Packaging system
AssigneeRoche Diagnostics Operations, Inc.
InventorsHans List, Uwe Kraemer, Volker Zimmer, Steven N. Roe
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Abstract
A system comprising disposable medical devices and a packaging strip comprising a plurality of chambers containing the disposable medical devices. The strip is folded along breadthwise running fold lines to form a series of loops, each loop comprising opposing sections. The opposing sections of at least some of these loops are sealed to each other thus forming chambers between said sections. A cartridge contains such a packaging strip.
Claims24
A packaging system comprising disposable medical devices and a packaging strip comprising a plurality of chambers containing the disposable medical devices,
- the strip being folded along breadthwise running fold lines to form a series of loops, each loop comprising opposing sections,
- the opposing sections of at least some of the loops being sealed to each other thus forming chambers between said sections;
- wherein the strip comprises in its longitudinal direction an alternating sequence of chambers comprising two types of medical devices;
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- wherein the alternating sequence of chambers comprising a lancet in one chamber and comprising a test element in a subsequent chamber.
A packaging system comprising disposable medical devices and a packaging strip comprising a plurality of chambers containing the disposable medical devices,
- the strip being folded along breadthwise running fold lines to form a series of loops, each loop comprising opposing sections,
- the opposing sections of at least some of the loops being sealed to each other thus forming chambers between said sections;
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- an actuation means with a lever mechanism for actuating a medical device of an open chamber of the strip.
A packaging system comprising disposable medical devices and a packaging strip comprising a plurality of chambers containing the disposable medical devices,
- the strip being folded along breadthwise running fold lines to form a series of loops, each loop comprising opposing sections,
- the opposing sections of at least some of the loops being sealed to each other thus forming chambers between said sections;
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- a cartridge that includes a fresh module comprising unused medical devices in the packaging strip, an actuation module comprising an actuation means, and a waste module for taking up used medical devices and the corresponding part of the strip.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.