ANALYTICAL SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ITS OPERATION
First Claim
1. Analytical system especially for carrying out patient self-monitoring such as blood sugar tests comprising a replaceable magazine (12) for providing a plurality of test units that react to an analyte and a measuring device (14) for processing the test units, wherein the magazine (12) is provided with a code (26) that can be registered by the measuring device (14), characterized in that the code (26) comprises an unique magazine identifier (28) for the magazine (12) and that the measuring device (14) has a magazine-independent test counter (16) which registers the processing of a test unit and a counter memory (18) to store the magazine identifier (28) and a corresponding count of the test counter (16).
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Abstract
An analytical system comprising a replaceable magazine (12) for providing a plurality of test units that react to an analyte and a measuring device (14) for processing the test units, wherein the magazine (12) is provided with a code (26) that can be registered by the measuring device (14). In order to enable the simplest possible coding, it is proposed that the code (26) comprises an unique magazine identifier (28) for the magazine (12) and that the measuring device (14) has a magazine-independent test counter (16) which registers the processing of a test unit and a counter memory (18) to store the magazine identifier (28) and a corresponding count of the test counter (16).
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- 1. Analytical system especially for carrying out patient self-monitoring such as blood sugar tests comprising a replaceable magazine (12) for providing a plurality of test units that react to an analyte and a measuring device (14) for processing the test units, wherein the magazine (12) is provided with a code (26) that can be registered by the measuring device (14), characterized in that the code (26) comprises an unique magazine identifier (28) for the magazine (12) and that the measuring device (14) has a magazine-independent test counter (16) which registers the processing of a test unit and a counter memory (18) to store the magazine identifier (28) and a corresponding count of the test counter (16).
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14. Method for operating an analytical system, especially for carrying out patient self-monitoring such as blood sugar tests in which a plurality of test units that react to an analyte are provided by a replaceable magazine (12) and the test units are processed in a measuring device (14), characterized in that an unique magazine identifier (28) of the magazine (12) is registered, the magazine identifier (28) is allocated a count for the number of used or available test units of the magazine (12) in a counter memory (18) and when a test unit has been processed, the counter reading is advanced without intervention on the magazine.
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