CN115230844B - Transfer device for inspection - Google Patents

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CN115230844B
CN115230844B CN202210880111.0A CN202210880111A CN115230844B CN 115230844 B CN115230844 B CN 115230844B CN 202210880111 A CN202210880111 A CN 202210880111A CN 115230844 B CN115230844 B CN 115230844B
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王娟
朱杰华
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Abstract

The application discloses a transfer device for inspection in the technical field of medical equipment, which comprises a transfer trolley, wherein the transfer trolley penetrates through and is rotationally connected with a connecting shaft, the end part of the connecting shaft is fixedly sleeved with a wheel body, and the part of the connecting shaft, which is positioned in the transfer trolley, is fixedly sleeved with a plurality of arc-shaped blocks; the transfer trolley is fixedly provided with a bearing plate, the bearing plate is provided with a plurality of placing holes, each placing hole is rotationally connected with a rotating shaft, the rotating shafts are clamped with test tubes, the peripheral wall of each rotating shaft is also provided with a plurality of blades at intervals, the bearing plate is also fixedly provided with a plurality of air outlet sleeves which are respectively matched with the corresponding rotating shafts for use, and each air outlet sleeve is provided with an air outlet; the vertical sliding connection of transfer car (buggy) has the sliding plate with a plurality of arc piece butt, fixedly is equipped with a plurality of elastic air bags between sliding plate and the loading board, every air bag all be equipped with the air intake and with the air outlet of corresponding air-out sleeve intercommunication. The scheme can ensure that the blood and the anticoagulant are continuously kept in a uniformly mixed state, and ensure the accuracy of blood test results.

Description

Transfer device for inspection
Technical Field
The invention relates to the technical field of medical equipment, in particular to a transfer device for inspection.
Background
Clinical laboratory is a bridge between clinical medicine and basic medicine, including branch subjects such as clinical chemistry, clinical microbiology, clinical immunology, hematology, humoral science and blood transfusion, and medical examination is a subject for medical diagnosis by using methods and means such as modern physics, chemistry and biology, and the like, and because personnel, equipment and the like cannot meet the diagnosis requirements, the clinical laboratory needs to collect on-site samples of patients and then transport the patients to a higher-level hospital for examination, and in addition, all clinical specimens in the hospital also need to be transported before entering a laboratory.
Conventionally, a test tube is generally used to collect blood, and in order to prevent blood coagulation from affecting the test, an anticoagulant is added to a blood sample and shaken, so that the blood and the anticoagulant are sufficiently mixed. However, in the prior art, the transfer device cannot continuously shake the test tube in the transfer process, so that the blood and the anticoagulant cannot continuously keep a uniformly mixed state, and if the transfer process is long, the partial coagulation state of the blood is caused, so that the blood test result is influenced.
Disclosure of Invention
The invention aims to provide a transfer device for testing, which can continuously shake a test tube during the transfer process so as to ensure that blood and an anticoagulant are kept in a fully mixed state.
In order to achieve the above purpose, the present invention provides the following technical solutions: the transfer device for inspection comprises a transfer trolley, wherein the transfer trolley comprises a cover plate buckled at the top, the transfer trolley penetrates through and is rotationally connected with a connecting shaft, the end part of the connecting shaft is fixedly sleeved with a wheel body, and the part of the connecting shaft, which is positioned in the transfer trolley, is fixedly sleeved with a plurality of arc-shaped blocks; the transfer trolley is fixedly provided with a bearing plate, the bearing plate is provided with a plurality of placing holes, each placing hole is rotationally connected with a rotating shaft, the rotating shafts are coaxially clamped with test tubes, the peripheral wall of each rotating shaft is also provided with a plurality of blades at intervals, the bearing plate is also fixedly provided with a plurality of air outlet sleeves which are respectively matched with the corresponding rotating shafts for use, and each air outlet sleeve is provided with an air outlet which faces the corresponding plurality of blades; the vertical sliding connection of transfer car (buggy) has the sliding plate with a plurality of arc piece butt, fixedly is equipped with a plurality of elastic air bags between sliding plate and the loading board, every air bag all be equipped with the air intake and with the air outlet of corresponding air-out sleeve intercommunication.
The invention has the working principle and beneficial effects that: after this scheme is sealed with the sealing plug with the test tube after gathering blood, then with its chucking in the top of rotation axis, accomplish a plurality of test tubes and place in the inside operation of transfer car (buggy). At this time, the transfer cart is pushed to go to the inspection room, the wheel body rotates and then drives the connecting shaft to rotate, the connecting shaft drives a plurality of fixedly sleeved arc blocks to rotate, and the sliding plate and the transfer cart are vertically connected in a sliding mode, and the sliding plate is abutted with the arc blocks, so that the arc blocks continuously jack up the sliding plate.
The transfer car (buggy) is still fixed and is provided with the loading board, the fixed a plurality of elastic air bags that are equipped with between loading board and the sliding plate, then the sliding plate is to the in-process of loading board round trip slip, constantly extrude and release the air bag, thereby make the air bag constantly aerify from the air intake, exhaust from the air outlet again, the air-out sleeve and the gas outlet intercommunication that the loading board set up, a large amount of gas of exhaust is then extruded into in the air-out sleeve, and blow out from the air outlet that sets up on the air-out sleeve, and the air outlet is a plurality of blades towards, and a plurality of blades are with rotation axis fixed connection again, then blow out the back from the air outlet by compressed wind, blow a plurality of blades and rotate, thereby drive the rotation axis and rotate, the rotation axis drives the inside blood of joint test tube and anticoagulant to rock, in order to guarantee blood and anticoagulant and keep mixing evenly state constantly, guarantee blood inspection result accuracy.
And because the speed of people pushing the transfer car (buggy) is different, then make rotation axis and test tube's rotation frequency various, can improve blood and anticoagulant mixed effect.
Further, the connecting shafts are symmetrically arranged along the axis of the transfer trolley. On the one hand, the transfer trolley can be stably walked by 4 wheel bodies in the setting mode, and on the other hand, the extrusion effect on the sliding plate is improved through a plurality of arc-shaped blocks on two connecting shafts.
Further, the air inlet of each air bag is provided with a one-way air inlet valve, and the air outlet of each air bag is provided with a one-way air outlet valve. The arrangement mode can limit the circulation direction of air, so that the air can only flow in from the one-way air inlet valve of the air inlet and then is discharged from the one-way air outlet valve of the air outlet.
Further, the outer wall of the transfer trolley is fixedly sleeved with a refrigerating cavity, a refrigerator is arranged in the refrigerating cavity, and the transfer trolley is further provided with a storage battery for supplying power to the refrigerator. The refrigerator is supplied with power by the storage battery, the refrigerator refrigerates the inside of the refrigerating cavity, and then the inside of the transfer trolley is refrigerated at the same time because the refrigerating cavity is fixedly sleeved with the transfer trolley, so that blood in the test tube is in a low-temperature state, and the blood is prevented from deteriorating.
Further, be connected with the air duct between one-way admission valve and the refrigeration chamber, the apron is equipped with the exhaust hole in one side of keeping away from a plurality of rotation axis, the refrigeration chamber is equipped with the inlet port.
The air enters the refrigerating cavity through the air inlet holes, is sucked by the air guide pipe after being forcedly refrigerated by the refrigerator, and is introduced into the air outlet sleeve by the air bag, and is blown out towards the rotating shaft and the test tubes through the air outlet.
Further, the bottom of transfer car (buggy) articulates there is the support that rises, is equipped with the motor of drive link rotation in the transfer car (buggy). The bottom of the transfer car is raised through rotating the lifting support, so that the wheel body is suspended, and the motor drives the connecting shaft to rotate at the moment, so that the transfer car can be applied to scenes such as car transportation of the quasi-transfer car.
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FIG. 1 is a front view of a transfer device for inspection according to the present invention;
FIG. 2 is a schematic view of the internal structure of FIG. 1;
FIG. 3 is a schematic view of the sliding plate of FIG. 2 after the sliding plate presses the airbag;
fig. 4 is a schematic view showing the internal structure of a transfer device for inspection in example 2.
Detailed Description
The following is a further detailed description of the embodiments: the transfer trolley comprises a first wheel body 1, a transfer trolley 2, a cover plate 3, a second wheel body 4, a connecting shaft 5, an arc-shaped block 6, a one-way air inlet valve 7, an air outlet sleeve 8, an air outlet 9, a sealing plug 10, a test tube 11, a rotating shaft 12, a sliding plate 13, an air bag 14, blades 15, a refrigerating cavity 16, a refrigerator 17, an air duct 18, an air inlet hole 19, an air outlet hole 20, an air inlet 21 and a bearing plate 22.
In the following description, the terms "left", "right", "upper", "lower" and the like are all based on the illustrated orientations, and in practice, the implementation of the scheme is not affected if the relative positions of the corresponding structures are kept unchanged by making a change in the same direction based on the orientations.
Example 1: the utility model provides a transfer device for inspection, as shown in fig. 1, including transfer car (buggy) 2, transfer car (buggy) 2 includes the apron 3 of top lock, and this transfer car (buggy) 2 runs through and rotates and is connected with two connecting axle 5, and connecting axle 5's tip fixed sleeve has cup jointed the wheel body, is first wheel body 1 and second wheel body 4 respectively.
As shown in fig. 2, the part of each connecting shaft 5 positioned inside the transfer trolley 2 is fixedly sleeved with 1 arc-shaped block 6; the transfer car (2) is fixed to be equipped with loading board (22), loading board (22) is equipped with 2 and places the hole, every is placed the hole and is all rotated and be connected with rotation axis (12), rotation axis (12) coaxial is equipped with the card hole, card hole joint has test tube (11), the top of test tube (11) is sealed by sealing plug (10), rotation axis (12)'s outer peripheral face all is equipped with 4 blades (15) along circumferencial direction and interval, loading board (22) is still fixed to be equipped with 2 respectively with the air-out sleeve (8) that corresponds rotation axis (12) matching use, the top of air-out sleeve (8) is sealed, the bottom is equipped with spacedly, every air-out sleeve (8) all is equipped with the air exit (9) that corresponds 4 blades (15).
The transfer car (2) is vertical sliding connection has the sliding plate (13) with 2 arc pieces (6) butt, is fixed to be equipped with 2 elastic gasbag (14) between sliding plate (13) and the loading board (22), and the bottom of every gasbag (14) is equipped with the air intake, and the top of every gasbag (14) is equipped with the air outlet, and wherein the air intake is equipped with one-way admission valve (7), and the air outlet is equipped with one-way discharge valve, and loading board (22) are equipped with the through-hole (21) that is close to every air-out sleeve (8), one-way discharge valve and through-hole (21) intercommunication.
As shown in fig. 3, after the test tube 11 after blood collection is sealed by the sealing plug 10, the test tube 11 is clamped at the top of the rotating shaft 12, and the operation of placing 2 test tubes 11 in the transfer trolley 2 is completed. At this time, the transfer trolley 2 is pushed to go to a testing room, the first wheel body 1 and the second wheel body 4 rotate and then drive the connecting shaft 5 to rotate, the connecting shaft 5 drives the 2 fixedly sleeved arc-shaped blocks 6 to rotate, and the sliding plate 13 and the transfer trolley 2 are vertically connected in a sliding manner, and the sliding plate 13 and the 2 arc-shaped blocks 6 are abutted, so that the arc-shaped blocks 6 continuously jack up the sliding plate 13, and the elastic air bag 14 continuously compresses and then bulges.
The transfer car (2) is still fixed and is provided with loading board (22), then the in-process that the sliding plate (13) was slided back and forth towards loading board (22), constantly extrudees and releases gasbag (14) to make gasbag (14) constantly follow the unidirectional inlet valve (7) of air intake and aerify, follow the unidirectional outlet valve of air outlet again and exhaust, the air current direction is in proper order: the air inlet valve 7, the air bag 14, the one-way exhaust valve, the through hole 21, the opening, the air outlet sleeve 8 and the air outlet 9. Then blow out a large amount of gas from air exit 9, and air exit 9 is towards 4 blades 15, and 4 blades 15 are with rotation axis 12 fixed connection again, then blow out the back from air exit 9 compressed wind, blow 4 blades 15 rotation to drive rotation axis 12 rotation, rotation axis 12 drives the test tube 11 rotation of joint again, thereby realize that the inside blood of test tube 11 rocks with the anticoagulant, in order to guarantee blood and the continuous state that keeps mixing evenly of anticoagulant, guarantee blood test result accuracy.
And because the speed of pushing the transfer trolley 2 by the person is different, the rotation frequency of the rotation shaft 12 and the rotation frequency of the test tube 11 are various, and the mixing effect of blood and the anticoagulant can be improved.
Example 2: the difference from embodiment 1 is that, as shown in fig. 4, the outer wall of the transfer vehicle 2 is fixedly sleeved with a refrigerating cavity 16, a refrigerator 17 is arranged in the refrigerating cavity 16, the transfer vehicle 2 is also provided with a storage battery (not shown in the figure) for supplying power to the refrigerator 17, an air duct 18 is connected between the unidirectional air inlet valve 7 and the refrigerating cavity 16, the cover plate 3 is provided with an air outlet hole 20, and the refrigerating cavity 16 is provided with an air inlet hole 19.
The refrigerator 17 is powered by the storage battery, the refrigerator 17 refrigerates the inside of the refrigerating cavity 16, and then the inside of the transfer trolley 2 is refrigerated at the same time because the refrigerating cavity 16 and the transfer trolley 2 are fixedly sleeved, so that the blood in the test tube 11 is in a low-temperature state, and the blood is prevented from deteriorating.
Air enters the refrigerating cavity 16 through the air inlet 19, is forced to be refrigerated by the refrigerator 17 and then is sucked by the air guide pipe 18 through the air bag 14, the air bag 14 passes the cold air into the air outlet sleeve 8 and blows out towards the rotating shaft 12 and the test tubes 11 through the air outlet 9, the number of the air outlet sleeve 8 is 2, the number of the air outlet 9 is 2, and the test tubes 11 rotate along with the rotating shaft 12, so that the test tubes 11 are uniformly covered by the cold air, the test tubes 11 can be cooled in all directions, the cold air is discharged through the air outlet 20, and the test tubes 11 are refrigerated in a circulating manner.
It will be apparent to those skilled in the art that various modifications and improvements can be made without departing from the scope of the invention, and the invention is not limited to the details of construction and the utility of the patent. The protection scope of the present application shall be subject to the content of the claims, and the description of the specific embodiments and the like in the specification can be used for explaining the content of the claims.

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1. The utility model provides a transfer device is used in inspection, includes the transfer car (buggy), and the transfer car (buggy) includes the apron of top lock, and this transfer car (buggy) runs through and rotates to be connected with the even axle, and the tip of even axle has fixedly cup jointed the wheel body, its characterized in that: the part of the connecting shaft positioned in the transfer trolley is fixedly sleeved with a plurality of arc-shaped blocks; the transfer trolley is fixedly provided with a bearing plate, the bearing plate is provided with a plurality of placing holes, each placing hole is rotationally connected with a rotating shaft, the rotating shafts are coaxially clamped with test tubes, the peripheral wall of each rotating shaft is also provided with a plurality of blades at intervals, the bearing plate is also fixedly provided with a plurality of air outlet sleeves which are respectively matched with the corresponding rotating shafts for use, and each air outlet sleeve is provided with an air outlet which faces the corresponding plurality of blades; the transfer trolley is vertically and slidably connected with a sliding plate which is abutted with a plurality of arc blocks, a plurality of elastic air bags are fixedly arranged between the sliding plate and the bearing plate, and each air bag is provided with an air inlet and an air outlet which is communicated with a corresponding air outlet sleeve;
the utility model provides a promote the transportation and go to the inspection room, the wheel body rotates the back and drives the axis rotation, the axis drives a plurality of arc pieces that fixedly cup joint again and rotates, because sliding plate and the vertical sliding connection of transfer car (buggy), and sliding plate and a plurality of arc piece butt, consequently, the arc piece is continuously jack-up sliding plate upwards, the transfer car (buggy) is still fixedly provided with the loading board, fixedly be equipped with a plurality of elastic air bags between loading board and the sliding plate, then sliding plate orientation loading board back and forth gliding in-process, constantly extrude and release the gasbag, thereby make the gasbag constantly aerify from the air intake, exhaust from the air outlet, the air-out sleeve and the gas outlet intercommunication that the loading board set up, a large amount of gas of exhaust are then extruded into the air-out sleeve, and blow out from the air outlet that sets up on the air-out sleeve, and the air outlet is a plurality of blades towards a plurality of blade, and a plurality of blade are with rotation axis fixed connection again, then blow a plurality of blade rotations by compressed wind from the air outlet, thereby drive rotation axis, the rotation axis drives the rotation of joint again.
2. The inspection transporter according to claim 1, wherein: the connecting shafts are symmetrically arranged along the axis of the transfer trolley.
3. The inspection transporter according to claim 2, wherein: the air inlet of each air bag is provided with a one-way air inlet valve, and the air outlet of each air bag is provided with a one-way air outlet valve.
4. A transfer device for inspection according to claim 3, wherein: the outer wall of the transfer trolley is fixedly sleeved with a refrigerating cavity, a refrigerator is arranged in the refrigerating cavity, and the transfer trolley is further provided with a storage battery for supplying power to the refrigerator.
5. The inspection transporter according to claim 4, wherein: an air duct is connected between the one-way air inlet valve and the refrigerating cavity, one side of the cover plate, which is far away from the plurality of rotating shafts, is provided with an air exhaust hole, and the refrigerating cavity is provided with an air inlet hole.
6. The inspection transporter according to claim 5, wherein: the bottom of the transfer trolley is hinged with a lifting bracket, and a motor for driving the connecting shaft to rotate is arranged in the transfer trolley.
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