CN212610546U

CN212610546U - Storage device of cell culture dish

Info

Publication number: CN212610546U
Application number: CN202020920463.0U
Authority: CN
Inventors: 王炳浩
Original assignee: Nanjing Mingshengtong Electronic Technology Co ltd
Current assignee: Nanjing Lambert Ax Biotechnology Co.,Ltd.
Priority date: 2020-05-27
Filing date: 2020-05-27
Publication date: 2021-02-26
Anticipated expiration: 2030-05-27

Abstract

The utility model provides a storage device of a cell culture dish, which comprises a box body, a mechanical arm, a shelf, a detection device and a control unit; the box body is internally provided with a plurality of culture dish storage racks, culture dish storing and taking platforms and a manipulator, the plurality of culture dish storage racks and the platforms are arranged in the box body in a circular arc shape, and the manipulator is arranged at the circle center position of the circular arc; the rack is vertical to the bottom of the box body; a plurality of rows of partition plates for storing culture dishes are arranged on the shelf; the detection device comprises a first sensor, a second sensor, a third sensor and a fourth sensor; the first sensor, the second sensor and the third sensor are arranged at the bottom of the partition plate and are sequentially arranged from inside to outside at the bottom of the partition plate; the first sensor, the second sensor and the third sensor are used for detecting whether a culture dish exists on the partition plate and detecting the size and the specification of the culture dish; the control unit is respectively connected with the manipulator, the first sensor, the second sensor, the third sensor and the fourth sensor.

Description

Storage device of cell culture dish

Technical Field

The utility model belongs to the technical field of cell culture, concretely relates to storage device of cell culture dish.

Background

At present, cell culture equipment mostly adopts a box-type structure as a main part, the storage quantity of stem cell culture dishes is limited, the culture dishes are randomly stacked on each layer, no clear position exists, the category of the size of the culture dishes can not be identified, and the automation of cell culture can not be adapted.

Have among the prior art through placing the culture dish on the pivoted cylinder, discharge about every row of X position around the cylinder, below with motor drive cylinder wholely rotatory, realize getting of culture dish and put, this process cost is higher to because the motor is rotatory to have heat production, can cause the influence to the temperature of cell culture environment.

SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL

To the technical problem, the utility model provides a storage device of cell culture dish is equipped with the thing frame that a plurality of culture dishes deposited in the box, and the thing frame designs into convex arrangement, and the manipulator is located the central point of circular arc and puts, and every baffle of thing frame all is equipped with detection device and is used for detecting whether there is the culture dish on the baffle to the big or small specification of discernment culture dish, detection device upload the control unit with the information that detects, the utility model discloses can realize the batch storage of cell culture dish, the accurate access of cell culture dish to and the tracking of cell, adapt to cell culture's automation, and reduce manufacturing cost, reduce the manufacturing process, reduce the influence of electromechanical device to the cell culture environment.

The utility model provides a technical scheme that its technical problem adopted is: a storage device of a cell culture dish comprises a box body, a mechanical arm, a shelf, a detection device and a control unit;

a plurality of culture dish storage racks, culture dish storing and taking platforms and a mechanical arm are arranged in the box body, the culture dish storing and taking platforms and the mechanical arm are arranged in the box body in an arc shape, and the mechanical arm is arranged at the circle center of the arc; the rack is vertical to the bottom of the box body; a plurality of rows of partition plates for storing culture dishes are arranged on the shelf;

the detection device is used for detecting whether the culture dish exists on the partition plate and detecting the size and the specification of the culture dish, and comprises a first sensor, a second sensor and a third sensor; the first sensor, the second sensor and the third sensor are arranged at the bottom of the partition plate and are sequentially arranged from inside to outside at the bottom of the partition plate;

the control unit is respectively connected with the manipulator, the first sensor, the second sensor and the third sensor.

In the above scheme, the first sensor, the second sensor and the third sensor are elastic force sensors.

In the scheme, the partition plate is further provided with a first notch facilitating the mechanical arm to grab the culture dish.

Further, the manipulator comprises an upper claw and a lower claw; the grabbing surfaces of the upper claw and the lower claw are planes; the first notch 8 is sized to match the upper and lower jaws.

In the scheme, the bottom of the manipulator is connected with the bottom of the box body.

In the above scheme, be equipped with the second breach that the manipulator snatched the culture dish on the culture dish access platform.

Compared with the prior art, the beneficial effects of the utility model are that: the utility model discloses convex arrangement is designed into to the thing frame, and the manipulator is located the central point of circular arc and puts, and every baffle of thing frame all is equipped with the shell fragment sensor and is used for detecting whether there is the culture dish on the baffle to the big or small specification of discernment culture dish, the control unit is uploaded to the information that the sensor will detect, the utility model discloses adapt to cell culture's automation to reduce manufacturing cost, reduce the manufacturing procedure, reduce electromechanical device to the influence of cell culture environment.

Drawings

The above and/or additional aspects and advantages of the present invention will become apparent and readily appreciated from the following description of the embodiments, taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings of which:

fig. 1 is a schematic top view of the structure according to an embodiment of the present invention;

figure 2 is a schematic view of a shelf according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 3 is a schematic view of a baffle according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 4 is a schematic view of a small culture dish according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 5 is a schematic diagram of a medium-sized culture dish according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 6 is a schematic view of a large-scale culture dish according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 7 is a schematic view illustrating an opened state of the manipulator according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 8 is a schematic view of the manipulator grabbing culture dish according to an embodiment of the present invention.

In the figure: 1. a box body; 2. a manipulator; 3. a rack; 4. a partition plate; 5. a first sensor; 6. a second sensor; 7. a third sensor; 8. a first notch; 9. a culture dish access platform; 10. an upper jaw; 11. a lower jaw; 12. a small petri dish; 13. a medium-sized culture dish; 14 large culture dishes; 15. a second notch.

Detailed Description

Reference will now be made in detail to embodiments of the present invention, examples of which are illustrated in the accompanying drawings, wherein like reference numerals refer to the same or similar elements or elements having the same or similar function throughout. The embodiments described below with reference to the drawings are exemplary and intended to be used for explaining the present invention, and should not be construed as limiting the present invention.

In the description of the present invention, it is to be understood that the terms "center", "longitudinal", "lateral", "length", "width", "thickness", "upper", "lower", "axial", "radial", "vertical", "horizontal", "inner", "outer", and the like, indicate orientations or positional relationships based on those shown in the drawings, and are used merely for convenience of description and for simplicity of description, and do not indicate or imply that the device or element being referred to must have a particular orientation, be constructed and operated in a particular orientation, and therefore, should not be construed as limiting the present invention. Furthermore, the terms "first", "second" and "first" are used for descriptive purposes only and are not to be construed as indicating or implying relative importance or implicitly indicating the number of technical features indicated. Thus, a feature defined as "first" or "second" may explicitly or implicitly include one or more of that feature. In the description of the present invention, "a plurality" means two or more unless specifically limited otherwise.

In the present invention, unless otherwise expressly specified or limited, the terms "mounted," "connected," and "fixed" are to be construed broadly and may, for example, be fixedly connected, detachably connected, or integrally connected; can be mechanically or electrically connected; they may be connected directly or indirectly through intervening media, or they may be interconnected between two elements. The specific meaning of the above terms in the present invention can be understood according to specific situations by those skilled in the art.

As shown in fig. 1, the storage device for cell culture dishes of the present invention comprises a box 1, a manipulator 2, a rack 3, a detection device and a control unit.

The utility model discloses a mechanical arm, including box 1, manipulator 2, frame 3, culture dish storage platform 9 and manipulator 2, the frame 3 that a plurality of culture dishes were deposited is equipped with in box 1, culture dish storage platform 9 and the manipulator 2 that the culture dish was deposited/was taken out, and is a plurality of frame 3 and culture dish storage platform 9 are convex range in box 1, manipulator 2 is installed in the centre of a circle position of circular arc, and this kind of arrangement has guaranteed on the plane of every height, and the distance that reachs manipulator 2 is all the same, guarantees that manipulator 2 can both deposit and take out the culture dish. The bottom of the manipulator 2 is connected with the bottom of the box body 1, and preferably, the bottom of the manipulator 2 is fixedly connected with the bottom of the box body 1 through screws. And a second notch 15 which is convenient for the manipulator 2 to grab the culture dish is arranged on the culture dish storing and taking platform 9.

As shown in fig. 2, a plurality of rows of partitions 4 for storing culture dishes are provided on the rack 3. The detection device comprises a first sensor 5, a second sensor 6 and a third sensor 7; the first sensor 5, the second sensor 6 and the third sensor 7 are arranged at the bottom of the partition board 4 and are sequentially arranged from inside to outside at the bottom of the partition board 4; the first sensor 5, the second sensor 6 and the third sensor 7 are used for detecting whether a culture dish exists on the partition board 4 or not and the size and specification of the culture dish, and the control unit is respectively connected with the manipulator 2, the first sensor 5, the second sensor 6 and the third sensor 7.

According to the present embodiment, the first sensor 5, the second sensor 6, and the third sensor 7 are preferably elastic force sensors.

The bottom of baffle 4 is equipped with the storage position of sensor, as shown in fig. 3, A, B, C's position is the position of first sensor 5, second sensor 6 and third sensor 7 respectively, and D, E, F's position is the outward flange position of small-size culture dish 12, medium-sized culture dish 13, large-size culture dish 14 respectively, still be equipped with the first breach 8 that is convenient for manipulator 2 to snatch the culture dish on the baffle 4, H part in fig. 3 is the position of first breach 8, for reserving the space that carries out the snatching for manipulator 2.

The elastic sensors detect whether the partition plates 4 are provided with culture dishes and size specification information of the culture dishes, the position codes of the three elastic sensors on each partition plate 4 are the same, if the position is empty, the elastic sheet of each elastic sensor normally bounces, the position cannot be electrified, and the uploading state of an electric signal is 0; if a culture dish is placed in the position, the elastic sheet of the elastic sensor is pressed down, the position is electrified, the electric signal is uploaded to be 1, and the control unit judges that the partition plate 4 at the position has the culture dish. If only the A position is pressed, judging the culture dish to be a small culture dish as shown in FIG. 4; if A, B are depressed simultaneously, the dish is a medium-sized dish as shown in FIG. 5; if ABC is pressed down at three points at the same time, the dish is a large dish as shown in FIG. 6. And judging according to the state of ABC, and uploading the signal to the control unit.

The height of the racks 3 is consistent, the number of the racks can be 8-15 rows, and then 8-15 culture dishes in each layer are marked in a layer position mode of X, the position of each row is marked in a Y mode, and the position marking modes of the layers and the rows are marked in a 16-system mode of 1-F in combination with the graph 3. For example, column 5 is marked 5X; the first layer is labeled 1Y. The size of the bottle type is set as E according to the mode that the large, medium middle and small respectively take the first letter as the label mark space of the bottle type size, the system judges that the bottle type at the position is medium, if the bottle type is marked as M, the whole information of the position is 5X1YM, column 5, layer 1 and medium. The invention has simple and convenient storage and arrangement mode, easy installation, greatly reduced cost, convenient and understandable naming mode, accords with scientific naming logic, provides accurate information position for realizing automatic equipment and provides technical support for realizing automatic culture.

As shown in fig. 7 and 8, according to the present embodiment, it is preferable that the robot 2 includes an upper jaw 10 and a lower jaw 11; the grabbing surfaces of the upper claw 10 and the lower claw 11 are planes; the first notch 8 is sized to match the upper jaw 10 and the lower jaw 11. The manipulator 2 can deposit the culture dish to an accurate position according to the signal given by the control unit CPU and take the culture dish from a specified position. The installation of the manipulator 2 ensures that the positions of the manipulator 2 reaching each culture dish on the same XY plane are the same, and the placement position of the manipulator 2 is the position of the center of a circle where the shelf 3 is located. The bottom of the manipulator 2 is fixed with the bottom of the box body 1 by hardware screws. The manipulator 2 grabs the culture dish, forms the action of pressing from both sides with upper jaw 10 and lower claw 11, and upper jaw 10 moves down from the top of culture dish and reaches the top of culture dish, and lower claw 11 gets into the bottom that reaches the culture dish from the bottom of culture dish, the position of H promptly, realizes the access action of grabbing to the culture dish.

The whole object frame 3 is vertical to the bottom of the box body 1 and is fixed by fixing screws. The height of each layer of partition 4 of the rack 3 is suitable for the manipulator 2 to grab, and the height is preferably 8-12 CM.

The above detailed description is only for the purpose of illustrating the practical embodiments of the present invention, and they are not intended to limit the scope of the present invention, and all equivalent embodiments or modifications that do not depart from the technical spirit of the present invention are intended to be included within the scope of the present invention.

Claims

1. The storage device of the cell culture dish is characterized by comprising a box body (1), a manipulator (2), a shelf (3), a detection device and a control unit;

the culture dish storage and taking device is characterized in that a plurality of culture dish storage racks (3), culture dish storing and taking platforms (9) and a mechanical arm (2) are arranged in the box body (1), the culture dish storage racks (3) and the culture dish storing and taking platforms (9) are arranged in the box body (1) in an arc shape, and the mechanical arm (2) is installed at the circle center position of the arc; the rack (3) is vertical to the bottom of the box body (1); a plurality of rows of partition plates (4) for storing culture dishes are arranged on the shelf (3);

the detection device is used for detecting whether a culture dish exists on the partition plate (4) and detecting the size and the specification of the culture dish, and comprises a first sensor (5), a second sensor (6) and a third sensor (7); the first sensor (5), the second sensor (6) and the third sensor (7) are arranged at the bottom of the partition board (4) and are sequentially arranged from inside to outside at the bottom of the partition board (4);

the control unit is respectively connected with the manipulator (2), the first sensor (5), the second sensor (6) and the third sensor (7).

2. A cell culture dish storage device according to claim 1, wherein the first sensor (5), the second sensor (6) and the third sensor (7) are spring force sensors.

3. Cell culture dish storage device according to claim 1, wherein the partition (4) is further provided with a first notch (8) for facilitating the gripping of the culture dish by the manipulator (2).

4. A storage device of cell culture dishes according to claim 3, wherein the manipulator (2) comprises an upper jaw (10) and a lower jaw (11); the grabbing surfaces of the upper claw (10) and the lower claw (11) are planes; the first notch (8) is matched with the upper claw (10) and the lower claw (11) in size.

5. Cell culture dish storage device according to claim 1, wherein the bottom of the manipulator (2) is connected to the bottom of the housing (1).

6. Cell culture dish storage device according to claim 1, wherein the culture dish access platform (9) is provided with a second indentation (15) for facilitating gripping of the culture dish by the manipulator (2).