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US 8,757,383 B2Granted
Medical tray
AssigneeTerumo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsShigeki Numata, Fumio Yamamoto, Toshihiko Asao
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Abstract
To provide a medical tray which can be made more compact upon discarding, the medical tray has a bottom portion, a side wall provided along an outer periphery of the bottom portion, and a pair of side wall deformation guiding portions provided at opposing positions of the side wall for guiding the side wall when the side wall is deformed into a convex state toward the bottom portion.
Claims18
A foldable medical tray sterilized for medical use comprising:
- a bottom portion possessing an outer periphery;
- an upstanding side wall disposed along the outer periphery of the bottom portion and generally perpendicular thereto, the upstanding side wall surrounding an inside of the medical tray sized to hold medical devices, the bottom portion possessing a first surface facing the inside and an oppositely facing second surface;
- the bottom portion and the upstanding side wall being sterilized for medical use;
- the bottom portion and the upstanding side wall being foldable into a foldable condition to reduce a size of the medical tray;
- the upstanding side wall having opposed constricted portions positioned on opposite sides of the inside in opposing relation to one another, the bottom portion possessing a width at the opposed constricted portions, as measured between inner surfaces of the upstanding side wall at the opposing constricted portions, which is narrower than the width of the bottom portion, as measured between inner surfaces of the upstanding side wall, at places on either side of the opposed constricted portions in a lengthwise dimension of the bottom portion;
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- the opposed constricted portions of the upstanding side wall being positioned so that a straight line connecting the opposed constricted portions divides the bottom portion into two parts of unequal size so as to define a first bottom portion part and a second bottom portion part, the first bottom portion part being smaller than the second bottom portion part;
- wherein said second bottom portion part is configured to accommodate said first bottom portion part therein when the medical tray is folded into the foldable condition such that a portion of the upstanding side wall of the first bottom portion part is adjacent to a portion of the upstanding side wall of the second bottom portion part.
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A medical tray comprising:
- a bottom portion;
- a side wall disposed along an outer periphery of the bottom portion and surrounding an accommodating space which accommodates medical devices, the side wall possessing an inner side facing toward the accommodating space, the side wall also possessing an upper end;
- a laterally outwardly directed flange at the upper end of the side wall;
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- a pair of side wall deformation guiding portions at opposing positions of the side wall to guide the side wall inwardly and downwardly toward the bottom portion when the side wall is deformed into a convex state during folding of the medical tray into a folded condition;
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- each of the side wall deformation guiding portions including a side wall groove portion formed in the side wall and recessed toward the inner side of the side wall, each side wall groove portion extending from the upper end of the side wall toward the bottom portion.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.