# US 10,870,108 B2 · Liquid accommodating container > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 10,870,108 B2 - Document ID: US10870108B2 - Status: Granted - Kind: B2 - Application number: 16/025,154 - Filed: 2018-07-02 - Published: 2019-01-10 - Granted: 2020-12-22 - Earliest claimed: 2017-07-04 - Assignees: ARKRAY, Inc. - Applicants: ARKRAY, Inc. - Inventors: Yoshiharu Sato - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US10870108B2 ## CPC - B01L 3/502: {with fluid transport, e.g. in multi-compartment structures} - A61J 1/00: Containers specially adapted for medical or pharmaceutical purposes (capsules or the like for oral use A61J3/07; specially adapted for surgical or diagnostic appliances or instruments A61B50/30; containers for radioactive substances G21F5/00) - A61M 35/003: {Portable hand-held applicators having means for dispensing or spreading integral media (hand-held massage devices with liquid delivery A61H7/003)} - B65D 75/327: {and forming several compartments} - B65D 83/04: for dispensing annular, disc-shaped, spherical or like small articles, e.g. tablets or pills - B01L 2200/16: Reagents, handling or storing thereof - B01L 2300/044: pierceable, e.g. films, membranes - B01L 2300/0672: Integrated piercing tool - B01L 2300/123: Flexible; Elastomeric - B01L 2300/161: Control and use of surface tension forces, e.g. hydrophobic, hydrophilic - B01L: CHEMICAL OR PHYSICAL LABORATORY APPARATUS FOR GENERAL USE - A61J: CONTAINERS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR MEDICAL OR PHARMACEUTICAL PURPOSES; DEVICES OR METHODS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR BRINGING PHARMACEUTICAL PRODUCTS INTO PARTICULAR PHYSICAL OR ADMINISTERING FORMS; DEVICES FOR ADMINISTERING FOOD OR MEDICINES ORALLY; BABY COMFORTERS; DEVICES FOR RECEIVING SPITTLE - A61M: DEVICES FOR INTRODUCING MEDIA INTO, OR ONTO, THE BODY (introducing media into or onto the bodies of animals A61D7/00; means for inserting tampons A61F13/26; devices for administering food or medicines orally A61J; containers for collecting, storing or administering blood or medical fluids A61J1/05); DEVICES FOR TRANSDUCING BODY MEDIA OR FOR TAKING MEDIA FROM THE BODY (surgery A61B; chemical aspects of surgical articles A61L); DEVICES FOR PRODUCING OR ENDING SLEEP OR STUPOR {(Electrotherapy, e.g. producing anaesthesia by the use of alternating or intermittent currents A61N1/36021)} - B65D: CONTAINERS FOR STORAGE OR TRANSPORT OF ARTICLES OR MATERIALS, e.g. BAGS, BARRELS, BOTTLES, BOXES, CANS, CARTONS, CRATES, DRUMS, JARS, TANKS, HOPPERS, FORWARDING CONTAINERS; ACCESSORIES, CLOSURES, OR FITTINGS THEREFOR; PACKAGING ELEMENTS; PACKAGES ## Abstract A liquid accommodating container includes an accommodating portion configured to accommodate, in a hermetically closed state, a liquid for testing a measuring apparatus, a storage portion configured to store the liquid, and a coupling portion configured to couple the accommodating portion and the storage portion in a state that one of the accommodating portion and the storage portion is foldable back to the other. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A liquid accommodating container, comprising: a member including: a first region including an accommodating reservoir, the accommodating reservoir being configured to accommodate, in a hermetically closed state, a liquid for testing a measuring apparatus; and a second region spaced apart from the first region, the second region including a storage reservoir, the storage reservoir being configured to store the liquid; and a flange disposed on the member, the flange being configured to couple the accommodating reservoir and the storage reservoir when the accommodating reservoir and the storage reservoir are folded together, wherein at least one of a groove, a perforation, and a crease is formed on the flange at a position between the first region and the second region, the storage reservoir is formed to be folded towards the accommodating reservoir in a folding direction, the storage reservoir includes a projection configured to perforate the accommodating reservoir when the storage reservoir is folded towards the accommodating reservoir, and the projection includes a flow passage for the liquid which makes communication between the accommodating reservoir and the storage reservoir when the storage reservoir is folded towards the accommodating reservoir. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The liquid accommodating container according to claim 1, wherein: the storage reservoir has a recess which is recessed in the folding direction in which the storage reservoir is folded towards the accommodating reservoir; and the projection has one end which protrudes in the folding direction and which is open in the recess and an other end which is to be inserted into the liquid contained in the accommodating reservoir when the storage reservoir is folded towards the accommodating reservoir. ### Claim 3 (depends on 1) The liquid accommodating container according to claim 1, wherein the storage reservoir includes a limiting portion which limits a range of diffusion of the liquid which passes through the flow passage and which is discharged into the storage reservoir. ### Claim 4 (depends on 2) The liquid accommodating container according to claim 2, wherein a first area, which is provided around one end of a through-hole of the projection, has hydrophobicity which is lower than hydrophobicity of a second area which surrounds the first area. ### Claim 5 (depends on 3) The liquid accommodating container according to claim 3, wherein the limiting portion has an annular protrusion which is provided around one end of a through-hole of the projection. ### Claim 6 (depends on 1) The liquid accommodating container according to claim 1, wherein: the accommodating reservoir is formed to be folded towards to the storage reservoir; and the accommodating reservoir has a discharge port for the liquid which is positioned over the storage reservoir when the accommodating reservoir is folded towards the storage reservoir. ### Claim 7 (depends on 6) The liquid accommodating container according to claim 6, wherein the storage reservoir includes a limiting portion which limits a range of diffusion of the liquid discharged from the discharge port. ### Claim 8 (depends on 1) The liquid accommodating container according to claim 1, wherein the liquid is a control solution which is to be used for a test for the measuring apparatus for measuring a glucose concentration in a sample.