Patent ID: 8287821

Claim:
A sample storage, comprising; a storage tube having a top opening, which is made of light-transmissive material to enable a contained sample to be observed, an externally equipped opaque writable element used as a medium to which coded information that can be read by means of optical reading already has been written directly, which is assembled outside by covering said storage tube throughout from the bottom surface to the side surface, a lid element covering the top opening of the storage tube by pressing the inner surface of the lid element or a gasket to the top opening of the storage tube, wherein the lid element can be screwed with or combined with the externally equipped opaque writable element, cannot be screwed with or combined with the inner surface of the top opening of the storage tube directly, and at least one window as an opening in the side surface of said externally equipped opaque writable element, provided in an area other than the write area where said coded information is written, which enables said sample contained to be observed; the externally equipped opaque writable element covers the side and bottom of the storage tube without airtightness, and which enables said coded information written to said externally equipped opaque writable element to be read, and said sample contained to be observed through said window.