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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 15, 2001
Filed:
Apr. 09, 1999
Paul Lum, Los Altos, CA (US);
Michael Greenstein, Los Altos, CA (US);
Edward Dennis Verdonk, San Jose, CA (US);
Tad Decatur Simons, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Dominique Freeman, Pescadero, CA (US);
Ganapati Ramnath Mauze, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
David King, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Jerry Zawadzki, San Jose, CA (US);
Agilent Technologies, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
An apparatus and method for minimizing a subject's pain perception during an invasive medical procedure, such as blood sampling and the like. The apparatus can include a receiving surface constructed to contact a portion of the subject's skin and a vibratory mechanism associated with the receiving surface such that the vibratory mechanism transmits vibrations through the receiving surface and to the subject's skin. An invasive sharp can be substantially permanently supported and moveably disposed with respect to the receiving surface such that the invasive sharp reciprocates between a first position in which the sharp is spaced from the receiving surface, away from the subject's skin, and a second position in which at least a portion of the sharp protrudes through an opening in the receiving surface.