Tape cassette for a medical handheld device

US8821399B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Roche Diagnostics Operations, Inc. · US

Inventors

• Herbert Harttig · Neustadt, DE
• Juergen Braun · Stockach, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 14, 2010
• Grant date: Sep 2, 2014
• Expiry date: Dec 21, 2031

Classification

• Technology area (CPC A): Human Necessities
• CPC primary: A61B2562/0295
• WIPO field: Measurement
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A tape cassette for a medical handheld device is disclosed as comprising a carrier tape, which carries test fields for assaying a sample of a human or animal bodily fluid and/or lancets as functional elements, a supply chamber, in which a supply section of the carrier tape comprising unused functional elements is positioned, a winding unit, in order to wind up the carrier tape and draw it through a tape exit opening of the chamber, so that the functional elements may be brought sequentially into a usage position. The carrier tape in the tape exit opening is oriented transversely to the supply section positioned in the supply chamber.