Housing box
AssigneeHitachi High-Tech Corporation
InventorsYuki Shima, Takenori Okusa, Tsukasa Suenari
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Abstract
There is provided a housing box that prevents breakage of a rod-shaped member like a nozzle use for an automatic analyzer at the time of transportation. A housing box in which a rod-shaped member used for an automatic analyzer is housed, the housing box includes: a base provided with a housing part in a groove shape on which the rod-shaped member is placed; and a cover put on the base, wherein the housing part has a step on which a projection is caught, the projection being provided on a bottom of the rod-shaped member, the projection projecting in a radial direction, and a space between a tip end and an inner wall of the rod-shaped member.
Claims7
A housing box in which a rod-shaped member used for an automatic analyzer is housed, the housing box comprising:
- a base provided with a housing part in a groove shape on which the rod-shaped member is disposed;
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- a cover connected to the base via a hinge, the cover covering the base,
- wherein the groove shape of the housing part includes:
- a first groove region, a second groove region, a third groove region and a fourth groove region, which each have different depths in a depth direction, the third groove region being between the fourth groove region and second groove region in a longitudinal direction of the rod-shaped member, and the second groove region having a depth deeper than respective depths of the first groove region, the third groove region and the fourth groove region;
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- a step, between the first groove region and the second groove region, on which a projection of the rod-shaped member is caught and which contacts the projection of the rod-shaped member, the projection of the rod-shaped member being in a radial direction with respect to a rod of the rod-shaped member and is provided on an opposite side of the rod-shaped member than a tip end of the rod-shaped member,
- wherein the housing part includes a space, within the fourth groove region, that is between the tip end of the rod-shaped member and an inner wall of the housing part within the fourth groove region, the contact of the projection of the rod-shaped member and the step preventing movement of the tip end of the rod-shaped member toward the inner wall of the housing part of the fourth groove region,
- wherein the cover has a projection that projects in the depth direction and which spans at least over the third groove region and contacts the rod-shaped member.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.