Pelikan Sun™ Electronic Lancing Device
For the $5bn global business in diabetes diagnostics kits, today’s test strips, lancets and meters are inconvenient, messy, and painful. With an electronic ‘lancing engine’ idea, Californian start-up, Pelikan Technologies, aimed to disrupt the market with an integrated blood glucose self-monitoring device.
After struggling to find specialist engineering skills in the US, Pelikan came to CDP in Cambridge, UK. The result was not just a world leading product, but also a valuable patent portfolio enabling further funding.
Skills Deployed
· Micro-engineering, packaging process development
· Electromagnetics and control systems
· Project and invention management
Technical Highlights and ‘World Firsts’
· 50 lancets in disposable, sterile sealed cartridge
· Foil sealing on to non-planar, moulded substrate
· Automated selection and replacing of each lancet
· Electronic linear drive lancing control system
Pelikan and CDP have created the future of blood glucose monitoring; it is accurate effective, painless, and above all, it is convenient.
