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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 26, 1999
Filed:
Dec. 04, 1997
Tad Decatur Simons, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Michael Greenstein, Los Altos, CA (US);
Dominique Freeman, Pascadero, CA (US);
Leslie Anne Leonard, Portola, CA (US);
David A King, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Paul Lum, Los Altos, CA (US);
Hewlett-Packard Company, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
A blood sampling apparatus for sampling blood from the skin of a patient for analysis. The apparatus includes a cartridge and a housing with a driver. The cartridge has a cartridge case, lancet, and a compartment associated with the cartridge case for receiving blood. The lancet is housed in the cartridge case and operatively connected thereto such that it is drivable to extend outside the cartridge case through a lancing opening for lancing the skin to yield blood. The housing has a driver for urging the lancet to extend outside the cartridge case. During lancing, the cartridge is preferably detachably held in the housing such that the cartridge can be disassociated from the driver after sampling blood.