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...that two musicians were responsible for the invention of color print film? Fascinated by photography, Leopold Godowsky and Leopold Mannes worked together to produce an easy-to-use, practical color film. They worked full time as music teachers and gave concerts while experimenting during their off hours in Mannes' kitchen. Their success earned them full-time, well-paying jobs at Kodak and their efforts resulted in Kodachrome film, which was introduced in 1935.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8187295 | Puncture device The invention provides a lancing apparatus for moving a lancet holder (32) retaining a lancet in a lancing direction (N1) from a standby position to a lancing position together with the lancet so as to cause the lancet to stick into an object. In the l... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8172867 | Skin pricking device A skin pricking device includes first (12) and second (14) housing parts telescopically coupled together. A lancet (26) and a firing mechanism (32,38) are disposed within the first housing part, whilst a membrane (25) is disposed o... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8162968 | Lancing device A lancing device is used with a lancet for lancing body tissue to result in a wound for bleeding. The lancing device has a cantilevered priming arm having a first arm portion that is generally parallel to an internal channel of the device and a second arm portion th... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8142466 | Lancing device with floating lancet A lancing device including a drive mechanism with a drive spring and a lancet carrier engaged and driven by the drive spring, and further including a lancet with a sharp lancing tip, wherein the lancet floats relative to the carrier and is decoupled from the drive m... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8133246 | Safety lancet assembly Disclosed is a safety lancet assembly configured to pierce a patient's skin. The safety lancet comprises a housing and a lancet disposed with the housing. The lancet includes both a block and a piercing tip attached to the block. The lancet is disposed within the ho... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8118825 | Lancet device A lancet device including a housing with an at least partially open interior, a cocking seat coupled with the housing and structured to define an open interior therewith, a lancet with a piercing tip moveably disposed within the open interior, and a biasing assembly... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8114109 | Single-use skin pricking device A single-use skin pricking device (7) comprising a housing (8), a lancet (1) disposed (5) within the housing (8), biasing means (11) coupled between the housing (8) and the lancet (1), and a trigger (12)... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8114108 | Lancing apparatus A lancing apparatus that moves a lancing element in a lancing direction from a wait position to a lancing position thereby lancing an intended portion with the lancing element. The lancing apparatus has a first member which moves reciprocally in the lancing directio... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8109960 | Patient's skin puncturing device A patient's skin puncturing device according to the present invention is built of a body and of seated therein a pricking needle assembly and of a push-button arranged in the upper portion of the body. Between the push-button and the pricking needle assembly at leas... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8070766 | Skin pricking apparatus A skin pricking apparatus includes a casing 1, a lancet 19 located within the casing, and a firing mechanism 5,13,31 for causing a needle tip 22 of the lancet 19 to be driven through an opening 14 in the casing to prick the ... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8066728 | Disposable or single-use lancet device and method Single-use lancet device includes a body. A movable skin engaging member is at least partially disposed inside the body and includes a lancet opening through which a lancet needle extends. A holding member can move at least between a retracted position and an extend... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8062320 | Puncture device and puncture needle cartridge A puncture device is constituted such that a plunger (2) is provided with a lever (3) which is partially restricted in rotation, and a forward urging force is obtained by a contraction restorative force of a tension spring (4), and the tension s... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8057501 | Collapsible lancing device A lancing device for use with a removable lancet having a sharp tip. The lancet includes a housing. The lancing device can include a handle connected to the housing for movement between a storage position, where the housing and handle are configured to be compactly ... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8052707 | Patient's skin puncturing device A patient's skin puncturing device, particularly for collecting a blood sample for diagnostic purposes, including a housing, a lancet slidably positioned inside the housing and having a body with a sheathed puncturing needle seated therein, and a push button positio... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8048098 | Lancing device for one skin puncture A lancing device comprises a main housing, a movable housing, and a damping ring. The main housing forming an inner aperture that encloses a portion of a lancet assembly. The lancet assembly has a lancet body, a lancet-plunger housing, and a lance. The lancet assemb... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8048097 | Single use lancet assembly A single use lancet assembly having a housing, with an open interior and a piercing aperture defined therein, a lancet, with a body and a piercing tip positioned in the open interior of the housing and movable between a cocked orientation and a piercing orientation,... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8043318 | Push-button lance device and method Lancet device utilizing a body, a holding member configured to receive a lancet having the lancet needle, a first spring structured and arranged to move the holding member between at least a retracted position and an extended position, and a second spring structured... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8034069 | Single use lancet assembly A single use lancet device having a housing, with an open interior and an access opening defined therein, a lancet, with a body and a piercing tip, and disposed in the open interior of the housing so as to move between a cocked orientation and a piercing orientation... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8034068 | Compact multi-use lancing device A multi-use micro-sampling or lancing device having an outer housing, a lancet holder that engages a lancet and constrains the lancet along a controlled and pre-defined path of travel during the lancing stroke, and a drive mechanism with a pair of opposed, off-axis ... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8029526 | Cocking mechanism for lancing device A lancing device is disclosed in which cocking of the lancet holder is achieved in response to retraction of a push member. A lancing device is also disclosed in which a lancet storage compartment is provided in the housing of the lancing device and closing movement... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8029525 | Puncture instrument, puncture needle cartridge, puncture instrument set, and puncture needle disposal instrument An arrangement comprises a puncturing instrument including a cylindrical box, a plurality of puncturing needles held in an axially serially connected state, a locking member for locking the puncturing needle cartridge at an axial predetermined position, and an elast... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8021383 | Single-handed, reduced vibration lancing device A lancing device includes a housing, at least two ramps, a lancet holder, a drive spring, and an activation mechanism. The housing includes first and second ends, and a first wall. The first end has an aperture extending therethrough and the first wall has an openin... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8021382 | Safety single use blood lancet device with adjustable puncture depth A safety single use blood taking lancet, having an adjustable puncture depth, includes a blast-off structure and an adjusting head. The blast-off structure comprises a sleeve, an end cap, a needle core with a needle pin, a spring and a push element. Two elastic clip... | 09/20/2011 |
| 7998161 | Disposable incision safety lancet A disposable incision safety lancet is provided, including a casing (2) and a trigger. It is characterized in that the casing (2) is provided inside with an incision blood-taking mechanism composed of a cam (3), a main swing arm (4), a se... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7988703 | Patient's skin puncturing device The device comprises a body (2) and placed therein a needle assembly (1) and a push button (3) located in the upper portion of the body (2), whereas the needle assembly (1) has in its lower portion a sheathed piercing needle (5 | 08/02/2011 |
| 7981131 | Disposable single-swing-arm incision safety lancet A disposable single-swing-arm incision safety lancet is provided, which includes a casing (2) and a trigger. It is characterized in that the casing (2) is provided inside with an incision blood-taking mechanism composed of a cam (3), a swing arm... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7972349 | Blood sampling devices A housing retains a lancet body which encloses a needle whose tip is covered by a cap. The cap has a head provided with flanges. These flanges locate within notches at the end of the housing on only two sides of the housing. The location of the flanges within the no... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7883523 | Lancet assembly The present invention provides a lancet assembly which eliminates the need to remove a resin cover encapsulating a pricking element. Upon inserting a lancet structure into a lancet holder, a force which separates a lancet cover encapsulating the sharp tip portion of... | 02/08/2011 |
| 7879059 | Lancet assembly A lancet assembly is disclosed which eliminates the need for removing a resin cover that covers a pricking element. When a lancet structure is inserted into a lancet holder, a force is applied so as to separate a lancet cover, that encloses a distal end of a prickin... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7879057 | Method of setting lancing member to lancing device, lancing device and cam mechanism A lancing member (2) is integrally provided with a cap (29) for covering a needle (21). Upon or after being attached to a holder (5) of a lancing device (A), the lancing member (2) is rotated relative to a cap (29) by a rota... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7879058 | Lancet device for forming incision An incision device capable of preventing inadvertent firing, and including a covered attached to the device. The incision device comprises a housing, and a lancet guide assembly having lancet guides and a lancet body. The lancet body further comprises a lancet blade... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7842060 | Lancet device for generating a puncture wound, and lancet drive assembly A lancet device for generating a puncture wound in a skin surface, comprising a housing, in which a lancet can be moved on a puncturing path, a lancet drive with a drive rotor that can be driven by a drive spring, a lancet coupling mechanism that transforms a rotati... | 11/30/2010 |
| 7763042 | Lancet for blood collection and puncture needle unit A lancet having a slider with a puncture needle holding mechanism at one end thereof, and having a cam ring with a continuous cam groove rotatable about a support shaft, and with a cam ring claw and an anti-return claw restricting the rotation. The lancet also havin... | 07/27/2010 |
| 7758602 | Lancing device, method of making lancing device, pump mechanism, and sucking device A lancing device according to the present invention includes: a housing; a moving body movable relatively to the housing for forward movement of a needle; a driving mechanism for forward movement of the moving body; a hollow pressing portion at a front end of the ho... | 07/20/2010 |
| 7704265 | Disposable/single-use blade lancet device and method Single-use blade lancet device includes a body having a rear end and a front end. A triggering mechanism has a blade tip opening and is mounted to the body. A blade member is movably mounted within the body and includes a front end and a rear end. The blade member i... | 04/27/2010 |
| 7691117 | Lancing device A lancing device comprising a movable parallelogram-shaped rack. The rack rotates a linearly fixed pinion which drives a slider-crank system. The slider-crank system in turn drives a lance holder. The parallelogram-shaped rack defines one or more predetermined paths... | 04/06/2010 |
| 7621931 | Adjustable lancet device and method Lancet device that includes a body. A trigger is mounted to the body. A front cover has a skin engaging end that includes a lancet opening through which a lancet needle extends. A holding member is movably mounted within the body and includes a front end a rear end.... | 11/24/2009 |
| 7575583 | Single use lancet device A single use lancet device having a housing, a lancet with a piercing tip movably disposed in the housing and structured to move between a cocked orientation and a piercing orientation, and a driving assembly structured to move the lancet into the piercing orientati... | 08/18/2009 |
| 7572269 | Lancet A skin pricker has a barrel (1,11) in which a hammer (2,29) released by a trigger mechanism (32,34) can be shot forwards by a compressed spring (3,38) to impact on a lancet (24) and momentarily project its tip. The rear end of the ... | 08/11/2009 |
| 7494498 | Lancing device with floating lancet A lancing device including a drive mechanism with a drive spring and a lancet carrier engaged and driven by the drive spring, and further including a lancet with a sharp lancing tip, wherein the lancet floats relative to the carrier and is decoupled from the drive m... | 02/24/2009 |
