Body for storing biosensors and measurement device using the biosensors

• US 9,103,772 B2
• Filed: 09/30/2011
• Issued: 08/11/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 09/30/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: PHC Holdings Corporation
• Original Assignee: Panasonic Healthcare Holdings Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: Shinno, Teppei, Tokunaga, Hiroyuki, Yamamura, Tomoharu
• Primary Examiner(s): Ball, J. Christopher
• Application Number:
  US13/821,437
• Publication Number:
  US 20130168276A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,411 Days
• Field of Search: 20440301-40315
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2050/005 with a lid or cover
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2050/006 perpendicular to the lid plane, e.g. by a downward movement
• 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: G01N 27/327 Biochemical electrodes , e.g. electrical or mechanical details for in vitro measurements
• CPC Class Codes: G01N 33/48 Biological material, e.g. blood, urine G01N33/02, G01N33/26, G01N33/44, G01N33/46 take precedence; Haemocytometers counting blood corpuscules distributed over a surface by scanning the surface G06M11/02
• CPC Class Codes: G01N 33/48778 Containers specially adapted therefor, e.g. for dry storage

Abstract

The purpose of the present invention is to facilitate the extraction of plate-shaped biosensors stored in a container body. More specifically, a body for storing biosensors is provided, the body including: a tube-shaped storage container body having an open upper face; a lid body for covering the upper face opening of the storage container body so that the lid can open and close the upper face opening; and plate-shaped biosensors stored within the tube-shaped container body. The biosensors are each provided with a measurement section disposed at one end thereof; a connection terminal section disposed at the other end thereof; and a connection section disposed between the one end and the other end and electrically connecting the measurement section and the connection terminal section. The biosensors each have a protrusion disposed at an end thereof in the longitudinal direction thereof.

Claims

1. A measuring apparatus having an insertion opening configured to allow a biosensor to be inserted therein with connecting terminals of the biosensor facing the insertion opening, the biosensor comprising a pair of electrodes composed of a working electrode and a counter electrode disposed at one end, the connecting terminals disposed at the other end, a protrusion disposed at the other end, and patterns of conductive film on the protrusion and the connecting terminals, the measuring apparatus measuring a specific component based on an output from the pair of electrodes, the measuring apparatus comprising:

a connector connected to the connecting terminals when the biosensor is inserted;

a display that displays a measured result obtained by the measuring apparatus; and

a switch that is pressed by the protrusion to turn on,

wherein the measuring apparatus is adapted to discriminate a type of the biosensor currently inserted into the measuring apparatus based on a combination of;

an on/off state of the switch and connecting states of the connector resulting from an arrangement of the patterns of the conductive film.

2. The measuring apparatus according to claim 1 further comprising another switch that is pressed by the protrusion to turn on.