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Measuring device for use with a test strip

  • US 6,180,063 B1
  • Filed: 02/18/1999
  • Issued: 01/30/2001
  • Est. Priority Date: 04/09/1997
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A measuring device for evaluating, optically or by electrical current measurement, a test field (32) of a rectangular card (18) received in an envelope (12) and having a number of test strips (20) connected with one another along tear lines (22), each of which test strips (20) contain one of said test fields (32), which envelope (12) includes a main section (24) and a head section (22) tearable from said head section along a separation line running parallel to said tear lines (22), and which main section of said envelope (12) has edge regions containing recesses (30), said device comprising:

  • a device housing (38) with a test strip support surface (40) as well as a measuring optic system or contact mechanism, an evaluation and control circuit and an indicator unit (42) arranged in the housing, said test strip support surface (40) being formed to receive a test strip envelope (12) such as aforesaid after said head section has been removed from said main section leaving said card at least partially received in said main section, an arresting element (44) intended to be received in one of said recesses (30) in the main section of the envelope (12), and a stop (46) so positioned relative to the measuring optic system or contact mechanism that upon placement of a test strip (20) at a predetermined position on the stop (46) the test field (32) of the test strip (20) lies in the region of the measuring beam of the measuring optic or in the region of the contact mechanism.

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