CN117755745A - Tray type track sample conveying device and sample conveying method - Google Patents

Abstract

The invention provides a tray type track sample conveying device and a sample conveying method, wherein in the use process of the sample conveying device, a sample transferring mechanism is arranged on a second layer rack along a first direction; the sample caching units are distributed on the first layer rack and the second layer rack in a stacked mode; the sample transferring mechanism is used for transferring samples among the sample placing unit, the sample recycling unit, the sample caching unit and the interface unit in the first layer rack and the second layer rack; the control unit is electrically connected with the sample transfer mechanism, the sample conveying device is reasonably distributed into two layers, the sample needing human-computer interaction is placed in the unit, the sample recovery unit is arranged in the first layer frame convenient to operate, the sample capacity of the sample conveying device can be improved to the greatest extent under the condition that the space of a laboratory site is limited, and the detection efficiency is greatly improved.

Description

Tray type track sample conveying device and sample conveying method

Technical Field

The invention relates to the technical field of medical equipment, in particular to a tray type track sample conveying device and a sample conveying method.

Background

At present, when a hospital or a medical detection laboratory performs medical detection, a blood or body fluid sample is collected for quantitative analysis of biochemical indexes, along with the development of medical detection technology, the full-automatic medical detection analyzer is increasingly widely used in the medical detection field, when the full-automatic medical detection analyzer is used for medical detection analysis, the collected sample is firstly added into a test tube, then the test tube is transferred to a sampling position of the full-automatic medical detection analyzer, a reagent needle of the full-automatic medical detection analyzer extends out for sampling the sample in the test tube, and therefore, a sample conveying device is an indispensable important component in the full-automatic medical detection analyzer.

However, the conventional sample conveying device is arranged in the same layer of rack with the sample placing unit, the sample recycling unit, the sample buffering unit and the sample transferring mechanism, and in the operation process, the occupied space of the sample conveying device can only be extruded due to the limited space of a laboratory site, so that the detection efficiency is seriously affected.

Disclosure of Invention

The invention aims to provide a tray type track sample conveying device and a sample conveying method, which are used for solving the problem that the traditional sample conveying device in the background art is low in detection efficiency because the space of a laboratory site is limited and only the occupied space of the traditional sample conveying device can be extruded.

In order to achieve the above purpose, the present invention provides the following technical solutions: a pallet track sample conveyor comprising: a first layer of frames and a second layer of frames which are arranged in a laminated manner; the sample collecting unit is used for collecting the processed sample; the sample caching units are distributed on the first layer rack and the second layer rack in a stacked mode, and the sample caching units are used for providing sample caching bits; an interface unit which is provided in communication with the external detection device and is used for transporting or recovering the sample to the external detection device; the first direction in the application refers to the horizontal direction corresponding to the operation position of the sample conveying device by an operator; the sample transferring mechanism is used for transferring samples among the sample placing unit, the sample recycling unit, the sample caching unit and the interface unit in the first layer rack and the second layer rack; and the control unit is electrically connected with the sample transferring mechanism.

Optionally, the sample recovery unit is connected with a chute; a space for the sample transfer mechanism to transfer samples is arranged between the sample recovery unit and the sample placement unit; when the sample in the sample recovery unit needs to be taken out, the sample recovery unit can slide along the sliding groove to the side close to the sample placing unit.

Optionally, the sample placing unit, the sample recovering unit and the sample buffering unit all comprise a plurality of sample racks arranged along a first direction, the sample racks are arranged along a second direction and provided with a plurality of sample placing positions, the sample placing positions are used for containing samples, and the first direction and the second direction are located in the same horizontal plane and are mutually perpendicular.

Optionally, the sample transfer mechanism includes: a rack receiving mechanism arranged along a second direction, wherein the rack receiving mechanism is used for receiving the sample rack; the sample taking and placing mechanism is connected with the frame receiving mechanism and is used for collecting the sample frames in the sample placing unit, the sample recycling unit, the sample caching unit and the interface unit into the frame receiving mechanism or distributing the sample frames in the frame receiving mechanism into the sample placing unit, the sample recycling unit, the sample caching unit and the interface unit; and one end of the lifting mechanism is slidably arranged on the first layer frame, the other end of the lifting mechanism is connected with the frame connecting mechanism, and the lifting mechanism is used for adjusting the lifting of the frame connecting mechanism, so that the frame connecting mechanism can carry out sample transfer with the sample placing unit, the sample recycling unit, the sample buffering unit and the interface unit in the first layer frame or the second layer frame.

Optionally, the method further comprises: the sample emergency unit is positioned on the first layer frame and is used for placing emergency samples to be processed, and emergency sample transportation can be carried out between the sample emergency unit and the sample transportation mechanism.

Optionally, the interface unit includes: a regular sample interface for transporting a regular sample to an external detection device; the emergency sample interface is used for conveying the emergency sample to external detection equipment; a sorting mechanism for sorting the regular and emergency samples in the sample transfer mechanism to the regular and emergency sample interfaces; and the sample recovery interface is used for recovering samples processed by the external detection equipment.

Optionally, the sample placement unit and the sample recovery unit each further include: at least one tray rack arranged at intervals along a first direction, the tray rack being for carrying the sample rack; and a conveying mechanism corresponding to the tray frame, wherein the conveying mechanism slides relative to the tray frame along a first direction, and the conveying mechanism is used for conveying the sample frame along the first direction.

Optionally, the method further comprises: the conveying interface is positioned at the outer side of the tray frame and is used for receiving the sample frame output by the conveying mechanism and carrying out sample transfer through the sample transfer mechanism, or is used for receiving the sample frame in the sample transfer mechanism and conveying the sample frame into the tray frame.

Optionally, the method further comprises: the quality control refrigerating unit is positioned on the second layer frame and is used for placing quality control samples and refrigerating and preserving the quality control samples, and sample transportation can be carried out between the quality control refrigerating unit and the sample transportation mechanism.

On the other hand, the invention also provides a sample conveying method which is applied to any one of the tray type track sample conveying devices, and the method comprises the following steps: the sample transferring mechanism is used for transferring samples among the sample placing unit, the sample caching unit and the interface unit according to the received signals of the control unit; the interface unit receives the sample transferred by the sample transfer mechanism and then transfers the sample to be processed to external detection equipment; the interface unit is used for recycling the samples processed by the external detection equipment, and if the processed samples do not need to be reviewed, the sample transfer mechanism is used for conveying the processed samples to the sample recycling unit; and if the processed sample needs to be reviewed, the sample transferring mechanism conveys the processed sample to the sample caching unit or the interface unit, and repeatedly executes the signal of the control unit until the stopping condition is met.

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

in the invention, in the using process of the sample conveying device, the sample buffer unit is arranged and distributed on the first layer rack and the second layer rack in a lamination manner; the sample transferring mechanism is used for transferring samples among the sample placing unit, the sample recycling unit, the sample caching unit and the interface unit in the first layer rack and the second layer rack; the control unit is electrically connected with the sample transfer mechanism, the sample conveying device is reasonably distributed into two layers, the sample needing human-computer interaction is placed in the unit, the sample recovery unit is arranged in the first layer frame convenient to operate, the sample capacity of the sample conveying device can be improved to the greatest extent under the condition that the space of a laboratory site is limited, the loading and transferring of a large number of samples to be processed in daily detection can be met, and the detection efficiency is greatly improved.

Drawings

Fig. 1 is a schematic top view of a first state structure of a first layer frame according to the present invention.

Fig. 2 is a schematic top view of a second state structure of the first layer frame of the present invention.

Fig. 3 is a schematic view of a second layer frame structure of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a control flow chart of the sample transporting device of the present invention.

In the figure: the device comprises a 1-sample placing unit, a 2-sample emergency unit, a 3-interface unit, a 5-sample transferring mechanism, a 6-sample recycling unit, a 7-sample caching unit, an 8-conveying interface, a 9-identification reversing mechanism, a 10-bar code identification mechanism, an 11-uncapping mechanism and a 12-quality control refrigerating unit.

Detailed Description

The aspects of the present invention will become apparent from the following detailed description of embodiments of the invention, given in conjunction with the accompanying drawings, wherein it is evident that the embodiments described are merely some, but not all embodiments of the invention.

It should be noted that the terms "first," "second," and the like in the description and claims of the present application and the above figures are used for distinguishing between similar objects and not necessarily for describing a particular sequential or chronological order. It is to be understood that the data so used may be interchanged where appropriate in order to describe the embodiments of the present application described herein. Furthermore, the terms "comprises," "comprising," and "having," and any variations thereof, are intended to cover a non-exclusive inclusion, such that a process, method, system, article, or apparatus that comprises a list of steps or elements is not necessarily limited to those steps or elements expressly listed but may include other steps or elements not expressly listed or inherent to such process, method, article, or apparatus.

In the present application, the terms "upper", "lower", "left", "right", "front", "rear", "top", "bottom", "inner", "outer", "middle", "vertical", "horizontal", "lateral", "longitudinal" and the like indicate an azimuth or a positional relationship based on that shown in the drawings. These terms are used primarily to better describe the present application and its embodiments and are not intended to limit the indicated device, element or component to a particular orientation or to be constructed and operated in a particular orientation.

Also, some of the terms described above may be used to indicate other meanings in addition to orientation or positional relationships, for example, the term "upper" may also be used to indicate some sort of attachment or connection in some cases. The specific meaning of these terms in this application will be understood by those of ordinary skill in the art as appropriate.

Furthermore, the terms "mounted," "configured," "provided," "connected," "coupled," and "sleeved" are to be construed broadly. For example, it may be a fixed connection, a removable connection, or a unitary construction; may be a mechanical connection, or an electrical connection; may be directly connected, or indirectly connected through intervening media, or may be in internal communication between two devices, elements, or components. The specific meaning of the terms in this application will be understood by those of ordinary skill in the art as the case may be.

It should be noted that, in the case of no conflict, the embodiments and features in the embodiments may be combined with each other. The present application will be described in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings in conjunction with embodiments.

Referring to fig. 1, a tray type rail sample transporting apparatus of the present invention includes: the first layer rack and the second layer rack are arranged in a stacked manner, and the first layer rack and the second layer rack are arranged in a vertically stacked manner; the sample collecting device comprises a sample placing unit 1 and a sample collecting unit 6, wherein the sample placing unit 1 and the sample collecting unit 6 are arranged at intervals, the sample placing unit 1 is used for placing a sample to be processed, and the sample collecting unit 6 is used for collecting the processed sample; the sample buffer units 7 are distributed on the first layer rack and the second layer rack in a stacked mode, and the sample buffer units 7 are used for providing sample buffer bits; an interface unit 3 provided in communication with an external test device, the interface unit 3 being for transporting or recovering a sample to the external test device; a sample transfer mechanism 5, wherein the sample transfer mechanism 5 is used for transferring samples between the sample placing unit 1, the sample recovery unit 6, the sample buffer unit 7 and the interface unit 3 in the first layer rack and the second layer rack; and the control unit is electrically connected with the sample transferring mechanism 5.

Specifically, in the operation of the sample conveying device, the sample placing unit 1 and the sample recovering unit are distributed on two sides of the sample transferring mechanism 5, and the sample transferring mechanism 5 can realize sample transferring among the sample placing unit 1, the sample recovering unit 6 and the interface unit 3 in the first layer frame by adjusting lifting.

More specifically, the first layer frame is located the upper strata, first layer frame is human interaction layer, the sample buffer memory unit 7 stack up and down distribute in first layer frame with the second layer frame, sample transport mechanism 5 has sample transport initial end and sample transport terminal, buffer memory position among the sample buffer memory unit 7 symmetrical distribution in sample transport mechanism 5's both sides, just sample buffer memory unit 7 is located and is close to sample transport mechanism 5 transports one side at initial end, interface unit 3 is located and is close to sample transport mechanism transports one side at terminal, and this mode is comparatively reasonable distributes sample conveyor into two-layer to with needs human interaction's sample put into unit, sample recovery unit setting in the first layer frame of being convenient for operate, under the limited circumstances in laboratory site space, also can furthest's improvement sample conveyor's sample capacity, can satisfy the loading and transporting of a large amount of samples of waiting to handle in the daily detection, greatly improved detection efficiency.

Referring to fig. 1 and 2, in one embodiment of the present invention, each of the sample placement unit 1, the sample recovery unit 6 and the sample buffer unit 7 includes a plurality of sample racks arranged along a first direction, the sample racks are arranged along a second direction, the sample placement positions are used for accommodating samples, the first direction and the second direction are located in the same horizontal plane and are perpendicular to each other, the first direction is a transverse direction when an operator performs an equipment operation, and the second direction is a longitudinal direction when the operator performs the equipment operation.

Referring to fig. 3, in one embodiment of the present invention, the sample transferring mechanism 5 includes: a rack receiving mechanism arranged along a second direction, wherein the rack receiving mechanism is used for receiving a sample rack, and the rack receiving mechanism can collect or dispense the sample rack along the second direction; a sample taking and placing mechanism connected to the rack receiving mechanism, the sample taking and placing mechanism being configured to take up the sample rack in the sample loading unit 1, the sample collecting unit 6, the sample buffering unit 7, and the interface unit 3 into the rack receiving mechanism, or dispense the sample rack in the rack receiving mechanism into the sample loading unit 1, the sample collecting unit 6, the sample buffering unit 7, and the interface unit 3; the lifting mechanism is connected with the frame receiving mechanism, the lifting mechanism is used for adjusting the lifting of the frame receiving mechanism, so that the frame receiving mechanism can be in butt joint with the sample placing unit 1, the sample recovering unit 6, the sample caching unit 7 or the interface unit 3 in the first layer frame or the second layer frame to form a sample moving channel when the lifting mechanism is lifted to the same horizontal position as the first layer frame or the second layer frame, and the frame receiving mechanism is in butt joint with the sample placing unit 1, the sample recovering unit 6, the sample caching unit 7 or the interface unit 3 where the sample to be transported is located.

Specifically, the sample taking and placing mechanism comprises: the sample is put into the unit 1, the sample is retrieved the unit 6, the sample buffer memory unit 7 and the interface unit 3 have the position of plugging into of sample frame, collude the portion of getting, collude the portion and slide to the position of plugging into and collude the sample frame, can follow the second direction and push in, release the sample frame, through with the sample frame to connect frame mechanism both sides to push in, release in order to realize the sample frame sample transport between the interface unit 3 in sample transport mechanism 5 sample put into the unit 1 sample is retrieved the unit 6 sample buffer memory unit 7.

Specifically, the lifting mechanism can drive to lift through the cylinder or the oil cylinder, and can drive the meshing transmission piece to drive to lift through the motor, or other transmission forms drive to lift, and the specific form of the lifting mechanism is not limited, through the lifting of the lifting mechanism, the sample transfer mechanism 5 can be flexibly adjusted to lift to enable the sample transfer mechanism to be located on the plane where the first layer frame and the second layer frame are located, so that samples to be processed which originally occupy a larger space can be distributed on the two layer frames up and down, the occupied area is reduced, and the whole equipment is miniaturized.

Specifically, the method further comprises the following steps: the identification reversing mechanism 9, the bar code identification mechanism 10 and the cover opening mechanism 11 are positioned in the second layer rack and are arranged on one side of the sample transferring mechanism 5, and the identification reversing mechanism 9, the bar code identification mechanism 10 and the cover opening mechanism 11 are electrically connected with the control unit; when the sample transfer mechanism 5 slides to the sample recognition position, the sample transfer mechanism 5 transfers the sample frames to the recognition steering position one by one, the bar code recognition mechanism 10 recognizes that the sample direction in the sample frames is not in the forward direction, the recognition reversing mechanism 9 rotates according to the forward direction, the bar code recognition mechanism 10 scans the bar codes in the samples, the cover opening mechanism 11 uncovers the samples and returns the samples to the original sample frames after the scanning is finished, the sample frames are conveyed to the sample transfer mechanism 5 after the scanning and uncovering of a plurality of samples are sequentially finished, and then the samples are transferred to the sample buffer unit 7 or the interface unit 3.

Referring to fig. 1 and 2, one embodiment of the present invention further includes: the sample emergency unit 2 is located on the first layer frame, the sample emergency unit 2 is used for placing emergency samples to be processed, and emergency sample transfer can be conducted between the sample emergency unit 2 and the sample transfer mechanism 5.

Specifically, the sample emergency unit 2 is located at the first layer frame near the transport end of the sample transport mechanism 5, and is distributed on two sides of the sample transport mechanism 5 with the interface unit 3, when an emergency sample needs to be processed, the sample transport mechanism 5 can slide to a corresponding position of the sample emergency unit 2, and transport the sample frame in the sample emergency unit 2 to lift to the second layer frame, and the sample frame is scanned by the barcode scanning and uncapping mechanism 11 through the identification reversing mechanism 9, the barcode recognition mechanism 10 and the uncapping mechanism 11, so that the sample can be immediately transported to the interface unit 3 for subsequent detection, and the emergency sample transport instruction sent by the control module can be rapidly executed in a minor mode.

It can be appreciated that this way avoids the embarrassment that the conventional sample conveying device needs to place the common samples in the sample recovery unit 6, the sample buffer unit 7 or the interface unit 3 respectively when conveying a large number of common samples, and can execute the emergency sample transfer instruction, thereby greatly improving the detection efficiency of the emergency samples.

Referring to fig. 1, in one embodiment of the present invention, the interface unit 3 includes: a regular sample interface for transporting a regular sample to an external detection device; the emergency sample interface is used for conveying the emergency sample to external detection equipment; a sorting mechanism for sorting the normal and emergency samples in the sample transfer mechanism 5 to the normal and emergency sample interfaces; the sample recovery interface is used for recovering samples processed by the external detection equipment, and the conventional sample interface and the emergency sample interface are distinguished in the mode, so that the emergency samples can be immediately processed without waiting for the processing of the common samples, and the detection efficiency of the emergency samples is greatly improved.

In one embodiment of the present invention, the sample placement unit 1 and the sample collection unit 6 each further include: at least one tray rack which is arranged at intervals along the first direction and is used for bearing the sample rack, and a plurality of sample placement positions are arranged in the sample rack along the second direction; a transport mechanism corresponding to the tray rack, the transport mechanism sliding relative to the tray rack in a first direction, the transport mechanism for transporting the sample rack in the first direction; the conveying interface 8 is arranged on the outer side of the tray frame, the conveying interface 8 is used for receiving the sample frame output by the conveying mechanism and conveying samples through the sample conveying mechanism 5, or the conveying interface 8 is used for receiving the sample frame in the sample conveying mechanism 5 and conveying the sample frame into the tray frame.

Specifically, in the sample recycling process, the sample transferring mechanism 5 transfers the sample rack to the conveying interface 8, and the conveying interface 8 pushes the sample rack to the tray rack in the sample recycling unit 6 so as to recycle the sample.

Specifically, the sample frames are conveyed along the first direction by the conveying mechanism, and all the sample frames can be conveyed to the conveying interface 8 according to instructions or conveyed to the sample buffer unit 7 or the interface unit 3 by the sample conveying mechanism 5 only by arranging sensors at positions, close to the conveying interface, of the sample frames and corresponding to the conveying interface 8, respectively, without arranging sensors at the positions of the sample frames in each tray frame.

More specifically, when the sample rack is loaded on the sample loading unit, the conveying mechanism can be adjusted to run in the opposite direction, and when the sample rack is loaded into the tray rack along the sample transfer opening, the conveying mechanism drives the sample rack to move in the direction away from the conveying interface 8; the same is true of the sample rack conveying mode in the sample recovery unit 6, the conveying mechanism in the sample recovery unit 6 and the conveying mechanism in the sample putting unit are opposite in running direction, and the arrangement direction of the tray rack and the conveying interface 8 is the same; or the running direction of the conveying mechanism in the sample recovery unit 6 is the same as that of the conveying mechanism in the sample placement unit, and the arrangement direction of the tray frame and the conveying interface 8 is opposite; the conveying interface 8 in the sample recovery unit 6 receives the sample rack in the sample transfer mechanism 5 and conveys the sample rack to the tray rack, and the conveying mechanism drives the sample rack to be far away from the conveying interface 8.

Referring to fig. 2, in one embodiment of the present invention, the tray rack in the sample collection unit 6 is further slidably connected with a chute, the chute is disposed along the second direction, the tray rack in the sample collection unit may slide along the chute to be close to or far away from the sample placement unit 1, when the apparatus stops running, an operator stands at an operation position close to one side of the sample placement unit 1, pulls the tray rack in the sample collection unit to slide along the direction close to the sample placement unit, thereby solving the disadvantage of inconvenient operation at the far end and greatly improving the convenience.

One embodiment of the present invention further comprises: the quality control refrigerating unit 12 is located at the second layer frame, the quality control refrigerating unit 12 is used for placing quality control samples and carrying out quality control refrigerating preservation on the quality control samples, sample transportation can be carried out between the quality control refrigerating unit 12 and the sample transportation mechanism 5, after an operator prepares to work, the quality control samples can be placed into the quality control refrigerating unit 12 and stored in a quality control refrigerating mode, the sample can be sampled in advance in a preset time, and when the operator works, the equipment can transport and detect the quality control samples in the quality control refrigerating unit 12 in advance so as to calibrate the equipment, so that the detection efficiency is greatly improved, and meanwhile, the quality of the samples can be better guaranteed.

Specifically, when the sample transferring mechanism 5 receives the quality control sample detection command sent by the control unit, the sample transferring mechanism 5 may slide to a position corresponding to the quality control refrigeration unit 12, and transfer the sample rack in the quality control refrigeration unit 12, so as to transfer the sample to the sample identification position, and perform barcode scanning and uncapping through the identification reversing mechanism 9, the barcode identification mechanism 10 and the uncapping mechanism 11, so that the sample can be immediately transported to the interface unit 3 for subsequent detection.

One embodiment of the present invention further comprises: and the aerosol adsorption mechanism is used for adsorbing the aerosol in the sample conveying device.

Referring to fig. 4, another embodiment of the present invention further provides a sample conveying method, which is applied to any one of the tray type rail sample conveying devices, and the method includes:

s100, a sample transferring mechanism 5 performs sample transferring among the sample placing unit 1, the sample caching unit 7 and the interface unit 3 according to the received signal of the control unit;

s200, after the interface unit 3 receives the sample transferred by the sample transfer mechanism 5, the sample to be processed is transferred to external detection equipment;

s300, the interface unit 3 recovers the samples processed by the external detection equipment, and if the processed samples do not need to be reviewed, the sample transfer mechanism 5 conveys the processed samples to the sample recovery unit 6;

and S400, if the processed sample needs to be reviewed, the sample transferring mechanism 5 conveys the processed sample to the sample caching unit 7 or the interface unit 3, and the signal of the control unit is repeatedly executed until the stop condition is met.

Specifically, when a sample in the sample placement unit 1 needs to be detected, the sample transfer mechanism 5 slides and lifts to a corresponding position of the sample placement unit 1 after receiving a signal of the control unit, and the sample transfer mechanism 5 acquires a sample to be processed in the sample placement unit 1; the sample is transported to carry out bar code scanning and uncapping through the recognition reversing mechanism 9, the bar code recognition mechanism 10 and the uncapping mechanism 11, and then the sample transporting mechanism 5 slides to the corresponding position of the interface unit 3, the sample transporting mechanism 5 transports the sample to be processed to the interface unit 3, and the interface unit 3 transports the sample to be processed to external detection equipment; the interface unit 3 recovers the samples processed by the external detection device, the sample transfer mechanism 5 acquires the processed samples in the interface unit 3, if the processed samples do not need to be reviewed, the sample transfer mechanism 5 slides to the corresponding position of the sample recovery unit 6, and the sample transfer mechanism 5 conveys the processed samples to the sample recovery unit 6; if the processed sample needs to be reviewed, the sample transferring mechanism 5 slides to the corresponding position of the sample caching unit 7, and the sample transferring mechanism conveys the processed sample to the sample caching unit 7, so that the sample detection efficiency is greatly improved.

In one embodiment of the present invention, the method further comprises: when the sample is required to be cached to a sample caching unit 7 in the first layer rack, the sample transferring mechanism 5 receives a signal of the control unit and slides and lifts to a corresponding position of the sample placing unit 1, and the sample transferring mechanism 5 acquires a sample to be processed in the sample placing unit 1; the sample transfer mechanism 5 slides to the corresponding position of the sample buffer unit in the first layer frame, and the sample transfer mechanism 5 conveys the sample to be processed to the sample buffer unit in the first layer frame, so that the sample can be buffered conveniently, and for the scene of daily detection of a large number of samples, the sample capacity is improved, and the sample detection efficiency is also greatly improved.

In one embodiment of the present invention, the method further comprises: when the sample is required to be cached to a sample caching unit 7 in the second layer rack, the sample transferring mechanism 5 receives a signal of the control unit and slides and lifts to a corresponding position of the sample placing unit 1, and the sample transferring mechanism 5 acquires a sample to be processed in the sample placing unit 1; the sample transfer mechanism 5 slides and lifts to the corresponding position of the sample buffer unit in the second layer rack, and the sample transfer mechanism 5 conveys the sample to be processed to the sample buffer unit in the second layer rack, so that the sample can be buffered conveniently, and for the scene of daily detection of a large number of samples, the sample capacity is improved, and meanwhile, the sample detection efficiency is also greatly improved.

In one embodiment of the present invention, the method further comprises: when a buffered sample is required to be detected, a sample transferring mechanism 5 receives a signal of a control unit and slides to a corresponding position of a sample buffering unit 7, the sample transferring mechanism acquires the sample to be processed in the sample buffering unit 7, and transfers the sample to be processed through a recognition reversing mechanism 9, a bar code recognition mechanism 10 and a cover opening mechanism 11 to perform bar code scanning and cover opening, so that the sample transferring mechanism slides and lifts to an interface unit 3, the sample transferring mechanism 5 conveys the sample to be processed to the interface unit 3, and the interface unit 3 conveys the sample to be processed to external detection equipment; the interface unit 3 recovers the samples processed by the external detection device, the sample transfer mechanism 5 acquires the processed samples in the interface unit 3, if the processed samples do not need to be reviewed, the sample transfer mechanism 5 slides to the corresponding position of the sample recovery unit 6, and the sample transfer mechanism 5 conveys the processed samples to the sample recovery unit 6; if the processed sample needs to be reviewed, the sample transferring mechanism 5 slides to the corresponding position of the sample caching unit 7, and the sample transferring mechanism conveys the processed sample to the sample caching unit 7, so that the sample detection efficiency is greatly improved.

In one embodiment of the present invention, the method further comprises: when the quality control sample is required to be detected, the sample transferring mechanism 5 slides to the corresponding position of the quality control refrigerating unit 12, the sample transferring mechanism 5 acquires the quality control sample in the quality control refrigerating unit 12 and transfers the sample to carry out bar code scanning and uncapping through the identification reversing mechanism 9, the bar code identification mechanism 10 and the uncapping mechanism 11, and then the sample transferring mechanism 5 transfers the sample to the interface unit 3 to be conveyed to external detection equipment for detection, the sample is refrigerated in the mode, so that the quality of the sample can be ensured not to be worsened, the automatic operation can be carried out in advance when an operator works in advance for presetting time, a large amount of time is saved for detecting the sample, and the detection efficiency is greatly improved.

In one embodiment of the present invention, the method further comprises: when an emergency sample needs to be transported, the sample transporting mechanism 5 receives a signal of the control unit and slides to a corresponding position of the sample emergency unit 2, the sample transporting mechanism 5 acquires the emergency sample to be processed in the sample emergency unit 2, the sample transporting mechanism 5 slides to a corresponding position of the interface unit 3, the sample transporting mechanism 5 transports the sample to be processed to an emergency sample interface in the interface unit 3, and the emergency sample interface transports the sample to be processed to external detection equipment; the interface unit 3 recovers the samples processed by the external detection device, the sample transfer mechanism 5 acquires the processed samples in the interface unit 3, if the processed samples do not need to be reviewed, the sample transfer mechanism 5 slides to the corresponding position of the sample recovery unit 6, and the sample transfer mechanism 5 conveys the processed samples to the sample recovery unit 6; if the processed sample needs to be reviewed, the sample transferring mechanism 5 slides to the corresponding position of the sample caching unit 7, and the sample transferring mechanism conveys the processed sample to the sample caching unit 7, so that the sample detection efficiency is greatly improved.

In one embodiment of the present invention, the interface unit 3 further includes, after the step of transporting the sample to be processed to the external detection device: when the sample transfer mechanism 5 conveys samples to sample identification positions of the identification reversing mechanism 9 and the bar code identification mechanism 10, the sample transfer mechanism 5 transfers the sample frames to the identification reversing position one by one, when the bar code identification mechanism 10 identifies that the sample direction in the sample frames is not in a forward state, the identification reversing mechanism 9 rotates according to the forward direction, the bar code identification mechanism 10 scans the bar codes in the samples, after the scanning is finished, the cover opening mechanism 11 uncovers the samples and returns the samples to the original sample frames, after the scanning and the cover opening of a plurality of samples are finished in sequence, the sample frames are conveyed to the sample transfer mechanism 5, and then the samples are transferred to the sample buffer unit 7 or the interface unit 3.

It can be understood that the steps can be controlled to be performed step by step or alternatively performed according to the preset instructions, and the sample transferring mechanism 5 is arranged on the second layer, so that the sample can be directly slid to the position where the sample is required to be transferred when the sample is transferred, and no interference is generated with the positions where other samples are located, so that the detection efficiency of the emergency sample is greatly improved.

The foregoing description is only illustrative of the present invention and is not intended to limit the scope of the invention, and all equivalent changes made by the specification and drawings of the present invention, or direct or indirect application in the relevant art, are included in the scope of the present invention.

Claims (10)

1. A pallet track sample conveyor, comprising:

a first layer of frames and a second layer of frames which are arranged in a laminated manner;

the sample collection device comprises a sample placement unit (1) and a sample collection unit (6) which are positioned on a first layer frame, wherein the sample placement unit (1) is used for placing a sample to be processed, and the sample collection unit (6) is used for collecting the processed sample;

sample buffer units (7) which are distributed on the first layer rack and the second layer rack in a stacking way, wherein the sample buffer units (7) are used for providing sample buffer bits;

an interface unit (3) which is provided in communication with an external detection device, the interface unit (3) being configured to convey or recover a sample to the external detection device;

the sample transferring mechanism (5) is used for transferring samples among the sample placing unit (1), the sample recycling unit (6), the sample caching unit (7) and the interface unit (3) in the first layer rack and the second layer rack;

and the control unit is electrically connected with the sample transferring mechanism (5).

2. The tray type rail sample transporting device according to claim 1, wherein a chute is connected to the sample recovering unit (6); a space for transporting the sample by the sample transporting mechanism (5) is arranged between the sample recovery unit (6) and the sample placing unit (1); when it is necessary to take out the sample in the sample collection unit (6), the sample collection unit (6) can slide along the chute to a side close to the sample introduction unit (1).

3. The tray type track sample transport apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the sample loading unit (1), the sample recovery unit (6) and the sample buffer unit (7) each comprise a plurality of sample racks arranged in a first direction, the sample racks being provided in a second direction, the sample racks being provided with a plurality of sample placement positions for accommodating samples, the first direction and the second direction being in the same horizontal plane and being perpendicular to each other.

4. A pallet track sample transport device according to claim 3, characterized in that the sample transfer mechanism (5) comprises:

the rack receiving mechanism is arranged along the second direction and is used for receiving the sample rack;

the sample taking and placing mechanism is connected with the frame receiving mechanism and is used for taking the sample into the frame receiving mechanism from the sample placing unit (1), the sample recycling unit (6), the sample caching unit (7) and the sample frame in the interface unit (3) or distributing the sample frame in the frame receiving mechanism into the sample placing unit (1), the sample recycling unit (6), the sample caching unit (7) and the interface unit (3);

and one end of the lifting mechanism is slidably connected to the first layer frame, the other end of the lifting mechanism is connected with the frame connecting mechanism, and the lifting mechanism is used for adjusting the lifting of the frame connecting mechanism, so that the frame connecting mechanism can carry out sample transfer with the sample placing unit (1), the sample recycling unit (6), the sample buffering unit (7) and the interface unit (3) in the first layer frame or the second layer frame.

5. The tray type rail sample transporting apparatus of claim 1, further comprising:

the emergency sample transferring device comprises a sample emergency unit (2) located on a first layer frame, wherein the sample emergency unit (2) is used for placing an emergency sample to be processed, and emergency sample transferring can be carried out between the sample emergency unit (2) and a sample transferring mechanism (5).

6. The tray type rail sample transporting device according to claim 5, wherein the interface unit (3) comprises:

a regular sample interface for transporting a regular sample to an external detection device;

the emergency sample interface is used for conveying the emergency sample to external detection equipment;

sorting means for sorting regular and emergency samples in the sample transfer means (5) to the regular and emergency sample interfaces;

and the sample recovery interface is used for recovering samples processed by the external detection equipment.

7. A pallet track sample transport device according to claim 3, characterized in that the sample insertion unit (1) and the sample recovery unit (6) each further comprise:

at least one tray rack arranged at intervals along a first direction, the tray rack being for carrying the sample rack;

and a conveying mechanism corresponding to the tray frame, wherein the conveying mechanism slides relative to the tray frame along a first direction, and the conveying mechanism is used for conveying the sample frame along the first direction.

8. The tray type rail sample transporting apparatus of claim 7, further comprising:

the conveying interface (8) is corresponding to the tray frame, the conveying interface (8) is located on the outer side of the tray frame, the conveying interface (8) is used for receiving the sample frame output by the conveying mechanism and conveying samples through the sample conveying mechanism (5), or the conveying interface (8) is used for receiving the sample frame in the sample conveying mechanism (5) and conveying the sample frame into the tray frame.

9. The tray type rail sample transporting apparatus of claim 1, further comprising:

the quality control refrigerating unit (12) is positioned on the second layer frame, the quality control refrigerating unit (12) is used for placing a quality control sample and refrigerating and preserving the quality control sample, and sample transfer can be carried out between the quality control refrigerating unit (12) and the sample transfer mechanism (5).

10. A sample transport method applied to the tray type rail sample transport apparatus of any one of claims 1 to 9, the method comprising:

the sample transferring mechanism (5) is used for transferring samples among the sample placing unit (1), the sample caching unit (7) and the interface unit (3) according to the received signals of the control unit;

the interface unit (3) conveys the sample to be processed to external detection equipment after receiving the sample transferred by the sample transfer mechanism (5);

the interface unit (3) is used for recycling samples processed by the external detection equipment, and if the processed samples do not need to be reviewed, the sample transfer mechanism (5) is used for conveying the processed samples to the sample recycling unit (6);

if the processed sample needs to be reviewed, the sample transferring mechanism (5) conveys the processed sample to the sample caching unit (7) or the interface unit (3), and the signal of the control unit is repeatedly executed until the stopping condition is met.