Patent ID: 9066699
Filing Date: 2015-06-30
Classification: A61B

Abstract:
1. A lancing device, comprising: a housing adapted for receiving in use a replaceable lancet introduced into said housing, the housing having a threaded forward end; a drive provided in the housing, the drive being actuable to drive said lancet momentarily to project a tip of the lancet from the forward end of the housing; and a nose portion moveably mounted to the forward end of the housing and having an aperture through which said lancet projects when fired, said nose portion being threadedly engaged with the threaded forward end of said housing to allow a penetration depth of said lancet tip to be pre-set, wherein said nose portion is resiliently deformable between an undeformed position in which the nose portion is locked against rotation relative to the housing, and a deformed position in which the nose portion is free to rotate relative to the housing, wherein application of pressure to opposed external regions of said nose portion causes bodily deformation of the nose portion into the deformed position.