Test tape unit and test tape device

US8282893B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Roche Diagnostics Operations, Inc. · US

Inventors

• Stefan Schosnig · Leutershausen, DE
• Wolfgang Heck · Bischofswerda, DE
• Ulrich Porsch · Weinheim, DE
• Robert D. Lorenz · Madison, US
• Ulrich Kehr · Tettnang, DE
• Andree Treinzen · Heimsheim, DE
• Beda Steinacher · Wettingen, CH
• Stefan Sieber · Widnau, CH
• Udo Manser · Schwetzingen, DE
• Karl Miltner · Dossenheim, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Apr 11, 2011
• Grant date: Oct 9, 2012
• Expiry date: Apr 11, 2031

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10T436/110833
• WIPO field: Measurement
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A test tape unit with a flexible carrier tape that can be wound forwardly by a tape drive is provided. The carrier tape includes a plurality of analytical test fields for the application of body fluid that are each applied in an associated tape section. Each tape section has a plurality of position markers for different functional positions that can be scanned by means of a tape sensor and can thereby be individually identified by measured quantity.