Urine Sample Collection Device
AssigneeLipinsky Enterprises, LLC
InventorsCatherine Lipinsky, Thomas A. Wendt
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Abstract
A urine sample collection device having a collection vessel for capturing urine from a patient, and an associated sample collection container portion for gathering the urine sample in an assured manner without the need for manual transfer. The urine sample collection device can be easily mounted inside a toilet bowl, so that the patient can deliver the urine stream to the toilet in the normal manner to produce the urine sample. The device avoids splashes of residual urine after the sample container is remove from the collection vessel, and a urine flow barrier shield for automatically accommodating the clean-catch method for delivering a urine sample.
Claims33
A device for collecting a urine sample from a patient, comprising:
- (a) a collection vessel having a top opening, side walls, and an outlet;
- (b) a sample collection container for removably engaging the outlet of the collection vessel;
- (c) a urine flow barrier shield positioned across the top opening of the collection vessel that is automatically removed from at least a substantial portion of the top opening of the collection vessel when a urine flow produced by the patient comes into contact with it during a clean-catch delivery process;
- (d) wherein an initial volume of urine emitted by the patient flowing into the collection vessel is retained within the urine flow barrier shield;
- (e) wherein the subsequent automatic removal of the urine flow barrier shield containing the initial urine volume from at least a substantial portion of the top opening of the collection vessel permits a subsequent mid-stream urine volume emitted by the patient during the clean-catch process to flow into the collection vessel without coming into contact with the initial urine volume;
- (f) wherein the mid-stream urine flow substantially free of any bacterial contained in the initial urine volume flows into the sample collection container to produce the urine sample;
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- (g) wherein the sample collection container may be removed from the outlet of the collection vessel.
A device for collecting a urine sample from a patient, comprising:
- (a) a collection vessel having an inlet, side walls, and an outlet;
- (b) a sample collection container for removably engaging the outlet of the collection vessel;
- (c) anti-splash means for controlling the flow of urine from the collection vessel when the sample collection container is removed from its engagement with the outlet;
- (d) wherein urine emitted by the patient flows into the collection vessel, and through the outlet into the sample collection container to produce the urine sample;
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- (e) wherein the sample collection container may be removed from the outlet of the collection vessel without excess urine flowing from the outlet.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.