Bayer Corporation

The Technology Partnership, Plc.

Domino Printing Sciences Plc

Tonejet Corporation Pty. Ltd.

Matthew A Schumann

Anne Tregoning Miller

Steven C Charlton

Frank W Wogoman

Joseph L Moulton

Dennis Slomski

Richard Wilhelm Janse Van Rensburg

Guy Charles Fernley Newcombe

Victor Carey Humberstone

David Mark Blakey

Neil Emerton

Andrew Jonathan Sant

John William Teape

An ejection apparatus for ejecting material from a liquid has an ejection cell (,) for containing the liquid in use. The cell (,) has a protrusion (,) disposed so as to be contacted by liquid in the cell on more than one side and defining a predetermined location for a meniscus of the liquid at an opening in the cell. An ejection electrode (,) is disposed in the cell at a position inwardly of the cell with respect to the predetermined location of the meniscus.

Ejection apparatus for ejecting material from a liquid

Liquid supply apparatus

A sensor dispensing instrument is adapted to receive a generally circular sensor pack containing a plurality of blood glucose sensors. Each of the sensors are disposed in sensor cavities, each of which is in fluid communication with a corresponding desiccant cavity and has a support wall that assists in directing the sensor as its being ejected from the cavity. The sensor pack is loaded on an indexing disk in the instrument such that when a slide actuator on the instrument is moved toward a testing position, a feed mechanism engaged by the slide actuator moves a knife blade thereon toward one of the sensor cavities. The knife blade pierces a portion of a foil covering the sensor cavity and engages the sensor disposed in the cavity to thereby eject the sensor from the sensor cavity. The continued sliding of the slide actuator toward its testing position results in the sensor being completely ejected from the sensor cavity and disposed in a testing position with a testing end of the sensor projecting from the instrument. Once the blood analyzing test is completed, the slide actuator is moved in the opposite direction towards its standby position. As the slide actuator is moved away from its testing position, the indexing disk with the sensor pack thereon is rotated so that the next one of sensor cavities is positioned so that the sensor therein can be used for the next blood glucose test that is to be performed. The instrument includes circuitry to obtain test data from the sensor pack and to display testing data.

Dispensing instrument for fluid monitoring sensors

Dispensing instrument for fluid monitoring sensor

Ink jet printer

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Cambridge, United Kingdom

Matthew A Schumann