CN212711028U

CN212711028U - Consumable material feeding system

Info

Publication number: CN212711028U
Application number: CN202021391771.5U
Authority: CN
Inventors: 罗中汛; 高建东; 李景
Original assignee: MGI Tech Co Ltd
Current assignee: MGI Tech Co Ltd
Priority date: 2020-07-15
Filing date: 2020-07-15
Publication date: 2021-03-16
Anticipated expiration: 2030-07-15

Abstract

A consumable material feeding system comprises a storage rack, a manipulator device and a discharging device. The storage rack comprises a stock bin, the stock bin is provided with a plurality of layers of racks, the racks are stacked in the vertical direction, and each rack is used for placing consumables. The manipulator device comprises a manipulator, and the manipulator is used for clamping the consumable in the material rack. The discharging device comprises a discharging supporting plate, and the manipulator is further used for transferring the clamped consumable materials to the discharging supporting plate.

Description

Consumable material feeding system

Technical Field

The application relates to biochemical detection field, especially relates to an automatic consumptive material feeding system.

Background

At present, many diseases are clinically diagnosed by means of in-vitro detection equipment, and the in-vitro detection also plays an extremely important role in the whole process of disease prevention, diagnosis, monitoring and treatment guidance, and is indispensable important equipment for doctors to diagnose and treat. The doctor need interact as medium and external check out test set through the sample usually when diagnosing, and in the biochemical immunodetection of conventionality diagnosis, the consumptive material all is material loading to moving liquid workstation one by one through the manual type, and artifical material loading complex operation, inefficiency, and cause biological pollution easily.

SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL

In order to overcome the above disadvantages in the prior art, it is necessary to provide a system capable of automatically feeding consumables.

The application provides a consumptive material feeding system, includes:

the storage rack comprises a stock bin, the stock bin is provided with a plurality of layers of racks, the plurality of racks are stacked in the vertical direction, and each rack is used for placing consumables;

the manipulator device comprises a manipulator, and the manipulator is used for clamping the consumable in the material rack; and

and the discharging device comprises a discharging supporting plate, and the manipulator is also used for transferring the clamped consumable to the discharging supporting plate.

In some embodiments of this application, the quantity of feed bin is a plurality of, the storage work or material rest still includes the carousel, and is a plurality of the feed bin is fixed in on the carousel, the carousel is kept away from one side of storage work or material rest is equipped with first slewing mechanism, first slewing mechanism is used for control the carousel rotates, makes it is different on the carousel the feed bin is aimed at the manipulator device.

In some embodiments of this application, the manipulator device still includes along the vertical guide rail that vertical direction extends and extend and sliding connection in along the horizontal direction the horizontal guide rail of vertical guide rail, manipulator sliding connection in the horizontal guide rail, the manipulator device still includes front and back driving piece and upper and lower driving piece, front and back driving piece drives the manipulator is followed horizontal guide rail slides in order to adjust the manipulator and with the manipulator is aimed at distance between the feed bin, upper and lower driving piece drives the manipulator is followed vertical guide rail slides so that the manipulator is aimed at different on the feed bin the work or material rest.

In some embodiments of this application, the manipulator include sliding connection in horizontal guide's clamping jaw backup pad and set up in ejector pad driving piece, ejector pad and clamping jaw in the clamping jaw backup pad, the clamping jaw includes the clamping jaw bottom plate and is located the clamping jaw dog of the tip of clamping jaw bottom plate, the ejector pad is located the clamping jaw dog with between the ejector pad driving piece, the clamping jaw bottom plate is used for holding up in the work or material rest the consumptive material, the ejector pad driving piece is used for promoting the ejector pad orientation the clamping jaw dog removes so that the ejector pad with the common centre gripping of clamping jaw dog the consumptive material.

In some embodiments of the present application, a pushing seat is connected to the pushing block driving member, the pushing block is connected to the pushing seat through a pushing rod, and the pushing block driving member controls the pushing block to move through the pushing seat and the pushing rod.

In some embodiments of the present application, the push rod is sleeved with a coil spring, and the coil spring elastically abuts between the push seat and the push block.

In some embodiments of the present application, the clamping jaw backup pad is kept away from the ejector pad with the opposite side of clamping jaw is equipped with second slewing mechanism, second slewing mechanism is used for control the clamping jaw backup pad rotates, thereby makes the clamping jaw be in the feed bin with rotate between the discharging device.

In some embodiments of the present application, the discharge tray includes two tray bodies disposed at an interval, the tray bodies are used for supporting the consumable, and a distance between the two tray bodies is smaller than a width of the consumable and larger than a width of the clamping jaw.

In some embodiments of the present application, the consumable feeding system further includes a detection device, the detection device includes a first consumable detection sensor disposed on the manipulator device, and the first consumable detection sensor is used for detecting whether the consumable is placed on the rack.

In some embodiments of this application, consumptive material feeding system still includes detection device, detection device including set up in second consumptive material detection sensor on the discharging device with prevent reverse detection sensor, second consumptive material detection sensor is used for detecting whether last the putting of discharging device the consumptive material, prevent reverse detection sensor be used for detecting place in on the discharging device the orientation of consumptive material.

Compare in prior art, among the consumptive material feeding system of this application, storage work or material rest, manipulator device, discharging device and detection device collaborative work realize consumptive material automatic discharge, reduce artificial intervention, make loaded down with trivial details operation simple and easy, standardize, raise the efficiency.

Drawings

Fig. 1 is a schematic view of a complete machine of a consumable feeding system according to an embodiment of the present disclosure.

FIG. 2 is a schematic view of the consumable material loading system shown in FIG. 1 from another perspective.

FIG. 3 is a schematic structural view of the consumable feeding system shown in FIG. 1 with a portion of the shell removed.

Fig. 4 is a schematic structural diagram of a material storage rack of the consumable material loading system shown in fig. 3.

FIG. 5 is a schematic view of another angle of the material rack of the consumable material loading system shown in FIG. 3.

Fig. 6 is a schematic structural diagram of the magazine of the material storage rack shown in fig. 4 when consumables are placed in the magazine.

Fig. 7 is a schematic structural diagram of the magazine of the material storage rack shown in fig. 4 when no consumable material is placed in the magazine.

Fig. 8 is a schematic structural diagram of a manipulator device of the consumable material loading system shown in fig. 3.

Fig. 9 is a schematic view of the robot apparatus shown in fig. 8 with the cover removed.

Fig. 10 is a schematic view of the robot apparatus shown in fig. 9 from another angle.

FIG. 11 is a schematic structural diagram of a discharging device of the consumable material feeding system shown in FIG. 3.

Fig. 12 is a schematic view of the discharging device shown in fig. 11 at another angle.

Description of the main elements

Consumable material feeding system 1

Consumable 2

Outer casing 10

Viewing window 11

Safety door 12

Column 13

Storage rack 20

Storage bin 21

Rotary disc 22

First rotating mechanism 23

Robot device 30

Vertical guide rail 31

Horizontal guide rail 32

Robot 33

Front and rear driving member 34

Up-and-down driving member 35

Code scanner 36

Second rotating mechanism 37

First housing 38

Second cover 39

Discharging device 40

Connecting plate 41

Discharge support 42

Discharging support plate 43

Detection device 50

First consumable detecting sensor 51

Second consumable detecting sensor 52

Anti-reverse detection sensor 53

Indicating unit 60

Indicator light 61

Rotary wheel 70

Rack 210

Supporting plate 211

Parting bead 212

Support shaft 220

First bearing seat 231

First synchronous wheel 232

First rotating member 233

First timing belt 234

Clamping jaw supporting plate 331

Push block driving piece 332

Push block 333

Clamping jaw 334

Push seat 335

Push rod 336

A coil spring 337

Second bearing seat 371

Second synchronizing wheel 372

Second rotating member 373

Second timing belt 374

Pallet body 431

Connecting part 432

Clamping jaw bottom plate 3341

Jaw stop 3342

Adjusting block 4310

Distance D

Width T₁、T₂

The following detailed description will further illustrate the present application in conjunction with the above-described figures.

Detailed Description

The technical solutions in the embodiments of the present application will be clearly and completely described below with reference to the drawings in the embodiments of the present application, and it is obvious that the described embodiments are only a part of the embodiments of the present application, and not all of the embodiments. All other embodiments, which can be derived by a person skilled in the art from the embodiments given herein without making any creative effort, shall fall within the protection scope of the present application.

It is noted that when an element is referred to as being "disposed on" another element, it can be directly on the other element or intervening elements may also be present; when a component is referred to as being "mounted on" another component, it can be directly mounted on the other component or intervening components may also be present. As used herein, the term "and/or" includes all and any combination of one or more of the associated listed items.

Fig. 1 to fig. 3 are schematic views of a consumable material feeding system 1 according to an embodiment of the present disclosure. The consumable feeding system 1 includes a housing 10, a storage rack 20, a robot device 30, a discharging device 40, and a detecting device 50. The storage rack 20, the manipulator device 30, the discharging device 40 and the detecting device 50 are all accommodated in the housing 10.

Referring to fig. 4 to 6, the material storing frame 20 includes a plurality of bins 21. Each magazine 21 is for storing consumables 2. Consumable 2 can be, but is not limited to, a microplate, and more specifically, consumable 2 can be a microplate that requires a batch to be loaded into a pipetting station or unloaded from a previous station into consumable loading system 1. Each silo 21 is provided with a plurality of stacks 210, and the plurality of stacks 210 are stacked in the vertical direction. In the present embodiment, each of the bins 21 includes two support plates 211 arranged in parallel and at an interval, and a surface of each support plate 211 facing the other support plate 211 is provided with a plurality of division bars 212. The division bars 212 provided on the two support plates 211 correspond to each other. Two corresponding spacers 212 together form a stack 210, and the two spacers 212 can be used to support a consumable 2, so that the consumable 2 is placed in the stack 210.

Wherein, different consumptive materials 2 probably have different specifications, correspondingly, the specification of feed bin 21 also can be according to consumptive material 2's specification setting for storage rack 20 can be used to place the consumptive material 2 of different specifications.

As shown in fig. 4 and 5, the storage rack 20 may further include a turntable 22, and a plurality of bins 21 are fixed to the turntable 22. A support shaft 220 is installed at the center of the turntable 22, and a plurality of bins 21 are distributed around the support shaft 220. The carousel 22 is rotatable about the support shaft 220 by the first rotation mechanism 23 so that different bins 21 on the carousel 22 are aligned with the robot device 30. In the present embodiment, the first rotating mechanism 23 includes a first bearing seat 231 disposed on a side of the turntable 22 away from the material storage rack 20, a first synchronizing wheel 232 fixed to an outer periphery of the first bearing seat 231, a first rotating member 233, and a first synchronizing belt 234 wound around the first synchronizing wheel 232 and the outer periphery of the first rotating member 233. The support shaft 220 passes through the turntable 22 and is fixed to the first bearing seat 231. When the first rotating member 233 rotates, the first timing belt 234 drives the first timing wheel 232 to rotate, thereby driving the first bearing seat 231 and the support shaft 220 to rotate. Thus, the carousel 22 rotates synchronously so that different bins 21 on the carousel 22 are aligned with the robot device 30.

The robot device 30 is used to hold the consumables 2 located in the rack 210. Referring to fig. 8 to 10, the robot device 30 includes a vertical rail 31 extending in a vertical direction, a horizontal rail 32 perpendicular to the vertical rail 31 (i.e., extending in a horizontal direction) and slidably connected to the vertical rail 31, and a robot 33 slidably connected to the horizontal rail 32. The robot device 30 further includes a front-rear driving member 34 and an up-down driving member 35. Referring to fig. 3, 6 and 7, the robot 33 is slidable along the horizontal rail 32 by the front and rear driving members 34, so as to adjust the distance between the robot 33 and the magazine 21 aligned with the robot 33. The manipulator 33 can also slide along the vertical guide rail 31 under the driving of the up-and-down driving member 35, so that the manipulator 33 can be aligned with different material racks 210 on the storage bin 21, and the manipulator 33 can clamp the consumables 2 in the different material racks 210 conveniently. In the present embodiment, the robot device 30 further includes a barcode scanner 36 (see fig. 8), and the barcode scanner 36 is configured to scan a barcode (not shown) on the consumable 2 to obtain the serial number of the consumable 2 before the robot 33 clamps the consumable 2 in the rack 210. Wherein, when the consumable 2 is placed in the rack 210, the barcode is located on the surface of the consumable 2 disposed away from the support shaft 220.

As shown in fig. 9 and 10, in the present embodiment, the robot 33 includes a jaw support plate 331 slidably connected to the horizontal guide rail 32, and a pusher drive member 332, a pusher 333, and a jaw 334 provided on the jaw support plate 331. The jaw 334 includes a jaw base plate 3341 and a jaw stop 3342 located at an end of the jaw base plate 3341. The push block 333 is located between the jaw stop 3342 and the push block driver 332. Referring to fig. 3, 6 and 7, when the clamping jaw 334 moves to the bottom of one of the stacks 210 (e.g., moves between two spacers 212), the clamping jaw bottom plate 3341 can hold up the consumable 2 in the stack 210, and the pushing block driving member 332 is used to push the pushing block 333 to move toward the clamping jaw stop 3342, so that the pushing block 333 and the clamping jaw stop 3342 jointly clamp the consumable 2. In this embodiment, the pushing block driving member 332 is connected to the pushing seat 335, and the pushing block 333 is connected to the pushing seat 335 through the pushing rod 336, so that the pushing block driving member 332 can control the movement of the pushing block 333 through the pushing seat 335 and the pushing rod 336. Further, a coil spring 337 is sleeved on the push rod 336. The coil spring 337 elastically abuts between the push seat 335 and the push block 333, and its elastic restoring force is used to push the push block 333 to clamp the consumable 2, so that the clamping force applied to the consumable 2 is stable and controllable.

As shown in fig. 3, 9 and 10, in the present embodiment, the other side of the clamping jaw supporting plate 331 away from the pushing block 333 and the clamping jaw 334 is provided with a second rotating mechanism 37, and the clamping jaw supporting plate 331 can rotate under the action of the second rotating mechanism 37, so that the clamping jaw 334 rotates between the bin 21 and the discharging device 40. The second rotating mechanism 37 includes a second bearing seat 371 fixed to the jaw supporting plate 331, a second synchronizing wheel 372 fixed to the outer periphery of the second bearing seat 371, a second rotating member 373, and a second timing belt 374 wound around the outer peripheries of the second synchronizing wheel 372 and the second rotating member 373. When the second rotating member 373 rotates, the second timing belt 374 drives the second timing wheel 372 to rotate, so as to drive the second bearing seat 371 to rotate. Accordingly, the jaw support plate 331 fixed to the second bearing housing 371 is rotated in synchronization with the rotation of the jaws 334. As shown in fig. 8, in the present embodiment, the manipulator device 30 further includes a first housing 38 and a second housing 39, the first housing 38 covers at least the push block driving member 332, and the second housing 39 covers the second rotating mechanism 37 to protect internal components.

The robot 33 is also used to transfer the gripped consumable 2 to the outfeed device 40. The discharging device 40 comprises a connecting plate 41 fixed in the housing 10, a discharging bracket 42 fixed on the connecting plate 41 and a discharging supporting plate 43 fixed on the discharging bracket 42. The discharging pallet 43 includes two parallel pallet bodies 431 arranged at intervals and a connecting portion 432 connected to the same side of the two pallet bodies 431. The discharging blade 43 is fixed to the discharging holder 42 by a connecting portion 432. When the clamping jaw 334 holding the consumable 2 rotates to the upper side of the discharging pallet 43, the up-down driving member 35 is used for driving the clamping jaw 334 to move downwards through the space between the two pallet bodies 431, so that the consumable 2 is separated from the clamping jaw 334 and is transferred to the two pallet bodies 431. In this embodiment, a plurality of adjustment blocks 4310 are disposed on the pallet body 431, and the intervals between the adjustment blocks 4310 may be set according to the specific size of the consumable 2, so that the consumable 2 may be placed on two pallet bodies 431 and positioned between the adjustment blocks 4310. Subsequently, another robot device (not shown) will transfer the consumables 2 on the discharging pallets 43 to the pipetting station for automated warehousing.

Wherein the distance D between the two pallet bodies 431 is smaller than the width T of the consumable 2₁(identified in the drawing) so that the consumable 2 can be placed on the two pallet bodies 431. Also, the distance D between the two pallet bodies 431 is greater than the width T of the jaws 334₂(identified in fig. 10) such that the jaws 334 may be moved downward through the space between the two pallet bodies 431.

As shown in fig. 3 and 11, in the present embodiment, a vertical column 13 extending in the vertical direction is provided in the housing 10, and the discharging device 40 may be mounted on the vertical column 13.

Referring to fig. 3 and 8, the detecting device 50 includes a first consumable detecting sensor 51 disposed on the robot device 30, a second consumable detecting sensor 52 disposed on the discharging device 40, and an anti-reverse detecting sensor 53.

The first consumable detection sensor 51 is used to detect whether or not the consumable 2 is placed on the rack 210.

The second consumable substance detecting sensor 52 is used to detect whether the discharge device 40 has consumable substances 2. In the present embodiment, the first and second

consumable detection sensors

51 and 52 may be, specifically, infrared consumable detection sensors or proximity switches.

Prevent that anti-detection sensor 53 is used for detecting the orientation of placing the consumptive material 2 on discharging device 40, avoids because factors such as human negligence cause consumptive material 2 to put the emergence of the anti-condition, improves consumptive material feeding system 1's reliability. In the present embodiment, the anti-reflection detection sensor 53 may be a photoelectric sensor. The consumable 2 is substantially rectangular, and a notch (not shown) is disposed at one corner of the consumable 2. The light emitting end of the anti-reflection detection sensor 53 is correspondingly arranged towards one corner of the consumable 2. Prevent that anti-detection sensor 53 is used for detecting whether the corner that consumptive material 2 corresponds is equipped with the breach to judge the orientation of consumptive material 2 according to the testing result. For example, when the anti-reverse detection sensor 53 detects that the corresponding corner of the consumable 2 is notched, it can be determined that the consumable 2 is oriented correctly.

As shown in fig. 2, in the present embodiment, a safety door 12 may be further provided on the housing 10 of the consumable material charging system 1. The detection device 50 may further include a door lock sensor (not shown) for sensing whether the current state of the safety door 12 is open or closed, and alarming when the current state of the safety door 12 is open, so as to ensure that the consumable feeding system 1 operates in a closed and safe environment.

As shown in fig. 1 and 2, a plurality of side walls of the housing 10 may be provided with a viewing window 11 for a worker to view the operation of each component inside the housing 10.

An indication unit 60 may also be provided on the housing 10. The indication unit 60 comprises at least one indicator light 61 for indicating the operational status of the consumable feeding system 1. In this embodiment, the indication unit 60 may include three indication lamps 61 emitting different colors of light, respectively for indicating three different operation states of the consumable material loading system 1. For example, one of the indicator lights 61 is used to indicate that the consumable feeding system 1 is operating normally when emitting green light. Another pilot lamp 61 is when launching the red light for indicate that consumptive material feeding system 1 is unusual in the current operation, make the inside behavior of consumptive material feeding system 1 can in time be looked over to the operator after knowing. The remaining indicator light 61 is used to indicate that the consumable feeding system 1 is currently suspended when it emits yellow light.

The bottom of the housing 10 may also be provided with a plurality of rotatable wheels 10. The turning wheel 10 may be rotated to facilitate an operator to push the consumable feeding system 1 to move to a desired position.

The consumable feeding system 1 further comprises a controller (not shown) electrically connected to the material storage rack 20, the manipulator device 30 and the detection device 50. The controller interacts with the storage rack 20, the manipulator device 30 and the detection device 50, thereby realizing an automated consumable 2 feeding process. Specifically, the interaction of the controller with the storage rack 20, the manipulator 33 and the detection device 50 is as follows:

first, the controller controls the first rotating mechanism 23 to rotate so that one of the bins 21 of the turntable 22 is aligned with the robot device 30. The controller then controls the front-to-back drive 34 and the up-down drive 35 to align the robot 33 with the different stacks 210 on the magazine 21. At this time, the first consumable substance detection sensor 51 detects whether or not the rack 210 has consumable substances 2 placed thereon. When detecting that consumable 2 is placed on the rack 210, the controller controls the barcode scanner 36 to scan the barcode on the consumable 2 to obtain the serial number of the consumable 2, and transmits the serial number to the controller, so that the controller associates and binds the consumable 2 and the sample to be analyzed in the subsequent detection link. Then, the controller controls the manipulator 33 to clamp the consumables 2 in the rack 210, and the controller controls the second rotating mechanism 37 to rotate, so that the manipulator 33 clamping the consumables 2 rotates to be aligned with the discharging device 40, and then the clamped consumables 2 are placed on the discharging device 40. Whether second consumptive material detection sensor 52 has put consumptive material 2 on detecting discharging device 40, when detecting to put consumptive material 2 on discharging device 40, the controller informs another manipulator device to shift the consumptive material 2 that is located on ejection of compact layer board 43 to move liquid workstation to the realization carries out information interaction with other workstations.

In conclusion, in the consumable material feeding system 1 that this application embodiment provided, storage work or material rest 20, manipulator device 30, discharging device 40 and detection device 50 collaborative work realize 2 automatic discharge of consumptive material, reduce manual intervention, make loaded down with trivial details operation simple and easy, standardized, raise the efficiency.

Finally, it should be noted that the above embodiments are only used for illustrating the technical solutions of the present application and not for limiting, and although the present application is described in detail with reference to the preferred embodiments, it should be understood by those skilled in the art that modifications or equivalent substitutions can be made on the technical solutions of the present application without departing from the spirit and scope of the technical solutions of the present application.

Claims

1. A consumable feeding system, comprising:

2. The consumable feeding system of claim 1, wherein the number of bins is multiple, the stocker further comprises a turntable, the multiple bins are fixed on the turntable, a first rotating mechanism is disposed on a side of the turntable away from the stocker, and the first rotating mechanism is configured to control the turntable to rotate, so that different bins on the turntable are aligned with the robot device.

3. The consumable feeding system of claim 1, wherein the robot apparatus further comprises a vertical rail extending in a vertical direction and a horizontal rail extending in a horizontal direction and slidably connected to the vertical rail, the robot being slidably connected to the horizontal rail, the robot apparatus further comprising a front and rear driving member and an up and down driving member, the front and rear driving member driving the robot to slide along the horizontal rail to adjust a distance between the robot and the bin aligned with the robot, the up and down driving member driving the robot to slide along the vertical rail to align the robot to different stacks on the bin.

4. The consumable feeding system of claim 3, wherein the manipulator comprises a clamping jaw supporting plate slidably connected to the horizontal guide rail, and a pushing block driving member, a pushing block and a clamping jaw arranged on the clamping jaw supporting plate, the clamping jaw comprises a clamping jaw bottom plate and a clamping jaw stop block arranged at the end of the clamping jaw bottom plate, the pushing block is arranged between the clamping jaw stop block and the pushing block driving member, the clamping jaw bottom plate is used for supporting the consumable in the material rack, and the pushing block driving member is used for pushing the pushing block to move towards the clamping jaw stop block so that the pushing block and the clamping jaw stop block can clamp the consumable together.

5. The consumable feeding system of claim 4, wherein a pushing seat is connected to the pushing block driving member, the pushing block is connected to the pushing seat through a pushing rod, and the pushing block driving member controls the pushing block to move through the pushing seat and the pushing rod.

6. The consumable feeding system of claim 5, wherein the push rod is sleeved with a coil spring, and the coil spring elastically abuts between the push seat and the push block.

7. The consumable feeding system of claim 4, wherein a second rotation mechanism is disposed on the other side of the jaw support plate away from the pushing block and the jaw, and the second rotation mechanism is used for controlling the jaw support plate to rotate, so that the jaw rotates between the bin and the discharging device.

8. The consumable feeding system of claim 4, wherein the discharge blade comprises two blade bodies spaced apart to support the consumable, and the distance between the two blade bodies is less than the width of the consumable and greater than the width of the clamping jaw.

9. The consumable feeding system of claim 1, further comprising a detection device, the detection device comprising a first consumable detection sensor disposed on the robot apparatus, the first consumable detection sensor being configured to detect whether the consumable is placed on the rack.

10. The consumable feeding system of claim 1, further comprising a detection device, wherein the detection device comprises a second consumable detection sensor and an anti-reverse detection sensor, the second consumable detection sensor is disposed on the discharging device and is used for detecting whether the consumable is placed on the discharging device, and the anti-reverse detection sensor is used for detecting the orientation of the consumable placed on the discharging device.