a point in the cuvette where it is disposed below a detector. The detector is used to measure a characteristic of the fluid sample such as optical density, nephelometry, fluorescence, chemical luminescence, photoemittions or the like. By knowing the reagents mixed with the sample and measuring one or more characteristics of the fluid sample, the sample can be accurately analyzed for many differing tests.

Test apparatus and method for testing cuvette accommodated samples

A low cost safety lancet device for creating a skin incision. The lancet contains a unitarily formed plastic body, thereby making the lancet device easy to manufacture at a low cost. The lancet device includes a housing having an internal hollow and a blade beam pivotally disposed within the hollow of the housing for generating an incision in a patient's skin. Upon the activation of the device, the blade beam pivots through a predetermined path which causes a blade associated with the blade beam to travel out of an aperture in the housing to incise the patient's skin. The device further includes a trigger for propelling the blade through the path and a cam projection disposed within the housing which cooperates with the trigger to accelerate the trigger through the hollow of the housing thereby causing the blade to accelerate through the aperture of the housing. A portion of the trigger then unavoidably deflects to automatically allow the blade to retract back into the hollow of the casing after incising the patient's skin.

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Point Pleasant, NJ, United States of America

Donald W Allen