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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 02, 2014
Filed:
Dec. 14, 2010
Herbert Harttig, Neustadt, DE;
Juergen Braun, Ehningen, DE;
Herbert Harttig, Neustadt, DE;
Juergen Braun, Ehningen, DE;
Roche Diagnostics Operations, Inc., Indianapolis, IN (US);
Abstract
A tape cassette for a medical handheld device is disclosed as comprising a carrier tape, which carries test fields for assaying a sample of a human or animal bodily fluid and/or lancets as functional elements, a supply chamber, in which a supply section of the carrier tape comprising unused functional elements is positioned, a winding unit, in order to wind up the carrier tape and draw it through a tape exit opening of the chamber, so that the functional elements may be brought sequentially into a usage position. The carrier tape in the tape exit opening is oriented transversely to the supply section positioned in the supply chamber.