SENSOR STORAGE CONTAINER

• US 20150076016A1
• Filed: 04/15/2013
• Published: 03/19/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 04/19/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Panasonic Healthcare Holdings Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Panasonic Healthcare Company Limited (PHC Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Sato, Yumi
• Application Number:
  US14/394,528
• Publication Number:
  US 20150076016A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 206/305
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2050/0056 about a lateral axis in the lid plane
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2562/0295 Strip shaped analyte sensors for apparatus classified in A61B5/145 or A61B5/157 disposable multilayered or laminated electrodes G01N27/307; details of handling chemical test elements G01N33/4875
• 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 50/20 Holders specially adapted for surgical or diagnostic appliances or instruments drapes with means to hold surgical instruments A61B46/23; for catheters A61M25/02
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 50/30 Containers specially adapted for packaging, protecting, dispensing, collecting or disposing of surgical or diagnostic appliances or instruments for wound clamps A61B17/10; for ligaturing clips A61B17/122; packages or dispensers for surgical gloves or finger-stalls A61B42/40
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 43/162 the container, the lid and the hinge being made of one piece B65D43/161 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 51/24 combined or co-operating with auxiliary devices for non-closing purposes
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 83/0005 Containers or packages provided with a piston or with a movable bottom or partition having approximately the same section as the container B65D83/0072 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 83/005 the piston or movable bottom being pulled upwards to dispense the contents
• CPC Class Codes: G01N 33/4875 Details of handling test elements, e.g. dispensing or storage, not specific to a particular test method test-elements per se B01L, automatic analysers G01N35/00, in-vivo analysis on the human body for medical diagnosis A61B

Abstract

This sensor storage container comprises a bottomed cylindrical container body (1) having an opening in its top face, an opening/closing lid (2) provided to the opening of the container body (1) in an openable/closable manner, and an inner case (7) that is open at its top face and provided within the container body (1). The opening/closing lid (2) is linked to the container body (1) via a hinge portion (3), at the peripheral edge of the opening of the container body (1). The inner case (7) is linked on the hinge portion (3) side to the opening/closing lid (2).

Claims

1-9. -9. (canceled)

10. A sensor storage container, comprising:

a bottomed cylindrical container body having an opening in its top face;

an opening/closing lid provided to the opening of the container body in an openable and closable state;

a hinge portion that links the container body and the opening/closing lid around the peripheral edge of the opening of the container body, and that opens and closes the opening/closing lid with respect to the container body;

an inner case that is provided inside the container body and has an opening in its top face;

a linking body that links the opening/closing lid with a portion on the hinge portion side of the opening in the inner case;

a plurality of sensors that are stored in the inner case, that are formed by superposing a plurality of flat pieces, and in which the end on the bottom face side of the inner case is thinner than the end on the opening side of the inner case in a state of being stored in the inner case; and

a sloped side face that is provided to the inner face of the inner case on the opposite side from the portion on the hinge portion side linked to the opening/closing lid, and that forms a sloped face in which the end on the bottom face side is disposed on the hinge portion side, and the end on the opening side is disposed on the opposite side from the hinge portion.

11. The sensor storage container according to claim 10,

wherein the linking body links the inner case and a portion of the opening/closing lid that is away from the end on the hinge portion side.

12. The sensor storage container according to claim 10, wherein the sensors have a plurality of flat, non-superposed portions, and electrodes that are exposed from the non-superposed portions on an end on the bottom face side of the inner case.

15. The sensor storage container according to claim 10,

wherein the linking body is flexible.

18. The sensor storage container according to to claim 10,

wherein the wall on the side of the inner case that is linked to the linking body is shorter than the other walls that make up the inner case.

19. The sensor storage container according to to claim 10,

wherein the inner case has a protruding first stopper that is provided under the outer peripheral face on the opposite side from the hinge portion, and

the container body has a second stopper that is disposed above the inner peripheral face on the opposite side from the hinge portion, and opposite the first stopper.

13-14. -14. (canceled)

16-17. -17. (canceled)

20. A sensor storage container, comprising:

a bottomed cylindrical container body having an opening in its top face;

an opening/closing lid provided to the opening of the container body in an openable and closable state;

a hinge portion that links the container body and the opening/closing lid around the peripheral edge of the opening of the container body, and that opens and closes the opening/closing lid with respect to the container body;

an inner case that is provided inside the container body and has an opening in its top face;

a linking body that links the opening/closing lid with a portion on the hinge portion side of the opening in the inner case; and

a plurality of sensors that are stored in the inner case, that are formed by superposing a plurality of flat pieces, and in which the end on the bottom face side of the inner case is thinner than the end on the opening side of the inner case in a state of being stored in the inner case; and

a sloped bottom face that is provided to the bottom portion of the inner case, and that slopes downward from the hinge portion side of the bottom face of the inner case toward the end on the opposite side from the hinge portion side.

21. The sensor storage container according to claim 20,

wherein the linking body links the inner case and a portion of the opening/closing lid that is away from the end on the hinge portion side.

22. The sensor storage container according to claim 20,

wherein the sensors have a plurality of flat, non-superposed portions, and electrodes that are exposed from the non-superposed portions on an end on the bottom face side of the inner case.

23. The sensor storage container according to claim 20,

wherein the linking body is flexible.

24. The sensor storage container according to claim 20,

wherein the wall on the side of the inner case that is linked to the linking body is shorter than the other walls that make up the inner case.

25. The sensor storage container according to claim 20,

wherein the inner case has a protruding first stopper that is provided under the outer peripheral face on the opposite side from the hinge portion, and

the container body has a second stopper that is disposed above the inner peripheral face on the opposite side from the hinge portion, and opposite the first stopper.

26. A sensor storage container, comprising:

a bottomed cylindrical container body having an opening in its top face;

an opening/closing lid provided to the opening of the container body in an openable and closable state;

a hinge portion that links the container body and the opening/closing lid around the peripheral edge of the opening of the container body, and that opens and closes the opening/closing lid with respect to the container body;

an inner case that is provided inside the container body and has an opening in its top face;

a linking body that links the opening/closing lid with a portion on the hinge portion side of the opening in the inner case; and

a plurality of sensors that are stored in the inner case, that are formed by superposing a plurality of flat pieces, and in which the end on the bottom face side of the inner case is thinner than the end on the opening side of the inner case in a state of being stored in the inner case; and

wherein the inner case has a partition wall that separates the plurality of storage portions, bilateral portions that are opposite the partition wall, and side face portions that connect bilateral portions to each other, and

the side face portions have a sloped face that is disposed at a position where the partition wall side is away from the hinge portion, and at a position where the bilateral portion side is closer to the hinge portion side than the partition wall side in a plan view.

27. The sensor storage container according to claim 26,

wherein the linking body links the inner case and a portion of the opening/closing lid that is away from the end on the hinge portion side.

28. The sensor storage container according to claim 26,

wherein the sensors have a plurality of flat, non-superposed portions, and electrodes that are exposed from the non-superposed portions on an end on the bottom face side of the inner case.

29. The sensor storage container according to claim 26,

wherein the linking body is flexible.

30. The sensor storage container according to claim 26,

wherein the wall on the side of the inner case that is linked to the linking body is shorter than the other walls that make up the inner case.

31. The sensor storage container according to claim 26,

wherein the inner case has a protruding first stopper that is provided under the outer peripheral face on the opposite side from the hinge portion, and

the container body has a second stopper that is disposed above the inner peripheral face on the opposite side from the hinge portion, and opposite the first stopper.