Apparatus and method for determining the concentration of a component of a sample

US6635167B1 · kind B1 · utility

Assignee

• Roche Diagnostics GMBH · DE

Inventors

• Carol J. Batman · Indianapolis, US
• Greg Paul Carpenter · Indianapolis, US
• Robert Glenn Davies · Carmel, US
• Richard J. Kasle · Indianapolis, US
• Kurt Klem · Indianapolis, US
• Robert Anthony Parks · Springport, US
• Timothy L. Ranney · Lebanon, US
• William S. Brothers · Provo, US
• Christopher Belisle · Walnut Creek, US
• Michael Steven Ray · Somerset, US
• Leonard Allen Vetsch · Elk Mound, US
• Marvin W. Glass · Fayetteville, US
• Richard W. Wilson · Noblesville, US
• James R. Parker · Indianapolis, US
• Vladimir Svetnik · Morristown, US
• Lynne Denise Sly · Fishers, US
• Sandy Mark Richards · Pershing, US
• Nancy Kennedy Byrd · Indianapolis, US
• Patricia A. Hopkinson · Lake Placid, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Nov 21, 2000
• Grant date: Oct 21, 2003
• Expiry date: Nov 21, 2020

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y02E60/10
• WIPO field: Measurement
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

An instrument (20) has a well (28a-b) for receiving a dry cell (75), an opening (78) through which a first connector (74) is exposed to the well (28a-b), and a boss (76) adjacent the opening (78). The boss (76) precludes the wrong terminal of the dry cell (75) from engaging the first connector (74) when the dry cell (75) is inserted into the well (28a-b) in incorrect orientation. A second connector (80) includes a base (81), a first leg (82) resiliently connected to and extending away from the base portion, a second leg (84) resiliently connected to and extending away from the first leg (82), and a third leg (86) resiliently connected to and extending away from the second leg (84) and toward the first leg (82). A display (42) for the instrument (20) has a lens (90) having a substantially transparent substrate with a polyurethane coating. The instrument housing has first and second portions. At least one locator pin (30) extends from one (24) of the housing portions and at least one complementary socket (32) extends from the other (22) of the housing portions for receiving the pin (30) to maintain the first (22) and second (24) portions in assembled orientation.