BLOOD TEST DEVICE

• US 20100068795A1
• Filed: 11/28/2007
• Published: 03/18/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 11/30/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Panasonic Corporation (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Panasonic Corporation (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Kurokawa, Koya, Shinohara, Noriyuki, Mori, Masakazu
• Application Number:
  US12/516,677
• Publication Number:
  US 20100068795A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 435/287.100
• CPC Class Codes: G01N 27/3273 Devices therefor, e.g. test element readers, circuitry details not specific to biochemical electrodes G01N33/4875
• CPC Class Codes: G01N 33/48785 Electrical and electronic details of measuring devices for physical analysis of liquid biological material not specific to a particular test method, e.g. user interface or power supply

Abstract

It is intended to make it easy to recognize the attachment site of a blood sensor in a blood test device to which the blood sensor is attached by insertion. Especially, it is attempted to make the recognition of the attachment site easy and facilitate the insertion of a blood sensor which is to be attached to a blood test device by a person with visual impairment (in particular, a patient suffering from diabetic retinopathy) for the daily measurement of blood glucose level. More specifically speaking, it is intended to provide a blood test device comprising a housing; an electrical circuit unit contained in the housing; and an attachment site for inserting a blood sensor thereinto that is exposed on the surface of the housing; wherein the surface of the attachment site has a color which is lighter than the surface color of the housing and distinguishable by a patient having impairment in the blue cone.

Claims

1. A blood test apparatus comprising:

a housing;

an electrical circuit section which is built in the housing; and

an attaching part to which a blood sensor is attached and which is provided in a surface of the housing,

wherein a surface color of the attaching part has a higher color value than a color value of a surface color of the housing and has a color that can be identified by eyes with impaired blue cones.

2. The blood test apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising an operation button which is connected with the electrical circuit section and which is provided in the surface of the housing,

wherein a surface color of the operation button has a higher color value than the color value of the surface color of the housing and has the color that can be identified by the eyes with impaired blue cones.

3. The blood test apparatus according to claim 1, wherein a hue of the surface color of the housing is in a range from a purple color, a blue color to a green color and a hue of the surface color of the attaching part is a range from an orange color to a red color.

4. The blood test apparatus according to claim 2, wherein:

a hue of the surface color of the housing is in a range from a purple color, a blue color to a green color; and

a hue of the surface color of the operation button is in a range from an orange color to a red color.

5. The blood test apparatus according to claim 1, wherein:

a hue of the surface color of the housing is in a range from a purple color, a blue color to a green color with a wavelength of 400 to 550 nanometers; and

a hue of the surface color of the attaching part is in a range from an orange color to a red color with a wavelength of 600 to 700 nanometers.

6. The blood test apparatus according to claim 2, wherein:

a hue of the surface color of the housing is in a range from a purple color, a blue color to a green color with a wavelength of 400 to 550 nanometers; and

a hue of the surface color of the operation button is in a range from an orange color to a red color with a wavelength of 600 to 700 nanometers.

7. The blood test apparatus according to claim 1, wherein:

a color value of the surface color of the housing defined by a Munsell color system is between 1 and 4; and

a color value of the surface color of the attaching part defined by the Munsell color system is between 9.5 and 7.

8. The blood test apparatus according to claim 2, wherein:

a color value of the surface color of the housing defined by a Munsell color system is between 1 and 4; and

a color value of the surface color of the operation button defined by the Munsell color system is between 9.5 and 7.

9. The blood test apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the attaching part has a shape that becomes narrower toward an interior of the blood test apparatus.

10. The blood test apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the attaching part is applied a fluorescent material or a phosphorescent agent.

11. The blood test apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the operation button is applied a fluorescent material or a phosphorescent agent.

12. The blood test apparatus according to claim 1, wherein a light emitting diode is embedded in the attaching part.

13. The blood test apparatus according to claim 2, wherein a light emitting diode is embedded in the operation button.

14. The blood test apparatus according to claim 1 that measures a blood sugar level.