Patent ID: 6689320
Filing Date: 2004-02-10
Classification: G01N

Abstract:
A measuring system with a test strip (20) having at least one test field (30), and a measuring device (10) for optically or by means of electric current measuring the test field (30), with a code carrier (28) materially separate from the test strip (20), which code carrier (28) carries coded information concerning the manufacturing of the test strip (20) or the measurement to be carried out in connection with the test strip, characterized by an adapter (26) couplable with the measuring device (10) and connectable with the code carrier (28) so that the adapter (26) releasably holds the code carrier (28), by the measuring device (10) having a first opening including an adapter recess (24) for receiving and releasably retaining the adapter (26) while the code carrier (28) is held on the adapter (26), by the measuring device (10) having a second opening including a strip insertion opening (18) for receiving the test strip, and by the measuring device (10) being adapted both to read the code carrier (28) when the adapter (20) with the code carrier held thereon is in the adapter recess (24) and to read the test strip (20) when the test strip is in the test strip insertion opening (18).