Storage system for test elements

US5720924A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Boehringer Mannheim GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Heino Eikmeier · Lorsch, DE
• Klaus-Dieter Sacherer · Tauberbischofsheim, DE
• Joerg Schreiber · Heddesheim, DE
• Wilfried Schmid · Mannheim, DE
• Hans-Juergen Kuhr · Mannheim, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Mar 1, 1996
• Grant date: Feb 24, 1998
• Expiry date: Mar 1, 2016

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10T436/114165
• WIPO field: Measurement
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

The system has several test elements, each of which is individually sealed to be impermeable to water vapor. The system storing test elements facilitates removal of test elements and protects the test elements contained in it against effects from the outside.