Syringe Holder With Segmented Grooves For Balloon Catheter Sterilization
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Solution Overview
Problem
The existing methods for storing syringes used with balloon catheters are inefficient, as multiple syringes of varying capacities are often scattered during transportation and storage, making it difficult to select the correct syringe quickly, and the double packaging increases handling time and complicates sterilization.
Innovation Solution
A syringe holder designed to securely store multiple syringes of different sizes, featuring a non-circular cross-section and protrusions to reduce contact area, allowing for easy selection and sterilization, with separate storage grooves for the cylinder, flange, and plunger, and a design that prevents rotation and dropping, facilitating easy access and orientation.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If multiple syringes are stored in a sterilized package, then the syringes are often scattered during transportation, but this makes it difficult to take a required syringe quickly
Solution Approach 1:
The sterilized package is divided into multiple compartments, with each compartment dedicated to holding a specific syringe. This segmentation prevents syringes from scattering while maintaining organized access to each individual syringe, resolving the contradiction between storage capacity and ease of selection.
2Reliability
If the sterilized package containing syringes is stored in another sterilized package, then the syringes are packed twice, but this increases handling time
Solution Approach 1:
The syringe holder and sterilized package are merged into a single integrated unit, eliminating the need for double packaging. This combination maintains sterilization reliability while reducing handling time by removing the extra packaging step.
3Reliability
If the holding part is formed with an allowance with respect to the contour of the syringe, then gas can intrude easily into the syringe during sterilizing treatment, but this reduces contact area between syringe and holder
Solution Approach 1:
The holding part is designed with localized protrusions that create specific contact points with the syringe while maintaining overall clearance. This local quality approach ensures adequate contact for manufacturing stability while preserving gas infiltration paths for sterilization, resolving the contradiction between sterilization reliability and manufacturing ease.
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AI summary
A syringe holder which is capable of holding a plurality of types of syringes used for expanding a balloon catheter so as to be capable of being detached and attached is proposed. Preferably, a clearance is provided between the syringe holder and the syringe, so that gas can come into sufficient contact therewith during sterilizing treatment. The syringe holder in this arrangement can be formed, for example, by forming a plurality of grooves which are similar to the shape of the syringe and slightly larger than the syringe on a sheet formed of resilient member. Preferably, the shape is devised to prevent dropping off of the syringe from the syringe holder.