Biological sample measurement apparatus

• US 8,883,087 B2
• Filed: 02/28/2012
• Issued: 11/11/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 03/04/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: PHC Holdings Corporation
• Original Assignee: Panasonic Healthcare Company Limited (PHC Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Hamamoto, Hiroyuki, Nagao, Akio, Aono, Masumi
• Primary Examiner(s): SIEFKE, SAMUEL P
• Application Number:
  US14/000,729
• Publication Number:
  US 20130323124A1
• Time in Patent Office: 987 Days
• Field of Search: 422/404, 422/50, 422/401, 422/560, 422/561
• US Class Current: 422/404
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/1411 by percutaneous method, e.g. by lancet
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/14532 for measuring glucose, e.g. by tissue impedance measurement
• 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 5/151 Devices specially adapted for taking samples of capillary blood, e.g. by lancets , needles or blades
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/157 Devices characterised by integrated means for measuring characteristics of blood
• CPC Class Codes: G01N 21/01 Arrangements or apparatus for facilitating the optical investigation
• CPC Class Codes: G01N 21/8483 Investigating reagent band test-element handling not specific to a test method G01N33/4875; analytical elements specific to chemical analysis of biological material G01N33/52; autometer with reagent band G01N35/04
• CPC Class Codes: G01N 2201/022 Casings
• CPC Class Codes: G01N 33/66 involving blood sugars, e.g. galactose

Abstract

A biological sample measurement apparatus includes container (10) having an opening in a top surface thereof and right and left accommodation chambers (12) and (13) formed by separating an inner space and the opening in container (10) by partition wall (11a), measurement device (1) accommodated in accommodation chamber (12) of container (10), and a holder accommodated in accommodation chamber (13) of container (10) and holding measurement device (1). Provided are recesses (15, 16) configuring holding means holding measurement device (1) on an outer peripheral wall configuring accommodation chamber (12) or in accommodation chamber (12) in a state where sensor mounting section (4) of measurement device (1) is projected to an outside of accommodation chamber (12).

Claims

1. A biological sample measurement apparatus comprising:

a container having an opening in a top surface thereof and first and second accommodation chambers;

a partition wall that separates an inner space of the container and the opening into the first and the second accommodation chambers;

a biological sample measurement device accommodated in the first accommodation chamber;

a holder accommodated in the second accommodation chamber and configured to hold the biological sample measurement device; and

a holding section provided on an outer peripheral wall of the first accommodation chamber and including a first recess and a second recess, the holding section being configured to hold the biological sample measurement device with a sensor mounting section of the biological sample measurement device jutting out of the first accommodation chamber,

wherein the first recess is provided in a top surface of the partition wall and configured to hold the biological sample measurement device, and the second recess is provided in a top surface of an outer peripheral wall of the container and configured to hold the biological sample measurement device, the second recess being opposite to the first recess.

2. The biological sample measurement apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the second recess is formed on a top surface of the outer peripheral wall of the first accommodation chamber.

3. The biological sample measurement apparatus according to claim 2, wherein a length of the second recess is shorter than a length of the first recess.

4. The biological sample measurement apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the biological sample measurement device has a substantially rectangular parallelepiped shape, one end side thereof is a biological sample measurement side, the other end side thereof is an information reading side, and a width at the one end side orthogonal to a longitudinal direction of the biological sample measurement device is smaller than a width at the other end side orthogonal to the longitudinal direction.

5. The biological sample measurement apparatus according to claim 4, wherein the sensor mounting section for a biological sample detection sensor is provided on the one end side of the biological sample measurement device.

6. The biological sample measurement apparatus according to claim 5, wherein an optical information reading unit is provided on the other end side of the biological sample measurement device.

7. The biological sample measurement apparatus according to claim 1, wherein a bottom of the first accommodation chamber and a bottom of the second accommodation chamber are flush with each other.

8. The biological sample measurement apparatus according to claim 1, wherein a rotation shaft is provided at a bottom of the first accommodation chamber, the rotation shaft projecting downward from the bottom of the first accommodation chamber.

9. The biological sample measurement apparatus according to claim 8, wherein, the rotation shaft is formed of an elastic body and is adhered to an outer surface at the bottom of the first accommodation chamber.

10. The biological sample measurement apparatus according to claim 9, wherein a bottom of the second accommodation chamber is provided with a first supporting portion and a second supporting portion projecting downward from the bottom of the second accommodation chamber, and the first supporting portion, the second supporting portion, and the rotation shaft are arranged to hold the container.

11. The biological sample measurement apparatus according to claim 10, wherein the rotation shaft, the first supporting portion, and the second supporting portion have substantially equal projection height.

12. The biological sample measurement apparatus according to claim 11, wherein the rotation shaft has a color different from colors of the first supporting portion and the second supporting portion.

13. The biological sample measurement apparatus according to claim 12, wherein the rotation shaft is black, and the first supporting portion and the second supporting portion are transparent or semitransparent.