CA1187610A - Device for the optical identification of a coding on a diagnostic test strip - Google Patents
Device for the optical identification of a coding on a diagnostic test stripInfo
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Abstract
ABSTRACT OF THE DISCLOSURE
The present invention provides a device for the optical identification of a bar coding on a diagnostic test strip in an evaluation device in which the test strip is positively movable relative to a reading device for the coding, with a source of light as a transmitter and a light-sensitive element as a receiver, wherein the bar coding has a high information density, between the test strip and the transmitter and/or between the test strip and the receiver there is, in each case, present a slit aperture and a cylindrical lens, the lens axis runs parallel to the test strip surface carrying the coding and to the code bars, the aperture slit lies in the plane defined by the cylinder axis and the transmitter or receiver and the distance between the lens axis and the test strip surface is substantially such that the focus lines of the lens lie approximately in the test strip surface.
The present invention provides a device for the optical identification of a bar coding on a diagnostic test strip in an evaluation device in which the test strip is positively movable relative to a reading device for the coding, with a source of light as a transmitter and a light-sensitive element as a receiver, wherein the bar coding has a high information density, between the test strip and the transmitter and/or between the test strip and the receiver there is, in each case, present a slit aperture and a cylindrical lens, the lens axis runs parallel to the test strip surface carrying the coding and to the code bars, the aperture slit lies in the plane defined by the cylinder axis and the transmitter or receiver and the distance between the lens axis and the test strip surface is substantially such that the focus lines of the lens lie approximately in the test strip surface.
Description
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The present invention is concerned with a device and method for the optical identification of a coding on a diagnostic test strip in an evaluation device in which the test strip is positively movable relative to a reading device for the coding, with a source of light as a transmitter and a light-sensitive element as a receiver.
A device of this kind is known from U.S. Patent SpeciEication No. 3,907,503 in which the coding con-sists of a code block applied to a transparent teststrip. In the case of this known device, the coding consists in the distance between this code block and the first adjacent test field of the test strip. For the measurement, the test strip is positively guided between a source of light and a photoreceiver. The light emitted from the source of light is received by the photoreceiver through the test strip. In the case of a uniform movement of the test strip, the time gap between the interruption of the light beam by the code block and by the first test field can be used as a coding for a certain information. In the present case, various types of strips differ by the distances between code field and the first test field and by the position of the code field on the test strip.
The known device can certainly be used for read-ing off very simple information from test strips. How-ever, it would be desirable if more information could
The present invention is concerned with a device and method for the optical identification of a coding on a diagnostic test strip in an evaluation device in which the test strip is positively movable relative to a reading device for the coding, with a source of light as a transmitter and a light-sensitive element as a receiver.
A device of this kind is known from U.S. Patent SpeciEication No. 3,907,503 in which the coding con-sists of a code block applied to a transparent teststrip. In the case of this known device, the coding consists in the distance between this code block and the first adjacent test field of the test strip. For the measurement, the test strip is positively guided between a source of light and a photoreceiver. The light emitted from the source of light is received by the photoreceiver through the test strip. In the case of a uniform movement of the test strip, the time gap between the interruption of the light beam by the code block and by the first test field can be used as a coding for a certain information. In the present case, various types of strips differ by the distances between code field and the first test field and by the position of the code field on the test strip.
The known device can certainly be used for read-ing off very simple information from test strips. How-ever, it would be desirable if more information could
- 2 -be accommodated on the test strip and, for example in the case of the introduction of the test strip into the evaluation device, could be transmitted to its electronic store.
For the accommodation of a greater amount of information, there is, on the other hand, only a very small space available on the test strip. This leads to a correspondingly high information density with corresponding problems with regard to certainty and lack of disturbance of the transmission.
Therefore, it is an object of the present invention to provide a simple and economically produc-ible device for the optical identification of a coding on a diagnostic test strip in an evaluation device with positive movement, with which a dependable and low-disturbance transmission of the information stored in the coding is also possible in the case o~ high information density of the coding.
Thus, in one embodiment of the invention, there is provided a device for the optical identification of a bar coding on a diagnostic test strip in an evaluation device in which the test strip is positively movable relative to a reading device for the coding, with a source of light as a transmitter and a light-sensitive element as a receiver, wherein the bar coding has a high information density, between the test strip and the transmitter and/or between the test strip-and the -- - 3 ~ 7~
receiver there is, in each case, present a slit aperture and a lens especially a cylindrical lens in which the lens axis runs parallel to the test strip surface carrying the coding and to the code bars, the aperture slit lies in the plane defined by the cylinder axis and the transmitter or receiver and the distance between the lens axis and the test strip surface is substantially such that the focus lines of the lens lie at least approximately in the test strip surface.
The transmitter and the receiver are preferably arranged on the same side of the test strip.
As the bar code, there can be used an~such coding which can be applied to a test strip. The bar code consists of a plurality of bars applied parallel to one another, as a rule of differing thickness and at differing distances, on the information carrier.
A bar code of high information density is to be under-stood to be a coding with more than about lO,preferably 20 bit information per cm.
The lens may particularly be cylindroidal lens or especially preferably a cylindrical lens positioned a short distance above the test strip serves for focussing the recei~er or transmitter beam of the reading device on to the lines of the bar code. This could be achieved with the help of a spherical lens which is otherwise usual for bar code readers. However, for the special conditions in the case of a test strip, a spherical lens is less well suited since, in the case o~ ~
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the high in~ormation density, such as is necessary for the coding on test strips, a very sharp focussing i5 necessary due to which even the smallest non-uniformities or errors of the bar code would lead to false reading reslllts. However, such small errors cannot be dependably avoided under the production conditions prevailing in the production of test strips.
Especially preferably, a common cylindrical lens is provided for the receiver and transmitter, the receiver and transmitter being preferably but not necessarily behind a common slit. By means of this arrangement, the advantages provided in any case by the use of a cylindrical lens are even better utilised. 'rhe cylindrical lens preferably has the same length as the bar code. The total bar code length is thereby simult-aneously imaged on the receiver, i.e. the receiver sees the integral of the test strip surface lying approximately in the ocus line of the cylindrical lens over the whole ~readth of the bar code. A combination of great slope steepness, optimal for the conditions in the case of test strips, can thereby be achieved in an ideal manner with simultaneous safety from error of the evaluation.
To a certain extent, these two requirements are counter to one another. Thus, the sharper is the imaging in the case of a bar code reader, the higher is the slope steepness~ However/ at the same time, the danger increases that small contaminations or errors in the - 5 - 1~76 ~
printing of the bar code carrier are falsely indicated as signals and then, for example, lead to false measurement results.
For the conditions prevailing in the case of the usual diagnostic test strips, it must be possible also dependably to identify bar codes with less than 0.2 mm.
breadth if it is desired to accommodate thereon a comparatively large amount of information, for example 60 bit. For optical and constructional reasons known 10 readers cannot achieve the resolution necessary herefor in the case of simultaneously sufficient safety from error.
In a further embodiment the invention provides a device for the optical identification of a high information density bar coding on a diagnostic test strip comprising:
means to supportingly guide a test strip having a high information density bar coding with a positive movement, a source of light as a transmitter and a light-sensitive element as a receiver, a slit aperture having a slot therein and a cylin-drical lens disposed between said means to suppor~ingly guide and said at least one of said transmitter and said receiver, said lens having a lens axis and said means to supportingly guide being adapted to support said test strip such that the lens and the test strip surface carrying the code bars are in opposed, spaced apart relationship, said slot lying in a plane defined by the lens axis and ..~
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said at least one cf the transmitter and receiver, said lens being disposed relative to said means for supportingly guiding such that the distance between said lens axis and a code-bearing surface of a test strip supportingly guided by said means is substantially such that the focus lines of the lens lie at least approximately on the code bearing surface.
The invention also provides a method for optical iden~ification of a high information density bar coding on a diagnostic strip.
The method, in a further aspect of the invention particularly comprises supportingly guiding a high information density bar coded diagnostic test strip relative to a reading device for the coding, transmitting light from a transmitter of said reading device to a surface of said test strip bearing said coding and receiving light from said surface at a receiver of said reading device, passing at least one of the transmitted light and the received light through a slot of a slit aperture and a cylindrical lens to provide an image formed by said at least one of said transmitted light and said receivedlight, said lens being disposed such that the distance between the lens axis and the code bearing surface is substantiall~v such that the focus lines of the lens lie at least approximately in the test strip surface, said slot lying in a plane defined by the lens axis and at least one of said transmitter and said receiver.
The invention is illustrated by reference to a particular and preferred embodiment by reference to the accompanying drawings, in which:
Figure 1 is a schematic perspective view of the arrange-ment of the elements necessary for the present invention' and Figure 2 is a perspective exploded view of a practical embodiment of a device according to the present invention.
In Fig. 1, there can be seen a part of a test strip 10 which is positively movable in the direction of the arrow 12 under a bar code reader indicated in its totality by the reference 14. The positive guiding, which may be provided by guiding and supporting means (not shown), which guides and supports test strip 10 beneath reader 14 in the direction of arrow 12, thereby provides for a direct movement in the direction of the longitudinal axis of the test strip, the test strip 10 thereby being 90 guided that the distance between the code reader 14 and the surface of the test strip 15 remains practically constant.
On the surface of the test strip, there is pro-vided a bar coding 18 which consists of individual code bars 20, which vary in their breadth and in their distance apart. The bar codes run parallel to one another and at rightangles to the longitudinal direction of the test strip and thus to the direction of movement indicated ~y the arrow 12.
The code reading device 14 comprises a trans-mitter 22, a r~ceiver 24, a slit aperture 26 and a cylindrical lens 28. The cylindrical lens 28 is, in the illustrated preferred embodiment, constructed as a circular cylinder, the cylindrical axis of which is indicated by the reference A. Between the transmitter 22 and the receiver 24 there is present a light stop (not illustrated) ~y means of which the action of scattered light from the transmitter 22 on the receiver 24 is avoided. The slot 30 in the s;it aperture 26 is illuminated by the transmitter 2~. The cylindrical lens 28 provides for an imaging of the illuminated slot 30 on the test strip surface 16. In the illustrated embodiment, the same cylindrical lens 28, the length of which corresponds to about that of the code bar 20, provides for the imaging of the bar code on the receiver 24.
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In the illustrated embodiment, the transmitter 22, the receiver 24, the slot 30 and the cylindrical lens 28 are present in a plane which runs at right-angles to the test strip surface, an optimum utilis-ation of the intensity of the light transmitter 22 and a substantially distortion-free imaging thereby being achieved .
In the illustrated embodiment, the lens 28 is Eormed as a circular cylinder. Such an 10 embodiment is especially economic to produce and is easy to incorporate. However, other cylindroidal cross-sections can also be used for the purpose according to the present invention, for example a semicircle or other lens-shaped cross-section which leads to a concentration of the beams from the trans-mitter 22 or to the receiver 24. These non-cixcular cy-lindrical shapes often have better imaging properties but, in practice, it has been found that the imaging quality achievable with a circular cylindrical lens is 20 sufficient for the present purpose.
The cylindricallens 28, formed as a circular cylinder, preferably has a diameter of less than 2 mm. and especially of less than 1 mm. In the case of a circular cylindrical lens, the focal length of the lens is determined by the diameter. Thus, in the case of a small diameter, there is provided a small focal length and thus a smaller distance between the g7~
cylindrical lens 28 and the test strip surface 16~
This is advantageous ~ecause a compact construction of the code reader 14 can thereby be achieved.
Furthermore, when using a small cylindrical lens, favourable imaging conditions are provided for practical use. In an especially preferred embodiment, the cylindrical lens has a diameter of 1 mm. and a focal length of 0.75 mm. The distance between the cylinder axis A and the plane of the slit aperture 26 ls 8 mm., the slot thereby being 0.2 mm. wide. In the case of these conditions, the slot is sharply imaged in a ', so-called "image plane" below the cylindrical lens, which lies 0.83 mm. below the axis A of the cylindrical lens. Nevertheless, in practice, it has been found that an especially dependable evaluation of the coding is possible when the distance between the cylindrical lens 28 and the test strip surface 16 is slightly smaller, e.g. only 0.7 mm or 0.6 mm.With the distance between the cylin-drical lens axis A and the test strip surface 16 shortened to such an extent with regard to the position of the focal plane, there is achieved a sufficient slope steepness of the signals in the case of simultaneous substantial freedom from disturbance and minimum contamination of the cylindrical lens. In the case of the dimensions given by way of example, bars of 0.04 mm. breadth can still be identified practically free of error. ~owever, it is important that the test ~ . . . .
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strip surface is, in principle, present at such a distance from the cylindrical lens axis A that the focus line of the cylindrical lens lies substantiaJly in the test strip surface.
In the case of a very great distance between the slot 30 to be imaged and the lens 28, the image plane, in which the slot is sharply imaged, coincides substantially with the focus line of the cylindrical lens. In practice, we have found that especially good measurement results are achieved when the distance between the slit aperture 26 and the cylindrical lens 28 is at least about ten times as great as the focal length of the lens.
For the evaluation of a coding on a diagnostic test strip, the use of-infra-red light has proved to be especially useful. For this reason, the source of light used as the transmitter is preferably constructed as an infra~red light diode, whereas the receiver is an infra-red sensitive phototransmitter. Such an embodi-ment is especially advantageous for Dàttery-operated devices because infra-red light diodes make possible an especially high intensity with only a low current consumption. Furthermore, in the scope of the present invention, we have found that the usual test strip materials are substantially transparen~ for in~ra-red light although in normal light they are non-transparent, If the bar codes 20 contain metallic co~ponents, such .
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as is preferably the case, then an especially good contrast is o~tained between the reflecting bar code 20 and the weakly absorbing material of the test strip 10 in infra-red light. The transmitter 22 and the receiver 24 preferably carry integrated lenses 32 which concentrate the light on the slit.
Pig.2 illustrates a perspective exploded view of a practical embodiment of the important parts of the device according to the present invention~ The parts corresponding to those of ~ig.l are thereby given the same references provided with an additional dash. There can be seen the cylindrical lens 2~' with its axis A' over a test strip 10', which is provided with a bar coding 18' and is positively guided in the direction of the arrow 12'.
Furthermore, there can be seen the aperture-lens unit 40, the transmitter 22' and the receiver 24' and a transmitter and receiver holder 42. The parts are illustrated pulled apart in the vertical direction but are present in the apparatus in an assembled state in a vertical shaft for the code reader 14', in which they fit exactly.
The aperture-lens unit 40 consists of two identically shaped formed bodies 44, one of which is shown by unbroken lines, whereas the other one is only indicated by chain lines, in order to make the details of the formed bodies recognisable. On the lower end, there can be seen a groove 46, the shape of which corresponds to that of the cylindrical lens 28'. Above on the formed body 44, there is present a ~ridge 48 which, as is to ~e seen from F'igure 2, is only provided on one side of the surface facin~ the other formed ~ody 44~ Since ~oth formed bodies are identical, the opposite-lying formed body has a corresponding bridge 48 which is covered up in the Figu~e and lies against the corresponding countersurface of the formed body shown by unbroken lines~ Between the two bridges, there is present, when the formed bodies a4 lie next to one another, a slot which forms the slit aperture 30'. Under this slot, in Figure 2 an arcuate recess 50 is to be seen in the region of which the surface 52 encompassed by it is slightly recessed with regard to the front surface 54. In the assembled state, the cylindrical lens 28' is placed in the corresponding groove 46 and the two formed bodies are pressed against one another in the (not illustrated) code reader shaft in such a manner that the bridges 48 lie against the front surfaces 54 of the adjacent formed body 44 and, in the lower region, the cylindrical lens 28' is held by the grooves 46. A gap thereby results between the two formed bodies in the region of the front surfaces 54, which distance corresponds to the height of the bridges 48 and defines the breadth of the illu~inatlon s76~
slot 30'. In a preferred embodiment~ this distance is 0.2 mm. In the region of the recess 50, the recess s-rface 52 is, for example, backwardly displaced 0.2 mm.
so that between the tt~o recess surfaces there is provided a light shaft 53 of about 0.5 mm. breadth through ~hich the light from the transmitter 22' passes to the cylindrical lens and -the reflected liyht from the cylindrical lens passes to the receiver 24'.
In the surface 50 of the formed bodies 44, there is provided a groove 62 in which a stop member 64 for the transmitter and receiver holder 42 can be placed.
By means of this stop member 64, a mutual influencing of transmitter 22' and receiver 24l is prevented.
Finally, in Figure 2 there can also be seen the connect-_ ing wires 66 which can be passed through corresponding bores 68 in the transmitter and receiver holder 42 to the appropriate electronic units of the apparatus.
The transmitter and receiver holder 42 has recesses 70 to which the transmitter 22' and the receiver 24' are form-loc~ingly adapted and thus are d~pendably held when the transmitter and receiver holder 42 is placed in the aperture-lens unit 40 and the code reader 14' resulting therefrom is inserted into an appropriate shaft of the device.
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As the guide of supporting means for the test strip there may be employed, for example, a manual.ly operated carriage which will guide the test strip along a specifi.c path beneath the reader.
It will be understood that in this specifica-tion the terms "cylindrical" and "cylinder" are not restricted to bodies of circular cross-section, but additionally embrace lens bodies of non-circular cross-section, for example bodies which may be termed cylin-1 n droidal.
For the accommodation of a greater amount of information, there is, on the other hand, only a very small space available on the test strip. This leads to a correspondingly high information density with corresponding problems with regard to certainty and lack of disturbance of the transmission.
Therefore, it is an object of the present invention to provide a simple and economically produc-ible device for the optical identification of a coding on a diagnostic test strip in an evaluation device with positive movement, with which a dependable and low-disturbance transmission of the information stored in the coding is also possible in the case o~ high information density of the coding.
Thus, in one embodiment of the invention, there is provided a device for the optical identification of a bar coding on a diagnostic test strip in an evaluation device in which the test strip is positively movable relative to a reading device for the coding, with a source of light as a transmitter and a light-sensitive element as a receiver, wherein the bar coding has a high information density, between the test strip and the transmitter and/or between the test strip-and the -- - 3 ~ 7~
receiver there is, in each case, present a slit aperture and a lens especially a cylindrical lens in which the lens axis runs parallel to the test strip surface carrying the coding and to the code bars, the aperture slit lies in the plane defined by the cylinder axis and the transmitter or receiver and the distance between the lens axis and the test strip surface is substantially such that the focus lines of the lens lie at least approximately in the test strip surface.
The transmitter and the receiver are preferably arranged on the same side of the test strip.
As the bar code, there can be used an~such coding which can be applied to a test strip. The bar code consists of a plurality of bars applied parallel to one another, as a rule of differing thickness and at differing distances, on the information carrier.
A bar code of high information density is to be under-stood to be a coding with more than about lO,preferably 20 bit information per cm.
The lens may particularly be cylindroidal lens or especially preferably a cylindrical lens positioned a short distance above the test strip serves for focussing the recei~er or transmitter beam of the reading device on to the lines of the bar code. This could be achieved with the help of a spherical lens which is otherwise usual for bar code readers. However, for the special conditions in the case of a test strip, a spherical lens is less well suited since, in the case o~ ~
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the high in~ormation density, such as is necessary for the coding on test strips, a very sharp focussing i5 necessary due to which even the smallest non-uniformities or errors of the bar code would lead to false reading reslllts. However, such small errors cannot be dependably avoided under the production conditions prevailing in the production of test strips.
Especially preferably, a common cylindrical lens is provided for the receiver and transmitter, the receiver and transmitter being preferably but not necessarily behind a common slit. By means of this arrangement, the advantages provided in any case by the use of a cylindrical lens are even better utilised. 'rhe cylindrical lens preferably has the same length as the bar code. The total bar code length is thereby simult-aneously imaged on the receiver, i.e. the receiver sees the integral of the test strip surface lying approximately in the ocus line of the cylindrical lens over the whole ~readth of the bar code. A combination of great slope steepness, optimal for the conditions in the case of test strips, can thereby be achieved in an ideal manner with simultaneous safety from error of the evaluation.
To a certain extent, these two requirements are counter to one another. Thus, the sharper is the imaging in the case of a bar code reader, the higher is the slope steepness~ However/ at the same time, the danger increases that small contaminations or errors in the - 5 - 1~76 ~
printing of the bar code carrier are falsely indicated as signals and then, for example, lead to false measurement results.
For the conditions prevailing in the case of the usual diagnostic test strips, it must be possible also dependably to identify bar codes with less than 0.2 mm.
breadth if it is desired to accommodate thereon a comparatively large amount of information, for example 60 bit. For optical and constructional reasons known 10 readers cannot achieve the resolution necessary herefor in the case of simultaneously sufficient safety from error.
In a further embodiment the invention provides a device for the optical identification of a high information density bar coding on a diagnostic test strip comprising:
means to supportingly guide a test strip having a high information density bar coding with a positive movement, a source of light as a transmitter and a light-sensitive element as a receiver, a slit aperture having a slot therein and a cylin-drical lens disposed between said means to suppor~ingly guide and said at least one of said transmitter and said receiver, said lens having a lens axis and said means to supportingly guide being adapted to support said test strip such that the lens and the test strip surface carrying the code bars are in opposed, spaced apart relationship, said slot lying in a plane defined by the lens axis and ..~
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said at least one cf the transmitter and receiver, said lens being disposed relative to said means for supportingly guiding such that the distance between said lens axis and a code-bearing surface of a test strip supportingly guided by said means is substantially such that the focus lines of the lens lie at least approximately on the code bearing surface.
The invention also provides a method for optical iden~ification of a high information density bar coding on a diagnostic strip.
The method, in a further aspect of the invention particularly comprises supportingly guiding a high information density bar coded diagnostic test strip relative to a reading device for the coding, transmitting light from a transmitter of said reading device to a surface of said test strip bearing said coding and receiving light from said surface at a receiver of said reading device, passing at least one of the transmitted light and the received light through a slot of a slit aperture and a cylindrical lens to provide an image formed by said at least one of said transmitted light and said receivedlight, said lens being disposed such that the distance between the lens axis and the code bearing surface is substantiall~v such that the focus lines of the lens lie at least approximately in the test strip surface, said slot lying in a plane defined by the lens axis and at least one of said transmitter and said receiver.
The invention is illustrated by reference to a particular and preferred embodiment by reference to the accompanying drawings, in which:
Figure 1 is a schematic perspective view of the arrange-ment of the elements necessary for the present invention' and Figure 2 is a perspective exploded view of a practical embodiment of a device according to the present invention.
In Fig. 1, there can be seen a part of a test strip 10 which is positively movable in the direction of the arrow 12 under a bar code reader indicated in its totality by the reference 14. The positive guiding, which may be provided by guiding and supporting means (not shown), which guides and supports test strip 10 beneath reader 14 in the direction of arrow 12, thereby provides for a direct movement in the direction of the longitudinal axis of the test strip, the test strip 10 thereby being 90 guided that the distance between the code reader 14 and the surface of the test strip 15 remains practically constant.
On the surface of the test strip, there is pro-vided a bar coding 18 which consists of individual code bars 20, which vary in their breadth and in their distance apart. The bar codes run parallel to one another and at rightangles to the longitudinal direction of the test strip and thus to the direction of movement indicated ~y the arrow 12.
The code reading device 14 comprises a trans-mitter 22, a r~ceiver 24, a slit aperture 26 and a cylindrical lens 28. The cylindrical lens 28 is, in the illustrated preferred embodiment, constructed as a circular cylinder, the cylindrical axis of which is indicated by the reference A. Between the transmitter 22 and the receiver 24 there is present a light stop (not illustrated) ~y means of which the action of scattered light from the transmitter 22 on the receiver 24 is avoided. The slot 30 in the s;it aperture 26 is illuminated by the transmitter 2~. The cylindrical lens 28 provides for an imaging of the illuminated slot 30 on the test strip surface 16. In the illustrated embodiment, the same cylindrical lens 28, the length of which corresponds to about that of the code bar 20, provides for the imaging of the bar code on the receiver 24.
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In the illustrated embodiment, the transmitter 22, the receiver 24, the slot 30 and the cylindrical lens 28 are present in a plane which runs at right-angles to the test strip surface, an optimum utilis-ation of the intensity of the light transmitter 22 and a substantially distortion-free imaging thereby being achieved .
In the illustrated embodiment, the lens 28 is Eormed as a circular cylinder. Such an 10 embodiment is especially economic to produce and is easy to incorporate. However, other cylindroidal cross-sections can also be used for the purpose according to the present invention, for example a semicircle or other lens-shaped cross-section which leads to a concentration of the beams from the trans-mitter 22 or to the receiver 24. These non-cixcular cy-lindrical shapes often have better imaging properties but, in practice, it has been found that the imaging quality achievable with a circular cylindrical lens is 20 sufficient for the present purpose.
The cylindricallens 28, formed as a circular cylinder, preferably has a diameter of less than 2 mm. and especially of less than 1 mm. In the case of a circular cylindrical lens, the focal length of the lens is determined by the diameter. Thus, in the case of a small diameter, there is provided a small focal length and thus a smaller distance between the g7~
cylindrical lens 28 and the test strip surface 16~
This is advantageous ~ecause a compact construction of the code reader 14 can thereby be achieved.
Furthermore, when using a small cylindrical lens, favourable imaging conditions are provided for practical use. In an especially preferred embodiment, the cylindrical lens has a diameter of 1 mm. and a focal length of 0.75 mm. The distance between the cylinder axis A and the plane of the slit aperture 26 ls 8 mm., the slot thereby being 0.2 mm. wide. In the case of these conditions, the slot is sharply imaged in a ', so-called "image plane" below the cylindrical lens, which lies 0.83 mm. below the axis A of the cylindrical lens. Nevertheless, in practice, it has been found that an especially dependable evaluation of the coding is possible when the distance between the cylindrical lens 28 and the test strip surface 16 is slightly smaller, e.g. only 0.7 mm or 0.6 mm.With the distance between the cylin-drical lens axis A and the test strip surface 16 shortened to such an extent with regard to the position of the focal plane, there is achieved a sufficient slope steepness of the signals in the case of simultaneous substantial freedom from disturbance and minimum contamination of the cylindrical lens. In the case of the dimensions given by way of example, bars of 0.04 mm. breadth can still be identified practically free of error. ~owever, it is important that the test ~ . . . .
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strip surface is, in principle, present at such a distance from the cylindrical lens axis A that the focus line of the cylindrical lens lies substantiaJly in the test strip surface.
In the case of a very great distance between the slot 30 to be imaged and the lens 28, the image plane, in which the slot is sharply imaged, coincides substantially with the focus line of the cylindrical lens. In practice, we have found that especially good measurement results are achieved when the distance between the slit aperture 26 and the cylindrical lens 28 is at least about ten times as great as the focal length of the lens.
For the evaluation of a coding on a diagnostic test strip, the use of-infra-red light has proved to be especially useful. For this reason, the source of light used as the transmitter is preferably constructed as an infra~red light diode, whereas the receiver is an infra-red sensitive phototransmitter. Such an embodi-ment is especially advantageous for Dàttery-operated devices because infra-red light diodes make possible an especially high intensity with only a low current consumption. Furthermore, in the scope of the present invention, we have found that the usual test strip materials are substantially transparen~ for in~ra-red light although in normal light they are non-transparent, If the bar codes 20 contain metallic co~ponents, such .
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as is preferably the case, then an especially good contrast is o~tained between the reflecting bar code 20 and the weakly absorbing material of the test strip 10 in infra-red light. The transmitter 22 and the receiver 24 preferably carry integrated lenses 32 which concentrate the light on the slit.
Pig.2 illustrates a perspective exploded view of a practical embodiment of the important parts of the device according to the present invention~ The parts corresponding to those of ~ig.l are thereby given the same references provided with an additional dash. There can be seen the cylindrical lens 2~' with its axis A' over a test strip 10', which is provided with a bar coding 18' and is positively guided in the direction of the arrow 12'.
Furthermore, there can be seen the aperture-lens unit 40, the transmitter 22' and the receiver 24' and a transmitter and receiver holder 42. The parts are illustrated pulled apart in the vertical direction but are present in the apparatus in an assembled state in a vertical shaft for the code reader 14', in which they fit exactly.
The aperture-lens unit 40 consists of two identically shaped formed bodies 44, one of which is shown by unbroken lines, whereas the other one is only indicated by chain lines, in order to make the details of the formed bodies recognisable. On the lower end, there can be seen a groove 46, the shape of which corresponds to that of the cylindrical lens 28'. Above on the formed body 44, there is present a ~ridge 48 which, as is to ~e seen from F'igure 2, is only provided on one side of the surface facin~ the other formed ~ody 44~ Since ~oth formed bodies are identical, the opposite-lying formed body has a corresponding bridge 48 which is covered up in the Figu~e and lies against the corresponding countersurface of the formed body shown by unbroken lines~ Between the two bridges, there is present, when the formed bodies a4 lie next to one another, a slot which forms the slit aperture 30'. Under this slot, in Figure 2 an arcuate recess 50 is to be seen in the region of which the surface 52 encompassed by it is slightly recessed with regard to the front surface 54. In the assembled state, the cylindrical lens 28' is placed in the corresponding groove 46 and the two formed bodies are pressed against one another in the (not illustrated) code reader shaft in such a manner that the bridges 48 lie against the front surfaces 54 of the adjacent formed body 44 and, in the lower region, the cylindrical lens 28' is held by the grooves 46. A gap thereby results between the two formed bodies in the region of the front surfaces 54, which distance corresponds to the height of the bridges 48 and defines the breadth of the illu~inatlon s76~
slot 30'. In a preferred embodiment~ this distance is 0.2 mm. In the region of the recess 50, the recess s-rface 52 is, for example, backwardly displaced 0.2 mm.
so that between the tt~o recess surfaces there is provided a light shaft 53 of about 0.5 mm. breadth through ~hich the light from the transmitter 22' passes to the cylindrical lens and -the reflected liyht from the cylindrical lens passes to the receiver 24'.
In the surface 50 of the formed bodies 44, there is provided a groove 62 in which a stop member 64 for the transmitter and receiver holder 42 can be placed.
By means of this stop member 64, a mutual influencing of transmitter 22' and receiver 24l is prevented.
Finally, in Figure 2 there can also be seen the connect-_ ing wires 66 which can be passed through corresponding bores 68 in the transmitter and receiver holder 42 to the appropriate electronic units of the apparatus.
The transmitter and receiver holder 42 has recesses 70 to which the transmitter 22' and the receiver 24' are form-loc~ingly adapted and thus are d~pendably held when the transmitter and receiver holder 42 is placed in the aperture-lens unit 40 and the code reader 14' resulting therefrom is inserted into an appropriate shaft of the device.
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As the guide of supporting means for the test strip there may be employed, for example, a manual.ly operated carriage which will guide the test strip along a specifi.c path beneath the reader.
It will be understood that in this specifica-tion the terms "cylindrical" and "cylinder" are not restricted to bodies of circular cross-section, but additionally embrace lens bodies of non-circular cross-section, for example bodies which may be termed cylin-1 n droidal.
Claims (32)
1. A device for the optical identification of a high information density bar coding on a diagnostic test strip in an evaluation device in which the test strip is positively movable relative to a reading device for the coding, said reading device comprising:
a source of light as a transmitter and a light-sensitive element as a receiver, a slit aperture having a slot therein and a cylindrical lens adapted to lie between the test strip and at least one of the transmitter and receiver, said lens having a lens axis adapted to run parallel to the test strip surface carrying the coding and to the code bars, said slot lying in a plane defined by the cylinder axis and at least one of the transmitter and receiver, said lens being disposed such that the distance between the lens axis and the test strip surface is substantially such that the focus lines of the lens lie approximately in the test strip surface.
a source of light as a transmitter and a light-sensitive element as a receiver, a slit aperture having a slot therein and a cylindrical lens adapted to lie between the test strip and at least one of the transmitter and receiver, said lens having a lens axis adapted to run parallel to the test strip surface carrying the coding and to the code bars, said slot lying in a plane defined by the cylinder axis and at least one of the transmitter and receiver, said lens being disposed such that the distance between the lens axis and the test strip surface is substantially such that the focus lines of the lens lie approximately in the test strip surface.
2. A device according to claim 1, wherein the transmitter and the receiver are adapted to be disposed on the same side of the test strip.
3. A device according to claim 2, wherein said slot is a common slot for the receiver and the transmitter, and said cylindrical lens is a common lens for said receiver and transmitter, the cylindrical lens having about the same length as the code bars.
4. A device according to claim 1,2 or 3 wherein the transmitter, the receiver and the slot are adapted to lie in a plane at right angles to the test strip surface.
5. A device according to claim 1 wherein the cylindrical lens is formed as a circular cylinder with a diameter of less than 2 mm.
6. A device according to claim 5, wherein the lens diameter is at most 1 mm.
7. A device according to claim 1,2 or 3 wherein the distance between the slit aperture and the cylindrical lens is at least about ten times as great as the focal length of the lens.
8. A device according to claim 1,2 or 3 wherein the transmitter is an infra-red light diode and the receiver is an infra-red-sensitive phototransistor, each of which is provided with an integrated beam-concentrating device.
9. A device for the optical identification of a high information density bar coding on a diagnostic test strip comprising:
means to supportingly guide a test strip having a high information density bar coding with a positive movement, a source of light as a transmitter and a light-sensitive element as a receiver, a slit aperture having a slot therein and a cylindrical lens disposed between said means to sup-portingly guide and said at least one of said transmitter and said receiver, said lens having a lens-axis and said means to supportingly guide being adapted to support said test strip such that the lens, and the test strip surface carrying the code bars, are in opposed, spaced apart relationship said slot lying in a plane defined by the lens axis and said at least one of the transmitter and receiver, said lens being disposed relative to said means for supportingly guiding such that the distance between said lens axis and a code-bearing surface of a test strip supportingly guided by said means is substantially such that the focus lines of the lens lie at least approximately on the code bearing surface.
means to supportingly guide a test strip having a high information density bar coding with a positive movement, a source of light as a transmitter and a light-sensitive element as a receiver, a slit aperture having a slot therein and a cylindrical lens disposed between said means to sup-portingly guide and said at least one of said transmitter and said receiver, said lens having a lens-axis and said means to supportingly guide being adapted to support said test strip such that the lens, and the test strip surface carrying the code bars, are in opposed, spaced apart relationship said slot lying in a plane defined by the lens axis and said at least one of the transmitter and receiver, said lens being disposed relative to said means for supportingly guiding such that the distance between said lens axis and a code-bearing surface of a test strip supportingly guided by said means is substantially such that the focus lines of the lens lie at least approximately on the code bearing surface.
10. A device according to claim 9 wherein said transmitter and said receiver are disposed on the same side of said means for supportingly guiding.
11. A device according to claim 10 wherein said lens is disposed between said slit aperture and said means to supportingly guide.
12. A device according to claim 9, 10 or 11 wherein, said means to supportingly guide is adapted to support the test strip such that the lens axis is substantially parallel to the test strip surface carrying the coding and to the code bars.
13. A device according to claim 9, 10, or 11 wherein said means to supportingly guide is adapted to support the test strip such that the lens axis is sub-stantially parallel to the test strip surface carrying the coding and to the code bars.
14. A device according to claim 11 wherein the transmitter the receiver and the slot lie in a plane, said plane being at right angles to a code bearing surface of a test strip guidingly supported by said means.
15. A device according to claim 14 wherein said lens is formed as a circular cylinder having a diameter of at most 1 mm.
16. A device according to claim 9, 10 or 11 wherein the distance between the slit aperture and the lens is at least about ten times the focal length of the lens.
17. A device according to claim 9, 10 or 11 wherein the transmitter is an infra-red light diode and the receiver is an infra-red sensitive phototransistor.
18. A method for optical identification of a high information density bar coding on a diagnostic test strip comprising:
supportingly guiding a high information density bar coded diagnostic test strip relative to a reading device for the coding, transmitting light from a transmitter of said reading device to a surface of said test strip bearing said coding and receiving light from said surface at a receiver of said reading device, passing at least one of the transmitted light and the received light through a slot of a slit aperture and a cylindrical lens to provide an image formed by said at least one of said transmitted light and said received light, said lens being disposed such that the distance between the lens axis and the code bearing surface is substantially such that the focus lines of the lens lie at least approximately in the test strip surface, said slot lying in a plane defined by the lens axis and at least one of said transmitter and said receiver.
supportingly guiding a high information density bar coded diagnostic test strip relative to a reading device for the coding, transmitting light from a transmitter of said reading device to a surface of said test strip bearing said coding and receiving light from said surface at a receiver of said reading device, passing at least one of the transmitted light and the received light through a slot of a slit aperture and a cylindrical lens to provide an image formed by said at least one of said transmitted light and said received light, said lens being disposed such that the distance between the lens axis and the code bearing surface is substantially such that the focus lines of the lens lie at least approximately in the test strip surface, said slot lying in a plane defined by the lens axis and at least one of said transmitter and said receiver.
19. A method according to claim 18 wherein said transmitted light and said received light are both passed through said slot and said lens.
20. A method according to claim 18 wherein said lens is a circular cylindrical lens.
21. A method according to claim 20 wherein said cylindrical lens has about the same length as the code bars.
22. A method according to claim 18,19 or 21 wherein said transmitter, receiver and slot are disposed in a plane at right angles to said code-bearing surface for passage of said transmitted and received light.
23. A method according to claim 18,19 or 21 wherein said slit aperture is spaced from said lens at a distance of at least about ten times the focal length of the lens.
24. A method according to claim 18,19 or 20 wherein the transmitted light passes through said slot to illuminate said slot, said slot being imaged on said test strip surface by said lens, and said received light passes through said lens to image the bar code at said receiver.
25. An evaluation device for the optical identification of a high information density bar coding of at least 10 bits per cm on a surface of a diagnostic strip, said device comprising an optical bar code reader, a transmitter comprising light irradiating means and a receiver comprising light-sensitive means, said device being adapted for positive longitudinal movement of the test strip relative to the reader;
the transmitter and the receiver being disposed so as to be on the same side of the test strip, said reader comprising a single cylindrical lens disposed so as to be between the transmitter and the test strip and the receiver and the test strip and such that the lens axis runs substantially parallel to the test strip surface carrying the coding and to the code bars, means forming a slit aperture between the cylindrical lens and the transmitter and between the cylindrical lens and the receiver, the slit aperture for the transmitter and for the receiver lying in a plane defined by the cylindrical axis of the lens and the transmitter, and the lens being disposed such that the distance between the lens axis and the test strip surface is substantially such that the focus lines of the lens lie approximately in the test strip surface.
the transmitter and the receiver being disposed so as to be on the same side of the test strip, said reader comprising a single cylindrical lens disposed so as to be between the transmitter and the test strip and the receiver and the test strip and such that the lens axis runs substantially parallel to the test strip surface carrying the coding and to the code bars, means forming a slit aperture between the cylindrical lens and the transmitter and between the cylindrical lens and the receiver, the slit aperture for the transmitter and for the receiver lying in a plane defined by the cylindrical axis of the lens and the transmitter, and the lens being disposed such that the distance between the lens axis and the test strip surface is substantially such that the focus lines of the lens lie approximately in the test strip surface.
26. A device according to claim 25, wherein the cylindrical lens is formed as a circular cylinder with a diameter of less than 2 mm.
27. A device according to claim 26, wherein the lens diameter is at most 1 mm.
28. A device according to claim 25, 26 or 27, wherein the transmitter is an infra-red light diode and the receiver is an infra-red-sensitive phototransistor, each of which is provided with- an integrated beam-concentrating device.
29. In an evaluation device into which a diagnostic test strip with a high information density bar coding of at least 10 bits per cm on a surface thereof is positively longitudinally movable relative to an optical bar code reader therein having a transmitter comprising light irradiating means and a receiver comprising light-sensitive means, the improvement wherein: the transmitter and the receiver are disposed on the same side of the test strip and wherein the reader comprises a single cylindrical lens disposed between the trans-mitter and the test strip and the receiver and the test strip with the lens axis running substantially parallel to the test strip surface carrying the coding and to the code bars, means forming a slit aperture between the cylindrical lens and the transmitter and between the cylindrical lens and the receiver, wherein the slit aperture for the transmitter and for the receiver lie in a plane defined by the cylindrical axis of the lens and the transmitter with the distance between the lens axis and the test strip surface being substantially such that the focus lines of the lens lie approximately in the test strip surface.
30. A device according to claim 29, wherein the cylindrical lens is formed as a circular cylinder with a diameter of less than 2 mm.
31. A device according to claim 30, wherein the lens diameter is at most 1 mm.
32. A device according to claim 29, 30 or 31, wherein the transmitter is an infra-red light diode and the receiver is an infra-red sensitive phototransistor, each of which is provided with an integrated beam-concentrating device.
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| ATE40607T1 (en) | 1989-02-15 |
| DE3137174A1 (en) | 1983-04-07 |
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| AU8791282A (en) | 1983-03-24 |
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