Safety single use blood lancet device with adjustable puncture depth

• US 20080039886A1
• Filed: 01/04/2007
• Published: 02/14/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 08/14/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sterilance Medical (Suzhou)
• Original Assignee: Pengfei Gu
• Inventors: Shi, Guoping
• Granted Patent: US 8,021,382 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 606/182
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/150022 for capillary blood or interstitial fluid
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/150183 Depth adjustment mechanism using end caps mounted at the distal end of the sampling device, i.e. the end-caps are adjustably positioned relative to the piercing device housing for example by rotating or screwing
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/150259 Improved gripping, e.g. with high friction pattern or projections on the housing surface or an ergonometric shape
• 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 5/150717 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 5/1513 comprising linear sliding guides comprising tooth-shaped elements A61B5/15132
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/15142 Devices intended for single use, i.e. disposable

Abstract

A safety single use blood taking lancet, having an adjustable puncture depth, includes a blast-off structure and an adjusting head. The blast-off structure comprises a sleeve, an end cap, a needle core with a needle pin, a spring and a push element. Two elastic clips extend from the end cap. The needle core and the elastic clips form a lock structure and a structure blocking the needle core to return to an initial position. An inside face has a revolving inclined plane or a revolving ladder plane. When changing the revolving angle of the adjusting head, the revolving inclined plane or the revolving ladder plane bumps into an impact face of the needle core at different depth of the needle hole.

Claims

1. A safety single use blood taking lancet, having a puncture depth that is adjustable, including a needle core blast-off structure and an adjusting head with adjustable puncture depth, characterized in that:

said needle core blast-off structure comprises;

a sleeve and an end cap at one end of the sleeve composing a cylinder-type outer shell, two elastic clips inside the sleeve extending from the end cap, pothooks mounted symmetrically inward an end of the two elastic clips, the other end of the sleeve being an opening;

a needle core with a needle tip mounted between the two elastic clips, side ears mounted on the needle core corresponding to the pothooks, the side ears and the pothooks cooperating to form a locking structure of the needle core;

a distance between the two pothooks on the two elastic clips being less than a side extending width of the two side ears under free state, and a blocking face mounted at a top of the side ears, a structure which blocks the needle core from returning to an initial position after being released in an injection being formed between the blocking face and the pothooks so as to achieve a single use injection structure;

two slip guide plates symmetrically mounted at two side of the needle core;

an injection spring mounted between an end of the needle core and the end cap, and biased toward a direction of injection;

a push element mounted slidably in the opening of the other end of the sleeve, whose front side extending from the opening, a central axis being along the injection direction;

a push element inclined plane or a cone plane structure, which makes the push element to separate from two sides, mounted at an end of the push element corresponding to the two elastic clips, the inclined plane and the end of the two elastic clips composing a push structure;

a sliding chute mounted in an inwall of an injection trace of the push element, which corresponds to the guide plates, the guide plates and the sliding chute cooperating to form an injection guide structure;

when viewed from above, the guide structure and the lock structure being arranged as a square crossing;

said adjusting head being mounted in the head end of the push element, which connects with the push element rotatably, an outside face which contacts the skin of an injection object being mounted at the front of the adjusting head, a needle hole being located in a centre of the outside face, an inside face being arranged in a back end of the needle hole, which faces directly to the needle core, said inside face being a revolving inclined plane or a revolving ladder plane, an impact face being mounted in the head end of the needle core, which corresponds to the revolving inclined) plane or the revolving ladder plane, when changing a revolving angle of the adjusting head, the revolving inclined plane or the revolving ladder plane bumping into the impact face of the needle core at different depth of the needle hole.

2. The safety blood taking lancet of claim 1, characterized in that the revolving inclined plane or the revolving ladder plane on said adjusting head consists of a right segment and a left segment, wherein one segment coincides with the other after revolving 180°

relative to a rotation axis, an action end of the impact face of the needle core being designed as a dot or a line, and corresponding to two parts of the revolving inclined plane or the revolving ladder plane.

3. The safety blood taking lancet of claim 1, characterized in that a rotation orientation structure is mounted in a revolving connection between the adjusting head and the push element, said rotation orientation structure consisting of a locating slot and a heave, which are located in a circumferential direction apart from each other, one of the locating slot and the heave being mounted at a fitting surface of the push element, and the other being mounted at a fitting surface of the adjusting head.

4. The safety blood taking lancet of claim 3, characterized in that two to six locating slots are arranged in the circumferential direction, so as to form two to six kinds of adjusting puncture depth.

5. The safety blood taking lancet of claim 1, characterized in that a corner spacing structure is mounted in the adjusting head corresponding to the push element, said corner spacing structure consisting of a projection and a spacing flat slot, one of the projection and the spacing flat slot being mounted on a fitting surface of the push element, and the other being mounted on a fitting surface of the adjusting head, the projection being mounted in the spacing flat slot, limiting a corner range by an arc length of the spacing flat slot.

6. The safety blood taking lancet of claim 1, characterized in that a nut cap is mounted in the head end of the sleeve, said nut cap fitting over the head end of the sleeve, a detecting pole being mounted in a centre of the nut cap, a bottom hole being arranged in the head end of the detecting pole, an axis neck being mounted in the head end of the needle core, the nut cap being under a confined state before injection, the detecting pole being inserted into the needle hole and cooperating with the axis neck by the bottom hole.

7. The safety blood taking lancet of claim 1, characterized in that a side-inserted fixing slot is mounted at a location corresponding to the spring of the end cap, a base of the spring side being side-inserted into the fixing slot (26).

8. The safety blood taking lancet of claim 2, characterized in that a rotation orientation structure is mounted in a revolving connection interface between the adjusting head and the push element, said rotation orientation structure consisting of a locating slot and a heave, which are located in a circumferential direction apart from each other, one of the locating slot and the heave being mounted at a fitting surface of the push element, and the other being mounted at a fitting surface of the adjusting head.

9. The safety blood taking lancet of claim 8, characterized in that two to six locating slots are arranged in the circumferential direction, so as to form two to six kinds of adjusting puncture depth.

10. The safety blood taking lancet of claim 2, characterized in that a corner spacing structure is mounted in the adjusting head corresponding to the push element, said corner spacing structure consisting of a projection and a spacing flat slot, one of the projection and a spacing flat slot being mounted on a fitting surface of the push element, and the other being mounted on a fitting surface of the adjusting head, the projection being mounted in the spacing flat slot, limiting a corner range by an arc length of the spacing flat slot.

11. A disposable blood sampling apparatus, comprising:

an outer shell having a length along an axis;

a needle-releasing structure located within the outer shell; and

an adjusting head attached connected within the outer shell, the needle-releasing structure comprising;

a needle; and

a spring that, when released from a confined state, pushes the needle along an injection direction, the injection direction being along the axis;

wherein, when the needle is pushed,

a part of the needle reaches out of the outer shell, a length of the part corresponding to a penetration depth into a blood sampling target, and

the adjusting head comprising a penetration depth adjustment element that moves relative to the outer shell only via rotation around the axis and that is incapable of sliding along the axis, the penetration depth adjustment element, when being rotated, changes the penetration depth.

12. The apparatus of claim 11, wherein the penetration depth adjustment element is a revolving inclined plane.

13. The apparatus of claim 12, wherein the revolving inclined plane includes a helix inclined plane.

14. The apparatus of claim 11, wherein the penetration depth adjustment element is a revolving ladder plane.

15. The apparatus of claim 14, wherein the revolving ladder plane includes a plurality of upstairs or downstairs steps.

16. The apparatus of claim 11, wherein the outer shell comprises a first end portion and a second end portion located at two respective ends of the outer shell, the first and second end portions being apart from each other along the axis, the needle-releasing structure being attached to the first end portion, the second end portion comprising an opening through which the part of the needle reaches out of the outer shell, further comprising:

a cap detachably mounted on the opening of the outer shell; and

a detecting pole located in the cap for examining whether the needle has been pushed by the spring.

17. The apparatus of claim 11, wherein the needle-releasing structure further comprises a needle-blocking element that prevents the needle from returning to an initial position after having been pushed by the spring.

18. The apparatus of claim 17, wherein the needle-releasing structure further comprises:

a needle core that hosts the needle therein, the needle core having a blocking face; and

a pair of clips, each having a hook, wherein the hooks of the clips cooperate with the blocking face to block the need from returning to the initial position after having been pushed.