TEST UNIT FOR USE IN A TEST DEVICE AND TEST SYSTEM
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Abstract
The invention concerns a test system comprising a test device which has a lancing drive and an optical measuring device, and at least one test unit that is inserted into the test device as a disposable article, preferably in a magazine. According to the invention it is proposed that the measuring device can be directly coupled to a detection element of the test unit by means of an optics adapter on the device side, where a free end of the spring-loaded optics adapter lies against the detection element in a force-locking manner.
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- 16. A test unit for use in a test device for a single-use analysis of a body fluid, the test unit comprising a lancing element that can be inserted into the skin of a user and an analytical detection element that can be loaded with body fluid from the skin, which detection element comprises a reagent layer which reacts with an analyte in the body fluid and a transparent carrier plate coated with the reagent layer, wherein the detection element is attached rigidly to the lancing element and can be loaded with body fluid via a capillary channel of the lancing element, and the carrier plate forms an optical interface for photometric measurement value detection at a connecting face facing away from the reagent layer that can be brought into direct abutment with an optics adapter of the device.
- 26. A test system comprising a test device which has a lancing drive and an optical measuring device, and at least one test unit inserted into the test device as a disposable article, the test unit comprising a lancing element that can be inserted into the skin of a user and an analytical detection element that can be loaded with body fluid from the skin and that comprises a reagent layer which reacts with an analyte in the body fluid and a transparent carrier plate coated with the reagent layer, wherein the carrier plate is formed as a blank from a foil and the measuring device can be directly coupled to the carrier plate by means of an optics adapter of the device, where a free end of the optics adapter abuts against the carrier plate in a force-locking manner.
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