Patent ID: 9737253
Date: 2017-08-22
CPC Classifications: A61B,A61M,G01N

Claim:
1. A portable medical apparatus comprising: a lancet for, in a sampling mode, making a prick, lesion or incision to expose at least one sample of a fluid from an object; at least one test strip for, in a determining mode, determining at least one parameter of the exposed fluid sample; an injector for, in an injecting mode, performing at least one injection of an injection medium, wherein the lancet, test strip(s), and injector are separate devices that are operable independently of each other; a single common housing for encasing at least the lancet, test strip(s), and injector, the common housing comprising a hollow body having a first part and a second part; a switch configured to be rotatable with the first part and second part in opposite directions for switching between the sampling, determining and injection modes for exposing the lancet, test strip(s), and injector, respectively; and actuation means for individually actuating each of the lancet, test strip(s), and injector, wherein the first part of the common housing includes an exterior part of the actuation means, and has an end opposite to the exterior part of the actuation means that is in operative communication with the second part, wherein the second part has an operating end from which the injector is exposed along or about a longitudinal axis of the common housing and from which the lancet or test strip(s) is/are exposed in a direction along an axis radially spaced from the longitudinal axis, wherein the injector and lancet are configured to be exposed via separate openings, and wherein at least the lancet, test strip(s) and injector are located in the common housing alongside or concentric to each other.