Patent ID: 7670300

Claim:
An apparatus for lancing skin and collecting a liquid sample comprising: a housing sized to be handheld and having an outer periphery; a rotatable arm rotatably positioned in the housing and having an end movable in an arc from a first predefined position to a second predefined position and then a third predefined position, the end of the rotatable arm being configured to move in a single direction from the first predefined position to the second predefined position to the third predefined position; a lance for lancing skin, the lance being movable with the end of the rotatable arm, the lance being fully within the outer periphery of the housing when the end of the rotatable arm is in the first predefined position and the lance extends beyond the outer periphery of the housing as the arm is rotating from the first predefined position to the second predefined position to create a lance site in skin of a user, the lance being configured to rotate through an arc to lance the skin as the arm is rotated from the first predefined position to the second predefined position; and a sample collection area movable with the end of the arm in general fixed relation to the lance as the arm moves between the first, second and third predefined positions, the sample collection area being positioned within an effective range of the lance site to collect the liquid sample from the lance site when the arm is at the third predefined position, the sample collection area being distinct and separate from the lance.