ANALYSIS DEVICE HAVING A DISCARDING MECHANISM

• US 20110040160A1
• Filed: 01/21/2007
• Published: 02/17/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 01/22/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: ARKRAY, Inc
• Original Assignee: ARKRAY, Inc
• Inventors: Murakami, Shinsui, Sakata, Tetsuya
• Application Number:
  US12/223,081
• Publication Number:
  US 20110040160A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 600/309
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/14532 for measuring glucose, e.g. by tissue impedance measurement
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/1486 using enzyme electrodes, e.g. with immobilised oxidase
• CPC Class Codes: G01N 33/4875 Details of handling test elements, e.g. dispensing or storage, not specific to a particular test method test-elements per se B01L, automatic analysers G01N35/00, in-vivo analysis on the human body for medical diagnosis A61B

Abstract

An analyzing device which fits an analyzing instrument 2 thereinto for use and has a disposal mechanism 5 for disposing of the analyzing instrument 2 after completion of analysis, wherein the disposal mechanism 5 inputs a load in a direction different from a disposal direction D1 of the analyzing instrument 2 to dispose of the analyzing instrument 2. In the analyzing device 1 having a connector portion 4 having a terminal to be brought into contact with a terminal of the analyzing instrument 2, the disposal mechanism 4 is arranged below the connector portion 4.

Claims

1. An analyzing device which fits an analyzing instrument thereinto for use and has a disposal mechanism for disposing of the analyzing instrument after completion of analysis, wherein the disposal mechanism inputs a load in a direction different from a disposal direction of the analyzing instrument to dispose of the analyzing instrument.

4. The analyzing device having the disposal mechanism according to claim 1 or 3,

wherein the disposal mechanism has a moving body which has a contacting portion brought into close contact with the analyzing instrument and can be reciprocated between a standby position and a disposal position which can dispose of the analyzing instrument,

wherein when a load is inputted by the contacting portion and the moving body is moved from the standby position to the disposal position, the analyzing instrument is moved together with the moving body.

5. The analyzing device having the disposal mechanism according to claim 4, wherein the analyzing instrument contacted with the contacting portion is moved together with the moving body due to frictional resistance between the analyzing instrument and the contacting portion.

6. The analyzing device having the disposal mechanism according to claim 5, wherein the contacting portion is formed of an elastic member.

7. The analyzing device having the disposal mechanism according to claim 4, wherein when the moving body is in the standby position, the contacting portion is not brought into contact with the analyzing instrument, and when the moving body is moved from the standby position to the disposal position, the contacting portion is brought into contact with the analyzing instrument.

8. The analyzing device having the disposal mechanism according to claim 7, wherein the contacting portion is shifted upward while the moving body is moved from the standby position to the disposal position.

9. The analyzing device having the disposal mechanism according to claim 8, further comprising an engaging portion which engages the moving body and can be moved relatively to the moving body,

wherein one of the moving body and the engaging portion has a guide groove and the other has a convex portion which engages the guide groove,

wherein when the moving body is reciprocated relatively to the housing, the convex portion is moved in the guide groove to shift the contacting portion upward and downward.

10. The analyzing device having the disposal mechanism according to claim 8, further comprising the pressing portion which sandwiches the analyzing instrument between the pressing portion and the contacting portion when the contacting portion is shifted upward.

11. The analyzing device having the disposal mechanism according to claim 4, further comprising:

an operating body which can be reciprocated relatively to the housing; and

a link member for converting the reciprocating motion of the operating body to the reciprocating motion of the moving body.

12. The analyzing device having the disposal mechanism according to claim 11,

wherein the operating body and the moving body have a rack portion having a plurality of teeth,

wherein the link member is a gear which engages the plurality of teeth of the rack portion of the operating body or the moving body, and

wherein when the operating body is moved, the moving body is moved in a direction opposite the operating body.

13. The analyzing device having the disposal mechanism according to claim 12, wherein the gear is rotated in a horizontal direction.

14. The analyzing device having the disposal mechanism according to claim 11, wherein the operating body is urged in a direction from the standby position to the disposal position.

15. The analyzing device having the disposal mechanism according to claim 14, further comprising a stopper portion for locating the operating body in the standby position.

16. The analyzing device having the disposal mechanism according to claim 1 or 3, wherein the disposal mechanism inputs a load to the side surface of the analyzing instrument to dispose of the analyzing instrument.

17. The analyzing device having the disposal mechanism according to claim 16,

wherein the disposal mechanism has a rotor which has a contacting portion brought into close contact with the analyzing instrument and is rotatable,

wherein the analyzing instrument is moved by inputting a load by the contacting portion and rotating the rotor.

18. The analyzing device having the disposal mechanism according to claim 17, wherein the disposal mechanism further has an operating body operated to rotate the rotor.

19. The analyzing device having the disposal mechanism according to claim 18, wherein the disposal mechanism further has a link member for transmitting a load inputted to the operating body as the rotational force of the rotor.

20. The analyzing device having the disposal mechanism according to claim 17, wherein the analyzing instrument has an engaging portion for engaging the contacting portion.

2. An analyzing device comprising:

a connector portion which fits thereinto an analyzing instrument which can analyze a specimen by an electrochemical method and has a terminal brought into contact with a terminal of the analyzing instrument; and

a disposal mechanism for disposing of the analyzing instrument after completion of analysis, wherein the disposal mechanism is arranged below the connector portion.

3. The analyzing device having the disposal mechanism according to claim 2, wherein the disposal mechanism inputs a load in a direction different from a disposal direction of the analyzing instrument to dispose of the analyzing instrument.

21. An analyzing device which fits an analyzing instrument thereinto for use and has a disposal mechanism which disposes of the analyzing instrument after completion of analysis,

wherein the disposal mechanism has a moving body which has a contacting portion brought into close contact with the analyzing instrument and can be reciprocated between a standby position and a disposal position which can dispose of the analyzing instrument,

wherein when a load is inputted by the contacting portion and the moving body is moved from the standby position to the disposal position, the analyzing instrument is moved together with the moving body.