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Device for sampling bodily fluids

  • US 7,604,604 B2
  • Filed: 09/09/2004
  • Issued: 10/20/2009
  • Est. Priority Date: 09/09/2004
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. Apparatus for sampling bodily fluids comprising:

  • an elongated lancing medium having a skin piercing end adapted to be displaced against a skin site for making an incision,a transport medium separated from said lancing medium and adapted to retain a droplet of bodily fluid from the incision between said transport medium and said elongated lancing medium by capillary action, the retained droplet being held relatively stationary with respect to the transport medium,one of said lancing and transport mediums having hydrophobic material on its surface and the other having hydrophilic material on its surface, anda mechanism for displacing said transport medium relative to said lancing medium, said mechanism adapted to move the droplet of bodily fluid retained by said transport medium away from said skin site.

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