Church & Dwight Co., Inc.

Esselte Corporation

Mathew Palmer

Albert R Nazareth

Nicholas James Wooder

Charles Robert Sims

Timothy Snowden

Robert Charles Lewis Day

Ovidiu Romanoschi

Giles H W Sanders

Andrew Buchanan Halket

Diagnostic test devices improve communication to a user thereof through provision of audible output. The test device can include a test member, such as lateral flow assay test strip. The test device further includes an electronic communication circuit that can comprise an audio output element as well as a microcontroller. Other elements in the electronic communication circuit includes one or more sensor elements, a display element, and one or more switching elements.&#x2014;Methods provide indicia for operation of a test device that comprise steps for assembly of a diagnostic test device that provides for audio output.

Diagnostic test device with audible feedback

A tape printing apparatus having a thermal print head for printing an image on an image receiving tape, the print head having a first mode of operation for printing on an image receiving tape with an ink ribbon, and a second mode of operation for printing on thermally sensitive image receiving tape. A detector detects whether ink ribbon is present or absent in a receiving mechanism and provides a signal to a control mechanism indicative of the presence or absence of ink ribbon, the control mechanism being arranged to control the print head to have the first mode of operation when ink ribbon is present and the second mode of operation when no ink ribbon is present. When the ink ribbon is mounted on a rotatable member, the detector may detect the ink ribbon movement, or detect the location of the rotatable member where the location is different whether an ink ribbon is present or absent, or detect the speed of rotation of the rotatable support member where the rotatable member rotates at different speeds depending on whether ink ribbon is present or absent.

Tape printing apparatus

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Cambridge, United Kingdom

Mathew Palmer