Patent ID: 8202232

Claim:
Lancing system having a lancet carrier tape that supports a plurality of lancets arranged transversely to its longitudinal direction; a transport means serving to move the lancet carrier tape in a transport along a transport path and to thereby move lancets of the lancet carrier tape one after the other to a puncturing position; and a lancing drive for causing a lancet that occupies a puncturing position to perform a puncturing movement, wherein during a puncturing movement the lancing drive moves a lancet, that has been brought to a puncturing position, in the puncturing direction together with a portion of the lancet carrier tape on which that lancet is supported and that once a lancet has been moved to the puncturing position at least one element of the transport means, arranged behind the puncturing position in the transport direction, performs a compensating movement before or during the puncturing movement of that lancet; and wherein the lancet remains fixed to the portion of the lancet carrier tape during the puncturing movement, wherein the compensating movement allows the lancet and the portion of the lancet carrier tape to move together during the puncturing movement.