Feces collection container

• US 7,908,935 B2
• Filed: 12/15/2006
• Issued: 03/22/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 12/16/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Nipro Corporation
• Original Assignee: Nipro Corporation
• Inventors: Hasegawa, Mitsuru, Tomita, Yoshikatsu, Okamoto, Seiji
• Primary Examiner(s): NOLAND, THOMAS
• Application Number:
  US12/097,467
• Publication Number:
  US 20100000341A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,558 Days
• Field of Search: 738/64, 738/644.4, 738/645.1, 738/646.3, 738/646.4, 738/649.1, 600572-573, 600/576, 600/579
• US Class Current: 73/864.64
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 10/0038 Devices for taking faeces samples; Faecal examination devices anal receptacles A61F5/451
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 10/0096 Casings for storing test samples A61B10/0038 and A61B10/0045 take precedence; preservation of living parts of the human or animal body A01N1/02; containers for retaining a material to be analysed B01L3/50; containers for enzymology or microbiology C12M1/16; swab-sampler being part of enzymology or microbiology container C12M1/30
• CPC Class Codes: G01N 33/528 Atypical element structures, e.g. gloves, rods, tampons, toilet paper

Abstract

The inventors perfected the present invention upon finding that a conventional fecal sampling stick is given a hollow structure that has openings a certain distant apart, permitting in aspiration through the capillary tube phenomenon. That is, the present invention is a feces collection container for collecting faeces as an analyte, which comprises a fecal sampling stick which has a holding part (11) at a base, a fecal sampling part (12) at a tip and is formed a hollow passage with openings at the tip and on the base side a predetermined distance from the tip.

Claims

1. A feces collection container for collecting feces as an analyte comprising

a fecal sampling stick which has a holding part at a base, a fecal sampling part at a tip and is formed a hollow passage with a tip opening and a base side opening on the base side a predetermined distance from the tip, and

an opening closing means which is closable to the base side opening in a liquid-tight manner.

2. The feces collection container according to claim 1, wherein the fecal sampling stick is composed of a fecal sampling part side member and a holding part side member which are relatively displaceably connected,

one of the fecal sampling part side member and the holding part side member has the base side opening, and the other that is relatively displaced from the position where the base side opening is open to the position where it is closed has the opening closing means.

3. The feces collection container according to claim 2, wherein the fecal sampling part side member has the base side opening, and the tip of the holding part side member is the opening closing means.

4. The feces collection container according to claim 2, wherein the holding part side member has the base side opening, and the base of the fecal sampling part side member is the opening closing means.

5. The feces collection container according to claim 2, wherein the fecal sampling part side member and the holding part side member is slidably relatively displaceable.

6. The feces collection container according to claim 2, wherein the fecal sampling part side member and the holding part side member is rotatably relatively displaceable.

7. The feces collection container according to claim 1, comprising

the fecal sampling stick,

a cylindrical member being open at both ends so that the fecal sampling stick is retractably inserted, and

a container body in which the tip is provided with a drip portion that is sealed off by readily openable sealing means,

an outer wall of the fecal sampling stick and an inner wall of the cylindrical member are engaged in a liquid-tight manner, and

the tip of the cylindrical member and the base of the container body are engaged in a liquid-tight manner.

8. The feces collection container according to claim 7, wherein the tip of the cylindrical member is sealed off by a sealing film that is penetratable by the fecal sampling stick.

9. The feces collection container according to claim 7, wherein the base of the container body is sealed off by a sealing film that is penetratable by the fecal sampling stick.

10. The feces collection container according to claim 7, wherein a tip of the fecal sampling stick has a protrusion for penetrating the sealing film.

11. The feces collection container according to claim 7, wherein the sealing means of the drip portion is a thin film that is easily breakable.

12. The feces collection container according to claim 7, wherein the sealing means of the drip portion is a seal that is easily breakable at a fragile part.

13. The feces collection container according to claim 7, wherein the sealing means of the drip portion is a cap.

14. The feces collection container according to claim 1, wherein the opening closing means relatively displaces from the position where the base side opening is open to the position where it is closed by the resistance during the penetration of the sealing film by the fecal sampling stick.