Patent ID: 6663831
Filing Date: 2003-12-16
Classification: A61B,B01L,G01N

Abstract:
A one-device system for collecting, extracting, and testing a constituents in a fluid specimen therein, said system comprising:a testing member having rows of micro-sampling pores leading to a channel containing a detection indicator; a super-absorbent material at a collection end of said testing member to collect said fluid specimen; a cap containing pressure heads protruding inwardly from an interior sidewall of said cap, the pressure heads defining an opening having a dimension more narrow than that of a corresponding uncompressed width of said absorbent material, and when said collection end is inserted through said pressure heads, said pressure heads being configured to be tightly fitted on said absorbent material to compress said absorbent material and thereby press said fluid specimen from said absorbent material into said rows of micro-sampling pores and then through said channel onto said detection indicator for identification of said constituents in said fluid specimen.