JP2567523B2 - Eye drop container - Google Patents

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an eye drop container, and more particularly to an eye drop container equipped with an eye drop cover for ensuring and stabilizing eye drops during eye drops and preventing eye drops from leaking to unnecessary places. Related to effective technology.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art When instilling, ensuring and stabilizing eye drops,
As an eye drop aid for preventing the leakage of eye drops into unnecessary places, there is a practical use of No. 3-75737.
45934). This eye drop aid has a cylindrical body detachably attached to the upper part of the container body, and a taper-like aid integrally attached to the body and detachably fitted to the container body. When using it, apply the auxiliary tool mounted upward on the container body to the face around the eye and instill it, and when not instilled, remove the auxiliary tool from the container body and attach it in the upside down direction By covering the head side of the container main body with the reversed auxiliary tool, the eyedrop container can be made compact when being carried.

[0003]

However, in the above-mentioned eye drop aid, it is necessary to attach / detach it from the container body at the time of transition between the time of instillation and the time of non-instillation.

An object of the present invention is to provide an eye drop container which can improve the ease of transition between the application of the eye drops and the non-eye drops and the compactification of the eye drops.

The above and other objects and novel features of the present invention will be apparent from the description of this specification and the accompanying drawings.

[0006]

Of the inventions disclosed in the present application, a representative one will be briefly described below.
It is as follows.

That is, the eye drop container of the present invention has a container body, a cap, and a housing case, and the container body is substantially orthogonal to two contact surfaces that are substantially parallel to each other. Direction and two pressing surfaces in the direction, and an eye drop mouth portion is provided at the tip end portion, and an eye drop is contained therein. Further, the cap is in contact with a closing portion having a protrusion that fits into the discharge hole formed in the eye drop mouth, and a base portion and a contact surface that extend from the closing portion and form a space between the eye drop mouth portion. It has a detachable knob portion composed of a contact portion and an engaging claw portion that engages with a tapered surface formed on the outer peripheral surface of the eye drop mouth portion, and is detachable from the container body. The housing case has a case-side fitting part that fits into a container-side fitting part formed at the base end part of the contact surface, and a contact side wall part corresponding to the base end part of the contact surface, and a pressing face corresponding to the pressing surface. The eye drop cover is provided with a pressing hole that exposes a part of the surface, and the engaging portions that engage with each other are provided at the tip ends. When the locking portions of the eye drop cover are locked to each other with the cap attached to the container body, the periphery of the detachable knob portion of the cap is covered with the eye drop cover of the housing case.

[0008]

When the discharge hole for discharging the eye drops is closed, the cap can be easily attached by pushing the cap toward the container body, and the discharge hole can be easily closed by the cap. Since the detachable knob portion of the cap comes into contact with the contact surface of the container body and the engaging claw portion engages with the tapered surface, the cap does not accidentally come off during non-eyedrops, such as during carrying and carrying. Inadvertent disengagement during transportation by carrying is also achieved by locking the tips of the eye drop cover to each other and covering the periphery of the detachable knob with the eye drop cover.

On the other hand, when performing eye drops, when the eye drop cover is opened and the base end of the detachable knob is pressed with a fingertip, the base end is elastically deformed in the space. The contact portion of the detachable knob is separated from the contact surface of the container body, and the cap can be easily removed. And
At the time of instillation, open the instillation cover and bring the tip of the instillation cover into contact with the face around the eye before instilling to ensure and stabilize the instillation and prevent leakage of eye drops to unnecessary places. You can

[0010]

1 is a perspective view showing an eyedrop container according to an embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 2 is a perspective view showing the eyedrop container in a set state, and FIG. 3 is a part of the eyedrop container. FIG. 4 is a front view showing a cutaway view, and FIG. 4 is a side view showing a cutaway view of the eyedrop container.

As shown in FIG. 1, the eye drop container of this embodiment has a container body 1 filled with eye drops, a housing case 2 in which the container body 1 is housed, and a container body 1 which is detachable. The container body 1, the housing case 2, and the cap 4 are made of synthetic resin.

As shown in FIG. 1, the container body 1 has two contact surfaces 1a which are substantially parallel to each other and two pressing surfaces 1b which are substantially perpendicular to the contact surfaces 1a. It is a rectangular parallelepiped having two surfaces and is tapered so that the width becomes smaller toward the lower end portion, that is, the base end portion. An eyedrop opening 3 having a discharge hole 3a is provided at the tip of the container body 1, and a tapered surface 3b is formed on the outer peripheral surface of the eyedrop opening 3. Then, as shown in the drawing, a container-side fitting portion 5 is formed at the base end of the contact surface 1a of the container body 1.

The housing case 2 has a contact surface 1a of the container body 1.
A contact side wall portion 2a corresponding to the base end portion, that is, the lower end portion and parallel to each other, and an eye drop cover 9 extending in a direction substantially orthogonal to the contact side wall portion 2a and extending upwardly. A space surrounded by the contact side wall portion 2 a and the base end portion of the eye drop cover 9 is a housing portion 6. When viewed from above, such a housing case 2 has a substantially rectangular shape corresponding to the container body 1. The contact side wall portion 2a of the housing case 2 is formed with a case-side fitting portion 7 into which the container-side fitting portion 5 of the container body 1 fits when the container body 1 is pushed into the housing portion 6. Therefore,
The container body 1 is attached to the housing portion 6 in the housing case 2 by fitting the respective fitting portions 5 and 7.

With the container body 1 attached, a pressing hole 8 is formed in the eye drop cover 9 so that the pressing surface 1b of the container body 1 is partially exposed to the outside. Therefore, by pressing the pressing surface 1b with a fingertip, the eye drop filled in the container body 1 can be dripped from the discharge hole 3a.

The cap 4 has a closing portion 12 having a protrusion 12a which fits into the discharge hole 3a of the eye drop opening 3 and a detachable knob portion 13 extending from the closing portion 12 toward the base end.
And have. As shown in FIG. 3, the attachment / detachment knob portion 13 forms a space 14 between the base portion 1 and the eye drop mouth portion 3.
3a and a contact portion 13 that contacts the contact surface 1a of the container body 1
b. Then, as shown in FIG. 4, the cap 4 has an engaging claw portion 4a that engages with the tapered surface 3b of the container body 1 when the cap 4 is mounted on the container body 2.

The tip of the eye drop cover 9 constituting the housing case 2 can be opened and closed as indicated by the chain double-dashed line in FIG. 4, and the tip of the eye drop cover 9 is shown in FIGS. 1 and 4. As described above, the locking portions 10 and 11 each formed of a pair of protrusions and hooked on each other are formed.

As shown by the chain double-dashed line in FIG. 4, when the locking portions 10 and 11 of the eye drop cover 9 are locked to each other while the cap 4 is attached to the container body 1, The eye drop cover 9 is closed and covers the periphery of the detachable knob portion 13 of the cap 4. This prevents the cap 4 from being accidentally removed by the eye drop cover 9. On the other hand, the eye drop cover 9 is attached to the locking portions 10 and 1.
By releasing the locked state at the portion 1 to elastically deform the eye drop cover 9 in the direction of expanding,
As shown by the solid line in FIG. 4, the eyedrop cover 9 is opened to open the cap 4 to the ejection hole 3a of the eyedrop opening 3.

When the eye drop cover 9 is closed with the detachable knob portion 13 of the cap 4 being in contact with the contact surface 1a of the container body 1 as shown in FIG. 3, as shown in FIG. The contact surface 1a is covered, and the container main body 1 is covered almost entirely by the covering with the detachable knob portion 13 and the covering with the eye drop cover 9.

Next, a procedure for using the illustrated eyedrop container will be described.

When the illustrated eyedrop container is not instilled, such as when it is carried or stored, as shown by the solid line in FIG. 3 or the chain double-dashed line in FIG.
Is closed by the closing portion 12 of the cap 4. That is, the protrusion 12a is fitted in the discharge hole 3a. Then, the base end side of the container body 1 is accommodated in the accommodating portion 6 of the accommodating case 2, and the engaging portions 10 and 11 at the tip end portion of the eye drop cover 9 are engaged with each other. As a result, the eye drop cover 9 is closed and the eye drop mouth 3 is covered with the cap 4, and the outer peripheral side of the container body 1 is covered with the eye drop cover 9 and the detachable knob 13 of the cap 4.

Therefore, according to the illustrated eye drop container, since the container main body 1 is almost entirely covered and the eye drop cover 9 is closed and compacted, it can be carried or stored. It is possible to protect the container body 1 and to make the eye drop container compact.

Next, when eye drops are applied by the illustrated eye drop container, the locking portions 10 and 11 of the eye drop cover 9 are released from each other and the eye drop cover 9 is opened by its elastic deformation as shown in FIG. After that, the cap 4 is removed from the container body 1 to open the upper side of the eyedrop opening 3 of the container body 1. At this time, since the space 14 is formed between the base portion 13a of the detachable knob portion 13 and the eye drop mouth portion 3, the cap 4 can be easily removed by pushing the portion with a fingertip. .

Then, the tip of the eyedrop cover 9 is brought into contact with the face around the eye. At this time, for example, the eyedrop cover 9 is brought into contact with the upper and lower faces of the eyes, respectively, except the eyes. The eye drop cover 9 receives the eye drops that may fall into the area. Then
In the contact state of the eyedrop cover 9, the housing case 2
The container body 1 is pressed with a fingertip through the pressing hole 8 and the eye drops are applied.

According to the eyedrop container of this embodiment, the eyedrop cover 9 is brought into contact with the eyedropper in the state where the distance between the eyedrop opening 3 and the eye is kept constant. It is possible to make sure eye drops, stabilize eye drops, and prevent eye drops from leaking to unnecessary places.

Further, even if the eye drops drop to an unnecessary place, the dropped eye drops are received by the eye drop cover 9, so that the eye drops can be prevented from adhering to clothes or the like.

In this embodiment, the storage, carrying, and eye drops during non-eye drops are carried out in this manner. In this case, however, the eye drop container of the present embodiment can be used for both eye drops and non-eye drops. It is not necessary to attach / detach the eyedrop cover 9 from the container body 1 at the time of transition, and the eyedrop cover 9 is opened / closed to switch between instillation and non-instillation. it can.

Although the present invention has been specifically described based on the embodiments, the present invention is not limited to the above embodiments, and various modifications can be made without departing from the scope of the invention.

For example, in the present embodiment, the locking portions 10 and 11 are formed by the projections so that the eyedrop cover 9 is closed, but the present invention is not limited to such a structure. Not a thing.

[0029]

The effects obtained by the typical ones of the inventions disclosed in this application will be briefly described as follows.
It is as follows.

(1). By simply pushing the cap toward the container body, the eyedrop opening of the container body can be easily closed.

(2). The engaging claw of the cap engages the tapered surface only by the pushing operation, the detachable knob portion of the cap comes into contact with the contact surface of the container body, and moreover, the eye drop cover is engaged with the respective engaging portions. The locking of the cap securely prevents the cap from coming off.

(3) Since the container body is housed in the housing case, even if the container body is manufactured from a thin material, it is possible to prevent the container body from being crushed and leaking eye drops during non-eye drops during transportation or the like. To be done. Moreover, since it can be manufactured from a thin material, it can be dropped with a small pressing force when pressing the container body at the pressing hole portion.

(4). By locking the eyedrop cover with the locking portion at the tip thereof, the eyedrop cover is closed, and it is possible to improve the compactness of the eyedrop container when the eyedrops are not instilled. .

(5) When the eye is not instilled, the container body can be stored in the container case and stored or carried, and the eyedrop can be performed while the container body is housed in the container case.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is an exploded perspective view showing an eyedrop container which is an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a perspective view showing a state where an eye drop container is set.

FIG. 3 is a front view showing the eye drop container with a part thereof cut away.

FIG. 4 is a side view showing the eyedrop container with a part thereof cut away.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 Container Main Body 1a Contact Surface 1b Pressing Surface 2 Storage Case 2a Contact Side Wall 3 Eye Drop Port 3a Discharge Hole 3b Tapered Surface 4 Cap 4a Engaging Claw 5 Container Side Fitting 6 Housing 7 Case Side Fitting 8 Pressing hole 9 Eye drop cover 10 Locking part 11 Locking part 12 Closing part 12a Projection part 13 Detachable knob part 14 Space

Claims (1)

(57) [Claims] 1. A contact surface which is substantially parallel to each other and
Two pushes in a direction approximately orthogonal to these contact surfaces
And an eye drop mouth part at the tip end
A container main body for accommodating the above, and a protrusion that fits into the discharge hole formed in the eyedrop opening.
An occlusion portion having, and the eye drop mouth portion extending from the occlusion portion
Contacts the base and the contact surface forming a space between
A detachable knob portion including a contact portion and the eye drop mouth portion
Has an engaging claw that engages the tapered surface formed on the outer peripheral surface of the
The cap that is detachable from the container body and the container-side fitting part formed at the base end of the contact surface.
It has a case side fitting part that corresponds to the base end part of the contact surface
The contact side wall portion and a part of the pressing surface corresponding to the pressing surface
Pressing holes to be exposed are formed and
With an eye drop cover provided with a locking portion for locking.
And an eye drop in a state in which the cap is attached to the container body.
When the locking parts of the cover are locked to each other,
The circumference of the detachable knob portion of the container
An eyedrop container characterized by being covered with an eyedrop cover .