Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting – deodorizing – preser – Control element responsive to a sensed operating condition
Patent
1994-09-20
1996-05-07
Warden, Jill
Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preser
Control element responsive to a sensed operating condition
422 58, 422 61, 7386441, 128757, 436 66, 436518, G01N 3348, G01N 3350
Patent
active
055143415
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
TECHNICAL FIELD
The present invention relates to a feces-sampling transport container and, more particularly, to an easily transportable feces-sampling container capable of being sent and/or returned by means of mail such as by packaging it in an envelope.
BACKGROUND ART
The feces is suitable like urine as a non-invasive examination sample so that it is broadly used as the sample in several examinations.
Of the aforementioned examinations, the detection of occult blood in the feces is known as the screening method of a digestive disease such as a discharge of blood from a digestive tract and is very important for diagnosis of a hemorrhagic disease such as an ulcer or cancer of the digestive tract.
In the method of detecting the occult blood in the feces, the method (e.g., Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 125064/1984) based upon the immunological reaction principle, as recently reported, is superior in the points of specificity and sensitivity to the conventional detection method using the guaiac reagent and is noted as a new screening method for the aforementioned disease.
Incidentally, in order to execute the method of detecting the occult blood in the feces on the basis of the immunological reaction principle, it is necessary to sample the feces quantitatively in advance and to suspend the sampled feces in a suitable liquid thereby to prepare a predetermined feces suspension.
This is because the immunological detection reagent is preset to achieve a sensitivity according to a specimen to be anticipated, i.e., the amount of the feces, so that the sensitivity is lowered if the amount of the feces to be examined is too small. On the contrary, too much feces to be examined will cause inconveniences for the transportation or mailing and emit an offensive odor. Moreover, a problem will arise when an excess of the specimen (i.e., the feces) is to be disposed after the examination.
In order to eliminate these difficulties, there have been proposed in the prior art a variety of feces-sampling transport containers. For example, Japanese Utility Model Laid-Open No. 69160/1987 has disclosed a feces-sampling transport container which is equipped with a sampling rod having a notched portion, a recessed portion or a through hole in the vicinity of its leading end.
When the feces-sampling transport container disclosed in Japanese Utility Model Laid-Open No. 69160/1987 is used, a substantially constant amount of feces sample is held in the notched portion, the recessed portion or the through hole formed in the vicinity of the leading end of the sampling rod, so that the amount of feces to be sampled can be limited to a certain extent. It is, however, limitative to control the amount of feces to be sampled, exclusively by the leading end structure of the sampling rod. Depending upon the physical properties of the feces, for example, the sampling amount may get excessive or short.
The feces-sampling transport container having succeeded in eliminating the difficulties of the feces-sampling transport container disclosed in Japanese Utility Model Laid-Open No. 69160/1987 is exemplified by the feces-sampling transport container which is disclosed in Japanese Utility Model Laid-Open No. 42454/1989, as shown in FIG. 18. This feces-sampling transport container is constructed to include: a container body 2 capable of accommodating a liquid 1 for suspending feces; a cap 4 equipped with a sampling rod 3 having at least one of a notched portion, a recessed portion and a through hole in the vicinity of its leading end and capable of being connected to the container body 2 through sealable means; and a dropping portion 6 having a filter 5 therein. The feces-sampling transport container is provided with a stocker portion 8 which is formed by the cap 4, a separating wall 7 for separating the inside of the container into at least two chambers, and the sampling rod 3 extending through the separating wall 7. In FIG. 18, other reference numerals 9 and 10 designate a hole and a notched portion.
In the feces-sampling transport container shown
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Aota Shigeru
Asano Shin-ichiro
Hayashi Hiroaki
Ichikawa Yoshiharu
Kikuchi Tatsunori
Eiken Kagaku Kabushiki Kaisha
Pyon Harold Y.
Warden Jill
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