CN111776670B

CN111776670B - Automatic sample processing device

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Publication number: CN111776670B
Application number: CN202010601793.8A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 谢仁祥
Original assignee: Yingkai Biotechnology Shanghai Co ltd
Current assignee: Yingkai Biotechnology Shanghai Co ltd
Priority date: 2020-06-28
Filing date: 2020-06-28
Publication date: 2022-03-01
Anticipated expiration: 2040-06-28
Also published as: CN111776670A

Abstract

An automatic sample processing device relates to the field of liquid workstation equipment, an opening is arranged on a table top, a slide way is arranged on an end plate, the X-axis motor is connected with an X-axis lead screw through an output shaft, a Y-axis guide rail is fixed below the Y-axis plate, a Y-axis motor plate is fixed below the Y-axis plate and is in threaded connection with the X-axis lead screw, a Y-axis slider is connected below the Y-axis guide rail and is connected with a transmission belt, a rotating motor is fixed on a rotating motor base, a rotating block is horizontally installed on an output shaft of the rotating motor, a driving lever is fixed on the rotating block and rotates together with the rotating block and can be screwed into the inserting seam, a scanning camera device is installed above one side of the Y-axis plate far away from the Y-axis motor, and the scanning camera device is located above the opening range. The application provides a sample automatic processing apparatus can realize the automatic processing sample, reduces occuping of manpower.

Description

Automatic sample processing device

Technical Field

The invention relates to the field of liquid workstation equipment, in particular to an automatic sample processing device.

Background

Since the liquid workstation needs to process the sample tubes (i.e. the test tubes containing biological samples, wherein the corresponding bar codes are attached to the test tubes) in batches, if the batch of sample tubes is to be processed automatically, the bar codes or blood stratification height information of all the sample tubes needs to be obtained. As shown in fig. 1, wherein 1 '-table top, 2' -bar code scanner, 3 '-end plate, 4' -slide way, 5 '-carrying frame, 6' -sample tube, the end plate has a plurality of slide ways side by side, the bottom structure of the carrying frame matches with the slide ways, the carrying frame fixes the sample tube, it is now common to use the scanning range characteristic of the bar code scanner to manually push the carrying frame fixed with the sample tube into the end plate one by one through the slide ways from the starting point, after the bar code scanner scans the bar codes of all the sample tubes on the carrying frame, pull the carrying frame out slow pulling from the end plate to the starting point, and then repeat the above operations to start scanning the sample tubes on the next carrying frame; or the blood stratification is measured by using the machine vision through the camera, the sample tube needs to be manually placed at the image pickup position on the carrier, and the next sample tube is replaced after the shooting is finished; therefore, the whole process at present always needs manpower, and needs a special person to operate the whole process, so that the manpower is occupied.

Disclosure of Invention

In order to solve the defects in the prior art, the application provides an automatic sample processing device which can automatically process samples and reduce the occupation of manpower.

In order to achieve the technical effects, the specific technical scheme of the invention is as follows:

an automatic sample processing device comprises a table board, an end plate, a carrier, an X-axis plate, a Y-axis plate, an X-axis motor, a Y-axis motor, a rotating motor, a shifting rod and a scanning camera device, wherein the table board is provided with a square opening, the end plate is transversely arranged between the table boards at two sides of the opening, the end plate is provided with a plurality of parallel long strip-shaped slideways along the length direction of the end plate, long strip-shaped slits along the length direction of the end plate are arranged on the slideways between the openings, the carrier is slidably arranged in the slideways, one end of the carrier is provided with an inserting slit, and the inserting slit is positioned right above the slits; an X-axis plate is fixed below a long edge close to an opening of the table top, X-axis motor plates are fixed on two sides of each X-axis plate, an X-axis motor is installed on one X-axis motor plate, an X-axis lead screw connected with an output shaft of the X-axis motor is horizontally and rotatably installed between the two X-axis motor plates, an X-axis guide rail is fixed below the X-axis plate, a Y-axis plate is connected to the X-axis guide rail through an X-axis sliding block, a Y-axis guide rail is fixed below the Y-axis plate, is perpendicular to the X-axis guide rail and is parallel to the slideway, a door-shaped Y-axis motor plate is fixed below the Y-axis plate, the Y-axis motor plate is in threaded connection with the X-axis lead screw through a nut seat, a Y-axis motor is vertically fixed below the Y-axis motor plate, a driving wheel is fixed on an output shaft of the Y-axis motor, and is located in a space enclosed by the Y-axis motor plates, the driving wheel is connected with the driven wheel through a transmission belt, the driven wheel is rotatably installed below a Y-axis plate far away from one side of a Y-axis motor, a Y-axis sliding block is connected to the lower portion of a Y-axis guide rail, the Y-axis sliding block is connected with the transmission belt through a fixing block connected to the transmission belt, a rotating motor seat is connected to the Y-axis sliding block, a rotating motor is fixed to the rotating motor seat, a rotating block is horizontally installed on an output shaft of the rotating motor, the rotating motor seat, the rotating motor and the rotating block are close to an end plate and are all located below the end plate, a shifting rod is fixed to the rotating block, the shifting rod rotates together with the rotating block and can be screwed into an inserting seam, the Y-axis plate is installed above one side far away from the Y-axis motor through a supporting column, and the scanning and shooting device is located above the opening range.

Further, the length direction of the end plate is perpendicular to the long side of the opening.

Furthermore, the scanning camera device is arranged on an extension plate connected with the Y-axis plate, and the extension plate is arranged on one side, far away from the end plate, of the Y-axis plate. The distance between the scanning camera device and the deflector rod is increased, and the scanning camera device is positioned above the opening, so that the scanning camera device is required to be close to the end plate and the carrier along with the Y-axis plate in the whole sample processing process; meanwhile, the distance between the scanning camera device and the deflector rod is increased, the number of the slideways on the end plate can be increased by indirect connection, the number of disposable samples can be increased, and the processing capacity is improved.

Furthermore, the support column is L-shaped, the extension plate is arranged right below the side close to the table top of the scanning and shooting device, and the side table top is provided with a strip-shaped through hole which is used for the vertical plate of the support column to vertically penetrate through and move in a reciprocating mode.

Further, an expansion table top is externally connected to the side, close to the table top of the scanning camera device, and the expansion table top can horizontally support the carrier.

Furthermore, the edge of the end plate close to one side of the scanning camera device is connected with the expansion table surface.

Further, the scanning camera device is a bar code scanner or a camera.

An operation process of an automatic sample processing device:

before starting, all carriers to be processed, on which sample tubes are fixed, are positioned at an initial point, namely, a small part of one end of each carrier, which is provided with an insertion slit, is positioned in the front end of the slide way, the insertion slit is positioned right above the thin slit, and other parts of the carriers are attached to the expansion table top; when the work is started, the X-axis motor drives the Y-axis plate to move through the X-axis lead screw, the Y-axis motor drives the rotating motor base to move through the transmission belt until the shifting rod is positioned below the insertion seam of the carrier frame farthest from the camera, then the shifting rod is driven by the rotation of the rotating motor, the rotating shifting rod sequentially penetrates through the slit and the insertion seam, finally the shifting rod vertically penetrates through the insertion seam, then the Y-axis motor drives the rotating motor base to move along the Y-axis guide rail in the direction close to the X-axis motor through the transmission belt until the end of the carrier frame provided with the insertion seam slides to the tail end of the slide way, the camera shoots the sample tubes sequentially passing through in the process, after the camera shoots the last sample tube on the carrier frame, the shifting rod moves to the position below the insertion seam of the next adjacent carrier frame, and the steps are repeated until all the sample tubes are shot; and finally, the Y-axis motor drives the rotary motor base to move along the Y-axis guide rail in the direction far away from the X-axis motor through the transmission belt until the end of the carrier frame provided with the inserting seam slides to the starting point, and the shifting rod resets under the action of the rotary motor.

According to the technical scheme, compared with the prior art, the automatic sample processing device has the advantages that the structure of the table top, the end plate and the carrier is improved, the driving mechanisms in the X-axis direction and the Y-axis direction are correspondingly arranged below the table top and matched with the deflector rod for pushing the carrier, so that automatic sample processing can be realized, manual operation is not required in the whole process, and the occupation of manpower is reduced.

Drawings

The present application will be described in further detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings by way of specific embodiments.

FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of the prior art;

FIG. 2 is a schematic view of the carriage of the present invention at a starting point;

FIG. 3 is a schematic illustration of the present invention in the process;

FIG. 4 is another schematic illustration of the present invention in the process of treatment;

FIG. 5 is a schematic view of the present invention with all carriers completed;

FIG. 6 is a schematic view of the present invention from the top (excluding the table, extended table, end plate and carrier);

FIG. 7 is another schematic view of the present invention from the top (excluding the table, extended table, end plate and carrier);

FIG. 8 is a schematic view of the present invention as viewed from the bottom (excluding the table, extended table, end plate and carrier);

FIG. 9 is another schematic view of the present invention as viewed from the bottom (excluding the table, extended table, end plate and carrier);

FIG. 10 is a schematic view of an end plate and carrier of the present invention;

wherein, 1', a table top; 2', a bar code scanner; 3', end plates; 4', a slideway; 5', a carrier; 6', a sample tube; 1. a table top; 2. an end plate; 3. a carrier; 4. an X-axis plate; 5. a Y-axis plate; 6. an X-axis motor; 7. A Y-axis motor; 8. a rotating electric machine; 9. a deflector rod; 10. a camera; 11. an opening; 12. a long side of the opening; 13. a slideway; 14. fine sewing; 15. inserting a seam; 16. an X-axis motor board; 17. an X-axis lead screw; 18. an X-axis guide rail; 19. an X-axis slider; 20. a Y-axis guide rail; 21. a Y-axis motor board; 22. a nut seat; 23. a driving wheel; 24. a drive belt; 25. a driven wheel; 26. a Y-axis slider; 27. a fixed block; 28. a rotating motor base; 29. rotating the block; 30. a support pillar; 31. a handle knob; 32. an extension plate; 33. expanding the table top; 34. and (6) perforating.

Detailed Description

In order to make the objects, technical solutions and advantages of the present embodiments more clear, the technical solutions in the present embodiments will be described clearly and completely below with reference to the accompanying drawings in the present embodiments, and it is obvious that the described embodiments are some embodiments of the present application, but not all embodiments. All other embodiments obtained by a person of ordinary skill in the art based on the embodiments of the present invention without any creative effort belong to the protection scope of the present application.

In the present invention, unless otherwise expressly stated or limited, the terms "mounted," "connected," "secured," and the like are to be construed broadly and can, for example, be fixedly connected, detachably connected, or integral; can be mechanically or electrically connected; either directly or indirectly through intervening media, either internally or in any other relationship. The specific meanings of the above terms in the present invention can be understood by those skilled in the art according to specific situations.

Examples

As shown in fig. 2 to 5 and 8, an automatic sample processing device comprises a table top 1, an end plate 2, a carrier 3, an X-axis plate 4, a Y-axis plate 5, an X-axis motor 6, a Y-axis motor 7, a rotating motor 8, a shift lever 9 and a camera 10, wherein the table top 1 is provided with a square opening 11, the end plate 2 is transversely arranged between the table tops 1 at two sides of the opening 11, and the length direction of the end plate 2 is perpendicular to the long side 12 of the opening. An expansion table top 33 is externally connected to the side of the table top 1 close to the camera 10, and the expansion table top 33 can horizontally support the carrier 3 and is jointed with the expansion table top 33 at the edge of the end plate 2 close to the camera 10.

As shown in fig. 10, the end plate 2 is provided with a plurality of parallel long-strip-shaped slideways 13 along the length direction thereof, the slideways 13 between the openings 11 are provided with long-strip-shaped slits 14 along the length direction thereof, the carrier 3 is slidably mounted in the slideways 13, one end of the carrier 3 is provided with an insertion slit 15, and the insertion slit 15 is positioned right above the slits 14.

As shown in fig. 6 to 9, an X-axis plate 4 is fixed below a long side 12 adjacent to an opening of the table top 1, X-axis motor plates 16 are fixed on both sides of the X-axis plate 4, an X-axis motor 6 is mounted on one of the X-axis motor plates 16, an X-axis lead 17 connected to an output shaft of the X-axis motor 6 is horizontally and rotatably mounted between the two X-axis motor plates 16, an X-axis guide rail 18 is fixed below the X-axis plate 4, a Y-axis plate 5 is connected to the X-axis guide rail 18 through an X-axis slider 19, a Y-axis guide rail 20 is fixed below the Y-axis plate 5, the Y-axis guide rail 20 is perpendicular to the X-axis guide rail 18 and is parallel to the slide way 13, a door-shaped Y-axis plate 21 is fixed below the Y-axis plate 5, the Y-axis plate 21 is screwed with the X-axis lead 17 through a nut seat 22, and an internal thread matching with the X-axis lead 17 is arranged in the nut seat 22, a Y-axis motor 7 is vertically fixed below the Y-axis motor plate 21, a driving wheel 23 is fixed on an output shaft of the Y-axis motor 7, the driving wheel 23 is located in a space enclosed by the Y-axis motor plate 21 and the Y-axis plate 5, the driving wheel 23 is connected with a driven wheel 25 through a transmission belt 24, the driven wheel 25 is rotatably installed below the Y-axis plate 5 far away from one side of the Y-axis motor 7, a Y-axis sliding block 26 is slidably connected below the Y-axis guide rail 20, the Y-axis sliding block 26 is connected with the transmission belt 24 through a fixing block 27 connected to the transmission belt 24, the Y-axis sliding block 26 is connected with a rotating motor base 28, a rotating motor 8 is fixed on the rotating motor base 28, a rotating block 29 is horizontally installed on an output shaft of the rotating motor 8, the rotating motor base 28, the rotating motor 8 and the rotating block 29 are close to the end plate 2 and are all below the end plate 2, the deflector rod 9 is fixed on the rotating block 29, before the sample is not processed, the deflector rod 9 is also arranged below the end plate 2, and the deflector rod 9 rotates together with the rotating block 29 and can be screwed into the insertion slot 15.

The Y-axis plate 5 is provided with the camera 10 through a support column 30 above one side far away from the Y-axis motor 7, and the camera 10 is positioned above the opening 11. Specifically, the method comprises the following steps: the support column 30 is L-shaped, the extension plate 32 is arranged right below the table top 1 near the camera 10, and the table top at the side is provided with a long strip-shaped through hole 34 for the vertical plate of the support column 30 to vertically pass through and reciprocate.

Wherein, the carrier 3 is further provided with a knob 31 at one end far away from the insertion slot 15. By means of the designed knob 31, on the one hand, loading of the carrier 3 into the starting point of the slide 13 or removal from the slide 13 is facilitated, and on the other hand, the sample tubes need to be kept hygienic, so that access to the carrier 3 and the sample tubes is avoided.

In addition, the camera 10 is mounted on an extension plate 32 connected to the Y-axis plate 5, the extension plate 32 is disposed on a side of the Y-axis plate 5 away from the end plate 2, and the extension plate 32 is designed to be integrated with the Y-axis plate 5. The distance between the camera 10 and the deflector rod 9 is increased, and the camera 10 is positioned above the opening 11, so that the camera 10 needs to approach the end plate 2 and the carrier 3 along with the Y-axis plate 5 in the whole sample processing process, and if the distance between the camera 10 and the deflector rod 9 is too short, the camera 10 is likely to touch the end plate 2 and the carrier 3 when the deflector rod 9 approaches the next carrier 3; meanwhile, the distance between the camera 10 and the deflector rod 9 is increased, so that the number of the slideways on the end plate can be increased indirectly, the number of disposable samples can be increased, and the processing capacity is improved.

One working process of this embodiment is as follows:

as shown in fig. 2, before starting, all the carriers to be processed, on which the sample tubes are fixed, are located at the initial point, that is, a small part of the end of the carrier 3, on which the insertion slit 15 is located, is located in the front end of the slide 13, and the insertion slit 15 is located directly above the slit 14, and other parts of the carrier 3 are attached to the extended table 33, at this time, there is a distance between the camera 10 and the initial point in the Y-axis plate length direction, and the camera is closer to the X-axis motor 6, the carrier 3 and the sample tubes do not block the camera view of the camera 10, and the Y-axis plate 5 and the rotating motor base 28 are also located at the initial positions. As shown in fig. 3 to 5, at the beginning of the operation, the X-axis motor 6 drives the Y-axis plate 5 to move through the X-axis lead 17, the Y-axis motor 7 drives the rotary motor base 28 to move through the transmission belt 24 until the shift lever 9 is located below the insertion slot 15 of the carrier 3 farthest from the camera 10, then the shift lever 9 is driven by the rotation of the rotary motor 8, the rotary shift lever 9 sequentially passes through the slit 14 and the insertion slot 15, finally the shift lever 9 vertically passes through the insertion slot 15, then the Y-axis motor 7 drives the rotary motor base 28 to move along the Y-axis guide rail 20 to the direction close to the X-axis motor 6 through the transmission belt 24 until the end of the carrier 3 provided with the insertion slot 15 slides to the end of the slide way 13, during which the camera 10 aligns the sequentially passing sample tubes, and after the last sample tube on the carrier 3 is photographed by the camera 10, the shift lever 9 completely moves below the insertion slot 15 of the next adjacent carrier 3, repeating the steps until all the sample tubes are photographed; finally, the Y-axis motor 7 drives the rotating motor base 28 to move along the Y-axis guide rail 20 to the direction far away from the X-axis motor 6 through the transmission belt 24 until the end of the carrier 3 provided with the insertion slot 15 slides to the starting point, and the shifting lever 9 is reset under the action of the rotating motor 8.

The camera 10 is adopted in the embodiment, and the working process of the barcode scanner is the same.

The present invention has been described in terms of specific examples, which are provided to aid understanding of the invention and are not intended to be limiting. For a person skilled in the art to which the invention pertains, several simple deductions, modifications or substitutions may be made according to the idea of the invention.

Claims

1. An automatic sample processing device is characterized by comprising a table board (1), an end plate (2), a carrier (3), an X-axis plate (4), a Y-axis plate (5), an X-axis motor (6), a Y-axis motor (7), a rotating motor (8), a deflector rod (9) and a scanning and shooting device, the table top (1) is provided with a square opening (11), the end plate (2) is transversely arranged between the table tops (1) at the two sides of the opening (11), a plurality of parallel long-strip-shaped slideways (13) are arranged on the end plate (2) along the length direction, a slide way (13) between the openings (11) is provided with a long strip-shaped slit (14) along the length direction, a carrier (3) is arranged in the slide way (13) in a sliding mode, an inserting seam (15) is arranged at one end of the carrier (3), and the inserting seam (15) is located right above the thin seam (14); an X-axis plate (4) is fixed below a long edge (12) close to an opening of the table top (1), X-axis motor plates (16) are respectively fixed on two sides of each X-axis plate (4), an X-axis motor (6) is installed on one X-axis motor plate (16), an X-axis lead screw (17) connected with an output shaft of the X-axis motor (6) is horizontally and rotatably installed between the two X-axis motor plates (16), an X-axis guide rail (18) is fixed below the X-axis plate (4), a Y-axis plate (5) is connected onto the X-axis guide rail (18) through an X-axis sliding block (19), a Y-axis guide rail (20) is fixed below the Y-axis plate (5), the Y-axis guide rail (20) is perpendicular to the X-axis guide rail (18) and is parallel to the sliding rail (13) at the same time, a door-type Y-axis motor plate (21) is fixed below the Y-axis plate (5), and the Y-axis motor plate (21) is in threaded connection with the X-axis motor plates (17) through a nut seat (22), the Y-axis motor plate (21) below is vertically fixed with a Y-axis motor (7), be fixed with action wheel (23) on the output shaft of Y-axis motor (7), action wheel (23) are located the space that Y-axis motor plate (21) and Y-axis plate (5) enclose, action wheel (23) are through driving belt (24) connection follower (25), follower (25) rotate install in keeping away from Y-axis plate (5) below of Y-axis motor (7) one side, Y-axis guide rail (20) below sliding connection has Y-axis slider (26), Y-axis slider (26) are connected with driving belt (24) through fixed block (27) of connecting on driving belt (24), Y-axis slider (26) are connected with rotating motor seat (28), be fixed with rotating electrical machine (8) on rotating motor seat (28), horizontal installation has rotatory piece (29) on the output shaft of rotating electrical machine (8), the rotary motor base (28), the rotary motor (8) and the rotary block (29) are close to the end plate (2) and are all arranged below the end plate (2), the deflector rod (9) is fixed on the rotary block (29), the deflector rod (9) rotates together with the rotary block (29) and can be screwed into the insertion seam (15), the scanning and shooting device is installed on the upper portion of one side, far away from the Y-axis motor (7), of the Y-axis plate (5) through a support column (30), and the scanning and shooting device is located above the range of the opening (11).

2. An automated sample processing device according to claim 1, characterized in that the length of the end plate (2) is perpendicular to the long side (12) of the opening.

3. The automatic sample processing device according to claim 1, wherein the scanning camera device is mounted on an extension plate (32) connected to the Y-axis plate (5), and the extension plate (32) is disposed on a side of the Y-axis plate (5) away from the end plate (2).

4. An automatic sample processing device according to claim 3, characterized in that the supporting column is L-shaped, the extension board (32) is arranged right below the side close to the table of the scanning camera device, and the side table is provided with a long strip-shaped through hole (34) for the vertical board of the supporting column (30) to vertically pass through and reciprocate.

5. An automatic sample processing device according to claim 1, characterized in that an extension table (33) is further externally connected to the side of the table close to the scanning camera device, and the extension table (33) can horizontally support the carrier (3).

6. An automated sample processing apparatus according to claim 5, wherein the edge of the end plate (2) on the side close to the scanning camera means engages with the extended table (33).

7. An automated sample processing device according to claim 1, wherein the scanning camera device is a bar code scanner or a camera (10).