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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Aug. 04, 2015

Filed:

Dec. 13, 2012
Applicant:

Roche Diagnostics Operations, Inc., Fishers, IN (US);

Inventors:

Ulrich Porsch, Weinheim, DE;

Christian Freitag, Weinolsheim, DE;

Peter Seelig, Frankfurt am Main, DE;

Thomas Jaeck, Heddesheim, DE;

Jens Schaefer, Oberderdingen, DE;

Assignee:

Roche Diabetes Care, Inc., Indianapolis, IN (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B01L 3/00 (2006.01); A61B 5/15 (2006.01); A61B 5/145 (2006.01); A61B 5/151 (2006.01); G01N 35/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B01L 3/00 (2013.01); A61B 5/1411 (2013.01); A61B 5/14532 (2013.01); A61B 5/150022 (2013.01); A61B 5/15146 (2013.01); A61B 5/15169 (2013.01); A61B 5/15171 (2013.01); A61B 5/150358 (2013.01); A61B 2562/0295 (2013.01); G01N 2035/00019 (2013.01); Y10T 29/49826 (2015.01);
Abstract

There is disclosed a tape cassette having a reeled-up carrier tape that carries at least one type of functional elements, namely test elements and/or puncturing elements, that are arranged at a distance from each other in a tape direction. The distances in the tape direction from a functional element to the next functional element of the same type change periodically in space at a period P. Moreover, there is disclosed a method for manufacture of a tape cassette of this type.


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