Specimen tube

• US 6,652,812 B1
• Filed: 01/14/2000
• Issued: 11/25/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 07/16/1997
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Clids OY
• Original Assignee: Clids OY
• Inventors: Ikonen, Pasi, Galbiati, Fabrizio, Vartiainen, Ilkka
• Primary Examiner(s): Warden, Jill
• Assistant Examiner(s): Handy, Dwayne K.
• Application Number:
  US09/482,617
• Time in Patent Office: 1,411 Days
• Field of Search: 422/62-67, 422/99, 422/100, 422/102, 422/913, 422/915, 422/917, 436/43-48, 436/180
• US Class Current: 422/549
• CPC Class Codes: B01L 2300/022 Transponder chips
• CPC Class Codes: B01L 3/5453 for test tubes
• CPC Class Codes: G01N 2035/00782 reprogrammmable code

Abstract

The invention relates to a sampling tube to which is fastened a memory device which is used to record data used to identify said sampling tube and/or its contents and the memory device being fastened to said sampling tube with a mounting piece. A mounting piece in accordance with the invention has a part which remains on the sampling tube or its part when the electronic memory device is attached to the sampling tube and/or detached from the sampling tube.

Claims

1. A specimen tube comprising:

a sampling tube; and

a memory device configured to be fastened to said sampling tube and to record data used to identify at least one of said sampling tube and its contents;

wherein said memory device comprises a mounting piece to fasten said memory device to said sampling tube; and

wherein said mounting piece has a part which remains on said sampling tube when the electronic memory device is detached from the sampling tube.

2. The specimen tube as claimed in claim 1, wherein said part of said mounting piece is designed such that it breaks off at a point of connection in the sampling tube so that an electronic memory device may not be attached again to said sampling tube.

3. The specimen tube as claimed in claim 1, wherein said mounting piece comprises a threaded body, by which said electronic memory device is fastened to said sampling tube.