Safety blood lancet device

• US 9,402,575 B2
• Filed: 12/11/2013
• Issued: 08/02/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 06/25/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: GMMC Inc.
• Original Assignee: GMMC Inc.
• Inventors: Cho, Kyoung Man, Hong, Kwan Ho
• Primary Examiner(s): Henson, Devin
• Assistant Examiner(s): McCrosky, David J
• Application Number:
  US14/102,668
• Publication Number:
  US 20150005670A1
• Time in Patent Office: 965 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/1411 by percutaneous method, e.g. by lancet
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/150022 for capillary blood or interstitial fluid
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/150183 Depth adjustment mechanism using end caps mounted at the distal end of the sampling device, i.e. the end-caps are adjustably positioned relative to the piercing device housing for example by rotating or screwing
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/150412 Pointed piercing elements, e.g. needles, lancets for piercing the skin blade-like piercing elements A61B5/150442
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/150503 Single-ended needles hollow piercing element tip design A61B5/150396, needle sets for catheters A61M25/06, needles for bringing media into the body A61M5/32
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/150824 by visual feedback
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/15113 Manually triggered, i.e. the triggering requires a deliberate action by the user such as pressing a drive button
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/15117 comprising biased elements, resilient elements or a spring, e.g. a helical spring, leaf spring, or elastic strap
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/15194 fully automatically retracted, i.e. the retraction does not require a deliberate action by the user, e.g. by terminating the contact with the patient's skin

Abstract

A safety blood lancet device includes an outer sleeve. A fixing tube fixed in the outer sleeve has a cantilever hook. A carrier is elastically inserted into the fixing tube, and in which a lancet is separably installed at a front end thereof, a rear tip which is at a rear end of the outer sleeve and connected with a rear end of the carrier so as to load the carrier by pulling the carrier toward a rear side. A female nut is separably coupled to the outer sleeve. A front tip is rotatably installed at a front end of the female nut and in which a needle of the lancet protrudes through a front end thereof when the carrier is shot. A rear end of the fixing tube is selectively inserted into a safety cap and is elastically installed toward a front side of the outer sleeve.

Claims

1. A safety blood lancet device comprising:

an outer sleeve;

a fixing tube fixed in the outer sleeve and including

a cantilever hook extended from a middle portion to a rear end of the fixing tube, and

guide rail grooves formed on an inner surface of a front side of the fixing tube;

a safety cap disposed inside the outer sleeve, into which a rear end portion of the fixing tube is selectively inserted;

a carrier elastically inserted into the fixing tube to be moved forward and backward, and including

a holder portion formed in a front end portion of the carrier and having a cylindrical shape, the holder portion receiving a lancet,

guide ribs protruding in a radial manner from an outer surface of the carrier, the guide ribs being inserted into the guide rail grooves formed in the fixing tube, and

a cross rib axially extending from a rear end of the carrier and having a hook portion formed at a rear end of the cross rib;

an inner sleeve inserted into a rear end portion of the outer sleeve, through which the cross rib of the carrier passes;

an end ring coupled with the inner sleeve at a rear end of the inner sleeve, to which the hook portion of the carrier is hooked;

a rear tip having a cylindrical shape and, a front portion of the rear tip being inserted into the rear end of the outer sleeve such that an outer surface of the rear tip contacts with an inner surface of the outer sleeve and an inner surface of the rear tip contacts with an outer surface of the inner sleeve, a rear portion of the rear tip being disposed outside the outer sleeve, the rear tip being connected with a rear end of the hook portion so as to load the carrier by pulling the carrier toward a rear side;

a female nut which is separably coupled to a front end of the outer sleeve; and

a front tip which is rotatably installed at a front end of the female nut and in which a needle of the lancet protrudes through a front end thereof when the carrier is shot,

wherein, when the female nut is separated from the fixing tube, the safety cap presses the cantilever hook of the fixing tube toward the carrier and catches a part of the carrier, thereby preventing the carrier from being moved in a loading direction.

2. The device of claim 1, further comprising a window which is fitted to a window coupling hole of the outer sleeve and a window coupling hole of the fixing tube at the same time.

3. The device of claim 2, wherein a color is applied to one of the guide ribs of the carrier, which corresponds to the window, so as to check a loading state of the carrier through the window.

4. The device of claim 1, wherein a pair of first inclined ribs is defined at an angle of 180°

at a rear end of an inner tip fixed in the front tip, and

a pair of second inclined ribs which comes in contact with the pair of first inclined ribs is defined at a part of the female nut, and

when the female nut is rotated in one direction, the pair of first inclined ribs of the inner tip is slid up along the pair of second inclined ribs of the female nut, and thus the front tip protrudes to a front side, and when the inner tip is rotated in a reverse direction, the front tip is moved backward.

5. The device of claim 1, wherein a noise preventing rubber ring is coupled to a front end of the inner sleeve.

6. The device of claim 1, further comprising an ejector of which a part is exposed to an outside of the outer sleeve and the rest part is slidably coupled in the carrier so as to press the lancet and thus separate the lancet from the carrier.