CN110693525A

CN110693525A - Ultrasonic probe isolation sleeve

Info

Publication number: CN110693525A
Application number: CN201911056298.7A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 陈云
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 2019-10-31
Filing date: 2019-10-31
Publication date: 2020-01-17

Abstract

Ultrasonic probe spacer sleeve belongs to medical instrument's consumptive material field, for solving disposable ultrasonic probe spacer sleeve and to ultrasonic probe's damage and the extravagant problem of material, ultrasonic probe spacer sleeve includes that the rear end is equipped with the open-ended cover body to and fixed cover, this fixed cover is the open casing in both ends, wherein first uncovered and opening detachably lock joint. The ultrasonic probe is used for medical ultrasonic examination and has the advantages of protecting the ultrasonic probe and saving consumables.

Description

Ultrasonic probe isolation sleeve

Technical Field

The invention relates to an auxiliary device of a medical instrument, in particular to an ultrasonic probe isolation sleeve.

Background

The medical ultrasonic examination is carried out by adopting an ultrasonic probe coated with a coupling agent, so that the examined person feels uncomfortable, and the defect of cross infection skin disease is easy to occur when a plurality of people share the probe.

The Chinese patent application with publication number CN106344071 and the name of 'disposable high-definition imaging ultrasonic gel probe isolating sleeve and a preparation method thereof' discloses an ultrasonic probe isolating sleeve without using a coupling agent. The isolating sleeve which is attached to the ultrasonic probe in shape is sleeved on the ultrasonic probe, so that the ultrasonic probe is prevented from being directly contacted with a human body, a new isolating sleeve is replaced after each person uses the ultrasonic probe, and the possibility of cross infection is greatly reduced. The gel layer that the surface at the isolation cover attached to carbomer material made, because the good self-lubricating performance of carbomer gel layer, need not coat the couplant, greatly reduced ultrasonic inspection's uncomfortable degree.

The ultrasonic probe isolation sleeve has the following defects found in the clinical use process: firstly, the sleeve body is tightly matched or clamped with the probe, and when one sleeve body is used, the friction is generated twice due to the installation and the disassembly of the probe, so that the operation is laborious, and the probe body is damaged or even the operation part of the probe is accidentally damaged; secondly, the sheath body has larger volume, and although the material consumption is less, the disposable consumable material still generates great waste under the condition of huge use.

Disclosure of Invention

The invention mainly aims to provide an ultrasonic probe isolation sleeve with an improved structure.

In order to achieve the main purpose of the invention, the ultrasonic probe isolation sleeve provided by the invention comprises a sleeve body and a fixed sleeve, wherein the sleeve body is provided with an opening at the rear end, the fixed sleeve is a shell with two open ends, and the first open end is detachably buckled with the opening.

It is thus clear from the above scheme, the cover body is as the consumptive material of disposable, it contacts and detachably lock joint with fixed cover, and not contact with ultrasonic probe, same completely with prior art during the use, but relative fixed cover dismantles the separation and abandons after the use, and fixed cover can pass through the uncovered cover of second on ultrasonic probe, and need not to relapse relative ultrasonic probe dismantlement, ultrasonic probe has been protected effectively, in addition, because the cover body only contacts with fixed cover, the volume of the aforesaid relative current isolation cover that can design is littleer, material cost has been saved.

The shell comprises an inner shell and an outer shell, and the inner shell is made of rubber or silica gel. The advantage is that only the inner shell of the fixing sleeve contacts with the ultrasonic probe when in use, and the inner shell adopts rubber or silica gel with good elasticity to better protect the ultrasonic probe from being damaged.

The further proposal is that the inner side of the opening is provided with a buckling position, and the first opening is provided with a buckling tooth buckled with the buckling position. So make between the cover body and the fixed cover through detaining the position and detaining the lock joint mode of tooth, can make both connect more reliably, it is more convenient to dismantle.

The other scheme is that two buckling positions are symmetrically arranged along the circumferential direction of the opening; the two buckling teeth buckled with the buckling positions are elastic buckling teeth. The advantage is that the button can be released only by pressing the thumb and the index finger, and the sleeve can be disassembled by one hand.

Still further, the elastic buckle tooth comprises a toothed bar, an elastic tile plate and a button; the button comprises a button part, a shoulder part and a rod part; the elastic tile plate is provided with a through hole which is in clearance fit with the rod part; the rod part passes through the through hole and is fixed at the middle section of the rack rod. The advantage is that the service life of the button tooth and the fixing sleeve is longer.

A pair of limiting grooves for limiting one side of the elastic tile plate is arranged on one side of the inner wall of the outer shell; the outer shell is provided with a button hole which is in clearance fit with the button part, and the shoulder part is positioned between the outer shell and the limiting groove in the central line direction of the button hole.

Another further proposal is that more than two buckling positions are arranged along the circumferential direction of the opening; more than two buckling teeth buckled with the buckling positions are correspondingly arranged, wherein at least one buckling tooth is elastic. Has the advantages that the button can be released only by a thumb, and the utility model is suitable for female doctors with relatively small pinching force.

Still further, the elastic buckle tooth comprises a toothed bar, an elastic tile plate and a button; the button comprises a button part, a shoulder part and a rod part; the elastic tile plate is provided with a through hole which is in clearance fit with the rod part; the rod part passes through the through hole and is fixed at the middle section of the rack.

Drawings

Ultrasound probes that are not part of the invention but are closely related to the use of the invention are shown in the drawings in dashed lines.

FIG. 1 is a front view of a first embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 2 is a cross-sectional view A-A of FIG. 1;

FIG. 3 is an exploded view of the first embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 4 is a half-sectional perspective view of the fixing cover with the inner shell removed, according to the first embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 5 is a bottom view of FIG. 1 with the ultrasound probe and inner shell removed;

FIG. 6 is a half-sectional perspective view of the covering of the first embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 7 is a perspective view of the sleeve of fig. 3 from another perspective.

The embodiments of the present invention will be further described with reference to the accompanying drawings.

Detailed Description

First embodiment

Referring to fig. 1, the ultrasonic probe isolating sleeve of the present example is mainly composed of a sleeve body 1 and a fixed sleeve 2, and a button 33 for controlling the separation of the sleeve body 1 from the fixed sleeve 2 is arranged in the fixed sleeve 2. The fixing sleeve 2 is intended to be fixed to the ultrasound probe 4 in a clamping manner.

Referring to fig. 2, the sheath 1 is composed of a skeleton 12 and a gel layer 11 made of carbomer material, the gel layer 11 is fixed at the front end of the skeleton 12, and the opening for fastening and matching with the first opening of the fixing sheath 2 is arranged at the rear end, i.e. the lower end shown in fig. 2. The fixing sleeve 2 has an outer shell 21 and an inner shell 22 fixed in the outer shell 21, wherein the inner shell 22 is made of silicone, but may be made of other elastic materials such as rubber. The elastic buckle tooth is formed by combining a toothed bar 31, an elastic tile 32 and a button 33. On its own axis, the button 33 is, in turn, a button portion, a shoulder portion and a lever portion, the shoulder portion having the largest dimension, the button portion having a central dimension and the lever portion having the smallest dimension in a direction perpendicular to the axis. The resilient shoe 32 is provided with a through hole which is in clearance fit with the rod portion which is fixed to the middle section of the rack bar 31 through the through hole, thereby forming an integral assembly which can reciprocate in the axial direction of the button 33 itself with respect to the outer shell 21 after assembly. In addition, the head of the ultrasonic probe 4 is kept in contact with the lower surface of the gel layer 11, and the second opening formed by the inner shell 22 is tightly hooped on the ultrasonic probe, so that the fixing sleeve 2 is fixed on the ultrasonic probe 4.

Referring to fig. 3, there are two elastic buckle teeth as an integral component, and two buckle positions matched with the two elastic buckle teeth are arranged on the sleeve body 1 and symmetrically arranged along the circumferential direction of the opening of the sleeve body 1. The outer shell 21 is provided with a pair of button holes 211, a pair of limit grooves 212 for limiting a pair of sides of an elastic tile 32, a plurality of ribs 213 for limiting the inner shell 22 to move in the circumferential direction and a recess 214 for limiting the inner shell 22 to move in the vertical direction (see fig. 4). The outer surface of the inner shell 22 is provided with grooves 223 engaged with the ribs 213 and protrusions 224 engaged with the recesses 214. The inner shell 22 and the outer shell 21 are assembled to form a shell with a first open upper end and a second open lower end, the opening at the lower end of the sleeve body 1 is sleeved on the upper end opening and is buckled by the elastic buckling teeth, and the sleeve body 1 and the fixed sleeve 2 are fixedly connected.

Referring to fig. 4 and 5, the cross section of fig. 4 is a middle symmetrical plane of the outer shell 21, right-angled ribs with an L-shaped cross section are disposed on two sides of each button hole 211, and the bent angles are oppositely formed to limit grooves 212 which restrict one side of the elastic tile plate 32, and it can be seen from fig. 4 that the shoulder portion is located between the outer shell 21 and the limit grooves 212 in the direction of the center line of the button hole. In fig. 5, the elastic shoe 32 is in a natural state, when a pair of buttons 33 is pressed, the two buttons move in opposite directions along the axis direction to drive the pair of elastic shoes 32 and the pair of toothed bars 31 to move in opposite directions, and a pair of edges of the elastic shoes 32 are constrained by the limiting grooves 212 to deform the elastic shoes 32 and generate restoring force, when the teeth of the toothed bars 31 are released from the buckling position, the sleeve body 1 can be separated from the fixed sleeve 2, after separation, the pressure of the pair of buttons is released, the elastic shoes 32 return to the state shown in fig. 5 under the action of the restoring force, and when a new sleeve body 1 is installed, the teeth of the toothed bars 31 can enter the buckling position only by aligning the opening of the sleeve body 1 with the upper opening of the fixed sleeve 2 and pressing down.

Referring to fig. 6, the inside of the opening of the sleeve body 1 is provided with a pair of fastening positions 121 for engaging with the tooth heads of the elastic fastening teeth.

Second embodiment

The difference between the present example and the previous example is that there are three buckling positions, two of which are arranged on one side of the opening of the sleeve body 1, and the other buckling position is arranged on the other opposite side. The number of the buckling teeth is three, wherein rigid buckling teeth are matched with two buckling positions on the same edge of the opening, and elastic buckling teeth are matched with the other buckling position arranged on the other edge of the opening. Obviously, the same side of the first opening is provided with a plurality of rigid buckling teeth, the other side is provided with a plurality of elastic buckling teeth, and the corresponding position of the opening is provided with a buckling position matched with the opening, so that the aim of the invention can be achieved.

Third embodiment

The difference between this embodiment and the first embodiment is that the elastic shoe 32 and the stopper groove 212 are omitted, and the rack bar 31 is integrally formed with the outer shell 21, that is, the rack bar 31 extends upward from the inner wall of the outer shell 21, and the push button 33 is provided in the gap between the two, and the restoring force of the rack bar 31 is generated by the bending deformation of the rack bar 31 itself.

Claims

1. The ultrasonic probe isolation sleeve comprises a sleeve body with an opening at the rear end;

the method is characterized in that:

the fixed cover, fixed cover is the open casing in both ends, wherein first uncovered with opening detachably lock joint.

2. The ultrasound probe isolation sleeve of claim 1, wherein:

the shell comprises an inner shell and an outer shell, and the inner shell is made of rubber or silica gel.

3. The ultrasound probe isolation sleeve of claim 1 or 2, wherein:

the inner side of the opening is provided with a buckling position;

the first opening is provided with a buckling tooth buckled with the buckling position.

4. The ultrasound probe isolation sleeve of claim 3, wherein:

two buckling positions are arranged symmetrically along the circumferential direction of the opening;

the two buckling teeth buckled with the buckling positions are elastic buckling teeth.

5. The ultrasound probe isolation sleeve of claim 4, wherein:

the elastic buckle tooth comprises a toothed bar, an elastic tile plate and a button;

the button comprises a button part, a shoulder part and a rod part;

the elastic tile plate is provided with a through hole in clearance fit with the rod part;

the rod part penetrates through the through hole and is fixed at the middle section of the toothed bar.

6. The ultrasound probe isolation sleeve of claim 5, wherein:

one side of the inner wall of the outer shell is provided with a pair of limiting grooves for limiting one opposite side of the elastic tile plate;

the outer shell is provided with a button hole in clearance fit with the button part, and the shoulder part is positioned between the outer shell and the limiting groove in the center line direction of the button hole.

7. The ultrasound probe isolation sleeve of claim 3, wherein:

more than two buckling positions are arranged along the circumferential direction of the opening;

the buckling teeth buckled with the buckling positions are correspondingly more than two, wherein at least one buckling tooth is elastic.

8. The ultrasound probe isolation sleeve of claim 7, wherein:

the button comprises a button part, a shoulder part and a rod part;

9. The ultrasound probe isolation sleeve of claim 8, wherein: