Single-use lancet device

• US 20070078474A1
• Filed: 10/05/2005
• Published: 04/05/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 10/05/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Yong Kim
• Original Assignee: Yong Kim
• Inventors: Kim, Yong
• Application Number:
  US11/243,770
• Publication Number:
  US 20070078474A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 606/181
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/150022 for capillary blood or interstitial fluid
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/150412 Pointed piercing elements, e.g. needles, lancets for piercing the skin blade-like piercing elements A61B5/150442
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/150519 Details of construction of hub, i.e. element used to attach the single-ended needle to a piercing device or sampling device
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/150549 Protectors removed by rotational movement, e.g. torsion or screwing
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/150618 Integrally moulded protectors, e.g. protectors simultaneously moulded together with a further component, e.g. a hub, of the piercing element
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/150717 manually removed
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/150916 by blocking components, e.g. piston, driving device or fluid passageway
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/15111 Semi-automatically triggered, e.g. at the end of the cocking procedure, for instance by biasing the main drive spring or when reaching sufficient contact pressure, the piercing device is automatically triggered without any deliberate action by the user
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/15117 comprising biased elements, resilient elements or a spring, e.g. a helical spring, leaf spring, or elastic strap
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/15144 comprising driving means, e.g. a spring, for retracting the piercing unit into the housing

Abstract

A single-use lancet device comprises a main body having a shooting hole and a fixing end, a first elastic member inserted in the main body, a wing plate catching member disposed in the main body while being caught by the fixing end and having a plurality of catching protrusions formed at the front end thereof, an actuating member disposed at the rear of the wing plate catching member such that a lancet is fixed to the front end of the actuating member, the actuating member having a wing plate and a stopping protrusion, the diameters of which are gradually decreased from the rear ends to the front ends of the wing plate and the stopping protrusion, the wing plate being caught by the catching protrusions, a second elastic member disposed at the rear of the actuating member, and a push member disposed at the rear part of the main body for applying pressure to the actuating member through the second elastic member when a user pushes the push member forward.

Claims

1. A single-use lancet device including a lancet, which is shot by an elastic force accumulated in an elastic member to penetrate into a skin of a user such that bleeding is accomplished from the skin, wherein the lancet device comprises:

a main body formed in the shape of a hollow cylinder, the main body having a shooting hole formed at the front end thereof and a fixing end formed at the inner circumferential surface thereof adjacent to a front part thereof;

a first elastic member inserted in the front part of the main body;

a wing plate catching member formed in the shape of a hollow cylinder, the wing plate catching member being disposed in the main body while being caught by the fixing end, the wing plate catching member having a plurality of catching protrusions formed at the front end thereof while being protruded inward along the inner circumferential surface thereof;

an actuating member disposed at the rear of the wing plate catching member, the lancet being fixed to the front end of the actuating member, the actuating member having a truncated-conical wing plate and a truncated-conical stopping protrusion formed at the outer circumferential surface thereof while the wing plate and the stopping protrusion are spaced a predetermined distance from each other, the wing plate and the stopping protrusion being constructed such that the diameters of the wing plate and the stopping protrusion are gradually decreased from the rear ends to the front ends of the wing plate and the stopping protrusion, the wing plate being caught by the catching protrusions;

a second elastic member disposed at the rear of the actuating member; and

a push member disposed at the rear part of the main body, while being protruded outward from the main body, for applying pressure to the actuating member through the second elastic member when a user push the push member forward,

whereby, when a predetermined force is applied to the actuating member from the push member, the wing plate can pass forward through the wing plate catching member while the catching protrusions are bent, but the wing plate cannot pass backward through the wing plate catching member.

2. The lancet device as set forth in claim 1, wherein

the main body is provided at the inner circumferential surface of the front part thereof with protrusions, which are protruded to a predetermined height while being parallel with each other, and

the wing plate and the stopping protrusion are provided at predetermined positions thereof with flat surface parts, which are diametrically opposite to each other, the flat surface parts of the wing plate and the stopping protrusion corresponding to the protrusions of the main body.

3. The lancet device as set forth in claim 1, further comprising:

a protective cap inserted in the shooting hole of the main body, the protective cap being provided at one end thereof with a groove having a predetermined depth, into which the lancet can be inserted.

4. The lancet device as set forth in claim 1, wherein the main body is provided at the outside thereof with a disc-shaped grip part, which is protruded along the outer circumferential surface of the main body.

5. The lancet device as set forth in claim 4, wherein the grip part is provided with a plurality of flat surface part, which is protruded along the outer circumferential surface of the grip part.