DEVICE FOR HANDLING MANY SENSORS IN GLUCOSE MONITORING DEVICE

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obtain a sensor dispenser suitable for handling a large number of sensors being used in the analysis of glucose in blood. SOLUTION: The sensor dispenser comprises a sensor magazine 26 having a plurality of sensor slots each containing one fluid sensor, a pivot means 28 for sustaining the sensor magazine 26 in a magazine opening 24 and arranging the sensor magazine 26 such that one of a plurality of sensor slots is matched with a feeding means 58, and an indexing means for turning the pivot means 28. The feeding means 58 is advanced and passed into a matched sensor slot such that one sensor in the sensor slot is arranged at a test position. The feeding means 58 is advanced furthermore so that the sensor is discharged from a dispenser 20.