Test requisition card for automatic analyzing apparatus

• US 4,460,824 A
• Filed: 11/09/1981
• Issued: 07/17/1984
• Est. Priority Date: 02/26/1980
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Olympus Optical Company Ltd. (Olympus Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Olympus Optical Corporation Limited (Olympus Corporation)
• Inventors: Kadogaki, Tsuneaki
• Primary Examiner(s): Pellinen, A. D.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Lev, Robert
• Application Number:
  US06/238,135
• Time in Patent Office: 981 Days
• Field of Search: 235/487, 235/375, 235/381, 364/413, 364/415, 364/416, 73/53
• US Class Current: 235/375
• CPC Class Codes: B42D 15/00 Printed matter of special format or style not otherwise provided for
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 19/04 characterised by the shape
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 283/90 Medical record

Abstract

A test requisition card for an automatic analyzing apparatus characterized by a test requisition column, a test report column and an identification (ID) code label column having detachable and non-detachable sections. The test requisition column includes at least predetermined test items inscribed therein and given marks inscribed in given positions corresponding to the test items and operative to supply as an input the test items by means of a mark card reader to an automatic analyzing apparatus. The test report column is arranged in correspondence with the predetermined test items and positioned to receive thereon a print out of the test results of the test items corresponding to the marks inscribed on the card by means of the card printer of the automatic analyzing apparatus.

Claims

1. An information card for an automatic analyzing apparatus comprising:

a sheet-like member;

a test requisition column array on said sheet-like member with spaces for patient information and test items to be recorded thereon in machine-readable form;

a test report column array on said sheet-like member with spaces for test results derived from an automatic analyzing apparatus to be recorded thereon;

an identification code label means comprising;

a non-detachable label for bearing a patient identifying code secured to said sheet-like member, and

a detachable label for bearing a patient identifying code secured to said sheet-like member and means for adhering said detachable label onto a container containing a sample derived from said patient; and

a perforation line to facilitate separation of said non-detachable label from said detachable label.

2. An information card according to claim 1, wherein said non-detachable and detachable labels contain bar codes comprising bar-shaped marks extending perpendicularly to said perforation line.