Feces sampling container

• US 8,562,919 B2
• Filed: 12/01/2009
• Issued: 10/22/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 12/12/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Kyowa Medex Co., Ltd. (Resonac Holdings Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Kyowa Medex Co., Ltd. (Resonac Holdings Corp.)
• Inventors: Shimada, Yasumasa
• Primary Examiner(s): Warden, Jill
• Assistant Examiner(s): HAMMOND, CHARLES
• Application Number:
  US13/133,519
• Publication Number:
  US 20110243816A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,421 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 422/547
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 10/0038 Devices for taking faeces samples; Faecal examination devices anal receptacles A61F5/451
• CPC Class Codes: G01N 1/08 involving an extracting tool, e.g. core bit
• CPC Class Codes: G01N 1/38 Diluting, dispersing or mixing samples

Abstract

It is to provide a device for sampling feces that enables an accurate and quantitative evaluation by decreasing the variations of feces sampling levels, wherein the confirmation of the presence or absence of feces sampling can be performed hygienically and simply from an outside of a container. A device for sampling feces comprising a feces sampling stick 10, a container body 20, and a fitting body (30, 40) fitted to the inner part of the container body; the feces sampling stick having a gripping part 11 and a stick part 12, being provided with a feces sampling part 14 at the end; the container body having an opening part to fit the fitting body on one side, and a bottom part 21 on the other side, wherein a feces-suspending liquid container part for preserving a liquid for suspending feces 22 is formed in a space between the lower part of the container body and the lower side of the fitting body; the fitting body having a tubular guide part 34 that enables introduction of the stick part of the feces sampling stick, a first leveling hole 35 to remove excess feces, and a second leveling hole 42 below the first hole for further removing excess feces; wherein a domain for detecting collected feces 39 is formed in a tubular guide part adjacent to the upper end of the first leveling hole.

Claims

1. A feces sampling container comprising a feces sampling stick, a container body, and a fitting body to be fitted to the inner part of the container body, wherein

the feces sampling stick has a gripping part on one side thereof, a stick part on the other side, and a feces sampling part in the vicinity of the tip of the stick part;

the container body has an opening part for fitting the fitting body therein on one side, a bottom part on the other side, and a feces-suspending liquid container part for preserving a liquid for suspending feces therein in a space between a lower side of the container body and a lower part of the fitting body;

the fitting body has a tubular guide part that enables introduction of the stick part of the feces sampling stick, a first leveling hole provided in the tubular guide part for removing excess feces, wherein the opening area of the first leveling hole of the fitting body is smaller than the cross-sectional area of the feces sampling part of the feces sampling stick, and a second leveling hole provided below the first leveling hole for further removing excess feces, and

a collected-feces detecting domain is formed in the tubular guide part adjacent to an upper end of the first leveling hole.

2. The feces sampling container according to claim 1, wherein the feces sampling stick is equipped, at the base end of the stick part thereof, with a screw part for screwing and inserting the feces sampling stick in the fitting body.

3. The feces sampling container according to claim 1, wherein the feces-suspending liquid container part preserves therein the liquid for suspending feces and the feces sampling part in the vicinity of the tip of the stick part of the feces sampling stick penetrates through the first leveling hole and the second leveling hole of the fitting body and is dipped in the liquid for suspending feces.

4. The feces sampling container according to claim 1, wherein the feces sampling part in the vicinity of the stick part of the feces sampling stick is equipped with a concave part, a through-hole, or a trench part.

5. The feces sampling container according to claim 1, wherein the bottom part of the container body is a recessed bottom equipped with a pierce part.

6. The feces sampling container according to claim 1, wherein an opening area of the second leveling hole of the fitting body is smaller than an opening area of the first leveling hole.

7. The feces sampling container according to claim 2, wherein the collected-feces detecting domain is formed by a helical structure protruding to the inner surface side of the tubular guide part of the fitting body.

8. The feces sampling container according to claim 7, wherein the helical structure is formed so that a helix rotation angle of the feces sampling stick to be screwed and inserted is set at within from 200 to 260 degrees.

9. The feces sampling container according to claim 1, wherein the fitting body is comprised of an upper fitting block and a lower fitting block and the upper fitting block has the first leveling hole of the tubular guide part.

10. The feces sampling container according to claim 9, wherein the lower fitting block has the second leveling hole and a support part for supporting a lower side part of the tubular guide part in the upper fitting block.

11. The feces sampling container according to claim 1, wherein the fitting body further has, below the second leveling hole thereof, a filter part.

12. The feces sampling container according to claim 1, wherein a label is stuck in a J shape to the outside of the feces sampling container, over a part from the gripping part to one of a front side surface, a bottom, and a back side surface of the container body, and the label is provided with a cutout window for confirming a collection of feces, from which the collected-feces detecting domain can be seen directly.