Becton Dickinson and Company Limited

Akilesh Sridharan

Jonathan D Albert

David R Schiff

A tip () for use with a lancing device (). A wall extends upwardly from a base and forms a substantially saddle-shaped distal surface for interfacing with a patient's skin. An opening () extends entirely through the tip. The tip () is movably received by a pressure sleeve assembly. The pressure sleeve assembly includes a housing () and a pressure sleeve movable between first and second positions. A spring () is connected between the housing () and the pressure sleeve. A lancet () is rigidly fixed to the housing () and is covered when the pressure sleeve is in the first position and exposed through the substantially saddle-shaped distal surface () of the tip () when the pressure sleeve is in the second position. The substantially saddleshaped distal surface () gathers the patient's skin toward the center of the tip to facilitate expressing blood from a lanced site.

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Los Angeles, CA, United States of America

Akilesh Sridharan