Medical container

• US 8,118,167 B2
• Filed: 03/05/2007
• Issued: 02/21/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 03/05/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Daikyo Seiko, Ltd., West Pharmaceutical Services Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Daikyo Seiko, Ltd., West Pharmaceutical Services Incorporated
• Inventors: Togashi, Hiroshi, Young, Scott, Vander Bush, Edward F. Jr.
• Primary Examiner(s): Yu, Mickey
• Assistant Examiner(s): Ortiz, Rafael
• Application Number:
  US12/526,819
• Publication Number:
  US 20100012546A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,814 Days
• Field of Search: 206/534.1, 206/535, 206/372, 206/373, 206518-520, 206/515, 534/34, 534/74, 220/651, 220/529, 220/553, 220/554, 211/126.1, 211/85.18, 211/85.13, 342/85, 422/266, 422/270, 422/300
• US Class Current: 206/534.1
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 50/22 Racks
• 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: A61J 1/16 Holders for containers
• CPC Class Codes: A61L 2/087 Particle radiation, e.g. electron-beam, alpha or beta radiation
• CPC Class Codes: A61L 2202/24 Medical instruments, e.g. endoscopes, catheters, sharps
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 5/001 Apparatus specially adapted for cleaning or sterilising syringes or needles
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 5/002 Packages specially adapted therefor, e.g. for syringes or needles, kits for diabetics needle protection, e.g. caps, A61M5/3202; for sharps A61B50/3001
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 5/008 Racks for supporting syringes or needles A61M5/001 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: B01L 2200/18 Transport of container or devices
• CPC Class Codes: B01L 2300/041 Connecting closures to device or container
• CPC Class Codes: B01L 9/54 Supports specially adapted for pipettes and burettes automated pipetting stations G01N35/10
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 25/108 Devices, e.g. plates, presenting apertures through which the articles project

Abstract

The present invention relates to a medical container useful upon transportation of plural syringe barrels. The medical container includes at least a container main body and a holding member arranged inside the container main body. The holding member is provided at least with a plurality of cylindrical holding portions for holding syringe barrels. The container main body has at least a peripheral rim arranged on and along an outer periphery of an opening and a shoulder-shaped portion arranged on an inner wall of the container to arrange the holding member. The shoulder-shaped portion has at least three ribs for supporting the holding member, and has a structure that enables to arrange via the ribs the holding member in a horizontal position relative to a bottom wall of the container main body. According to the present invention, there is provided a medical container of a construction that can be promptly brought into a sterilized state by various methods, can be readily brought into a state capable of maintaining the sterilized state, and during transportation, can fixedly secure, without rattling, syringe barrels held upright by holders.

Claims

1. A medical container useful upon transportation of plural syringe barrels, comprising:

at least a container main body and a holding member arranged inside said container main body;

wherein said holding member has a top surface and a bottom surface and is provided at least with a plurality of cylindrical holding portions for holding syringe barrels;

wherein said container main body has at least a peripheral rim arranged on and along an outer periphery of an opening and a shoulder-shaped portion arranged on an inner wall of said container to arrange said holding member;

wherein said shoulder-shaped portion has a top surface and a bottom surface and has at least three ribs formed on a top surface of the shoulder shaped portion for supporting said holding member;

wherein the at least three ribs each has a first side surface and a second side surface, the first and second side surfaces extending toward a top-most portion that is located between the first and second side surfaces, and wherein the top-most portion of each rib extends in a horizontal direction so as to define a horizontal plane; and

wherein a clearance is formed between the bottom surface of the holding member, the top surface of the shoulder shaped portion and opposing surfaces of at least two adjacent ribs when the holding member is arranged inside of the container.

3. A medical container according to claim 1, wherein said shoulder-shaped portion is further provided with a recessed groove portion arranged on and along said inner wall of said container.

4. A medical container according to claim 1, wherein said container main body is a form of an upwardly-open box, a shoulder-shaped portion composed of four sides continuously extending along an entire periphery of said inner wall of said container main body is arranged, and said ribs are formed as many as at least one per side of said shoulder-shaped portion.

5. A medical container according to claim 1, wherein said cylindrical holding portions are adjacently connected to each other via connecting ribs.

2. A medical container useful upon transportation of and configured to receive plural syringe barrels, comprising:

at least a container main body and a holding member arranged inside said container main body;

wherein said holding member has a top surface and a bottom surface and is provided at least with a plurality of cylindrical holding portions for holding syringe barrels, the syringe barrels each having a top surface which defines an uppermost end of each syringe barrel;

wherein said container main body has at least a peripheral rim arranged on and along an outer periphery of an opening and a shoulder-shaped portion arranged on an inner wall of said container to arrange said holding member;

wherein said shoulder-shaped portion has a top surface and a bottom surface and has at least three ribs formed on a top surface of the shoulder shaped portion for supporting said holding member;

wherein the at least three ribs each has a first side surface and a second side surface, the first and second side surfaces extending toward a top-most portion that is located between the first and second side surfaces, and wherein the top-most portion of each rib extends in a horizontal direction so as to define a horizontal plane;

wherein a clearance is formed between the bottom surface of the holding member, the top surface of the shoulder shaped portion and opposing surfaces of at least two adjacent ribs when the holding member is arranged inside of the container; and

wherein said shoulder-shaped portion is arranged at a height such that, in a state that said holding member is arranged on said shoulder-shaped portion via said ribs while holding said syringe barrels at said cylindrical holding portions, a height of the uppermost end of each syringe barrel from said bottom wall of said container main body is equal or higher compared with a height of an upper wall of said plate-shaped peripheral rim of said container main body from said bottom wall of said container main body.

6. A medical container for receiving and transporting syringe barrels, comprising:

a container main body having bottom wall, a plurality of inward facing side walls, an opening, and a shoulder shaped portion integral with the plurality of inward facing side walls, the shoulder shaped portion including at least three rib portions and a shoulder integrally formed therein; and

a holding member capable of being arranged inside the container main body, the holding member having a top and bottom surface, opposing peripheral edges and a plurality of cylindrical holding portions for holding syringe barrels,

wherein the at least three rib portions each has a first side surface and a second side surface, the first and second side surfaces extending toward a top-most portion that is located between the first and second side surfaces, and

wherein the top-most portion of each rib extends in a horizontal direction so as to define a horizontal plane,

wherein a clearance is formed between the bottom surface of the holding member, a top surface of the shoulder shaped portion and opposing surfaces of at least two adjacent ribs when the holding member is arranged inside of the container, and

wherein the opposing peripheral edges of the holding member are spaced away from adjacent surfaces of the plurality of inward facing side walls so as to define a continuous opening.