Storage system for test elements

US5863800A · 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: Sep 22, 1997
• Grant date: Jan 26, 1999
• Expiry date: Sep 22, 2017

Classification

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

Abstract

A systems for test elements used for clinical chemical analyses has several test elements, each of which is individually sealed to be impermeable to water vapor. The method provides for the removal of test elements and protects the test elements contained in it against effects from the outside.