Feces Sampling Container With Dual Leveling Holes
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing feces sampling containers face challenges in maintaining a consistent sampling amount and ensuring hygienic, easy confirmation of feces collection, particularly due to variations in feces characteristics and appearances, which affects the accuracy of clinical tests.
Innovation Solution
A feces sampling container equipped with a feces sampling stick, a container body, and a fitting body featuring a dual leveling hole system and a helical structure for excess feces removal, along with a collected-feces detecting domain and a label for external confirmation of collection.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Device complexity
If a simple feces sampling container is used, then the device complexity is reduced, but the sampling amount varies greatly due to different feces characteristics
Solution Approach 1:
The container is divided into distinct functional segments: a sampling stick with sampling part, a fitting body with leveling holes, and a container body. This segmentation allows each part to perform its specific function - the sampling stick collects feces, the fitting body controls excess removal through leveling holes, and the container body stores the sample, thereby achieving consistent sampling without complex overall structure
Solution Approach 2:
The fitting body acts as an intermediary component between the sampling stick and the container body. It includes a tubular guide part that guides the sampling stick and leveling holes that remove excess feces. This intermediary structure mediates the transition from variable feces collection to standardized sampling by controlling and regulating the feces flow and amount
2Device complexity
If conventional feces sampling containers are used, then the device structure is simple, but it is difficult to confirm from outside whether feces have been collected
Solution Approach 1:
The tubular guide part of the fitting body is designed with different translucency levels - transparent or translucent portions allow visual detection of feces collection from outside. When feces are collected in the sampling stick, they become visible through the transparent/t translucent sections of the tubular guide part, providing clear external confirmation of collection status without requiring complex detection mechanisms
3Device complexity
If feces sampling containers without leveling holes are used, then the device complexity is reduced, but the sampling amount varies due to excess feces attachment
Solution Approach 1:
The fitting body includes leveling holes that extract or remove excess feces from the sampling stick. The first leveling hole removes initially attached excess feces, and the second leveling hole removes any remaining excess, ensuring only the appropriate sampling amount is retained. This extraction mechanism eliminates variable excess attachment while maintaining simple overall structure
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AI summary
It is to provide a device for sampling feces that enables an accurate and quantitative evaluation by decreasing the variations of feces sampling levels, wherein the confirmation of the presence or absence of feces sampling can be performed hygienically and simply from an outside of a container. A device for sampling feces comprising a feces sampling stick 10, a container body 20, and a fitting body (30, 40) fitted to the inner part of the container body; the feces sampling stick having a gripping part 11 and a stick part 12, being provided with a feces sampling part 14 at the end; the container body having an opening part to fit the fitting body on one side, and a bottom part 21 on the other side, wherein a feces-suspending liquid container part for preserving a liquid for suspending feces 22 is formed in a space between the lower part of the container body and the lower side of the fitting body; the fitting body having a tubular guide part 34 that enables introduction of the stick part of the feces sampling stick, a first leveling hole 35 to remove excess feces, and a second leveling hole 42 below the first hole for further removing excess feces; wherein a domain for detecting collected feces 39 is formed in a tubular guide part adjacent to the upper end of the first leveling hole.