Patent ID: 9151742
Filing Date: 2015-10-06
Classification: A61B,G01N

Abstract:
1. A hand-held medical device comprising: a housing with a cassette compartment; an exchangeable test tape cassette received in the cassette compartment; and a drive assembly comprising an electric motor and a gear arrangement adapted for rotating a tape spool of the test tape cassette, wherein a test tape of the test tape cassette can be wound forwards and test elements thereon can be provided for successive use, wherein the gear arrangement has a worm drive in which a worm meshes with a worm wheel and a multistage speed-reducing unit comprising a plurality of spur gears arranged between the worm wheel and an output gear directly coupled to the tape spool, wherein each of the plurality of spur gears has at least about 10 teeth, and wherein the worm is directly mounted on a motor shaft of the electric motor.