US 11,986,297 B2
Atmospheric-balanced vacuum for blood gas sample stabilization with an evacuated container
Alexander James Blake, Ridgewood, NJ (US); Sylvine Raverdy-Wilson, River Edge, NJ (US); and Adam Edelhauser, Kinnelon, NJ (US)
Assigned to Becton, Dickinson and Company, Franklin Lakes, NJ (US)
Appl. No. 17/056,874
Filed by Becton, Dickinson and Company, Franklin Lakes, NJ (US)
PCT Filed Jun. 13, 2019, PCT No. PCT/US2019/037017
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Nov. 19, 2020,
PCT Pub. No. WO2019/241537, PCT Pub. Date Dec. 19, 2019.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/684,800, filed on Jun. 14, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2021/0219889 A1, Jul. 22, 2021
Int. Cl. A61B 5/15 (2006.01); A61B 5/145 (2006.01); A61B 5/154 (2006.01); B01L 3/00 (2006.01); A61B 5/153 (2006.01)
CPC A61B 5/150274 (2013.01) [A61B 5/14542 (2013.01); A61B 5/150351 (2013.01); A61B 5/154 (2013.01); B01L 3/50825 (2013.01); A61B 5/145 (2013.01); A61B 5/15 (2013.01); A61B 5/153 (2013.01); B01L 3/50 (2013.01); B01L 3/5082 (2013.01); B01L 2200/06 (2013.01); B01L 2200/0684 (2013.01); B01L 2300/04 (2013.01); B01L 2300/044 (2013.01); B01L 2300/046 (2013.01); B01L 2300/14 (2013.01)] 26 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A biological liquid collection device, comprising:
a collection module for receiving a biological liquid sample, the collection module having a first end having a sample introduction opening;
an evacuated container having an open end and a closed end, said evacuated container containing the collection module therein, wherein the first end of the collection module is located adjacent to the open end of the evacuated container; and
a closure for closing the open end of the evacuated container, wherein the evacuated container comprises a gas composition with a select partial pressure of a targeted gas that is substantially equal to a targeted gas partial pressure of an atmosphere outside of the evacuated container.