| US 7,585,464 B2 | ||
| Biosensor cartridge and biosensor dispensing device | ||
| Yoshinori Amano, Saijo (Japan); Toshiaki Iio, Saijo (Japan); and Kouichi Matsuda, Niihama (Japan) | ||
| Assigned to Panasonic Corporation, Osaka (Japan) | ||
| Appl. No. 10/510,917 PCT Filed Apr. 16, 2003, PCT No. PCT/JP03/04865 § 371(c)(1), (2), (4) Date Oct. 12, 2004, PCT Pub. No. WO03/089917, PCT Pub. Date Oct. 30, 2003. |
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| Claims priority of application No. 2002-116902 (JP), filed on Apr. 19, 2002. | ||
| Prior Publication US 2005/0145491 A1, Jul. 07, 2005 | ||
| Int. Cl. G01N 27/00 (2006.01) | ||
| U.S. Cl. 422—68.1 [422/61; 422/63; 422/104; 422/58; 436/44; 436/808; 436/150; 436/43; 221/171; 221/208; 204/400; 204/403.01; 204/403.02; 204/407] | 27 Claims |
| 1. A biosensor dispensing device comprising:
a biosensor cartridge for storing a stacked plurality of biosensors, the biosensor cartridge comprising:
a sensor ejecting port;
a sensor ejecting means for ejecting a biosensor from the biosensor cartridge via the sensor ejecting port, the sensor ejecting
means located in the biosensor cartridge, the sensor ejecting port located in a wall of the biosensor cartridge facing tips
of the biosensors, wherein the sensor ejecting port is closed except when the biosensors are being ejected;
a biosensor dispensing device body comprising:
a cartridge storing chamber for detachably holding the biosensor cartridge;
a sensor sending out mechanism for driving the sensor ejecting means in the biosensor cartridge;
a sensor conveying mechanism for conveying an ejected biosensor from the sensor ejecting port to a predetermined test position;
and
an operating part outside the device body, for the operating the sensor sending out mechanism, thereby ejecting a biosensor
from the sensor ejecting port,
wherein the biosensor ejecting means comprises a sliding member for pushing a rear end of a stacked biosensor, and
the sensor sending out mechanism comprises a pushing member for pushing and sliding the sliding member.
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