CN114955035B - Filling station and automatic filling and film sealing production line - Google Patents

Abstract

The invention provides a filling station which is used for filling products in a tray, and comprises a liquid source and a liquid transferring device, wherein the liquid source is connected with the liquid transferring device through a pipeline, and the liquid transferring device is arranged on a rack and is controlled to move to a position right above a moving path of the tray through a driving device; the automatic filling and film sealing production line comprises the filling station. According to the invention, the liquid can be filled at a plurality of positions at the same time at the filling station, the filling efficiency is high, and on the other hand, the liquid storage box is additionally arranged, and the liquid storage box is converted through the opening of the liquid storage box, so that the pipeline connection between a liquid source and a liquid transferring device can be reduced, and the filling consistency is very high.

Description

Filling station and automatic filling and film sealing production line

Technical Field

The invention relates to filling equipment, in particular to a filling station and an automatic filling and film sealing production line.

Background

At present, filling equipment for reagent products is in the market, and liquid is mainly directly injected into the products through compressed air, but on one hand, the cleaning grade of the reagent is not easy to control because of a plurality of pipelines, and on the other hand, the consistency of the liquid in each product is difficult to ensure.

Disclosure of Invention

The invention aims to overcome the defects of the prior art, provides a filling station and an automatic filling and film sealing production line, and aims to solve the technical problems.

The invention is realized in the following way:

the embodiment of the invention provides a filling station which is used for filling products in a tray and comprises a liquid source and a liquid transferring device, wherein the liquid source is connected with the liquid transferring device through a pipeline, and the liquid transferring device is arranged on a rack and controlled to move to a position right above a moving path of the tray through a driving device.

Further, the filling station further comprises a liquid storage box, wherein the liquid storage box is communicated with the liquid source through a pipeline, the liquid storage box is provided with an upward opening, and the opening is located in the moving range of the pipetting device.

Further, the liquid storage box is internally provided with a plurality of liquid storage tanks which are arranged in parallel, the liquid transfer device comprises a plurality of groups of liquid transfer devices which are arranged side by side, the liquid transfer devices are in one-to-one correspondence with the liquid storage tanks, each liquid storage tank is communicated with the liquid source, and the notch of each liquid storage tank corresponds to the opening of the liquid storage box.

Further, a plurality of groups of ultrasonic liquid level sensors are arranged on the liquid storage box, and each liquid storage groove corresponds to two groups of ultrasonic liquid level sensors and is used for detecting the liquid level heights corresponding to two long edges of the liquid storage groove.

Further, the filling station further comprises a TIP head replacement box, and the TIP head replacement box is located in the moving range of each group of pipettors.

Further, the liquid source comprises a frame and a volumetric flask arranged in the frame, and liquid in the volumetric flask is driven into the liquid storage tank through air pressure.

Further, the liquid storage box further comprises overflow grooves, and the overflow grooves are communicated with the liquid storage grooves.

Further, the filling stations are two groups, and are sequentially arranged along the moving direction of the tray.

The embodiment of the invention also provides an automatic filling and film sealing production line, which comprises a feeding station, a film sealing station, a film cutting station, a blanking station and the filling station, wherein the feeding station, the filling station, the film sealing station, the film cutting station and the blanking station are sequentially arranged on a frame, and a tray is sequentially moved along the stations through a conveying assembly;

the feeding station is used for placing products to be filled into the tray;

the film sealing station is used for sealing the film of the filled product;

the film cutting station separates films according to the positions of products;

and the blanking station packages and boxing the processed finished product.

Further, the cold compress mechanism can cool the product after film sealing, and the cold compress mechanism is arranged between the film sealing station and the film cutting station.

The invention has the following beneficial effects:

according to the invention, the liquid in the liquid source is poured into the products in the tray through the liquid transferring device, so that a plurality of products can be poured at the same time, and the efficiency is high. In addition, a liquid storage box is additionally arranged between the liquid source and the liquid transferring device, only the liquid source is connected with the liquid storage box through a pipeline, and the operation part of the liquid transferring device directly quantitatively absorbs liquid to the liquid storage box. On the one hand, the consistency of the filling amount of each product can be ensured, and on the other hand, the movement of liquid in the pipeline can be reduced.

Drawings

In order to more clearly illustrate the embodiments of the invention or the technical solutions in the prior art, the drawings that are required in the embodiments or the description of the prior art will be briefly described, it being obvious that the drawings in the following description are only some embodiments of the invention, and that other drawings may be obtained according to these drawings without inventive effort for a person skilled in the art.

FIG. 1 is a schematic flow chart of an automatic film filling and sealing production line according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 2 is a schematic view of a first view of a loading station of the automatic film filling and sealing line of FIG. 1;

FIG. 3 is a schematic view of a second view of a loading station of the automatic film filling and sealing line of FIG. 1;

FIG. 4 is a schematic view of a third view angle of a loading station of the automatic film filling and sealing line of FIG. 1;

FIG. 5 is a schematic diagram of a conveyor line of the automatic film filling and sealing line of FIG. 1;

FIG. 6 is a schematic diagram of a filling station of the automated film filling line of FIG. 1;

FIG. 7 is a schematic diagram of a film sealing station of the automatic film filling and sealing production line of FIG. 1;

FIG. 8 is a schematic view of a structure of a loading frame of a film sealing station of the automatic film filling and sealing production line of FIG. 1;

FIG. 9 is a schematic structural view of a film picking mechanism and a film sealing mechanism of a film sealing station of the automatic film filling and sealing production line of FIG. 1;

FIG. 10 is a schematic view of a film cutting station of the automatic filling and film sealing production line of FIG. 1;

FIG. 11 is a schematic view of the structure of a film cutting station cover body in the automatic filling and film sealing production line of FIG. 1;

FIG. 12 is a schematic view of a cutting sequence of a laser cutting line at a film cutting station of the automatic filling and film sealing production line of FIG. 1;

FIG. 13 is a schematic view of the elimination assembly and tail collection structure of the automatic film filling and sealing line of FIG. 1;

FIG. 14 is a schematic diagram of the cooperation structure of the blanking station and the manual detection station of the automatic filling and film sealing production line of FIG. 1;

FIG. 15 is a schematic view of a first view of a blanking station of the automated film filling line of FIG. 1;

FIG. 16 is a schematic view of a second view of the blanking station of the automated film filling line of FIG. 1;

fig. 17 is a schematic structural view of a finished product conveying line of the blanking station of the automatic filling and film sealing production line of fig. 1.

Detailed Description

The following description of the embodiments of the present invention will be made clearly and completely with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which it is apparent that the embodiments described are only some embodiments of the present invention, but not all embodiments. All other embodiments, which can be made by those skilled in the art based on the embodiments of the invention without making any inventive effort, are intended to be within the scope of the invention.

Referring to fig. 1-17, an embodiment of the invention provides an automatic filling and film sealing production line, which can be used for realizing filling and film sealing of reagent cards, and specifically comprises a feeding station 1, a filling station 2, a film sealing station 3, a film cutting station 4 and a blanking station 5, wherein each station is sequentially arranged on a frame 8 along the moving direction of the reagent card, and the transfer of the reagent cards among the stations can be realized through a conveying component 7, generally, a plurality of groups of reagent cards are arranged on a tray 6, and the conveying component 7 drives the tray 6 to move so as to control the transfer of the reagent cards among the stations. The feeding station 1 is mainly used for placing a product to be filled into the tray 6, and the product to be filled can be placed into the tray 6 manually, or the product to be filled can be automatically grabbed into the tray 6 by a mechanical arm; when the tray 6 moves to the filling station 2 along the conveying assembly 7, the filling station 2 can fill liquid into the product to be filled, and the liquid can be a reagent, so that the whole production line needs a very high cleaning grade (FFU), and the local part of the production line needs to reach ten thousand grades; the filled product continues to move to a film sealing station 3, the film sealing station 3 can perform film coating on the reagent card filled with the liquid, and the covered film is fixed on the reagent card; after the film sealing is finished, separating the film pieces through a film cutting station 4 according to the positions of the reagent cards, wherein the separated film pieces correspond to the reagent cards, and the cut waste films are collected; after the whole filling and sealing film is finished, the reagent card of the product enters the blanking station 5 for packing and boxing, and the finished product can be packed and boxed manually or by an automatic assembly device according to the requirement. Through this embodiment, after the material loading, can realize automatic filling and automatic sealing film to the reagent card, and pack the unloading after the detection is accomplished, whole work efficiency is very high.

For the tray 6, the reagent cards can be placed side by side, the clamping grooves corresponding to the reagent cards one by one are formed in the tray 6, the reagent cards to be filled with the sealing films are placed in the corresponding clamping grooves at the feeding station 1, and the finished reagent cards can be taken out from the tray 6, boxed and packed at the discharging station 5. In the preferred scheme, be provided with the silica gel gasket in the tray 6, reagent card 1 all is arranged in on the silica gel gasket, can prevent tray 6 scratch reagent card through the silica gel gasket. The silica gel pad belongs to consumable, and every 28 ten thousand reagent cards (about 7 working days) are produced and replaced once.

The embodiment of the invention provides a conveying assembly 7, and the conveying assembly 7 can be applied to the production line. The conveying assembly 7 comprises a conveying line 71, and the conveying line 71 extends along the feeding station 1, the filling station 2, the film sealing station 3 and the film cutting station 4 and is connected with the stations. Continuing to refine the conveying line 71, the conveying line adopts a form of a chain wheel and chain transmission assembly 72 to convey, part of the structure of the tray 6 can be clamped on a chain 721, and the chain 721 can drive the tray 6 to move under the action of a motor. In addition, the conveyor line 71 further comprises two slide ways 73, the chain 721 is located between the two slide ways 73, the tray 6 is slidably supported on the two slide ways 73, and the chain 721 drives the tray 6 to move along the slide ways 73.

In a preferred scheme, the conveying assembly 7 further comprises a return line 74, and the trays 6 at the blanking station 5 are recycled to the feeding station 1 through the return line 74, so that the trays 6 can be automatically recycled. Two arrangements may be employed for the return line 74, and the two arrangements may be described separately below.

Example 1

The return line 74 and the conveying line 71 are arranged on the frame 8 side by side, the two are located at the same or approximately the same height, the conveying line 71 moves the tray 6 loaded with the reagent card from the feeding station 1 to the discharging station 5, after all finished reagent cards in the tray 6 are transferred, the empty tray 6 is transferred to the return line 74, the empty tray 6 is transferred to the corresponding end of the feeding station 1 from the corresponding end of the discharging station 5 at the return line 74, and after the corresponding end of the feeding station 1 is reached, the empty tray 6 is transferred to the conveying line 71 from the return line 74. In this embodiment, the return line 74 and the conveying line 71 may adopt the same working mode, for example, in the form of a sprocket-chain transmission assembly 72, the tray 6 is clamped on the corresponding chain 721, or may adopt a conveying belt for transmission, and the empty tray 6 is directly placed on the conveying belt. For the transfer of the trays 6 between the return line 74 and the conveying line 71, two groups of manipulators are specifically provided, and the two groups of manipulators are respectively located at the feeding station 1 and the discharging station 5, wherein the manipulator located at the discharging station 5 can transfer the empty trays 6 on the conveying line 71 to the return line 74, and the manipulator located at the feeding station 1 can transfer the empty trays 6 on the return line 74 to the conveying line 71. The execution end of the manipulator can grasp the tray 6 in a vacuum adsorption mode, or the execution end of the manipulator is provided with a clamping hand which clamps the opposite edges of the tray 6.

Example two

The return line 74 is arranged above and below the transfer line 71, for example, the transfer line 71 is disposed right above the return line 74, the empty tray 6 is moved downward to the head end of the return line 74 at the end of the transfer line 71, and the empty tray 6 is moved upward to the head end of the transfer line 71 at the end of the return line 74. For the transfer between the return line 74 and the conveying line 71, there may be two sets of lifters, which are respectively located at the head end and the tail end of the conveying line 71, the empty tray 6 at the tail end of the conveying line 71 is moved onto the lifters, the lifters are vertically moved down, and when the height of the empty tray is equal to that of the return line 74, the driving member on the lifters moves the empty tray 6 to the head end of the return line 74; similarly, at the end of the return line 74, the empty pallet 6 is moved onto the corresponding elevator 58, the elevator is moved vertically upwards, and when at the same height as the conveyor line 71, the drive on the elevator moves the empty pallet 6 to the head end of the conveyor line 71. Of course, the transfer mode may also adopt a manipulator for transfer, but the movement path of the manipulator is relatively complex, and horizontal and vertical movement is required. In this way, the spatial arrangement of the conveyor assemblies 7 can be reduced, making the overall line arrangement compact.

The optimized conveying line 71 is in a Y-shaped arrangement at the feeding station 1, and comprises two sections of separated sections 711 and a section of converging section 712, wherein the two sections of separated sections 711 are arranged at opposite intervals, the head end of the converging section 712 is close to the tail end of the two sections of separated sections 711 and is positioned between the two sections of separated sections 711, and the converging section is a line corresponding to the sprocket-chain transmission assembly 72. The staff carries out the material loading at two segmentation sections 711 to empty tray 6, and will fill tray 6 that waits to pack the product through two segmentation sections 711 and remove to the convergence section 712, and remove to the terminal of segmentation section 711, carry it to convergence section 712 through the manipulator, and convergence section 712 extends along filling station 2 to the direction of unloading station 5. The return line 74 is partially structured directly below the convergence section 712, and the other is structured directly below the two divided sections 711 and between the two divided sections 711, and the empty tray 6 on the return line 74 is lifted to the same height as the conveying line 71 by the lifter 76 and then horizontally moved to one of the divided sections 711. For the dividing section 711, belt conveyance may be employed, on which the trays 6 are supported, and a shutter 713 is provided at the end of the dividing section 711, the shutter 713 being capable of restricting the movement of the trays 6. In addition, a stacking rack 714 is further disposed on the separating section 711, the stacking rack 714 is near the head end of the separating section 711, and the empty trays 6 returned by the return line 74 can be transferred to the stacking rack 714 for pre-storing after entering the separating section 711, so as to avoid excessive empty trays 6 stacked on the separating section 711 due to feeding efficiency. The stacking rack 714 has multiple layers of liftable channels, each of the split sections 711 also has two broken parts, and the stacking rack 714 is just located at the broken position, wherein the front part of the split section 711 is in butt joint with the elevator 76, and the rear part of the split section 711 is in butt joint with the converging section 712, and is used for feeding the tray 6. The tray passes from the front portion of the dividing section 711 directly into one of the layers of channels of the stacking rack 714; when the tray 6 needs to be pre-stored, the channel is vertically moved up, and the tray 6 does not enter the latter part of the dividing section 711; when the tray 6 does not need to be pre-stored, the tray 6 passes through one of the passages directly into the latter part of the dividing section 711; when the pre-stored tray 6 needs to be fed into the latter part of the dividing section 711, the corresponding channel of the tray 6 can be controlled to move down to the same height as the dividing section 711, and the tray 6 moves from the channel to the latter part of the dividing section 711.

Optimizing the above two embodiments, the conveying assembly 7 further comprises a dust removing air box, the dust removing air box is located at the position of the return line 74, the return line 74 penetrates through the dust removing air box, and when the empty tray 6 moves along the return line 74, the empty tray 6 can penetrate through the dust removing air box, and clean treatment can be carried out on the empty tray 6 through the dust removing air box. In practice, periodic manual cleaning is also required for the trays 6, which may be for example once a week.

The embodiment of the invention provides a filling station 2, which can be applied to a production line. The filling station 2 comprises a liquid source 21 and a liquid transferring device 22, the liquid source 21 is connected with the liquid transferring device 22 through a pipeline, the liquid transferring device 22 is arranged on the frame 8, and the operation part of the liquid transferring device 22 can be controlled to be right above the moving path of the tray 6 through a driving device 24. The conveyor line 71 of the conveyor assembly 7 passes through the filling station 2, and after the tray 6 carrying the reagent cards moves to the corresponding position of the filling station 2, the tray 6 stops moving, and the pipetting device 22 can pour the liquid in the liquid source 21 into the reagent cards. The entire process is automated and the pipetting device 22 is able to dose the reagent card with liquid.

Preferably, the filling station 2 further comprises a liquid storage box 23, the liquid storage box 23 is communicated with the liquid source 21 through a pipeline, the liquid storage box 23 is provided with an upward opening, and the opening is located in the moving range of the pipetting device 22. In this embodiment, the liquid in the liquid source 21 enters the liquid storage box 23 first, the pipetting device 22 can withdraw the liquid from the open position into the liquid storage box 23 by way of withdrawing, and then discharge the withdrawn liquid into each reagent card of the tray 6. The liquid storage box 23 and the liquid source 21 are driven by air pressure, part of liquid in the liquid source 21 is directly pressed into the liquid storage box 23 by compressed air at one side of the liquid source 21, and as the liquid amount in the reagent card is relatively small, the operation part of the liquid transfer device 22 can extend into the liquid storage box 23, the operation part of the liquid transfer device 22 directly absorbs a small amount of liquid, then the operation part of the liquid transfer device 22 is moved to the opening of the reagent card, and the liquid in the operation part of the liquid transfer device 22 is poured into the reagent card. The pipetting device 22 may be a pipetting device, which is similar to a syringe structure, and may store the extracted liquid in its TIP head, in particular a pneumatic pipetting device, which is equipped with an air pump 222, and the air pump 222 controls the pipetting and draining of the corresponding pneumatic pipetting device. In this way, the flow of liquid in the pipeline can be reduced to ensure clean requirements. In addition, because the liquid storage box 23 needs to be stretched into firstly for liquid suction, then liquid is discharged into the reagent card, the driving device 24 can adopt a three-axis sliding platform comprising an X axis, a Y axis and a Z axis, and the liquid storage box 23 and the conveying line 71 are arranged side by side, so that the liquid suction and liquid discharge actions of the liquid storage device can be facilitated.

The liquid storage box 23 is further thinned, a plurality of liquid storage tanks are arranged in parallel, the liquid transfer device 22 comprises a plurality of groups of liquid transfer devices, the liquid transfer devices are in one-to-one correspondence with the liquid storage tanks, the liquid storage tanks are communicated with the liquid source 21, the notch of each liquid storage tank corresponds to the opening of the liquid storage box 23, and the liquid level of each liquid storage tank is at a certain height with the notch so as to prevent liquid in each liquid storage tank from splashing to generate liquid strings. The reservoirs are elongated and have a length extending in the same direction as the direction of movement of the conveyor line 71, and each reservoir is disposed in a direction perpendicular to the length of the conveyor line 71. The synchronous movement of each pipettor can be controlled through the driving device 24, a plurality of reagent cards can be placed in each tray 6 generally, each reagent card is provided with a plurality of liquid containing holes, and the filling efficiency of the filling station 2 to the reagent cards in the trays 6 can be effectively improved through arranging a plurality of liquid storage tanks and a plurality of groups of pipettors. Each air pump 222 can correspond to two pipettes, for example, the pipetting device 22 further comprises a base, the base is mounted on a triaxial sliding platform, the pipettes and the air pumps 222 are mounted on the base, each group of air pumps 222 are arranged on the upper portion of the base, pipettes with the same number as the air pumps 222 are arranged on two opposite sides of the base, the pipettes on two sides of the base can simultaneously pour reagent cards in the same tray 6, and reagent cards in different trays 6 can also be simultaneously poured; in addition, the filling station 2 comprises two sets of pipetting devices 22 and two sets of driving devices 24, both sets of pipetting devices 22 being pipetted by the same cartridge 23, which can simultaneously fill the reagent cards in both trays 6. In the preferred scheme, be provided with multiunit ultrasonic liquid level sensor on liquid storage box 23, and each liquid storage tank corresponds two sets of ultrasonic liquid level sensor, can detect the liquid level that corresponds the liquid storage tank through ultrasonic liquid level sensor, specifically be used for detecting the liquid level that corresponds two long edges of liquid storage tank through two sets of ultrasonic liquid level sensor, the high detection error is not more than 0.5mm, and then can judge whether there is the bubble on two long edge surfaces of liquid storage tank (the bubble all suspends in liquid level border position generally), can effectively avoid the pipettor to inhale the bubble, again with the bubble in the reagent card. The liquid storage box 23 further comprises an overflow groove which is communicated with the liquid storage groove, when the liquid level in the liquid storage groove reaches the overflow position, the liquid in the liquid storage groove can automatically flow into the overflow groove, so that the liquid level of the liquid storage groove can be effectively controlled, further, the condition that the TIP head of the liquid transfer device stretches into the liquid level too much, and the liquid level is usually less than 1mm is avoided, the possibility that the surface of the TIP head is adhered to the liquid is reduced, and the pouring precision of the liquid transfer device is ensured. In order to further ensure the pipetting accuracy, the liquid level in the liquid storage tank is fixed so as to ensure that the depth of the TIP head of the pipettor extending into the liquid level is fixed, and further, each pipetting has higher consistency.

Because the pipetting device 22 uses the pipettor to fill the reagent card, the filling station 2 is additionally provided with the TIP head replacement box 25, and the TIP head replacement box 25 is positioned in the moving range of the pipettor, that is, the pipettor can be moved to the TIP head replacement box 25 by the driving device 24. In this embodiment, the TIP head exchange cartridge 25 can provide a TIP head, and the TIP head of the pipette can be automatically exchanged at regular intervals by the driving device 24.

Further, two groups of filling stations 2 may be provided, and the two groups of filling stations 2 may be sequentially provided along the moving direction of the tray 6, so that the two groups of filling stations 2 may be used to fill reagent cards in the same tray 6. The number of the pipettors of the filling station 2 is related to the number of Cheng Yekong of the reagent cards, specifically, when the number of the liquid containing holes is nine, the number of the pipettors of one filling station 2 is five, the number of the pipettors of the other filling station 2 is four, the Cheng Yekong of the reagent cards are filled by the two filling stations 2 in a staggered manner, namely, the filling station 2 with the five pipettors can be used for filling the reagent cards 1, 3, 5, 7 and 9 # Cheng Yekong, and the filling station 2 with the four pipettors can be used for filling the reagent cards 2, 4, 6 and 8 # Cheng Yekong.

The refining liquid source 21 comprises a frame 211 and volumetric flasks 212 arranged in the frame 211, each volumetric flask 212 is used for filling liquid, each volumetric flask 212 is communicated with a liquid storage tank, and the liquid in the volumetric flask 212 can be pressed into the liquid storage tank through air pressure. In this embodiment, the frame 211 has a chamber for placing the volumetric flask 212, and the volumetric flask 212 for placing 2.5L, 3.5L, 6L, and 12L can be placed in the chamber, and the top of the frame 211 is provided with an opening for facilitating the replacement of the volumetric flask 212, and the opening is plugged by a transparent cover plate. When the volumetric flask 212 is placed in the cavity, the glass rod of the tube head extends into the volumetric flask 212 by a certain angle, such as 15 degrees, and when the external air pump presses clean air into the volumetric flask 212, the air pressure in the flask is increased, so that liquid in the flask enters the liquid storage box 23 along the pipeline, and residual tail liquid in the volumetric flask 212 can be reduced.

In the preferred scheme of production line, still add first check station between filling station 2 and the film sealing station 3, first check station is the spot check, and it includes the spot check unloading line, and spot check unloading line perpendicular to transfer chain 71 is provided with the rotatory module of tray at the head end of spot check unloading line, and the rotatory module of tray includes electronic clamping cylinder, can snatch tray 6 to the spot check unloading line through electronic clamping cylinder. Due to the arrangement of the spot check blanking lines, the conveyor line 71 is disconnected between the spot check stations, i.e. the conveyor line 71 is in a disconnected form, and the electric clamping cylinder is used for transferring the pallet 6 between the two sections of the conveyor line 71. In a preferred embodiment, the conveyor line 71 may be disconnected according to actual needs, specifically, for the convergence segment 712, the disconnection position may be set according to the length.

The embodiment of the invention also provides a film sealing station 3 which can be applied to a production line. The film sealing station 3 comprises a feeding frame 31, a film taking mechanism 32 and a film sealing mechanism 33, wherein the feeding frame 31 is used for placing a film roll and continuously providing films, the film taking mechanism 32 can cut the film roll to obtain films needing to be sealed on the reagent cards after filling, the cut films are placed on the reagent cards after filling so as to seal all liquid containing holes on the reagent cards, the film sealing mechanism 33 is used for fixing the films on the reagent cards, the film sealing mechanism 33 is located right above a moving path of the tray 6, namely, the reagent cards paved with the films move to the lower part of the film sealing mechanism 33, and the film sealing mechanism 33 is used for fixing the films and the reagent cards.

In the embodiment, the film sealing mechanism 33 includes a hot air plate 331 and a driving member 332, and the hot air plate 331 is located directly above the moving path of the tray 6. In this embodiment, the temperature of the hot air plate 331 is higher, and when the reagent card with the membrane laid thereon moves to the position right below the hot air plate 331, the driving member 332 can drive the hot air plate 331 to press down onto the membrane, so as to heat-seal the membrane onto the reagent card. A lift cylinder is typically used for the driving member 332. In the preferred scheme, hot air plate 331 is provided with buffer structure 333, and the buffering direction is vertical direction, can be the buffer layer to buffer structure 333, and the buffer layer can make hot air plate 331 when pushing down the reagent card, and pressure distribution is more even.

The structure of the fine feeding frame 31 comprises a frame body 311 and a rotating shaft 312 arranged on the frame body 311, wherein the frame body 311 is detachably connected with the frame 8, the rotating shaft 312 is used for installing a coiled film, and particularly the rotating shaft 312 penetrates through a middle through hole of the coiled film. In this embodiment, when the film is mounted on the rotating shaft 312, the film can rotate around the rotating shaft 312 relative to the frame 311, and in a preferred embodiment, the rotating shaft 312 is rotatably connected with the frame 311, and the film is clamped with the rotating shaft 312, so that the film can rotate relative to the rotating shaft 312. During actual operation, the outer end edge of the rolled film is horizontally unfolded, when the acting force far away from the direction of the rotating shaft 312 is applied to the horizontal unfolding part of the rolled film, the rolled film rotates around the rotating shaft 312, the rolled film is gradually peeled off, and after the rolled film is used up, the whole feeding frame 31 can be directly pulled out from the frame 8, so that a new rolled film is conveniently installed on the rotating shaft 312. Thus, a handle is provided on the frame 311 for a worker to pull the upper rack 31.

Further, the feeding frame 31 further includes a dust removing roller 313, the dust removing roller 313 includes two roller shafts, the two roller shafts are disposed opposite to each other and can rotate relative to the frame 311, and the roller shafts are parallel to the rotating shaft 312. The gap is reserved between the two roll shafts, the horizontal unfolding part of the coiled film passes through the gap between the two roll shafts, the upper surface and the lower surface of the section of film are respectively contacted with the upper roll shaft and the lower roll shaft, certain clamping can be formed on the film, one roll shaft is a driving roll, the other roll shaft is a driven roll, the driving roll actively rotates, the film can be driven to horizontally move, the film can drive the driven roll to rotate, further continuous feeding of the film taking mechanism 32 can be achieved, and the effect of dust removal on the surface of the coiled film can be achieved through the dust removal roll 313.

The structure of the mold taking mechanism 32 is thinned, and the mold taking mechanism comprises a film cutting component 321 and a film grabbing component 322, wherein the film cutting component 321 can be used for cutting a rolled film to obtain a film with a proper size, and the film grabbing component 322 can transfer the cut film to a reagent card after filling. Typically, the film cutting assembly 321 includes a cutter, the film sheet moves horizontally, and the cutter moves vertically to cut the film sheet. The film grabbing component 322 grabs the cut film in a vacuum adsorption mode, specifically, the film grabbing component 322 comprises a translation table 324 and two groups of adsorption heads 323, the adsorption heads 323 can be controlled to do XYZ-axis linear movement through the translation table 324, the two groups of adsorption heads 323 are arranged at intervals relatively, and two opposite edges of the cut film can be correspondingly cut.

At the position corresponding to the film sealing station 3, in particular to the position corresponding to the film sealing mechanism 33, a jacking positioning assembly 34 is arranged, the jacking positioning assembly 34 comprises two groups of supporting tables 341 which can move along the vertical direction, the two groups of supporting tables 341 are arranged at intervals, and at least part of the two supporting tables are positioned under the moving path of the tray 6. In this embodiment, under normal condition, the top surfaces of two supporting tables 341 are all lower than the top surface of slide 73, and supporting tables 341 can not influence the normal removal of tray 6, and when hot air plate 331 needs to push down the heat seal reagent card, supporting tables 341 vertically move up, and two supporting tables 341 can support tray 6 jointly, and make tray 6 break away from with transfer chain 71, avoid hot air plate 331 to push down transfer chain 71, conveniently control the vertical position of tray 6 simultaneously, and can reach the purpose of accurate positioning. The buffer structure is arranged on the supporting table 341 and is also a buffer layer, so that two-stage buffer is formed by matching the buffer layer on the hot air plate 331, and the even pressure distribution of the hot air plate 331 to the membrane on the reagent card is further ensured.

In a preferred embodiment, the two sets of supporting tables 341 are respectively located at two opposite sides of the conveying line 71, that is, located at the outer sides of the slide ways 73, and the tray 6 has a part of structures horizontally protruding from the two slide ways 73, and the protruding portion is located right above the supporting tables 341, so that when the two sets of supporting tables 341 vertically move upwards, the two sets of supporting tables 341 can jointly support the tray 6. The jacking positioning assembly 34 further comprises an air cylinder 342, the air cylinder 342 corresponds to the supporting table 341, the air cylinder 342 is vertically arranged, and the vertical movement of the supporting table 341 can be controlled through the expansion and contraction of the air cylinder 342.

In another embodiment of the jacking positioning member 34, the conveying line 71 has two sets of sprocket-chain transmission members 72, and two chains 721 are spaced apart, the jacking positioning member 34 is disposed between the two chains 721, that is, two supporting tables 341 of the jacking positioning member 34 are disposed between the two chains, at this time, the two supporting tables 341 may be spaced apart along the direction in which the conveying line 71 moves, and the two supporting tables 341 may also support the tray 6 together after the air cylinder 342 is extended.

The jacking positioning assemblies 34 are provided with a plurality of groups, the intervals are distributed at each station, for example, in the filling station 2, the jacking positioning assemblies 34 are adopted to jack up the tray 6 firstly, and then the reagent cards are filled; the jacking and positioning assembly 34 can be similarly arranged at the subsequent cold compress mechanism 6 and the film cutting station 4.

The embodiment of the invention also provides a cold compress mechanism 35, wherein the cold compress mechanism 35 is positioned at the discharging side of the film sealing station 3, namely, the tray 6 after film sealing is moved to the cold compress mechanism 35, the temperature of the reagent card after film sealing can be reduced through the cold compress mechanism 35, and the reagent card enters the film cutting station 4 through the tray 6 of the cold compress mechanism 35. Because the reagent card is heat-sealed during film sealing, the heat sealing temperature possibly influences the quality of liquid in the reagent card, and the temperature of the reagent card can be reduced through the cold compress mechanism 35, so that the quality of liquid in the reagent card can be ensured.

The thinning cold compress mechanism 35 comprises a cold compress plate 351 and a driving component 352, wherein the driving component 352 can control the cold compress plate 351 to vertically move, the cold compress plate 351 is located right above a moving path of the tray 6, when the tray 6 moves right below the cold compress plate 351, the driving component 352 controls the cold compress plate 351 to vertically move downwards to enable the cold compress plate 351 to be in contact with a membrane on a reagent card, and the cold compress plate 351 can cool the membrane. For the driving assembly 352, a vertically disposed cylinder may be used, through which the cold compress plate 351 may be driven to move in a vertical direction. The structure of the cold compress plate 351 is continuously thinned, a cold water circulation pipeline 354 is arranged in the cold compress plate 351, the cold water circulation pipeline 354 is connected with a refrigerating device, and the cold water circulation pipeline flows in a circulating way so as to play a role in cooling the membrane. The cold water circulation pipeline 354 is distributed in a serpentine shape in the cold compress plate 351, so that the utilization rate of cold water cooling capacity can be improved.

Optimizing the above embodiment, the cold compress mechanism 35 further comprises an eliminating component 353, by which eliminating component 353 can eliminate condensed water that may form on the surface of the product after cold compress, in particular on the surface of the membrane, which can ensure the cleanliness requirements of the reagent card.

Various embodiments may be employed for the abatement assembly 353, such as embodiment one: the eliminating component 353 comprises an air knife, the air knife is positioned on the discharging side of the cold compress plate 351, the air outlet direction of the air knife is horizontal and perpendicular to the moving direction of the tray 6, and the air knife can continuously blow air to the membrane surface of the reagent card after cold compress, so that condensed water possibly generated on the membrane surface can be eliminated. Embodiment two: the abatement assembly 353 includes a wiper 355 and a control member 356, the wiper 355 may be a wiping cotton, the wiper 355 is located directly above the conveyor line 71, when the cooled reagent card moves directly below the wiper 355, the control member 356 may control the wiper 355 to contact the surface of the membrane of the reagent card, and the control member 356 may continue to control the wiper 355 to move back and forth horizontally, thereby achieving the purpose of wiping the surface of the membrane of the reagent card with possible condensed water.

After cooling by cold compress, the tray 6 continues to move to the film cutting station 4. Because the tray 6 is provided with a plurality of reagent cards, at the film sealing station 3, the film size is similar to the size of the tray 6, and the film seals the plurality of reagent cards at the same time, therefore, after the tray 6 enters the film cutting station 4, the films corresponding to the reagent cards need to be separated, and redundant films need to be cut off. In the embodiment of the invention, the film cutting station 4 cuts the film by using laser, so that the film cutting station 4 comprises a laser 41 and a laser controller 42, wherein a light outlet of the laser 41 is positioned right above the conveying line 71, and when the tray 6 carrying the reagent card after film sealing moves to the film cutting station 4, the laser controller 42 controls the laser 41 to work, and cuts the film according to a preset program.

The specific diaphragm laser cutting method comprises the following steps:

when the diaphragm moves to the position right below the light outlet of the laser 41, the diaphragm is visually positioned by the tray 6 and the CCD camera;

and determining laser cutting lines according to the visual positioning information to formulate a laser cutting sequence, wherein the cutting sequence is sequentially cut from the middle of the membrane to two sides respectively.

When determining the laser cutting line, the number of the laser cutting lines is related to the number of the reagent cards, and the two sides of each reagent card are provided with the laser cutting lines, for example, when the number of the reagent cards is 8, the number of the laser cutting lines is 9, and then the laser cutting sequence is as follows: 8/6//4/2/1/3/5/7/9, each number representing the sequence of the corresponding laser cut lines and being determined according to the direction of movement of the pallet 6 on the conveyor line 71, 9/7/5/3/1/2/4/6/8 is of course also conceivable.

In the invention, as the membrane is hot-pressed onto the reagent card through the hot air plate 331 and then subjected to cooling treatment through the cold compress mechanism 35, certain stress is generated on the membrane, and the stress on two sides after cutting is unevenly distributed when the membrane is cut in sequence from one side to the other side, so that the cutting position in the subsequent membrane cutting process and the position in the CCD camera visual positioning process are greatly deviated, and the membrane cutting quality is difficult to ensure. In the embodiment, the film is cut from the middle, so that the stress generated after the film is cooled can be released more effectively, the deviation of the cutting position caused by uneven stress distribution can be avoided, and the cutting quality is ensured.

In the preferred embodiment, when the membrane is cut by a laser, the edges of the membrane need to be compressed by a cover plate, which prevents the membrane from being deformed significantly after cutting and the membrane from being deflected a large distance.

And continuing to optimize the diaphragm laser cutting method, when the cutting line corresponding to each reagent card is determined, grabbing two sides of the reagent card by a CCD camera, calculating the average value of angles of the two sides, and taking the average value of angles as the angle of the laser cutting line. In this way, the problem that the reagent card is not parallel to the placing of the tray 6 or the cutting of the two sides of the membrane corresponding to the reagent card is uneven when the tray 6 is at a certain angle can be prevented.

Further, since each reagent card corresponds to two laser cutting lines during laser cutting, cutting tails are inevitably generated after the cutting is completed, and the cutting tails are usually located at the outer sides of the corresponding areas of each reagent card in the tray 6, that is, the outer sides of the reagent cards at two sides, and the cutting tails are supported on the edge of the tray 6 after cutting, then the cutting tails can be captured by the waste capturing disc 43 and then placed in the waste film collecting box 44.

In addition, in the film cutting station 4, since the film is cut by laser, smoke dust is necessarily generated, and thus a dust removing structure is arranged in the film cutting station 4, in this embodiment, double-layer dust removing is adopted, one layer of dust removing is aimed at the position of the film, a cover 45 is arranged above the film, the cover 45 is positioned right above the film, the lower part of the cover 45 is close to the film, the laser cuts the film in the cover 45, and therefore, the smoke dust generated in the cutting process is mainly positioned in the cover 45, and therefore, a first exhaust pipe 451 is arranged on the cover 45, and most of the smoke dust can be extracted out of the film cutting station 4 through the first exhaust pipe 451; the two-layer dust removal is to the whole film cutting station 4, the film cutting station 4 is covered by the cover 46, and the cover 46 is provided with the second air extraction pipe 461, so that even if a small amount of smoke escapes from the cover 45, the smoke escaping into the cover 46 can be further extracted through the second air extraction pipe 461.

After the membrane is cut, each reagent card in the tray 6 is a finished product, and enters a manual detection station through a conveying line 71, wherein the manual detection station is mainly used for carrying out appearance detection on the finished product, and enters a blanking station 5 for packing and boxing after being determined.

The embodiment of the invention provides a blanking station 5, which can be applied to a production line and comprises a tray conveying line 51, a box conveying line 52, a first manipulator 53 and a second manipulator 54, wherein the tray conveying line 51 can convey a tray 55 to the box conveying line 52, the box conveying line 52 is used for conveying a turnover box 56, the first manipulator 53 can transfer a detected finished product into the tray 55, and the second manipulator 54 can transfer the tray 55 filled with a finished product reagent card into the turnover box 56. In this embodiment, the finished product reagent card is transported to the blanking station 5, the finished product reagent card is grabbed into the tray 55 by the first manipulator 53, and when the tray 55 is full, the tray-loading transporting line 51 transports the tray 55 to the boxing transporting line 52, and stacks the tray 55 one by one to the turnover boxes 56 by the second manipulator 54, and after the turnover boxes 56 are full, the boxing transporting line 52 will transport the turnover boxes 56 for blanking, and simultaneously transport the empty turnover boxes 56 to the turntable conveying line 71. In the above-mentioned process, through two transfer chain 71 and two manipulators cooperation, can pack finished product reagent clamping case packing, whole process is automatic completion, can improve packing efficiency on the one hand, on the other hand has reduced the cost of labor. Because the first manipulator 53 is used for grabbing the finished product reagent card, the executing end of the first manipulator 53 adopts a sucker to adsorb the finished product reagent card, in the preferred scheme, the sucker adopts a variable-distance sucker which is combined with a CCD camera for visual positioning so as to adjust the corresponding distance of the sucker; the second manipulator 54 is used for carrying the tray 55, and may be in the form of a chuck, and the chuck may be in the form of four claws corresponding to four sides of the tray 55 and two claws for clamping one set of opposite sides of the tray 55. The tray 55 has a plurality of accommodating grooves, each of which is arranged in an array, and the first robot 53 places the reagent cards into each of the accommodating grooves.

The above embodiment is optimized in that the palletizing line 51 is perpendicular to the boxing line 52, wherein the boxing line 52 is the end of the whole production line, one end of which is used for providing the empty turnover box 56 and the other end is used for discharging the turnover box 56 filled with the reagent card, the end of the palletizing line 51 extends to the middle position of the boxing line 52, the palletizing line 51 extends along the length direction of the whole production line generally, and the boxing line 52 extends along the width direction of the production line.

Continuing with the above embodiment, the blanking station 5 further comprises a storage rack 57, a lifter 58, and a traverse rack 571, wherein the storage rack 57 is mainly used for stacking the empty tray 55, and the traverse rack 571 is used for moving the tray 55 stacked at the bottom out of the storage rack 57 and transferring it onto the lifter 58. In this embodiment, the tray transporting line 51 is at the same height as the case transporting line 52, the traverse frame 571 is at the same height as the transporting line 71 or similar to the same height, two heights can be connected by the lifter 58, the low point of the lifter 58 is in butt joint with the tray transporting line 51, the high point of the lifter 58 is in butt joint with the traverse frame 571, and the high point of the lifter 58 is used as a finished product reagent clamping tray position, that is, when the traverse frame 571 moves the tray 55 to the lifter 58, the first manipulator 53 grabs the finished product reagent card into the tray 55, after the tray is completely filled, the lifter 58 moves vertically downwards, and the tray 55 is transferred to the tray transporting line 51. Through this embodiment structure, can optimize the space arrangement of unloading station 5, unloading station 5 occupation space can not be too big, can realize simultaneously that tray 55's automatic replenishment. The supporting structure 572 is disposed at the storage rack 57, multiple groups of supporting structures 572 may be disposed around the storage rack 57, for example, the storage rack 57 is square, the supporting structure 572 may be four groups, each position of the storage rack 57 corresponds to one group of supporting structures 572, the supporting structures 572 are controlled to stretch through cylinders, the traversing rack 571 may slide into the bottom of the storage rack 57 and can form a supporting effect on the bottom tray 55, the supporting structures 572 may extend into the lower part of the edge of the last but one tray 55, the supporting effect on the last but one tray 55 and above can be formed through the matching of the multiple groups of supporting structures 572, at this time, the traversing rack 571 moves down to drive the tray 55 above (the last but one tray 55) to horizontally move out of the bottom of the storage rack 57, and when the traversing tray 55 on the traversing rack 571 is transferred onto the lifter 58, the traversing rack 571 returns to the right below the storage rack 57, and after the traversing rack 571 can support the bottom tray 55 (the last tray 55) and the last tray 55 can be moved back to the last tray 55, and the last tray 55 can be stacked by the last tray 55. In a preferred embodiment, the storage rack 57 should be provided with a sensor near the bottom of the storage rack 57, which is used to determine whether the tray 55 is in the storage rack 57 or whether the number of tray 55 in the storage rack 57 is small, and when the detection requirement is met, the sensor sends out an alarm, and infrared/laser detection can be used for the sensor.

Further, the blanking station 5 further comprises a finished product conveying line 59, the finished product conveying line 59 is in butt joint with the conveying line 71, the finished product conveying line 59 is equal in height to the conveying line 71 and equal in height to the high point of the lifter 58, and the first manipulator 53 is located between the finished product conveying line 59 and the lifter 58. In this embodiment, the finished product transporting line 59 is added, which can be considered as a buffer line for finished product reagent cards, at the end of the conveying line 71, the finished product reagent cards on the conveying line 71 can be transferred to the finished product transporting line 59 for buffer, and the first manipulator 53 can grasp the finished product reagent cards from the finished product transporting line 59 to the corresponding tray 55. In the preferred scheme, finished product transportation line 59 can set up two, and both set up side by side, and transfer chain 71 is located between two finished product transportation lines 59, and sets up finished product transportation line 59 in artifical detection station, can conveniently detect finished product reagent card on the one hand, on the other hand can be through the manual work with the reagent card in the tray 6 by the transportation line transfer to finished product transportation line 59.

The structure of the finished product conveying line 59 is thinned, the finished product conveying line 59 comprises a conveying belt 591, a plurality of positioning grooves 592 are formed in the conveying belt 591, the length direction of each positioning groove 592 is the length extending direction of the finished product conveying line 59, the width dimension corresponds to the width of each reagent card, and the reagent cards are sequentially placed along the length direction of each positioning groove 592. The conveyer belt 591 adopts belt conveying, after placing the reagent card in the constant head tank 592, the conveyer belt 591 can drive each reagent card to be close to the direction of first manipulator 53 and close at the one end that the constant head tank 592 is close to first manipulator 53, namely when the reagent card removes to this closed position, the seal structure can stop the reagent card and continue to remove, produce relative slip between reagent card and the conveyer belt 591, the reagent card reaches the position that finished product transportation line 59 is closest to first manipulator 53 this moment, first manipulator 53 then can snatch it in the tray 55 that corresponds.

The foregoing description of the preferred embodiments of the invention is not intended to be limiting, but rather is intended to cover all modifications, equivalents, alternatives, and improvements that fall within the spirit and scope of the invention.

Claims (7)

1. A filling station for product filling in to the tray, its characterized in that: the filling station comprises a liquid source and a liquid transferring device, the liquid source is connected with the liquid transferring device through a pipeline, and the liquid transferring device is arranged on the frame and is controlled to move to the position right above a moving path of the tray through a driving device; the filling station still includes the liquid storage box, the liquid storage box with the liquid source passes through the pipeline intercommunication, the liquid storage box has ascending uncovered, just uncovered is located in the range of motion of pipetting device, have many liquid storage tanks that set up side by side in the liquid storage box, pipetting device is including the multiunit pipettor that sets up side by side, pipettor and liquid storage tank one-to-one, and each the liquid storage tank all with the liquid source intercommunication, just the notch of liquid storage tank with the uncovered of liquid storage box corresponds, be provided with multiunit ultrasonic liquid level sensor on the liquid storage box, and each the liquid storage tank corresponds two sets of ultrasonic liquid level sensor and is used for detecting respectively and corresponds the liquid level on two long edges of liquid storage tank, and judge whether there is the bubble through the liquid level difference of two sets of ultrasonic liquid level sensor.

2. The filling station of claim 1, wherein: the filling station further comprises a TIP head replacement box, and the TIP head replacement boxes are located in the moving range of each group of pipettors.

3. The filling station of claim 1, wherein: the liquid source comprises a frame and a volumetric flask arranged in the frame, and liquid in the volumetric flask is driven into the liquid storage tank through air pressure.

4. The filling station of claim 1, wherein: the liquid storage box further comprises overflow grooves, and the overflow grooves are communicated with the liquid storage grooves.

5. The filling station of claim 1, wherein: the filling stations are two groups and are sequentially arranged along the moving direction of the tray.

6. The utility model provides an automatic filling seals membrane production line, includes material loading station, seals membrane station, cuts membrane station and unloading station, its characterized in that: the automatic packaging machine also comprises a filling station as claimed in claims 1-5, wherein the feeding station, the filling station, the film sealing station, the film cutting station and the blanking station are sequentially arranged on the frame, and the tray is sequentially moved along the stations through the conveying assembly;

the feeding station is used for placing products to be filled into the tray;

The film sealing station is used for sealing the film of the filled product;

the film cutting station separates films according to the positions of products;

and the blanking station packages and boxing the processed finished product.

7. The automatic filling and film sealing production line according to claim 6, wherein: the cold compress mechanism is arranged between the film sealing station and the film cutting station.