Exfoliative Cell Processing Device

An exfoliative cell processing device, comprising:

• a base (110);
• a support wall (120) being arranged in an erected state on the upper surface of the base;
• a container support member (131) being mounted on the upper surface of the base and mounting on its upper surface a container member which contains specimen and has an opened upper part;
• a specimen collector (140) moving in and out of the container member in vertical direction along the longitudinal direction of the support wall so as to collect exfoliative cells and liquid medium of the container member, wherein the container member is in a state of being gripped by the container support member;
• a suction guide block (150) moving along the wall of the support wall with gripping the specimen collector and interfacing the specimen collector so as to suction the exfoliative cells and liquid medium out of the container member;
• a suction pump (160) of providing suction force to the specimen collector through the suction guide block, wherein the specimen collector is inserted inside the container member and suctions the exfoliative cells and liquid medium out of the container member by the suction force, and wherein the suction pump is operated by control of the pump control unit;
• and
• a cell smear slide (170) being disposed on a side of the container support member and moving left and right together with the container support member, wherein when a downward stroke is applied onto the specimen collector while the cell smear slide is disposed vertically under the specimen collector, the cell smear slide comes into contact with the lower surface of the specimen collector so as to let the exfoliative cells of the lower surface of the specimen collector be attached onto the upper surface of the cell smear slide;
• wherein the suction guide block (150) comprises:
• a user operation block (151) being formed in a block shape so as to move along the wall of the support wall by user's grip operation;
• a support plate (152) being mounted on the lower surface of the user operation block;
• a suction holder member (153) sequentially passing through the support plate and the user operation block to be fitted in the vertical direction and transferring the suction force by the suction pump to the specimen collector as the open upper portion of the specimen collector is inserted into the lower portion of the suction holder member;
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• an O-ring (154) being disposed to surround the outer wall of the suction holder member so that the inner wall of the specimen collector and the outer wall of the suction holder member are maintained in close contact with each other when the specimen collector is inserted into the suction holder member.