Lancet magazine and method for the production thereof
AssigneeRoche Diabetes Care, Inc.
InventorHerbert Harttig
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Abstract
A lancet magazine is disclosed which includes a housing and a plurality of lancets each of which is enclosed in a sterile chamber of the housing, wherein the chambers each have a puncturing opening which is closed with a foil, wherein the lancets include a sample receiving device for receiving body fluid and the chambers each include a further opening which is closed with a membrane that is permeable to gas and fluid and includes a lower side that faces the lancet and serves to receive body fluid from the sample receiving device and an upper side that serves to transfer body fluid to a test field arranged on the membrane.
Claims1
A method comprising:
- transporting a body fluid sample from a lancet on one side of a membrane to a test field on the other side of the membrane, the step of transporting comprises:
- contacting the lancet having the body fluid sample with the inner side of the membrane, and
- delivering the body fluid sample through the membrane to the test field by capillary forces;
- wherein the membrane is permeable to gas and fluid and is configured to close an opening of a chamber of a lancet magazine.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.