Transducer sensor housing

• US 10,041,819 B2
• Filed: 01/27/2016
• Issued: 08/07/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 06/11/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: PHC Holdings Corporation
• Original Assignee: PHC Holdings Corporation
• Inventors: Tanizaki, Yoichi
• Primary Examiner(s): Patel, Harshad R
• Assistant Examiner(s): WILLIAMS, JAMEL E
• Application Number:
  US15/008,397
• Publication Number:
  US 20160138947A1
• Time in Patent Office: 923 Days
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 83/0817 the articles being automatically urged towards the dispensing aperture, e.g. spring-loaded B65D83/0823 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G01D 11/245 Housings for sensors
• CPC Class Codes: G01N 33/48757 Test elements dispensed from a stack
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 29/49826 Assembling or joining

Abstract

A sensor housing container comprises a container having an opening, a lid that covers the opening, and a sensor housing body that can be pulled out of the opening of the container. The sensor housing body includes a sensor case, a plurality of sensors, and a spring that biases these sensors. The sensor case is provided with a sensor discharge port at the portion where the sensors are biased by the spring. Also, this sensor discharge port is provided with a guide protrusion for aligning the sensor discharge port with a sensor insertion port of a measurement device. Furthermore, the inner face of the container is provided with a push-out protrusion that contacts with the end of the sensors on the opposite side from electrodes, at the portion corresponding to the end of the sensors on the opposite side from the electrodes inside the sensor case.

Claims

1. A sensor housing, comprising:

a container including an opening;

a sensor case configured to be pulled out of the opening;

a flat sensor disposed inside of the sensor case, the flat sensor including an electrode side and a second side opposite the electrode side, the flat sensor disposed such that the electrode side is nearest the opening;

a push-out protrusion disposed on an inner face of the container adjacent to the opening and configured to come into contact with the second side of the flat sensor when the sensor case is pulled out of the opening;

a guide portion disposed on a part of the sensor case corresponding to the push-out protrusion; and

the guide portion is formed in a groove shape along a lengthwise direction extending from a bottom face side of the sensor case to an upper face side of the sensor case.

2. The sensor housing according to claim 1, wherein:

the push-out protrusion is disposed on a bottom side of the guide portion when the sensor case is pulled out of the opening, and is disposed on an upper face side of the guide portion when the sensor case is housed in the container.

3. The sensor housing according to claim 1, wherein:

a width of the guide portion is less than a width of the sensor.

4. The sensor housing according to claim 1, further comprising:

a lid configured to openably and closeably cover the opening of the container.

5. The sensor housing according to claim 4, wherein:

the lid covers the opening and the sensor case when the sensor case is housed in the container.