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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 01, 2015
Filed:
May. 23, 2012
Ahmet Konya, Ludwigshafen, DE;
Hans List, Hesseneck-Kailbach, DE;
Hans-jürgen Kuhr, Mannheim, DE;
Roche Diabetes Care, Inc., Indianapolis, IN (US);
Abstract
A replaceable magazine for use in an analytic test instrument a plurality of analytic aids on a carrier tape. The analytic aids can be made available in an application position of the magazine by means of the carrier tape. The magazine has a supply reel for holding regions of the carrier tape with unused analytic aids and a take-up reel for holding regions of the carrier tape with used-up analytic aids. The carrier tape can be moved in a spooling direction from the supply reel to the take-up reel. The magazine has a rewind lock of the take-up reel. The magazine has a tape release device, which is configured to make available a take-up reel tape reserve of the carrier tape on the side of the application position facing the take-up reel. The take-up reel tape reserve enables a lifting movement of an analytic aid situated in the application position.