Research on the Design of Recycling Medical Needle Safety Bayonet-Lock Box

Abstract

In order to avoid contaminations and spread of diseases in the use of needles, hospitals adapted disposable policy after one single used. Needles should be used only once and must be disposed of for recycling to avoid infections and spread of diseases. Also to avoid any poking accidents to the medical staffs and recycling personnel in the process of collection, it was accustom to put the needle head back to the needle case, but because the hole of the needle case is small, medical personnel could be by accident or carelessness poke the needle to his or her own hand. This design proposes an innovative collection box for the needle of syringe recycle under safety and management consideration. It can effectively recycle needles in real time and record the time of using needles. It can avoid people repeated use of drugs at home that is a mentally disabled. It is not only simple in structure and low costs, but also easy to operation. It can avoid puncturing the medical personnel and personnel who recycle medical waste. This collection box is composed of a box body and a box cover. On the box cover, it contains one or more needle recycle holes. The needle can be plugged on the needle recycle hole. And the hole has a large circular portion of the fixed ring. Furthermore, the top end with several Bumps structure called Fixing pin fork can restrict the needle to avoid detachment on the inner side of in the upper diameter hole. Therefore, plugging the needle into the box cover and using Fixing pin fork at in the upper diameter hole can separate the needle and syringe. After that, the used needle and syringe can be stored inside the collection box. In this design, it demonstrates a simple structure with a low production cost. Moreover, it is very convenient for people usage.