Patent ID: 7727166

Claim:
An integrated lancet and test strip comprising: a substantially flat lancet assembly comprising: a lancet comprising: a lancet body having a lancet tip end, a sinuous portion end, and an enclosed slot completely through said lancet body between said lancet tip end and said sinuous portion end; a lancet tip directly connected to said lancet tip end; a sinuous portion directly connected to said sinuous portion end; and an anchor portion directly connected to said sinuous portion; and a lancet enclosure having an elongated chamber having a needle end, an anchor structure in communication with said elongated chamber opposite said needle end, and an enclosed lancet enclosure slot in a bottom of said lancet enclosure and spaced from said needle end wherein said lancet is disposed within said elongated chamber and the length of said lancet occupies substantially all of the length of said elongated chamber between said anchor structure and said needle end to locate said enclosed slot of said lancet body in a relatively fixed initial position within said lancet enclosure, said enclosed lancet enclosure slot being in communication with said elongated chamber and communicating with said lancet body slot wherein said enclosed lancet enclosure slot and said lancet body slot are configured to laterally receive a lancet driver that depends on said relatively fixed initial position of said enclosed slot of said lancet body for laterally engaging into said enclosed slot of said lancet body only during movement of said lancet driver when driving into said enclosed slot only after said lancet driver is activated to drive said lancet body from a rest position to an extended position; and a test strip attached to said lancet assembly and enclosing said lancet within said elongated chamber of said lancet enclosure.