Roche Diagnostics Operations, Inc.

Roche Diabetes Care, Inc.

Basf Se Corporation

Sion Power Corporation

Bayer Aktiengesellschaft

Roche Diagnostics Gmbh

Lanxess Deutschland Gmbh

Polymers Crc Limited

The Procter Gamble Company

F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ag

Thomas Weiss

Frank Deck

Hans List

Richard Forster

Michael Keil

Michael Fritz

Hans-Juergen Kuhr

Christian Hoerauf

Martin Weber

Yuriy V Mikhaylik

Guenther Schmelzeisen-Redeker

Christian Maletzko

Peter Sachsenweger

Hans-Peter Haar

Joachim Hoenes

Markus Hansch

Steven Nelson Roe

Herbert Harttig

Sophia Ebert

Ahmet Konya

Igor P Kovalev

Klaus-Dieter Sacherer

Joerg Erbes

Ludwig Voelkel

Marc Walter

Oliver Kube

Uwe Kraemer

Karl Miltner

Marina Safont-Sempere

Chariclea Scordilis-Kelley

Michael Roth

Klaus Muehlbach

Zhongchun Wang

Roland Ettl

Markus Scherer

Michael G Laramie

Klaus Leitner

Frank Dietsche

Holger Schneider

Herbert Argauer

Thomas E Hayden

Hui Du

Tracy Earl Kelley

Johannes Kaulen

Frank Huelskoetter

Claudio Immekus

Susanne Gentsch

Robert Wessel

Sigurd Becke

Bastiaan Bram Pieter Staal

Nawid Kashani-Shirazi

Nicole Janssen

Ouidad Benlahmar

Karl-Peter Ebert

Heinrich Lang

Klaus Peter Ebert

Rainer Xalter

Andreas Gorshoefer

Heinrich Fruhstorfer

Lydia Kolonko

Klaus-Peter Ebert

Andreas Gorshöfer

Joern Kulisch

Veronika G Viner

Wolfgang Grape

Jan-Gerd Hansel

Szilard Csihony

Edoardo Menozzi

David L Coleman

Ortrud Quarder

Chris Wiegel

Gang Si

Muriel Ecormier

Claudia Fischer

Ludwig Völkel

Marcus Schlothauer

Melanie Wiedemeier

Rainer Elbert

Jan Ole Mueller

Christian Hörauf

Katarzyna Gorczynska-costello

Jessica Eleanor Bean

Hans-Jürgen Kuhr

Michael Kistner

Felix Baader

Wilhelm Hildebrandt

Matt Hannant

Jan- Gerd Hansel

Kate Moira McLuckie

Li Qun Ren

Aaron Wagner

Gabriele Boenemann

Volker Kreider

Kate Moira Mcluckie

Katarzyna Gorczynska Costello

Articles and methods involving protective membranes for electrochemical cells are generally provided. In some embodiments, a composite protective layer comprising particles and a polymeric binder may be disposed on an electroactive material. The particles may be reactive with lithium, may capable of intercalating lithium, and/or may comprise intercalated lithium. In some embodiments, the electroactive material may be in the form of a first electroactive layer, and a second electroactive layer may be disposed on the composite protective layer. Certain embodiments relate to activating a composite protective layer by intercalating lithium into particles within the layer and/or by reacting the particles with lithium metal.

Protective membrane for electrochemical cells

Articles and methods including additives in electrochemical cells, are generally provided. As described herein, such electrochemical cells may comprise an anode, a cathode, an electrolyte, and optionally a separator. In some embodiments, at least one of the anode, the cathode, the electrolyte, and/or the optional separator may comprise an additive and/or additive precursor. For instance, in some cases, the electrochemical cell comprises an electrolyte and an additive and/or additive precursor that is soluble with and/or is present in the electrolyte. In some embodiments, the additive precursor comprises a disulfide bond. In certain embodiments, the additive is a carbon disulfide salt. In some cases, the electrolyte may comprise a nitrate.

Additives for electrochemical cells

Articles and methods involving protected electrode structures are generally provided. In some embodiments, a protected electrode structure includes an electrode comprising an alkali metal and a protective structure directly adjacent the electrode. In some embodiments, the protective structure comprises elemental carbon and intercalated ions. In some embodiments, the protective structure is a composite protective structure. The composite structure may comprise an alloy comprising an alkali metal, an oxide of an alkali metal, and/or a fluoride salt of an alkali metal.

Protective layers comprising metals for electrochemical cells

This disclosure teaches a disposable inserter which includes a housing having arranged in a displaceable configuration an inserter assembly comprising a cannula assembly with a cannula, a manually operable member for displacing the inserter assembly from a retracted position to an advanced position in order to manually insert the cannula into the skin of a patient, a locking element for blocking or enabling displacement of the inserter assembly, and a coupling arrangement for coupling the disposable inserter to a reusable inserter for automatically displacing the inserter assembly from the retracted position to the advanced position in order to automatically insert the cannula into the skin of the patient.

Disposable inserter and reusable inserter for accommodating a disposable inserter

Membrane comprising a block copolymer comprising polyarylene ether blocks and polyalkylene oxide blocks, wherein said polyalkylene oxide blocks comprise at least one polyethylene oxide segment and at least one segment of at least one polyalkylene oxide that is different from polyethylene oxide.

Polymers for membranes

The present invention includes a system for withdrawing body fluids. The system includes a drive unit having a plunger which is moved from a resting position into a lancing position in order to carry out a lancing process and a lancing unit containing a lancet with a needle. The plunger and lancet are coupled together by a form fit in order to carry out a lancing process. The invention additionally concerns a method for temporarily extending a needle from a device for withdrawing body fluid as well as a lancing unit that can be attached to the drive unit.

System for withdrawing blood

A lancet magazine for use in a lancing aid is described comprising a plurality of lancets each having a lancet body at the proximal end of the lancet and a lancet tip at the distal end of the lancet, where the proximal end of the lancet points in the direction of the proximal end of the housing of the lancet magazine and the distal end of the lancet is aligned in the direction of the distal end of the housing and the lancets in the unused state are completely surrounded by the housing. Furthermore, an extension unit is movably connected to the housing in such a manner that the housing can be extended by movement of the extension unit in the direction of the distal end of the housing such that the lancet is prevented from emerging from the lancet magazine.

Method of reuse protection for lancet system

An insertion device including an insertion needle holder and a drive mechanism for linearly moving the insertion needle holder in a puncturing direction. The insertion needle holder also includes at least one actuating element for actuating a drive mechanism. The drive mechanism converts a driving motion of the actuating element, which extends transversely or opposite to the puncturing direction, into a puncturing motion of the insertion needle holder.

Insertion device

A puncturing system has a carrier tape carrying multiple lancets, a device housing comprising a conveying facility for moving the lancets into a usage position consecutively by moving the carrier tape in a conveying direction, a puncturing drive for accelerating one of the lancets that is positioned in the usage position in a puncturing motion, an opening in the device housing for touching against a body part in which a puncture is to be made by the puncturing motion of one of the lancets, an actuation facility for driving the conveying facility, and an unlockable interlock comprising a stop that blocks further transport of the carrier tape as soon as one of the lancets has reached the usage position.

Puncturing system and lancet carrier tape

Disclosed is a puncturing system for generating a puncture wound for obtaining a sample of a body fluid, comprising a press-on part to be pressed onto a body part in which a puncture wound is to be generated, a trigger, by the actuation of which a user can trigger a puncturing motion of a puncturing element after the press-on part is pressed on, and a testing facility for determining at least one test parameter on which a sample-obtaining probability depends. A securing facility is also provided that, in a locked state, locks the trigger such that no puncturing motion can be triggered, and, in a triggering state, releases the trigger such that a puncturing motion can be triggered by actuation thereof, whereby the securing facility is transitioned from the locked state to the triggering state by the testing facility when the test parameter determined by the testing facility meets defined minimum requirements. A signaling facility is also provided for signaling a transition of the securing facility to the triggering state and/or for signaling that the securing facility is in the triggering state. Also disclosed is a method for preparing a puncturing system for generating a puncture wound.

Puncturing system

A lancing device comprises a lancet drive to cause a lancet to effect a puncturing movement, a housing that encloses the lancet drive, and a touching element with an opening for applying a part of a body in which a prick wound is to be produced, the touching element being movable relative to the lancet drive for the purpose of adjusting the puncturing depth in a puncturing direction. The touching element is connected rotatably by means of a screw thread to an intermediate piece and is movable in the puncturing direction, while the intermediate piece is rotatable and movable relative to the housing. A guide prevents rotation of the touching element relative to the housing, and the touching element is enclosed by the intermediate piece at least over part of its length.

Lancing device

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Thomas Weiss