Patent ID: 8246578

Claim:
A puncture device comprising: a first base plate; a second base plate; a base plate connection part having flexibility and connecting the first base plate and the second base plate in a horizontal direction; an adhesive means provided to surfaces in a same direction of the first base plate and the second base plate; and a puncture needle moving means provided in the first base plate and movably supporting a puncture needle, wherein the first base plate and the second base plate are configured to rotate around a center portion of the base plate connection part to face each other and pinch skin adhered to the adhesive means, wherein the puncture needle is supported away from a surface of the adhesive means by a given distance and movable substantially in parallel to the surface of the adhesive means, and wherein when skin to which the adhesive means had adhered has been picked up by being pinched by the first base plate and the second base plate, the puncture needle is moved by the puncture needle moving means to puncture the picked up skin in parallel with an axis of rotation of the first base plate and the second base plate.