Patent ID: 7678126

Claim:
For use in combination with a lancet device including a lancet disposed within a housing and structured to move into a piercing orientation wherein a piercing tip of the lancet protrudes from a piercing aperture defined in the housing, a lancet depth adjustment assembly comprising: a depth adjustment element, said depth adjustment element secured in at least partially overlying relation to a piercing aperture of a housing; said depth adjustment element including a piercing access, said piercing access including at least one opening structured to permit passage of a piercing tip of a lancet therethrough; said depth adjustment element structured and disposed to be at least temporarily and at least partially interposed between a finger and the piercing aperture so as to define a spacing between the finger and the piercing aperture, and accordingly a depth to which the piercing tip penetrates the finger; said depth adjustment element having an interior surface and an exterior surface disposed in at least partially overlying relation to the piercing aperture of the housing, said exterior surface comprising a stepped configuration including a plurality of steps disposed in an exteriorly exposed location on said adjustment element, each of said plurality of steps disposed at a different spacing from the piercing aperture and structured to independently engage and maintain the finger at a corresponding one of said different spacings from the piercing aperture, and said piercing access extending at least partially along a length of said depth adjustment element so as to permit the passage of the piercing tip therethrough when said depth adjustment element is disposed in overlying relation to the piercing aperture in at least two distinct piercing locations.