Patent ID: 7374546

Claim:
A device for sampling a bodily fluid from an incision in skin, comprising: a lancet having a lancet tip to form the incision in the skin; a housing coupled to the lancet, the housing defining at least in part a capillary channel with an opening, the capillary channel being sized to draw the bodily fluid from the incision via capillary action; the lancet tip extending from the capillary channel opening, the lancet tip being immovable relative to the housing; a flexible sheet having a sampling end portion extending from the opening of the capillary channel; the sampling end portion being flexible to bend against the skin as the lancet forms the incision; and the sampling end portion of the flexible sheet being at least as long as the lancet tip to draw the bodily fluid into the opening of the capillary channel when the lancet tip is retracted from the incision.