Rev. 1.2 (12.2021) MINI-CUBE | SERVICE MANUAL 58
Data field. The Data field for the message code 0x52 consists of the following:
BATCH No.: ASCII string of 6 characters. Identifies the production batch of the control
blood
EXPIRY DATE: string of 6 characters without terminator, “DDMMYY” where:
• “DD” = day of the month, from “01” to “31” ASCII.
• “MM” = Month of the year, from “01” to “12” ASCII.
• “YY” = Year of the century, from “00” to “99” ASCII.
H-VALMIN / L-VALMIN: Value lower than the acceptability range for the control blood,
represented in HEX-ASCII.
H-VALMAX / L-VALMAX: Value higher than the acceptability range for the control blood,
represented in HEX-ASCII.
QC Record Sample:
BARCODE: ASCII string with variable length, maximum of 15 characters allowed. This is
the barcode just as it is read by the Mini Cube Barcode Reader.
TERMINATOR: the string of barcodes terminates with the 0x10 byte. This is because the
length of this string is variable.
DATA ANALYSES: string of 6 characters without terminator, “DDMMYY” where:
• “DD” = day of the month, from “01” to “31” ASCII.
• “MM” = Month of the year, from “01” to “12” ASCII.
• “YY” = Year of the century, from “00” to “99” ASCII.
TIME ANALYSES: string of 4 characters without terminator, “hhmm” where:
• “hh” = hour of the day, from “00” to “23” ASCII.
• “mm” = Minutes, from “00” to “59” ASCII.