Safety lancet

• US 20080109025A1
• Filed: 03/28/2007
• Published: 05/08/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 11/06/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Apex Biotechnology Corporation
• Original Assignee: Apex Biotechnology Corporation
• Inventors: Shen, Thomas Y., Hsu, Ming-Chang, Yang, Mon Wen, Lin, Yueh-Hui, Wang, Jui-Ping
• Application Number:
  US11/727,865
• Publication Number:
  US 20080109025A1
• 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 5/150412 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 5/150916 by blocking components, e.g. piston, driving device or fluid passageway
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/15113 Manually triggered, i.e. the triggering requires a deliberate action by the user such as pressing a drive button
• 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 lancet includes a housing, an actuating unit, a needle unit, a blocking unit and an elastic unit. The housing has a side hole and a front opening. The actuating unit is disposed on an outer surface of the housing. The needle unit, including a needle, a flex pin and a blocking pin, is disposed inside the housing. The needle corresponds to the front opening and the flex pin corresponds to the side hole. One end of the flex pin extends into the side hole to position the needle unit at a first position. The blocking unit is disposed inside the housing and corresponds to the blocking pin to allow the needle unit to forwardly pass through the blocking unit and prevent the needle unit from backwardly passing through the blocking unit.

Claims

1. A safety lancet device, comprising

a housing having a side hole and a front opening;

an actuating unit disposed on an outer surface of the housing;

a needle unit disposed inside the housing, the needle unit including;

a needle corresponding to the front opening;

a flex pin corresponding to the side hole, one end of the flex pin extending into the side hole to locate the needle unit at a first position; and

a blocking pin;

a blocking unit, disposed inside the housing, corresponding to the blocking pin to allow the needle unit to forwardly pass through the blocking unit and prevent the needle unit from backwardly passing through the blocking unit; and

an elastic unit connecting the needle unit and the housing;

wherein when an external force is exerted on the actuating unit, the actuating unit pushes the flex pin passing through the side hole and the elastic unit pushes the needle unit passing through the block unit to a second position.

2. The device according to claim 1, wherein the blocking unit has a guiding surface and a blocking surface, and wherein the guiding surface guides the blocking pin to allow the needle unit to forwardly move from the first position to the second position, and the blocking surface blocks the blocking pin to limit the needle unit backwardly moving from the second position to the first position.

3. The device according to claim 2, wherein the blocking unit protrudes from an inner surface of the housing to form a hook shape.

4. The device according to claim 1, wherein when the needle unit moves to the second position, the needle passes through the front opening and is exposed to outside environment of the housing.

5. The device according to claim 1, wherein one end of the actuating unit connects to the outer surface of the housing, and the other end of the actuating unit has a protrusion corresponding to the side hole for pushing the flex pin in response to the external force.

6. The device according to claim 1, further comprising a track disposed inside the housing, and the needle unit further comprising a bulge corresponding to the track to facilitate the movement of the needle unit.

7. The device according to claim 1, wherein the housing is assembled from a first housing and a second housing.

8. The device according to claim 1, wherein the elastic unit is a spring to provide an elastic force to push the needle unit.