Patent ID: 8690797

Claim:
A piercing system comprising a carrier tape, which carries piercing elements and test elements for testing a sample of bodily fluid obtained by pricking, the test elements being disposed between the piercing elements, wherein the piercing elements each have a sample receiving means configured to receive the sample, a piercing drive for causing a pricking movement of piercing elements, a carrier tape holder coupled to the piercing drive and holding a segment of the carrier tape, the carrier tape holder moving, together with this segment and a piercing element carried by the segment, in the pricking direction during pricking, a wind-up reel, for moving the carrier tape by winding in a tape transport direction, a measuring device for measuring an analyte concentration in a sample of bodily fluid collected by a test element, a guide configured to guide a segment of the carrier tape having an unused test element past a carrier tape segment, which is disposed in the carrier tape holder or behind the carrier tape holder in the tape transport direction, and wherein the carrier tape holder is configured to press said two carrier tape segments against one another for transferring a sample from the piercing element to the test element.