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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 06, 2015
Filed:
Jul. 17, 2013
Applicant:
Roche Diagnostics Operations, Inc., Indianapolis, IN (US);
Inventor:
Ming-Wen Chen, Taipei, TW;
Assignee:
Roche Diabetes Care, Inc., Indianapolis, IN (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01N 33/50 (2006.01); A61B 5/145 (2006.01); G01N 33/487 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01N 33/50 (2013.01); A61B 5/14532 (2013.01); G01N 33/48764 (2013.01); A61B 2562/0295 (2013.01);
Abstract
Disclosed herein are hand-held medical devices, such as blood glucose meters, that include a housing with a cassette compartment for receiving an exchangeable test tape cassette, a drive assembly comprising an electric motor and a gear arrangement adapted for rotating a tape spool of the test tape cassette, where the gear arrangement has a worm drive in which a worm meshes with a worm wheel and a multistage speed-reducing unit comprising a plurality of spur gears arranged between the worm wheel and an output gear that can be directly coupled to the tape spool.