Patent ID: 7888130

Claim:
A process for detecting analytes from fluid samples by means of a test cassette, the process comprising: providing a housing with an inlet opening and with a reservoir for receiving a fluid sample with the analyte; providing a separate carrier platform, which can be displaced horizontally in said housing selectively toward, and selectively away from, said reservoir; providing a plurality of flexible, strip-like capillary-active detection elements, for analytes, on the carrier platform in the housing; inserting a fluid sample into the reservoir in the housing of the test cassette; providing a reading/evaluating device; placing said housing with said carrier platform in a reading/evaluating device; said reading/evaluating device selectively moving said carrier platform inside said housing from an inoperative position toward said reservoir to deflect the detection elements such that the detection elements dip into the reservoir for receiving the fluid sample; said reading/evaluating device selectively moving said carrier platform away from said reservoir to remove the detection elements from the reservoir and arrange said carrier platform in a reading/evaluating position; and measuring a biochemical detection reaction by means of said reading/evaluating device on the capillary-active detection elements in said reading/evaluating position to determine the concentration of the analytes.