Test strip measuring system
First Claim
1. A measuring system with a test strip (20) having at least one test field (30), and a measuring device (10) for optically or by means of electric current measuring the test field (30), with a code carrier (28) materially separate from the test strip (20), which code carrier (28) carries coded information concerning the manufacturing of the test strip (20) or the measurement to be carried out in connection with the test strip, characterized by an adapter (26) couplable with the measuring device (10) and connectable with the code carrier (28) so that the adapter (26) releasably holds the code carrier (28), by the measuring device (10) having a first opening including an adapter recess (24) for receiving and releasably retaining the adapter (26) while the code carrier (28) is held on the adapter (26), by the measuring device (10) having a second opening including a strip insertion opening (18) for receiving the test strip, and by the measuring device (10) being adapted both to read the code carrier (28) when the adapter (20) with the code carrier held thereon is in the adapter recess (24) and to read the test strip (20) when the test strip is in the test strip insertion opening (18).
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Abstract
In a test strip measuring system, such as for measuring the concentration of certain substances in body fluids, the system consists of a test strip onto which the fluid to be investigated is applied, and a measuring device into which the test strip is inserted for making the desired measurements. The system further includes a code carrier with a memory storing information concerning the manufacturing of the test strip and/or the measurement to be carried out in using the test strip. Still further, the system includes an adapter through which the code carrier is connectable with a data processing unit for the measuring device. On one hand, the adapter allows one and the same code carrier to be used with different measuring device and on the other hand allows different code carriers to be used with one and the same measuring devices.
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16 Claims
- 1. A measuring system with a test strip (20) having at least one test field (30), and a measuring device (10) for optically or by means of electric current measuring the test field (30), with a code carrier (28) materially separate from the test strip (20), which code carrier (28) carries coded information concerning the manufacturing of the test strip (20) or the measurement to be carried out in connection with the test strip, characterized by an adapter (26) couplable with the measuring device (10) and connectable with the code carrier (28) so that the adapter (26) releasably holds the code carrier (28), by the measuring device (10) having a first opening including an adapter recess (24) for receiving and releasably retaining the adapter (26) while the code carrier (28) is held on the adapter (26), by the measuring device (10) having a second opening including a strip insertion opening (18) for receiving the test strip, and by the measuring device (10) being adapted both to read the code carrier (28) when the adapter (20) with the code carrier held thereon is in the adapter recess (24) and to read the test strip (20) when the test strip is in the test strip insertion opening (18).
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