Patent ID: 7998160

Claim:
A lancing device for use with a removable lancet, comprising: a housing; a lancet carrier slidably disposed within the housing and adapted to receive the lancet; an ejection slide mounted to the housing and configured to move a first direction from an at rest position when ejecting the lancet from the lancet carrier and to move a second direction to the at rest position after ejecting the lancet; and a locking member comprising a first arm and a second arm, the locking member contacted by the ejection slide to move the locking member into blocking engagement with the lancet carrier to prevent forward movement of the lancet carrier when the ejection slide ejects the lancet, the ejection slide comprising a front-facing surface and a rear-facing surface defining therebetween a recess to receive a portion of the of the second arm when the ejection slide is at the at rest position, the rear-facing surface configured to engage the second arm to move the locking member out of blocking engagement with the lancet carrier when the ejection slide moves in the second direction to the at rest position.