Roche Diabetes Care, Inc.

Roche Diagnostics Gmbh

Roche Diagnostics Operations, Inc.

F. Hoffmann-la Roche Ag

Wilhelm Leichner

Hans List

Volker Zimmer

Uwe Kraemer

Hans-Juergen Kuhr

Uwe Krämer

Herbert Harttig

Christa Sternberger

Axel Ahl

Wolfgang Schwobel

Bransilav Babic

Hans-Jürgen Kuhr

Matthias Greuter

Wolfgang Schwöbel

The invention concerns a reservoir () for storing a liquid medicament. The reservoir () comprises a flexible container () which includes one folding layer (), wherein the folding layer () includes a seam () which provides for a sealing of the flexible container (). The reservoir comprises a rigid part () which is connected to the flexible container () and which includes a support () extending into the flexible container () and which includes one or more ports () providing fluidic access to the flexible container (). The reservoir comprises a porous hydrophilic membrane () which is connected to the support () of the rigid part (). The invention further concerns a method for producing of a reservoir (). The method comprises: providing a flexible tube () and a movable opening device () located inside the flexible tube (), moving (S) the moveable opening device () inside the flexible tube () by a distance in a longitudinal direction of the flexible tube (), providing a rigid part (), and bonding (S) the flexible tube () to the rigid part () and providing a folding layer () included in the flexible container ().

Reservoir for storing a liquid medicament and method of producing a reservoir

This disclosure concerns a sampling device and a system for collecting body fluid, comprising a metal lancing unit having a distal tip suitable for piercing skin and a capillary channel extending between the tip and a proximal section of the lancing unit for collecting body fluid; and further comprising a plastic holding unit affixed to the lancing unit for manipulating the lancing unit in order to form an incision in the skin, wherein the holding unit contains a sorbent adapted for sorption of moisture and/or volatile substances to protect the sampling device from degradation prior to use.

Sampling device and system for collecting a body fluid sample

A method for producing an analytical magazine is proposed. The analytical magazine is designed to receive a plurality of analytical aids in a plurality of chambers. The method comprises the following steps: providing at least one first component of the analytical magazine, wherein the first component comprises a plurality of receptacles; providing a plurality of analytical aids, wherein the analytical aids are connected to one another and preferably oriented with respect to one another by at least one holding element; introducing the analytical aids into the receptacles; and separating the analytical aids from the holding element.

Method for producing an analytical magazine

An analytical magazine is proposed, which comprises a plurality of analytical aids accommodated in chambers. The analytical magazine is arranged to be accommodated in at least two orientations in an analytical system. The analytical magazine is furthermore arranged to provide the analytical system, in the orientations, in each case with a plurality of analytical aids. At least one sampling movement can be executed by means of the analytical aids. The analytical magazine is arranged to make a remagazining of the analytical aids possible.

Space-saving magazining of analytical aids

A container at least to some extent composed of a sheet of composite material, where the composite material includes an aluminum foil with a first and a second surface side, a first polymer layer, bonded to at least one of the two surface sides, where the aluminum foil covers, by way of the polymer layer, at least one aperture of a holder, where the composite material and the holder together form the container, where the holder accepts at least one analytical aid in a cutout, where the aluminum foil has been molded.

Container made from a composite of aluminum foil and polymer and used for analytical aids, and method for producing

The present disclosure provides a container containing reference solution for clinical chemistry, whereby the container includes a closure part-covered outlet at which reference solution can be removed by puncturing with a puncturing element. The disclosure further provides a wick that is soaked with the reference solution and arranged in the container to extend from the outlet and such that a majority of its length extends into an interior space of the container.

Container containing reference solution

The present invention concerns storage containers for storing diagnostic elements having a hydrophilic or hydrophilically coated surface. Furthermore, the invention concerns analytical measuring devices which comprise storage containers of this type, and the use of an absorption material for selectively absorbing hydrophobic, volatile substances in such storage containers.

Protection from hydrophobizing agents

The invention concerns a test tape device for analyzing a body fluid having a carrier tape, a plurality of lancing elements arranged on the carrier tape which are provided with a tip that can puncture a body part and a collecting structure that takes up the body fluid obtained during the puncture, and test fields mounted on the carrier tape each being associated with a lancing element and can have body fluid applied thereto. According to the invention it is proposed that the lancing elements are each movably attached to the carrier tape by a coupling member and that a used lancing element can be brought into contact with a test field by a transfer movement from a usage position distant from a test field into a contact position so that body fluid can be transferred from the collecting structure onto the test field.

Test strip device and method for analyzing a body fluid

The invention concerns an analytical test element for the determination of an analyte in a liquid containing an inert carrier, a detection element and a channel capable of capillary liquid transport which has a sample application opening at one end and a vent opening at the other end of the channel capable of capillary liquid transport, wherein the channel capable of capillary liquid transport is formed at least partially by the carrier and the detection element and extends in the direction of capillary transport from the sample application opening at least to the edge of the detection test element that is nearest to the vent opening and wherein a notch is located in one of the surfaces forming the channel capable of capillary liquid transport at the edge of the test element forming the sample application opening so that one side of the edge of the test element forming the sample application opening is at least partially discontinuous and the surface opposite to the notch is exposed. It also concerns the use of the said analytical test element for the determination of an analyte in a liquid as well as a method for the determination of an analyte in a liquid sample with the aid of the said analytical test element.

Analytical test element with a capillary channel

The invention concerns a device for the capillary transport of a liquid between two opposite, essentially planar layers, in which the two layers are arranged parallel to one another at such a distance that there is a capillary-active gap between the two layers, wherein at least one of the two layers contains at least two discrete adjacent parts and capillary-active transport of the liquid is possible beyond the common boundary of the parts that lie in one layer.

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Mannheim, Germany

Wilhelm Leichner