CN113371375A

CN113371375A - Consumable management equipment

Info

Publication number: CN113371375A
Application number: CN202110621010.7A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 倪孝杰; 赖雪聪; 徐铭恩
Original assignee: Hangzhou Regenovo Biotechnology Co ltd
Current assignee: Hangzhou Regenovo Biotechnology Co ltd
Priority date: 2021-06-03
Filing date: 2021-06-03
Publication date: 2021-09-10

Abstract

The invention relates to consumable management equipment which comprises a shell module, a carrier module, a transfer module, a clamping module, a door module and an environment control module, wherein the shell module is arranged on the carrier module; the consumable storage is realized through the carrier module, and the consumable storage is matched with the transfer module and the clamping module in a cooperation manner, so that the identification management and the automatic distribution transfer of the consumable are realized; when a type of consumable is required to be prepared, the first sensor on the shell module identifies the identification body of the fixing seat of the carrier module so as to confirm the in-place installation condition of the carrying part of the carrier module, the consumable to be used on the carrier module is identified and confirmed through the identification part on the transfer module, and the corresponding consumable is transferred to the target position through the clamping module. Because be equipped with the consumptive material on the carrier module, need not to prepare temporarily, avoid appearing the not enough condition of consumptive material. The combined action of the clamping module, the first sensor and the identification piece improves the accuracy of consumable preparation, is suitable for cooperative cooperation with automation equipment or experiment operators, and has better applicability.

Description

Consumable management equipment

Technical Field

The invention relates to the technical field of biological tissue production, in particular to consumable management equipment.

Background

Consumables are materials which are frequently consumed in the process of biological tissue production, cells need various consumables in the process of artificial culture, corresponding consumables are prepared temporarily, and if the cell culture consumables are not prepared sufficiently due to negligence of operators, the cell culture process can be interrupted. Particularly when automated cell culture equipment is operated, consumables are required to be supplied at the speed and type required by the equipment, which further requires an equipment having the capability of automatically managing and distributing consumables.

Disclosure of Invention

The invention aims to provide consumable material management equipment which identifies consumable materials through an identification carrier and a scanning code, automatically distributes various types of consumable materials for biological experiments by cooperation of a transfer module and a clamping module, can save the time for preparing the consumable materials, can effectively ensure the normal operation of cell culture, and is suitable for being matched with automatic equipment to use and experimental operation of experimenters.

In order to achieve the purpose, the invention adopts the following technical scheme:

a consumable management device comprises a shell module, a carrier module, a transfer module, a clamping module, a door module and an environment control module; the carrier module realizes the storage of consumables, and is matched with the transfer module and the clamping module in a cooperation manner to realize the identification management and the automatic distribution and transfer of the consumables; when a type of consumable is required to be prepared, the first sensor on the shell module identifies the identification body of the fixing seat of the carrier module so as to confirm the in-place installation condition of the carrying part of the carrier module, the consumable to be used on the carrier module is identified and confirmed through the identification part on the transfer module, and the corresponding consumable is transferred to the target position through the clamping module.

The carrier module, the transferring module and the clamping module are arranged in the shell module, the environment control module is embedded in the shell module and used for guaranteeing the clean and sterile state of the working environment inside the shell module, and the door body module is hinged to the shell module and is the only channel for the consumable to enter the shell module.

The carrier module is designed in a rotating mode and comprises a supporting platform, an object carrying body and a fixed seat; the supporting platform is arranged on the carrier module, the fixed seat is fixed on the supporting platform, and the object carrier can be quickly combined with or separated from the fixed seat;

preferably, the carrier module is connected with a first driving member, the first driving member is connected with a mounting seat shaft, when the first driving member drives the mounting seat to rotate, the mounting seat drives the pallet to rotate, in the rotating process, the remaining space on the pallet is locked and used for mounting objects, great convenience is brought to the mounting of the objects, and meanwhile, more remaining space is exposed in the rotating process, so that more objects can be mounted on the pallet, the space utilization rate is improved, and meanwhile, the position of the objects mounted on the carrier module can be conveniently detected by the first sensor.

Preferably, the plurality of pallets are stacked and arranged corresponding to the first sensor on the shell module;

preferably, the object carrier comprises a base and a positioning block on the base, and the positioning hole and the positioning piece in the positioning block are in clamping fit with the elastic piece in the fixing seat, so that the base is fixedly connected with the fixing seat, and the object carrier is fixed on the fixing seat;

preferably, the side surface of the fixed seat is provided with a sliding groove which is in sliding connection with the projection and the moving part on the side surface of the base, the fixed seat is provided with a guide hole along the thickness direction of the fixed seat, an identification body and a reset piece are arranged in the guide hole, one side of the identification body is connected with the positioning block, the identification body can move up and down in the guide hole, and when the positioning block acts on the identification body, the identification body compresses the reset piece, so that the extending part of the identification body is detected and identified by the first sensor, and the mounting of an object on the fixed seat on the pallet is detected;

the transfer module is disposed within the housing module and located on one side of the carrier module, and the clamping module is disposed on the transfer module. When a type of consumable is allocated, the first sensor arranged on the shell module detects the position of the carrier module, the corresponding type of consumable is identified by the identification piece arranged on the clamping module, and the corresponding consumable is clamped and transferred to the target position by the clamping module. It can be understood that the consumable is arranged on the object carrying piece, the object carrying piece with the consumable can be quickly fixed or separated from the fixing piece on the carrier frame module, the identification body is triggered when the object carrying piece is fixed on the fixing piece, and the triggered identification body can be identified when the triggered identification body passes through the first sensor. The consumptive material have discernment positions such as two-dimensional code, can be discerned by the discernment piece to by first sensor and discernment body cooperation discernment fixed with on which mounting have the thing, by the position and the type of discernment piece discernment consumptive material, after accomplishing the consumptive material discernment, shift the consumptive material by transporting module and carrier module cooperation.

The door body module is hinged to the shell body module, and is correspondingly contacted with the magnet arranged on the outer surface of the shell body module through the suction piece arranged on the door body module so as to seal the consumable management equipment and detect and prompt the opening and closing state of the door body module through the second sensor.

The environment control module mainly comprises a regulation and control box, a primary filter, a centrifugal fan, a high-efficiency filter, a sensor assembly, a temperature and humidity controller and a sterilization actuator and is used for keeping the temperature, the humidity and the clean and sterile working environment state when the consumable management equipment operates.

Compared with the prior art, the invention has the beneficial effects that:

the utility model provides a consumptive material management equipment among the above-mentioned technical scheme is the carrier module that is used for setting up the consumptive material in through the casing, sets up the clamping module in transporting the module, and the management of consumptive material is accomplished to discernment piece and recognition body etc. when allotting the consumptive material of a type, discerns from the carrier module by first sensor and discernment piece consumptive material that will need to use to shift to the target position by clamping module with corresponding consumptive material. Because be equipped with the consumptive material on the carrier module, need not to prepare temporarily, the better condition of avoiding appearing the consumptive material not enough can effectively guarantee cell culture's normal clear, and the combined action of first sensor, discernment piece and centre gripping module has improved the exactness that the consumptive material was prepared simultaneously, reduces the operating time that the mistake increased appears in the personnel preparation, has saved the time that the consumptive material was prepared greatly.

Drawings

FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of an internal structure of a consumable management device according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 2 is a top view of the consumable management device shown in FIG. 1;

FIG. 3 is a schematic view of a portion of the subassembly shown in FIG. 1;

FIG. 4 is a front view of a consumable management device according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Fig. 5 is a schematic structural diagram of the environment control module shown in fig. 1.

Description of the symbols of the drawings:

10. a housing module;

20. a carrier module; 201. a first driving member; 202. a mounting seat; 21. a saddle; 22. carrying an object; 23. a fixed seat; 26. an identifier;

30. a transfer module;

40. a clamping module;

51. a first sensor; 52. an identification member;

90. a door body module; 91. a suction member; 92. a magnet; 93. a second sensor; 94. a handle; 95. a hinge;

100. an environment control module; 110. a regulatory cassette; 120. a primary filter; 130. a centrifugal fan; 140. a high efficiency filter; 150. a sensor assembly; 160. a temperature and humidity controller; 170. and (5) sterilizing the actuator.

Detailed Description

The present invention will now be described in more detail with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which the description of the invention is given by way of illustration and not of limitation. The various embodiments may be combined with each other to form other embodiments not shown in the following description.

Referring to fig. 1-5, an embodiment of the present invention provides a consumable management device, which at least includes: a housing module 10; a carrier module 20 disposed within the housing module 10, consumables being disposed on the carrier module 20; a transfer module 30 is disposed within the housing module 10 and on one side of the carrier module 20; the clamping module 40 is disposed on the transfer module 30. When a type of consumable material needs to be prepared, the first sensor 51 on the housing module 10 identifies the identifier 26 of the fixing seat 23 of the carrier module 20 to confirm that the carrier 22 of the carrier module 20 is installed in place, the identifier 52 on the transfer module 30 identifies and confirms the consumable material to be used on the carrier module 20, and the clamping module 40 transfers the corresponding consumable material to the target location. Because be equipped with the consumptive material on the carrier module 20, need not to prepare temporarily, avoid appearing the not enough condition of consumptive material, can effectively guarantee cell culture's normal clear, the combined action of first sensor 51, discernment piece 52 and centre gripping module 40 has improved the exactness that the consumptive material was prepared simultaneously, reduces the operating time who increases because of personnel's preparation error appears, has saved the time that the consumptive material was prepared greatly.

It should be noted that, the carrier module 20 may be provided in plurality as needed, and the carrier module 20 may be set to rotate or be stationary; the consumable materials comprise a culture bottle, a culture dish, a centrifuge tube, a liquid-transfer gun head, a disposable counting plate and the like; the identification piece 52 can be a wharf scanning head for scanning a two-dimensional code or a one-dimensional code on the consumable; the clamping module 40 can transfer the consumables from the carrier module 20 to the target location, and also from the target location to the carrier module 20.

In order to dispose the consumables on the carrier module 20, the carrier module 20 includes a tray 21 located on a side surface of the wall surface of the housing module 10 away from the first sensor 51, and a carrier 22 disposed on the tray 21, wherein the consumables are disposed on the carrier 22, the carrier module 20 further includes a fixing seat 23 disposed on the tray 21, the carrier 22 is disposed on a side surface of the fixing seat 23 away from the tray 21, it can be understood that, as shown in fig. 3, the carrier 22 loaded with the consumables is mounted on the tray 21 through the fixing seat 23, so that the consumables can be conveniently and stably disposed on the carrier module 20. It should be noted that the carrier member 22 has a shape that fits any solid consumable. In order to realize the connection between the object 22 and the fixing seat 23, the object 22 is connected by clamping and matching a positioning block and a positioning hole which are arranged on the surface of one side of the fixing seat 23 far away from the supporting table 21. Fixing base 23 is formed with the guiding hole along its thickness direction, consumptive material management equipment still including set up in recognition body 26 in the guiding hole to and be fixed in reset piece on the recognition body 26, recognition body 26 one side with the locating piece is connected and is set up.

It can be understood that the recognition body 26 may be in a column shape, the recognition body 26 may move up and down in the guiding hole, the first sensor 51 is located below the pallet 21 and not directly contacted with the pallet 21, when the fixing seat 23 loads the object 22, the positioning block acts on the recognition body 26, so that the recognition body 26 is pressed to move in a direction away from the object 22, and one end of the recognition body extends out of the guiding hole, at this time, the recognition body 26 compresses the reset piece, and the extending portion of the recognition body 26 is recognized and detected by the first sensor 51, so that the first sensor 51 can detect that the object 22 is arranged at the fixing seat 23 of the pallet 21; when the fixed seat 23 is not loaded with the object 22, the recognition body 26 extends back into the guide hole under the action of the reset piece, the first sensor 51 cannot recognize that the consumable materials are arranged on the fixed seat 23, and the purpose that the first sensor 51 detects the position of the consumable materials arranged on the carrier module 20 is realized through the recognition body 26, the guide hole and the reset piece.

In addition, the carrier module 20 is made to be rotatable, the consumable management apparatus further includes a first driving element 201, the carrier module 20 further includes a mounting base 202 connected to an output shaft of the first driving element 201, the mounting base 202 is fixedly connected to the pallet 21, it can be understood that, as shown in fig. 3, the first driving element 201 may be a motor, the first driving element 201 drives the mounting base 202 to rotate, the mounting base 202 drives the pallet 21 to rotate, that is, the first driving element 201 drives the carrier module 20 to rotate, during the rotation of the carrier module 20, the remaining space on the pallet 21 is locked for installing the object 22, great convenience is brought to the installation of the object 22, and simultaneously, more remaining space is exposed during the rotation, so that more objects 22 can be installed on the pallet 21, the space utilization rate is improved, and during the rotation of the carrier module 20, the first sensor can detect 51 more conveniently the object 22 installed on the carrier module 20 The position of (a).

In addition, the pallet 21 is provided with a plurality of pallets and is arranged in a stacked manner, the first sensors 51 are provided with a plurality of sensors, each first sensor 51 is arranged towards each pallet 21 in a one-to-one correspondence manner, the carrier 22 is provided with a plurality of carriers, and each pallet 21 is provided with at least one carrier 22. In one embodiment, the consumable management device further includes a door module 90 hinged to the housing module 10, a suction member 91 disposed on the door module 90, and a magnet 92 disposed on an outer surface of the housing module 10 and contacting the suction member 91.

It can be understood that, as shown in fig. 4, door body module 90 is the consumptive material and the corresponding thing piece 22 that carries gets into casing module 10's passageway, and better assurance consumptive material and carry the thing piece 22 and be in just can get into casing module 10 under the circumstances that consumptive material management equipment allows, in this embodiment, door body module 90 is articulated with casing module 10 through three hinge 95, attraction piece 91 reaches magnet 92 all is equipped with two, and attraction piece 91 can attract mutually with magnet 92 and close, realizes closing of door body module 90, still is equipped with the second sensor 93 that is used for detecting door body module 90 state of opening and shutting near door body module 90, is equipped with the handle 94 that is used for opening and shutting door body module 90 time operation on the door body module 90. In other embodiments, the door module 90 can be opened or closed by an electromagnetic lock, an electric lock, a pneumatic lock, or the like; the number of the hinge 95, the attraction piece 91, and the magnet 92 can be adjusted as needed.

In one embodiment, as shown in fig. 5, the consumable management device further includes an environmental control module 100, the environmental control module 100 includes a control box 110 installed on the top of the housing module 10, a primary filter 120 installed in the control box 110 and communicated with the outside, a centrifugal fan 130, a temperature and humidity controller 160, a sterilization actuator 170 installed in the control box 110, a high efficiency filter 140 communicated with the inside of the housing module 10, and a sensor assembly 150 installed on the control box 110, so as to ensure an environmental state required for the operation of the consumable management device in real time.

The above embodiments are only preferred embodiments of the present invention, and the protection scope of the present invention is not limited thereby, and any insubstantial changes and substitutions made by those skilled in the art based on the present invention are within the protection scope of the present invention.

Claims

1. The consumable management equipment is characterized by comprising a shell module (10), a carrier module (20), a transfer module (30), a clamping module (40), a door body module (90) and an environment control module (100); the carrier module (20), the transfer module (30) and the clamping module (40) are arranged in the shell module (10), the environment control module (100) is embedded in the shell module (10), and the door body module (90) is hinged to the shell module (10); the carrier module (20) comprises a carrier body (22) and a fixed seat (23), when a type of consumable material needs to be prepared, a first sensor (51) on the shell module (10) identifies an identification body (26) on the fixed seat (23) so as to confirm that the carrier body (22) of the carrier module (20) is installed in place, the identification piece (52) on the transfer module (30) identifies and confirms the consumable material to be used on the carrier module (20), and the clamping module (40) transfers the corresponding consumable material to a target position.

2. The consumable management device of claim 1, wherein the carrier module (20) comprises a pallet (21), a carrier (22), a holder (23); the supporting platform (21) is installed on the carrier module (20), the fixing seat (23) is fixed on the supporting platform (21), and the object carrying piece (22) is rapidly combined with or separated from the fixing seat (23).

3. The consumable management apparatus of claim 2, wherein the carrier module (20) is connected to a first drive (201), the first drive (201) is connected to a mount (202) shaft, and the mount (202) rotates the gantry (21) when the first drive (201) rotates the mount (202).

4. The consumable management apparatus of claim 2, wherein the pallet (21) is provided in plurality and in a stacked arrangement corresponding to the first sensor (51) on the housing module (10).

5. The consumable management device according to claim 2, wherein the carrier (22) comprises a base and a positioning block on the base, and the positioning hole and the positioning block in the positioning block are engaged with the elastic member in the fixing seat (23) to fixedly connect the base and the fixing seat (23), so that the carrier (22) is fixed on the fixing seat (23).

6. The consumable management device according to claim 5, wherein the fixing base (23) has a sliding groove on a side surface thereof for sliding connection with the protrusion and the moving member on a side surface thereof, and the fixing base (23) has a guiding hole along a thickness direction thereof, the guiding hole has a recognition member (26) and a reset member therein, one side of the recognition member (26) is connected to the positioning block, and the recognition member (26) is capable of moving up and down in the guiding hole, when the positioning block acts on the recognition member (26), the recognition member (26) compresses the reset member, so that the protruding portion of the recognition member (26) is detected and recognized by the first sensor (51), thereby detecting that the fixing base (23) on the pallet (21) is mounted with the loaded object (22).

7. The consumable management apparatus of claim 1, wherein the transfer module (30) is disposed within the housing module (10) and on one side of the carrier module (20), the clamping module (40) being disposed on the transfer module (30); when a type of consumable is prepared, a first sensor (51) arranged on the shell module (10) detects the position of the carrier module (20), the corresponding type of consumable is identified by an identification piece (52) arranged on the clamping module (40), and the corresponding consumable is clamped and transferred to a target position by the clamping module (40).

8. The consumable management device of claim 1, wherein the door module (90) is hinged to the shell module (10), and is correspondingly contacted with a magnet (92) arranged on the outer surface of the shell module (10) through a suction piece (91) arranged on the door module (90) so as to seal the consumable management device, and the opening and closing state of the door module (90) is detected and prompted through a second sensor (93).

9. The consumable management apparatus of claim 8, wherein the door module (90) is hinged to the housing module (10) by a hinge (95); the door body module (90) is provided with a handle (94) for operating when the door body module (90) is opened and closed.

10. The consumable management device of claim 1, wherein the environmental control module (100) comprises a control box (110), a primary filter (120), a centrifugal fan (130), a high efficiency filter (140), a sensor assembly (150), a temperature and humidity controller (160), and a sterilization executor (170), and is configured to maintain a temperature, a humidity, and a clean and sterile working environment state required by the operation of the consumable management device.