BIOLOGICAL SAMPLE MEASUREMENT APPARATUS

• US 20130323124A1
• Filed: 02/28/2012
• Published: 12/05/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 03/04/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: PHC Holdings Corporation
• Original Assignee: Panasonic Corporation (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Nagao, Akio, Aono, Masumi, Hamamoto, Hiroyuki
• Granted Patent: US 8,883,087 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 422/68.1
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/1411 by percutaneous method, e.g. by lancet
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/14532 for measuring glucose, e.g. by tissue impedance measurement
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/150022 for capillary blood or interstitial fluid
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/150305 Packages specially adapted for piercing devices or blood sampling devices kits for diabetes A61M5/003; packaging in general B65D
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/150358 Strips for collecting blood, e.g. absorbent optical reagent test strips G01N21/8483; chemical reagent test strips G01N33/4875, G01N33/52
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/151 Devices specially adapted for taking samples of capillary blood, e.g. by lancets , needles or blades
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/157 Devices characterised by integrated means for measuring characteristics of blood
• CPC Class Codes: G01N 21/01 Arrangements or apparatus for facilitating the optical investigation
• CPC Class Codes: G01N 21/8483 Investigating reagent band test-element handling not specific to a test method G01N33/4875; analytical elements specific to chemical analysis of biological material G01N33/52; autometer with reagent band G01N35/04
• CPC Class Codes: G01N 2201/022 Casings
• CPC Class Codes: G01N 33/66 involving blood sugars, e.g. galactose

Abstract

A biological sample measurement apparatus includes container (10) having an opening in a top surface thereof and right and left accommodation chambers (12) and (13) formed by separating an inner space and the opening in container (10) by partition wall (11a), measurement device (1) accommodated in accommodation chamber (12) of container (10), and a holder accommodated in accommodation chamber (13) of container (10) and holding measurement device (1). Provided are recesses (15, 16) configuring holding means holding measurement device (1) on an outer peripheral wall configuring accommodation chamber (12) or in accommodation chamber (12) in a state where sensor mounting section (4) of measurement device (1) is projected to an outside of accommodation chamber (12).

Claims

1. A biological sample measurement apparatus comprising:

a container having an opening in a top surface thereof and first and second accommodation chambers formed by separating an inner space and the opening of the container by a partition wall;

a biological sample measurement device accommodated in the first accommodation chamber of the container;

a holder accommodated in the second accommodation chamber of the container for holding the biological sample measurement device; and

holding means provided on an outer peripheral wall configuring the first accommodation chamber or in the first accommodation chamber for holding the biological sample measurement device with a sensor mounting section of the biological sample measurement device jutting out of the first accommodation chamber.

2. The biological sample measurement apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the holding means for holding the biological sample measurement device includes a first recess provided in a top surface of the partition wall and a second recess provided in a top surface of an outer peripheral wall of the container opposite to the first recess.

3. The biological sample measurement apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the second recess is formed on a top surface of the outer peripheral wall of the first accommodation chamber.

4. The biological sample measurement device according to claim 3, wherein a length of the second recess is shorter than a length of the first recess.

5. The biological sample measurement apparatus according to claim 4, wherein the biological sample measurement device has a substantially rectangular parallelepiped shape, one end side thereof is a biological sample measurement side, the other end side thereof is an information reading side, and a width at the one end side orthogonal to a longitudinal direction is smaller than a width at the other end side orthogonal to the longitudinal direction.

6. The biological sample measurement apparatus according to claim 5, wherein the sensor mounting section for a biological sample detection sensor is provided on the one end side of the biological sample measurement device.

7. The biological sample measurement apparatus according to claim 6, wherein an optical information reading unit is provided on the other end side of the biological sample measurement device.

8. The biological sample measurement apparatus according to claim 1, wherein a bottom of the first accommodation chamber and a bottom of the second accommodation chamber are flush with each other.

9. The biological sample measurement apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the holding means holds the biological sample measurement device in a tilted or upright position in the first accommodation chamber of the container.

10. The biological sample measurement apparatus according to claim 9, wherein the first accommodation chamber has a container shape so that a top surface thereof is opened and a bottom thereof has a recess projecting downward.

11. The biological sample measurement apparatus according to claim 10, wherein a side surface of the recess is tilted so that an upper edge thereof is situated outside a lower edge thereof.

12. The biological sample measurement apparatus according to claim 9, wherein the second accommodation chamber has a container shape so that a top surface thereof is opened and a bottom thereof is planar.

13. The biological sample measurement apparatus according to claim 10, wherein a bottom of the second accommodation chamber and the bottom of the recess in the first accommodation chamber are substantially flush with each other.

14. The biological sample measurement apparatus according to claim 1, wherein a rotation shaft is provided at a bottom of the first accommodation chamber, the rotation shaft projecting downward from the bottom of the first accommodation chamber.

15. The biological sample measurement apparatus according to claim 14, wherein, the rotation shaft is formed of an elastic body, and adhered to an outer surface at the bottom of the first accommodation chamber.

16. The biological sample measurement apparatus according to claim 15, wherein first and second supporting portions are projected downward from a bottom of the second accommodation chamber.

17. The biological sample measurement apparatus according to claim 16, wherein the rotation shaft and the first and second supporting portions have substantially an equal projection height.

18. The biological sample measurement apparatus according to claim 17, wherein the rotation shaft and the first and second supporting portions have different colors.

19. The biological sample measurement apparatus according to claim 18, wherein the rotation shaft is black, and the first and second supporting portions are transparent or semitransparent.