Patent ID: 8083715
Filing Date: 2011-12-27
Classification: A61M

Abstract:
1. A puncture device for puncturing skin with a puncture needle, the puncture device comprising: retaining means for holding the puncture needle; a fixing portion movably supporting the retaining means and possessing a flat contact surface to be fixed to a body surface; a positioning portion to which the fixing portion is rotatably connected and which possesses a flat surface to be fixed to the body surface; wherein in a state in which the positioning portion is fixed to the body surface, the fixing portion is configured to be rotated from a position where the flat contact surface of the fixing portion is approximately orthogonal to the flat surface of the positioning portion toward a body surface side to raise the skin of the body surface where the flat surface of the positioning portion is fixed; and the retaining means being configured to be moved to puncture the raised skin with the puncture needle passing through an opening window provided at an end of a positioning portion side part of the fixing portion.