Blood collection tube stocker and device for preparing blood collection tubes

Abstract

Provided is a blood collection tube preparing apparatus which is simple, downsized, portable, capable of being easily placed on a desk or the like, excellent in responding to an emergency such as a disaster, and capable of preparing various kinds of blood collection tubes depending on a blood collection instruction from a doctor. A blood collection tube holding member is arranged along one transferring belt and between a forward-side transferring belt and a backward-side transferring belt of the one transferring belt, and lower end surfaces of a cap of a blood collection tube is supported on upper end surfaces of the blood collection tube holding member and the forward-side transferring belt. The forward-side transferring belt applies a transferring force to the blood collection tube through the cap. Further, the members constituting a storage box are accommodated in one module, and the storage box is detachably mounted onto a mounting portion of an apparatus main body. Further, the storage box is in the form of module, and hence an operation in the case of failure or during maintenance is significantly facilitated.

Description

technical field [0001] The present invention relates to a small-sized, simple-structured and excellent mobile blood-sampling tube preparation device, which is used for the pre-preparation of blood-sampling tubes in the blood-sampling process in the pre-process of blood-sampling examination, and adopts a blood-sampling tube storage device. The blood vessel stocker hangs and holds blood collection tubes (including test tubes) in an annular feed belt, and feeds the blood collection tubes through the feed belt, and is formed in a modular form that can be easily attached and detached. The blood collection tube preparation device can select different types of blood collection tubes from the modular stocker according to the blood collection instruction of the doctor, and affix a label printed with blood collection information such as patient ID and the content of the blood collection instruction to the blood collection tube. , and further store the labelled blood collection tubes in ...

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Problems solved by technology

Therefore, the dimension in the width direction of the whole becomes quite large, and in the case of configuring a device that automatically prepares a variety of blood collection tubes, the overall size of the device cannot be avoided, so that the techniques of the above-mentioned Patent Documents 2 and 3 cannot be directly applied. Problems of application to the blood collection tube preparation device

[0013] In this way, in the technology shown in Patent Document 1, due to the relationship of stacking and arranging the storage parts of various blood collection tubes in the vertical direction, there is a problem of upsizing such that the height dimension in the vertical direction becomes large. If the technology shown in 3 is directly applied to the technology of the blood collection tube preparation device, the width dimension in the horizontal direction will become larger, and if it is configured as a device that manages multiple blood collection tubes, there is a problem that the size of the device itself will increase.

In addition, when the technologies shown in Patent Documents 2 and 3 are used as they are, there is a problem that there is a need for transport mechanisms twice the number of types of blood collection tubes to be managed.

[0014] The problem of increasing the size of such a blood collection tube preparation device is that it is not easy to move the blood collection tube preparation device when the layout is changed, etc., and there is a problem that space is limited when it is applied to a small-scale hospital.

In addition, the problem of upsizing becomes one of the reasons why it cannot cope with the situation where simple installation is required in the event of a disaster, etc., so there is a disadvantage that it cannot be responded to in an emergency.

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