Lancing device with floating lancet
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1. A lancing device comprising:
- a drive mechanism comprising a drive spring and a carrier driven by the drive spring; and
a lancet that is decoupled from the drive mechanism and slidably floats relative to the carrier during at least a portion of a lancing stroke,further comprising a housing defining an axial chamber,wherein the carrier comprises;
a carriage slidably received in the housing chamber, the carriage defining a bore that slidably receives the lancet; and
one or more wings extending outwardly of the housing, wherein the lancing device is armed by retracting the wings to a cocked position with the carrier in a retracted position,further comprising one or more struts extending between the carriage and the wings, and projecting through one or more slots in the housing, wherein, after the lancing device is fired but before the lancet reaches an extended position, the carrier is stopped by the carrier struts engaging one or more stop surfaces defined by the housing slots.
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Abstract
A lancing device including a drive mechanism with a drive spring and a lancet carrier engaged and driven by the drive spring, and further including a lancet with a sharp lancing tip, wherein the lancet floats relative to the carrier and is decoupled from the drive mechanism during at least a portion of a lancing stroke. In one example embodiment the lancet is held in a sled that floats in the carrier, and in another example embodiment the lancet by itself floats in the carrier.
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1. A lancing device comprising:
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a drive mechanism comprising a drive spring and a carrier driven by the drive spring; and a lancet that is decoupled from the drive mechanism and slidably floats relative to the carrier during at least a portion of a lancing stroke, further comprising a housing defining an axial chamber, wherein the carrier comprises; a carriage slidably received in the housing chamber, the carriage defining a bore that slidably receives the lancet; and one or more wings extending outwardly of the housing, wherein the lancing device is armed by retracting the wings to a cocked position with the carrier in a retracted position, further comprising one or more struts extending between the carriage and the wings, and projecting through one or more slots in the housing, wherein, after the lancing device is fired but before the lancet reaches an extended position, the carrier is stopped by the carrier struts engaging one or more stop surfaces defined by the housing slots. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12)
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13. A lancing device comprising:
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a housing defining an axial chamber; a lancet moveable through a lancing stroke between a retracted position and an extended position; and a drive mechanism including a drive spring and a carrier, wherein the carrier comprising a carriage slidably received in the housing chamber, the carriage defining a bore that slidably receives the lancet, one or more wings extending outwardly of the housing, and one or more struts extending between the carriage and the wings and projecting through one or more slots in the housing, wherein the lancing device is armed by retracting the wings to a cocked position with the carrier in the retracted position and, after the lancing device is fired, the carrier is driven by the drive spring and in response thereto engages and drives the lancet through a first portion of the lancing stroke until the carrier is stopped by the carrier struts engaging one or more stop surface defined by the housing slots, and the lancet is decoupled from the carrier and inertially propelled through a second portion of the lancing stroke after the carrier is stopped. - View Dependent Claims (14)
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15. A lancing device comprising:
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a housing; a lancet defining at least one contact surface; a drive mechanism including a drive member that engages and drives the lancet; and an endcap that rotates relative to the housing and that has a plurality of stop surface that are selectively aligned with and engaged by the lancet contact surface to limit forward lancet movement, wherein the drive member comprises a carriage that receives the lancet and that has a flared proximal section defining a flared bore that receives the endcap stop surfaces not aligned with and engaged by the lancet body engagement surface. - View Dependent Claims (16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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