CN114587431A

CN114587431A - Self-service sampling throat swab and seaming device

Info

Publication number: CN114587431A
Application number: CN202210270730.8A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 任潇鹏
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 2022-03-18
Filing date: 2022-03-18
Publication date: 2022-06-07

Abstract

The invention relates to the technical field of medical sampling tools, in particular to a self-sampling throat swab and a mouth-biting device, wherein a sampler places the mouth-biting device in the mouth, the throat swab is guided to play a role in guiding and positioning when being inserted, the throat swab is guided to accurately sample tonsils on two sides of the inner wall of an oral cavity, an elastic contraction device is arranged in a handle, so that a sampling part at the front end of the throat swab has a certain resilience space when being contacted with the inner wall of the oral cavity, the sampling part and the inner wall of the oral cavity are in soft contact through rigid contact, the damage to the inner wall of the oral cavity caused by the throat swab is avoided, meanwhile, the throat swab is provided with identification characteristics, the inserted depth and the rotating angle during sampling are identified through the change of the identification positions, the scraping and sampling action of the sampling part on the tonsils is ensured to be completed, the sampling difficulty is reduced, and the self-operation of ordinary people can be realized, the risk of cross infection in crowd gathering and sampling is avoided, and the working intensity of medical staff is greatly reduced.

Description

Self-service sampling throat swab and seaming device

Technical Field

The invention relates to the technical field of medical sampling tools, in particular to a self-service sampling throat swab and a mouth piece matched with the same.

Background

With the spread of new coronary pneumonia, more and more people are infected by viruses all over the world, nucleic acid detection is the only standard for determining whether to infect new coronas, and the national nucleic acid detection is imperative based on the increasing number of asymptomatic infectors at present.

Throat swab nucleic acid detection is the main detection way for determining novel coronavirus infection at present. This operation requires a nurse to sample the patient's posterior pharyngeal wall with a long swab, and during the sampling process, the sampled person (defined as the person to be sampled) is stimulated to easily cough and sneeze, so that the sampled person can form aerosol, and the aerosol is one of the important transmission routes of the novel coronavirus infection; in addition, some samplers cause vomiting due to throat irritation, and recent studies have shown that (new coronavirus detected in stool), vomit may also be a potential source of infection.

Therefore, people go to hospitals to receive professional medical sampling, go to hospitals to carry out throat swab nucleic acid detection by nurses, not only cause personnel gathering to cause the risk of illness state diffusion, but also increase the risk of infection of workers, meanwhile, because the personnel who sample are numerous, a large amount of medical personnel need to be invested, and the economic pressure of the personnel and the country of the academies is increased. Because medical personnel also easily feel tired and result in not in place to sample because of the long-time high-intensity collection work, the probability of mistake collection also can increase along with it.

In order to prevent the infection of medical staff, the protection measures adopted by the medical staff at present are protection devices such as a wearing mask, a protective clothing, a goggles or an eye protection mask, or protection devices disclosed by an authorized bulletin No. CN 210472180U named as a protection device for collecting an auditory test person, wherein a transparent barrier is erected between a sampling worker and the sampling worker, and the sampling worker samples the sampling worker by penetrating two corrugated pipes arranged on the transparent barrier through two hands without influencing the sight and the operation.

The device or the similar device can ensure the safety of sampling workers to a certain extent, reduces cross infection among doctors and patients, but still cannot achieve complete doctor-patient isolation, and still needs a lot of manpower and material resources to carry out first-line high-risk work, thereby increasing the economic pressure of workers and countries for academists and simultaneously increasing huge mental pressure for vast medical workers.

If the publication date is 2020, 10 and 23 days, the publication number is CN111803139A, and the name is self-service throat test nucleic acid sampling device and a self-contained nucleic acid sampling method, a person to be sampled places a mouth opener with positioning and limiting functions in the mouth, a throat test strip at the front end of a handheld tool passes through an opening hole on the mouth opener to be inserted into the oral cavity to be contacted with the rear wall of the pharynx, the throat test strip rotates under the action of a rotating mechanism to scrape the rear wall of the pharynx to complete sampling, and then the throat test strip is sealed and stored and recovered to wait for inspection. The device realizes self-service sampling of common people, effectively avoids mutual infection caused by crowd gathering, and greatly reduces the inspection workload of medical staff. However, the above-mentioned devices also have certain disadvantages: 1, the device has a complex integral structure and high production cost, and the large-scale popularization and use of the device are limited; 2, the device can be put into use again after being recycled and disinfected, so that a plurality of inconveniences exist in the process, and the mutual infection is easily caused by the existence of a sanitary leak; 3. the structure of the hand-held tool is complex, so that the size of the hand-held tool is large, and the hand-held tool has many inconveniences in the links of transportation, storage and the like.

In sampling, the pharyngeal swab touches the posterior pharyngeal wall to cause the patient to feel extremely uncomfortable and cause symptoms such as vomiting, so the tonsil part is sampled in the actual pharyngeal swab sampling. In view of the above, the present application provides a self-sampling pharyngeal test for tonsils.

Disclosure of Invention

The invention aims to provide a self-service sampling throat swab and a mouthpiece, which are used for solving the problems that the high risk exists because the existing throat swab nucleic acid sampling needs manual sampling by medical staff, and the real large-scale self-service sampling cannot be realized due to the defects of various self-service sampling tools in the market.

In order to achieve the purpose, the technical scheme adopted by the invention is as follows: the utility model provides a self-service sampling pharynx swab, includes wipes the sub-body of piece, wipe the sub-body of piece and include the sampling portion of front end portion and the handheld portion of rear end portion, wipe sub-body middle part and be equipped with the rupture groove, be equipped with the elastic contraction device in the handheld portion cavity, when the sampling portion contacts sampler oral cavity inner wall, wipe sub-body of piece compression the elastic contraction device to adjust the length of pharynx swab.

The technical scheme for realizing the purpose of the invention further comprises that the elastic contraction device is a spring arranged in the cavity of the handheld part, a swab rod seat is arranged at the lower part of the swab rod body, the diameter of the swab rod seat is smaller than the inner diameter of the cavity of the handheld part and larger than the aperture of a top cover at the top of the handheld part, the swab rod seat is inserted in the cavity of the handheld part, a spring sleeve rod is arranged at the lower part of the swab rod seat, and the spring sleeve rod is sleeved in the spring.

The technical scheme of the invention further comprises the mouthpiece matched with the self-service sampling throat swab, wherein the outer wall of the mouthpiece is provided with a lip flange which divides the outer wall of the mouthpiece into an oral cavity inner part and an oral cavity outer part, the mouthpiece body is provided with a throat swab first channel and a throat swab second channel, the two throat swab channels form an X-shaped cross structure in the mouthpiece body, when the throat swab is inserted into the throat swab channel, the top cover is blocked outside the throat swab channel to limit the insertion depth of the throat swab, and the swab rod body is inserted into a tonsil part on the inner wall of the oral cavity through the guiding effect of the first channel or the second channel. Furthermore, the mouth piece body is provided with outward-expanding type bell mouths at the openings of the first channel and the second channel, and the diameter of the joint of the bottom of the bell mouth and the openings of the first channel and the second channel is smaller than that of the top cover.

The invention adopting the technical scheme has the beneficial effects that:

1. the throat swab has the advantages that by means of the design of the mouth piece and the throat swab channel, the throat swab is guided and positioned when being inserted, the throat swab is guided to accurately sample the tonsil parts on two sides of the inner wall of the oral cavity, the sampling operation difficulty is reduced, and common people can operate by themselves, so that the risk of cross infection caused by direct contact of doctors and patients is avoided, and the working intensity of medical staff is greatly reduced;

2. according to the throat swab, the elastic contraction device is arranged in the handle, so that a sampling part at the front end of the throat swab has a certain resilience space when being in contact with the inner wall of the oral cavity, and the sampling part and the inner wall of the oral cavity are in soft contact through hard contact, so that the throat swab is prevented from damaging the inner wall of the oral cavity;

3. the pharynx swab top cover is provided with the shape mark or the color mark and the like, and the change of the mark position is used for identifying the insertion depth and the rotation angle during sampling, so that the scraping and sampling actions of the sampling part on the tonsil part are ensured to be completed, the pharynx swab sampling operation is simpler and more accurate, the sampling difficulty is reduced, and the self-service sampling accuracy is improved.

Drawings

FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a swab wand according to the invention;

FIG. 2 is a cross-sectional structural view of one embodiment of the swab rod of the present invention;

FIG. 3 is a cross-sectional structural view of a second embodiment of the swab rod of the present invention;

FIG. 4 is an exploded view of the swab rod of the present invention;

FIG. 5 is an exploded view of the mouthpiece of the present invention;

FIG. 6 is a perspective view of the mouthpiece of the present invention;

FIG. 7 is a front view of the assembly of a swab wand with a mouthpiece of the present invention;

FIG. 8 is a perspective view of the wiper stem and mouthpiece assembly of the present invention;

FIG. 9 is a perspective view of the assembly of a swab wand with a lower holder of a mouthpiece of the present invention;

figure 10 is a perspective view of a conventional swab wand assembled with a mouthpiece according to the invention;

FIG. 11 is a perspective view of a conventional swab wand assembled with the lower base of the mouthpiece of the present invention;

FIG. 12 is a schematic view of the present invention in use.

Detailed Description

In order to make the objects, technical solutions and advantages of the embodiments of the present invention clearer, the technical solutions in the embodiments of the present invention will be clearly and completely described below with reference to the drawings in the embodiments of the present invention, and it is obvious that the described embodiments are some, but not all, embodiments of the present invention. All other embodiments, which can be derived by a person skilled in the art from the embodiments given herein without making any creative effort, shall fall within the protection scope of the present invention.

The invention discloses a self-service sampling pharynx swab which comprises a swab rod body 11, wherein the swab rod body 11 comprises a sampling part 12 at the front end part and a handheld part 13 at the rear end part, a breaking groove 14 is formed in the middle of the swab rod body 11, an elastic contraction device is arranged in the cavity of the handheld part 13, and when the sampling part 12 contacts the inner wall of the oral cavity of a sampler, the swab rod body 11 compresses the elastic contraction device, so that the length of the pharynx swab 1 is adjusted.

According to the pharynx swab, the elastic contraction device is arranged in the handle, so that the sampling part at the front end of the pharynx swab has a certain resilience space when being in contact with the inner wall of the oral cavity, and the sampling part and the inner wall of the oral cavity are in soft contact from hard contact to soft contact, so that the pharynx swab is prevented from damaging the inner wall of the oral cavity.

As shown in fig. 1, 2 and 4, the elastic contracting device is a spring 132 disposed in the cavity of the hand-held portion 13, the swab rod seat 111 is disposed at the lower portion of the swab rod body 11, the diameter of the swab rod seat 111 is smaller than the inner diameter of the cavity of the hand-held portion 13 and larger than the aperture of the top cover 131 at the top of the hand-held portion 13, the swab rod seat 111 is inserted into the cavity of the hand-held portion 13, the spring sleeve rod 113 is disposed at the lower portion of the swab rod seat 111, and the spring sleeve rod 113 is sleeved in the spring 132. When the sampling part 12 contacts the inner wall of the oral cavity of the sampler and the hand-held part still applies pressure towards the inner wall of the oral cavity, the sampling part 12 applies pressure towards the swab rod body 11, the swab rod seat 111 compresses the spring 132 towards the cavity of the hand-held part 13, and the swab rod body 11 is partially retracted into the cavity of the hand-held part 13, so that the length of the pharyngeal swab 1 is shortened. When the pressure on the pharyngeal swab 1 is removed, the spring 132 springs back, and the swab rod seat 111 slides to the port position of the handle 13, which is again retained in the port position of the cavity of the handle 13 due to its diameter being larger than the aperture of the top cover 131.

In order to prevent the swab rod body 11 from shaking in the sliding process to cause inaccurate sampling, the outer wall of the swab rod seat 111 is provided with a group of limiting blocks 112, the inner wall of the cavity of the handheld part 13 is correspondingly provided with a group of sliding grooves 134, and the limiting blocks 112 slide up and down in the sliding grooves 134, so that the swab rod body 11 stretches up and down.

In the above embodiment, the sliding groove 134 is vertical from the top to the bottom of the cavity, and as another embodiment, the sliding groove 134 may be a spiral groove disposed along the inner wall of the cavity of the handle 13, as shown in fig. 3, the limiting block 112 is spirally rotated in the sliding groove 134, so that the swab rod body 11 is extended and retracted up and down and rotated.

When the invention adopts the technical scheme shown in fig. 2, the swab rod body 11 can only stretch up and down in the vertical direction, and rotation identification is needed during sampling, so that the mark 133 is arranged on the pharynx swab top cover 131, the types of the mark 133 include but are not limited to shape marks, color marks and the like, and the rotation angle during sampling is identified by changing the position of the mark 133, so that the tonsil scraping and sampling actions of the sampling part on the tonsil part are completed; when the invention adopts the technical scheme shown in fig. 3, the wiper rod body 11 synchronously rotates when stretching up and down to complete the wiping sampling motion.

Another technical object of the present invention is to provide a mouthpiece 2 used in combination with the above throat swab 1, as shown in fig. 5 and 6, the outer wall of the mouthpiece 2 is provided with a lip flange 25, the lip flange 25 divides the outer wall of the mouthpiece into an oral cavity inner part and an oral cavity outer part, the body of the mouthpiece 2 is provided with a throat swab first channel 23 and a throat swab second channel 24, the two throat swab channels are in an X-shaped cross structure in the body of the mouthpiece 2, when the throat swab 1 is inserted into the throat swab channel, the top cover 131 is blocked outside the throat swab channel to limit the insertion depth of the throat swab 1, and the swab body 11 is inserted into the tonsil portion 3 of the oral cavity inner wall by the guiding function of the first channel 23 or the second channel 24, as shown in fig. 12. The throat swab has the advantages that by means of the design of the mouth piece and the throat swab channel, the throat swab plays a role in guiding and positioning when being inserted, the throat swab is guided to accurately sample the tonsil parts on two sides of the inner wall of the oral cavity, the sampling operation difficulty is reduced, and common people can operate the throat swab by themselves.

The mouth piece 2 is formed by buckling two parts, namely a mouth piece upper cover 21 and a mouth piece lower seat 22, wherein the mouth piece upper cover 21 and the mouth piece lower seat 22 are respectively provided with a latch 27 and a clamping groove 28 corresponding to the latch 27, or the mouth piece of the invention can also be integrally formed by injection molding.

The diameter of the opening at both ends of the first channel 23 and the diameter of the opening at both ends of the second channel 24 are larger than the diameter of the middle part of the throat swab 1, so that the throat swab 1 can be conveniently inserted into the channels, and after sampling is completed, the throat swab 1 can be conveniently pulled out from the mouth piece 2.

Furthermore, in order to facilitate the throat swab 1 to be conveniently and rapidly inserted into the first channel or the second channel, the mouth piece 2 body is provided with outward-expanding type bellmouths 26 at the openings of the first channel 23 and the second channel 24.

Moreover, the diameter of the junction of the bottom of the bell mouth 26 and the opening of the first channel 23 and the second channel 24 is smaller than the diameter of the cap 131, so that when the pharyngeal swab 1 of the present invention is inserted into the first channel 23 or the second channel 24, the cap 131 will be blocked outside the channel, as shown in fig. 7, 8 and 9, to prevent the pharyngeal swab from being inserted too deep into the oral cavity to damage the oral cavity wall, and to implement a double protection mechanism by the elastic constriction device in the hand-held part.

As a further expansion application of the present invention, the mouthpiece 2 not only can be used in combination with the pharyngeal swab 1 of the present invention, but also can be used in combination with an existing ordinary pharyngeal swab, as shown in fig. 10 and 11, by using the guiding function of the channel of the X-shaped cross structure in the mouthpiece, the tonsils on both sides of the inner wall of the oral cavity can be accurately sampled, and at this time, it should be noted that, because the ordinary pharyngeal swab does not have an elastic contraction device, and the opening of the channel cannot limit the insertion depth of the pharyngeal swab, the insertion depth and force need to be paid extra attention to prevent the oral wall from being damaged.

The invention can realize self-service sampling, and a person to be sampled can automatically sample at any time and any place, put in and recycle the throat swab according to the regulation and wait for a detection result, so that the collection and the waiting for sampling by medical personnel are not needed, and the risk of cross infection caused by the crowd collection is greatly reduced. The application scenario of the invention can be as follows:

1. the sampling terminal machine is placed in a centralized place of personnel such as hospitals, isolated hotels, customs, airports, communities, markets and the like, a throat swab and a mouth piece detecting packet which are matched for sale are arranged in the sampling terminal machine, and the sampling terminal machine can perform code scanning authentication and face recognition authentication on users. The sampling terminal machine is also provided with an artificial intelligent image recognition system which can automatically recognize the insertion depth and the rotation angle of the user during sampling through the shape mark or the color mark and other characteristics arranged on the throat swab, thereby judging whether the user sampling is successful or not and prompting the user to finish the sampling after the sampling is successful. A user loads a swab into a sampling tube and puts the swab into a sampling terminal machine, and then operation and maintenance personnel collect the sampling tube and then carry out detection or directly load detection equipment into the sampling terminal machine to carry out automatic detection and issue a detection result.

2. The user also can purchase the pharynx swab and the seaming ware detection package of collocation sale by oneself, sweeps the dedicated APP of installation behind the sign indicating number through the cell-phone and carries out face identification authentication, and the APP has artificial intelligence image recognition function, can judge whether the user sampling succeeds through characteristics such as the sign color lump of pharynx swab automatically, and the suggestion user sampling is accomplished after the sampling succeeds. The user packs the swab into the sampling pipe and puts into the sampling pipe collection box that sets up in places such as community, market, school, and do the detection or directly pack into check out test set and carry out automated inspection and issue the testing result in sampling pipe collection box by fortune dimension personnel after collecting the sampling pipe again.

The above are two application scenarios envisaged, which do not exclude further use patterns and use scenarios according to the features and advantages of self-sampling swabs, and besides nucleic acid detection, conventional sampling is one of the application options of the present invention.

Claims

1. A self-service sampling pharynx swab comprises a swab rod body, wherein the swab rod body comprises a sampling portion at the front end portion and a handheld portion at the rear end portion, a breaking groove is formed in the middle of the swab rod body, the self-service sampling pharynx swab is characterized in that an elastic contraction device is arranged in a cavity of the handheld portion (13), and when the sampling portion (12) contacts the inner wall of a mouth cavity of a sampler, the elastic contraction device is compressed by the swab rod body (11), so that the length of the pharynx swab (1) is adjusted.

2. The self-sampling pharyngeal swab as recited in claim 1, wherein the elastic contracting device is a spring (132) disposed in the cavity of the hand-held portion (13), the swab rod body (11) is provided with a swab rod seat (111) at a lower portion thereof, the swab rod seat (111) has a diameter smaller than an inner diameter of the cavity of the hand-held portion (13) and larger than an aperture of a top cover (131) at a top of the hand-held portion (13), the swab rod seat (111) is inserted into the cavity of the hand-held portion (13), and a spring sleeve rod (113) is disposed at a lower portion thereof, and the spring sleeve rod (113) is sleeved in the spring (132).

3. The self-service sampling pharynx swab as claimed in claim 2, wherein a set of limiting blocks (112) is arranged on an outer wall of the swab rod seat (111), a set of sliding grooves (134) are correspondingly arranged on an inner wall of a cavity of the hand-held portion (13), and the limiting blocks (112) slide up and down in the sliding grooves (134) so that the swab rod body (11) stretches up and down.

4. The self-service sampling pharynx swab as claimed in claim 2, wherein a set of limiting blocks (112) is arranged on an outer wall of the swab rod seat (111), a set of sliding grooves (134) are correspondingly arranged on an inner wall of a cavity of the handheld portion (13), the sliding grooves (134) are spiral grooves arranged along the inner wall of the cavity of the handheld portion (13), and the limiting blocks (112) rotate in the sliding grooves (134) in a spiral mode, so that the swab rod body (11) stretches up and down and rotates.

5. A self-sampling pharyngeal swab as claimed in claim 2, characterised in that said cap (131) is provided with a logo (133), the type of said logo (133) including but not limited to a shape logo, a colour logo.

6. A mouthpiece for use with a self-sampling pharyngeal swab as claimed in claim 1, wherein the outer wall of the mouthpiece (2) is provided with a lip rib (25), the lip rib (25) divides the outer wall of the mouthpiece into an oral cavity inner part and an oral cavity outer part, the body of the mouthpiece (2) is provided with a first pharyngeal swab channel (23) and a second pharyngeal swab channel (24), the two pharyngeal swab channels are in an X-shaped cross structure in the body of the mouthpiece (2), when the pharyngeal swab (1) is inserted into the pharyngeal swab channel, the top cap (131) is blocked outside the pharyngeal swab channel to limit the insertion depth of the pharyngeal swab (1), and the swab body (11) is guided through the first channel (23) or the second channel (24) to be inserted into a tonsillar part of the oral cavity inner wall.

7. The mouthpiece according to claim 6, wherein the mouthpiece (2) is formed by two parts, a mouthpiece upper cover (21) and a mouthpiece lower seat (22) being snap-fitted, the mouthpiece upper cover (21) and the mouthpiece lower seat (22) being provided with a latch (27) and a catch groove (28) corresponding to the latch (27), respectively.

8. A mouthpiece as claimed in any of claims 6 or 7, in which the mouthpiece body (2) is provided with flared flares (26) at the mouth of the first and second channels (23, 24).

9. A mouthpiece as claimed in claim 8, in which the first and second channels (23, 24) are each larger at the openings at both ends than at the middle.

10. A mouthpiece as claimed in claim 8, in which the diameter of the junction of the base of the flare (26) and the openings of the first and second channels (23, 24) is less than the diameter of the cap (131).