Pepex’s engineering team makes dramatic strides in biosensor and meter design with assistance from Phillips Plastics

In conjunction with the biosensor development, the meter design has also evolved substantially in Q-4 2009.  Phillips Plastics™ industrial design team, in close collaboration with Pepex engineers, evolved production level appearance models that incorporate key requirements of the initial Trio concept  and representative of what can be achieved as an expression of the CCM technology in the most convenient and advanced Blood Glucose Monitoring system ever produced.

It is important to remember what makes Pepex valuable.  It’s not the meter.   It’s the CCM biosensor and Pepex’s ability to configure the biosensor with chemistry to analyze a multitude of the human body’s analytes, not just blood glucose.

• Pepex CCM biosensor material, 1/4 the diameter of a human hair,  is produced in St. Louis using a patented extrusion process then coated with optimized chemistry on Pepex’s “Hodan Coater” in a closely guarded process.  Prepared CCM biosensor material is then sent to Phillips for sensor module production.
• At Phillips, plastic housing is assembled around the biosensor material, complete with micro lancet and sealed via high speed laser welding to produce the biosensor module.  The technique of Transmission Laser Welding as the sensor package assembly method of choice was one of the advancements paramount to the requirement that the sensor package be “commercially viable,” by achieving the target aggregated test cost as identified by the Pepex engineering team.
• A series of biosensors modules are arranged in a cartridge format, much like staples in a staple gun.
• A cartridge of biosensor modules is inserted into the meter to give a diabetic, multiple, ultra convenient, nearly painless, highly accurate, blood glucose tests.