FOLDED CARRIER TAPE HAVING CONSUMABLE ELEMENTS

• US 20120009102A1
• Filed: 07/15/2011
• Published: 01/12/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 01/15/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Roche Diabetes Care Inc. (Roche Holding AG)
• Original Assignee: Roche Diagnostics Operations Incorporated (Roche Holding AG)
• Inventors: HARTTIG, Herbert
• Granted Patent: US 8,496,876 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 422/547
• CPC Class Codes: G01N 33/48764 Test tape taken off a spool

Abstract

The invention relates to a carrier tape which carries a plurality of consumable elements for a system for determining an analyte concentration of a human or animal bodily fluid and is folded into a stack. According to the invention, the consumable elements are disposed on the carrier tape in groups, wherein the distance between adjacent groups in the longitudinal direction of the carrier tape is greater than that between adjacent consumable elements within a group.

Claims

1-15. -15. (canceled)

16. A carrier tape for a system for determining an analyte concentration of a human or animal bodily fluid, comprising a plurality of consumable elements that are disposed on the carrier tape in groups, wherein the distance between adjacent groups in the longitudinal direction of the carrier tape is greater than that between adjacent consumable elements within a group, wherein the carrier tape is folded into a stack.

17. The carrier tape according to claim 16, characterized in that at least a few of the consumable elements are lancing elements and/or test elements or lancing elements with integrated test elements.

18. The carrier tape according to claim 16, characterized in that each group contains at least three consumable elements.

19. The carrier tape according to claim 16, characterized in that the distance between adjacent consumable elements in each case is greater than the length of the stack as measured in the longitudinal direction of the carrier tape, and is preferably at least twice as great.

20. The carrier tape according to claim 16, characterized in that the distance between adjacent consumable elements in each case is greater than the extension of one of the consumable elements in the longitudinal direction of the carrier tape plus twice the length of the stack as measured in the longitudinal direction of the carrier tape.

21. The carrier tape according to claim 16, characterized in that one layer of the stack of the carrier tape contains one consumable element at most.

22. The carrier tape according to claim 16, characterized in that the distance between adjacent groups in each case is greater than twice the length of the stack as measured in the longitudinal direction of the carrier tape.

23. The carrier tape according to claim 22, characterized in that the distance between adjacent groups in each case is greater than three times the length of the stack as measured in the longitudinal direction of the carrier tape.

24. The carrier tape according to claim 16, characterized in that the distances between one consumable element and the next identical consumable element are all the same within the groups.

25. The carrier tape according to claim 16, characterized in that the distances between adjacent consumable elements are all the same within the groups.

26. The carrier tape according to claim 16, characterized in that the distances between adjacent groups are all the same.

27. The carrier tape according to claim 16, characterized in that the consumable elements in the stack form at least two consumable element stacks disposed next to one another.

28. The carrier tape according to claim 27, characterized in that adjacent consumable elements are always disposed in different consumable element stacks.

29. The carrier tape according to claim 16, characterized in that the individual layers of the stack have the same length.

30. A magazine comprising a chamber in which a carrier tape folded into a stack according to claim 16 is disposed.

31. The magazine according to claim 30, characterized by a reeling device for reeling the carrier tape.

32. A carrier tape comprising a plurality of consumable elements for a system for determining an analyte concentration of a human or animal bodily fluid, wherein the tape is folded in a zigzag shape into a stack, and the consumables in the carrier tape stack form at least three consumable element stacks disposed next to one another.