摘要 |
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a single-use lancet cartridge for insertion into a multi-use lancet driver assembly.SOLUTION: A single-use lancet cartridge 10 includes: an elongated lancet housing 20 with an open end; a lancet located within the lancet housing 20 and movable between a retracted and resting orientation to a piercing orientation through the open end; and a re-use prevention component 70 incorporated within the lancet cartridge 10 and configured to cooperatively engage with a driver piston of the multi-use lancet driver assembly only one time thereby preventing the lancet from being moved into the piercing orientation a second time. The single-use lancet cartridge meter is used to receive the multi-use lancet driver assembly. |