CN213000128U - Mobile vehicle-mounted integrated biosafety laboratory - Google Patents
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The utility model discloses a remove on-vehicle integrated biological safety laboratory, including the vehicle underframe, set equipment cabin and carriage on the vehicle underframe, the inside partition in carriage is formed with sample preparation room, reagent preparation room and sample detection room. The mobile vehicle-mounted integrated biological safety laboratory in the scheme is characterized in that a plurality of compartments are formed by separating compartments, so that a sample preparation room, a reagent preparation room and a sample detection room are arranged, the laboratory can be transported to any destination at any time, a mobile nucleic acid detection laboratory is established, local experiments can be performed, for example, samples are taken on the spot, nucleic acid detection is performed on the spot to obtain a detection result, the operation is convenient and fast, when infectious diseases are detected, on one hand, the risk of infection or infection caused by detection of a person to be detected who goes to a medical institution can be reduced, on the other hand, infection data can be mastered in time, and the spread of the infectious diseases can be quickly controlled. Further, the position can be shifted at any time and put into use based on the moving characteristics.
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Technical Field
The utility model relates to a biological detection technology field, concretely relates to remove on-vehicle integrated biological safety laboratory.
Background
Currently, the detection of samples is mainly performed in hospital laboratories or in laboratories of medical service structures. The detected person needs to go to the medical institution, and after the sample collection is completed at the sample collection window, the related person of the medical institution sends the collected sample to a related laboratory for sample detection and analysis.
Therefore, the existing sample collection, detection and analysis are generally required to be carried out in medical institutions, the detection form is not flexible enough, and particularly for large-scale sample detection of infectious diseases, the current detection mode cannot meet the detection requirement easily, and the detection speed is low. Moreover, the person to be detected can easily form cross infection with other persons while going to or entering the medical institution.
SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL
The utility model provides a remove on-vehicle integrated biological safety laboratory, including the vehicle underframe, set equipment cabin and carriage on the vehicle underframe, the inside partition in carriage is formed with sample preparation room, reagent preparation room and sample detection room.
Optionally, at least one of the sample preparation chamber, the reagent preparation chamber and the sample detection chamber is provided with a buffer chamber comprising two gates and a buffer zone located between the two gates.
Optionally, the car is provided with an inlet and an entrance, respectively equipped with an inlet buffer chamber and an outlet buffer chamber, each of which comprises two doors and a buffer zone located between the two doors.
Optionally, the interior of the carriage is also partitioned to form a decontamination chamber, and/or the interior of the carriage is also partitioned to form a temporary dirt storage chamber.
Optionally, the front part of the interior of the carriage is partitioned into a decontamination chamber and a temporary dirt storage chamber which are arranged side by side in the width direction of the carriage; the sample preparation chamber, the reagent preparation chamber and the sample detection chamber are arranged in the middle of the carriage along the length direction; the carriage is provided with an inlet and an entrance, and the inlet and the entrance are arranged at the rear part of the carriage.
Optionally, the temporary sewage storage chamber is provided with an outlet, the outlet is arranged on the side surface of the carriage, the outlet is provided with a first door, and the temporary sewage storage chamber is communicated with the decontamination chamber through an isolation conveying channel; and/or the sample detection chamber, the sample preparation chamber and the reagent preparation chamber are communicated through an isolation transmission channel, and the sample preparation chamber and the exterior of the carriage are communicated through the isolation transmission channel.
Optionally, the carriage is equipped with and is close to one side and extends to the passageway of carriage afterbody along the fore-and-aft direction from the middle part, the sample detection room the sample preparation room and the reagent prepares the room the import the entry all is close to the opposite side of carriage, and all seted up the orientation the door of passageway side.
Optionally, the decontamination chamber is provided with an outlet facing the rear part of the carriage, the outlet is provided with a second door, and the outlet is over against the front end of the channel.
Optionally, the carriage rear portion is separated and is formed and is close to carriage one side and along the import surge chamber and the export surge chamber that the fore-and-aft direction distributes, the import surge chamber with the export surge chamber all includes two doors and is located twice buffer area between the door, and one door of two doors is opened and is located one side at carriage rear portion, another door of two doors all moves towards the side of passageway.
Optionally, the bottom of the vehicle chassis is provided with a support leg.
The mobile vehicle-mounted integrated biological safety laboratory in the scheme is characterized in that a plurality of compartments are formed by separating compartments, so that a sample preparation room, a reagent preparation room and a sample detection room are arranged, the laboratory can be transported to any destination at any time, a mobile nucleic acid detection laboratory is established, local experiments can be performed, for example, samples are taken on the spot, nucleic acid detection is performed on the spot to obtain a detection result, the operation is convenient and fast, when infectious diseases are detected, on one hand, the risk of infection or infection caused by detection of a person to be detected who goes to a medical institution can be reduced, on the other hand, infection data can be mastered in time, and the spread of the infectious diseases can be quickly controlled. Further, the position can be shifted at any time and put into use based on the moving characteristics.
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FIG. 1 is a schematic structural diagram of an embodiment of a mobile vehicle-mounted integrated biosafety laboratory according to the present invention;
FIG. 2 is a top view of FIG. 1;
fig. 3 is an interior layout view of the vehicle compartment of fig. 2.
The reference numerals in fig. 1-3 are illustrated as follows:
10-a vehicle chassis; 101-a first carrier chassis; 102-a second carrier chassis;
20-compartment; 201-a sample detection chamber; 201 a-a buffer chamber; 202-a sample preparation chamber; 202 a-a buffer chamber; 202 b-biological safety cabinet; 203-reagent preparation chamber; 203 a-buffer chamber; 204-an inlet buffer chamber; 205-an outlet buffer chamber; 205 a-first door; 205 b-a second door; 206-channel; 206 a-pre-buffer chamber; 206 b-a gate; 207-decontamination chamber; 207 a-a second gate; 208-a temporary dirt storage chamber; 208 a-a first gate; 20 a-isolated transmission channel;
30-an equipment compartment;
40-a support leg;
50-wheel.
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In order to make those skilled in the art better understand the technical solution of the present invention, the present invention will be further described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings and specific embodiments.
Referring to fig. 1-3, fig. 1 is a schematic structural view of a specific embodiment of the mobile vehicle-mounted integrated biosafety laboratory according to the present invention, wherein a cockpit and a carriage are schematic structural views and shown by dotted lines, and are mainly expressed in a carrying position on a vehicle chassis; FIG. 2 is a top view of FIG. 1 and shows the interior layout of the passenger compartment; fig. 3 is an interior layout view of the vehicle compartment of fig. 2.
The mobile vehicle-mounted integrated biosafety laboratory in the embodiment comprises a vehicle chassis 10, wherein an equipment cabin 30 and a carriage 20 are arranged on the vehicle chassis 10, the vehicle chassis 10 comprises a first bearing chassis 101 positioned at the front part and a second bearing chassis 102 positioned at the rear part which are connected, and the height of the first bearing chassis 101 is higher than that of the second bearing chassis 102. The equipment bay 30 is supported on a first load-bearing chassis 101 and the car 20 is carried on a second load-bearing chassis 102. The bottom of the vehicle chassis 10 is provided with wheels 50, and the wheels 50 are specifically positioned at the tail part of the vehicle chassis 10. The front part of the chassis 10 is connected to a cockpit (not shown in the figure) to form a complete vehicle, and the vehicle meets the requirements of width limitation and height limitation of the vehicle and can run according to law. The bottom of the vehicle underframe 10 is also provided with the supporting legs 40, and when the vehicle stays in a laboratory for carrying out related experiment operation, the supporting legs 40 can be supported on the ground, so that the stability is improved. In fig. 3, the leg 40 is specifically disposed at the bottom front side of the second load-bearing chassis 102, i.e. at the position where the first load-bearing chassis 101 and the second load-bearing chassis 102 are connected to each other, so as to better balance the support.
The interior of the vehicle compartment 20 is partitioned into a plurality of compartment chambers, including a sample preparation chamber 202, a reagent preparation chamber 203, and a sample detection chamber 201 shown in fig. 3. Each compartment may be provided with a partition wall as a partition wall in the compartment 20, so as to partition the inside of the compartment 20 to form a plurality of compartments isolated from each other. The sample preparation chamber 202, the reagent preparation chamber 203 and the sample detection chamber 201 can be equipped with related accessories such as a refrigerator and a biosafety cabinet 202b according to requirements, and the space of the carriage 20 is small, so that the necessary equipment is mainly equipped, and the sample preparation chamber, the reagent preparation chamber and the sample detection chamber are preferably configured according to the smallest equipment.
The equipment compartment 30 of the car 20 may be a self-contained power source, and may also provide a socket to establish a connection with an external power source, for example, when the mobile vehicle-mounted integrated bio-safety laboratory is located in a community or a hospital, the car 20 may be plugged by a quick plug, and the like, so as to introduce power of a corresponding area into the car 20, thereby providing power for the mobile vehicle-mounted integrated bio-safety laboratory. The equipment bays 30 of the vehicle 20 may also be equipped with air conditioning and purification systems to provide clean air to the various compartments within the vehicle 20. In addition to the compartment separation and the provision of auxiliary equipment, the corresponding lines in the car 20 are also arranged synchronously, so that the car 20 can be taken into use directly after being transported to the destination after being mounted on the chassis 10.
Therefore, the mobile vehicle-mounted integrated biosafety laboratory in the scheme is provided with the sample preparation room 202, the reagent preparation room 203 and the sample detection room 201 by being separated by the carriage 20 to form a plurality of compartments, and the laboratory can be transported to any destination at any time, so that the mobile nucleic acid detection laboratory can be established, local experiments can be performed, for example, samples are taken on the spot, and nucleic acid detection is performed on the spot to obtain a detection result, the operation is convenient and fast, when infectious diseases are detected, on one hand, the infection risk or the infection risk brought by the detection of a person to be detected going to a medical institution can be reduced, on the other hand, the infection data can be mastered in time, and the spread of infectious diseases can be restrained. Further, the position can be shifted at any time and put into use based on the moving characteristics.
As shown in fig. 3, each compartment may be equipped with a buffer chamber, the buffer chamber includes two doors and a buffer area located between the two doors, the medical staff or other related staff enters the buffer area from the first door, the second door remains closed, and after the first door is closed, the second door is opened, so that the medical staff or other related staff can enter or leave the corresponding compartment, so as to ensure the physical isolation between the compartment and the outside, and reduce or even avoid the propagation of bacteria and viruses. The controller can be arranged to be linked with the opening and closing linkage control of the first door and the second door so as to ensure that the two doors cannot be opened simultaneously. In fig. 3, the sample detection chamber 201, the sample preparation chamber 202, and the reagent preparation chamber 203 are provided with a buffer chamber 201a, a buffer chamber 202a, and a buffer chamber 203a, respectively.
In addition, the car 20 is provided with an inlet and an inlet, and an inlet buffer chamber 204 and an outlet buffer chamber 205 are respectively provided, and the same principle as the structure of the buffer chambers is adopted, the inlet buffer chamber 204 and the outlet buffer chamber 205 both comprise two doors and a buffer area between the two doors, the outlet buffer chamber 205 is marked with a first door 205a and a second door 205b in fig. 3, and the other buffer chambers have the same principle. Medical personnel or other personnel who need to enter the laboratory can only enter the interior of the laboratory through the entrance buffer chamber 204 and can only leave the laboratory through the exit buffer chamber 205, which also reduces the possibility of contamination inside and outside the laboratory. A wardrobe is arranged between the inlet buffer chamber 204 and the outlet buffer chamber 205, so that clothes can be conveniently replaced when entering or exiting. When medical staff or other staff need leave from the laboratory, can take off protective coat when leaving, leave through export buffer 205 again after changing the clothing, further reduce relevant personnel and probably take away the possibility in laboratory with bacterium, virus that the sample carried.
In addition, as shown in fig. 3, isolation transfer passages 20a are provided between the sample detection chamber 201 and the sample preparation chamber 202, between the sample preparation chamber 202 and the reagent preparation chamber 203, and between the sample preparation chamber 202 and the outside of the vehicle compartment 20, the isolation transfer passages 20a include isolation doors respectively located at both ends thereof, and after the isolation doors at both ends are closed, the isolation transfer passages 20a are closed passages.
Taking the reagent preparation chamber 203 and the sample preparation chamber 202 in fig. 3 as an example, when a prepared reagent enters the sample preparation chamber 202 through the reagent preparation chamber 203, the isolation small door of the isolation transfer passage 20a on the side of the reagent preparation chamber 203 is opened, the sample enters the isolation transfer passage 20a, the isolation small door is closed, sterilization treatment can be performed on the outside of the prepared reagent in the isolation transfer passage 20a, and then the isolation small door on the side close to the sample preparation chamber 202 is opened to take out the reagent. The isolated transmission channel 20a can realize the transmission of the sample and the reagent and ensure the isolation among the compartments.
The specific paths of the samples and reagents in the laboratory are as follows: the sample is transferred from the outside of the carriage 20 into the sample preparation chamber 202 through the corresponding isolation transfer channel 20a, the reagent is transferred from the reagent preparation chamber 203 into the sample preparation chamber 202 through the corresponding isolation transfer channel 20a, and the prepared sample and reagent are transferred from the sample preparation chamber 202 into the sample detection chamber 201 through the corresponding isolation transfer channel 20a, and the detection is completed in the sample detection chamber 201. As shown in fig. 3, the compartment 20 is further provided with a decontamination chamber 207 and a temporary filth storage chamber 208, and medical staff or other related personnel can perform sterilization operation in the decontamination chamber 207 by using a sterilization device, which may be a sterilization pot. The temporary waste storage chamber 208 can be used for temporarily storing the discarded articles in the experiment, the temporary waste storage chamber 208 is isolated from and not communicated with other chambers of the experiment and is only communicated with the decontamination chamber 207 through the isolated conveying passage 20a, and the structure of the isolated conveying passage 20a can be seen from the above description. The decontamination chamber 207 sterilizes the contaminants, and then transfers the contaminants to the temporary contaminant storage chamber 208, and then transports the contaminants to the outside through an outlet thereof.
Referring to fig. 3, since the height and width of the vehicle are limited and the length of the vehicle is required by regulations, the space in the vehicle compartment 20 is very limited, and the present embodiment is designed to have a more preferable layout for arranging the basic function rooms of the nucleic acid testing laboratory in the limited space. Specifically, a decontamination chamber 207, a dirt buffer chamber 208 formed partitioned at the front portion of the interior of the vehicle compartment 20 and arranged side by side in the width direction of the vehicle compartment 20; the sample preparation chamber 202, the reagent preparation chamber 203, and the sample detection chamber 201 are disposed in the middle of the carriage 20 along the longitudinal direction, and the order of the three chambers along the longitudinal direction is not limited. In addition, the rear portion of the vehicle compartment 20 is provided with the inlet and the inlet, and accordingly, the inlet buffer chamber 204 and the outlet buffer chamber 205 are formed at the rear portion of the vehicle compartment 20, and are disposed near one side, specifically, side by side in the front-rear direction.
The temporary filth storage chamber 208 is provided with an outlet, the outlet is arranged on the side surface of the carriage 20 and is not communicated with other carriage chambers, and the outlet is provided with a first door 208 a.
In addition, in order to facilitate traveling, the vehicle body 20 is provided with a tunnel 206 extending in the longitudinal direction of the vehicle body, the tunnel 206 is extended from the middle to the rear, i.e., to the rear of the vehicle body, and the tunnel 206 is provided near one side of the vehicle body 20. The sample preparation chamber 202, the reagent preparation chamber 203, the sample detection chamber 201, the inlet buffer chamber 204, and the outlet buffer chamber 205 are all close to the other side of the carriage 20, and are all provided with a door facing the side of the passage 206, and the door is specifically a second door corresponding to the buffer chamber. The decontamination chamber 207 is provided with an outlet toward the rear of the vehicle compartment 20, and the outlet is provided with a second door 207a and faces the front end of the duct 206. A door 206b blocking the passage 206 may be further disposed in the passage 206, and as shown in fig. 3, a pre-buffer chamber 206a is formed between the door 206b and the second door 205b of the exit buffer chamber 205, so that before medical staff or other related personnel enter the exit buffer chamber 205 from the passage 206, the medical staff or other related personnel may remove protective clothing from the pre-buffer chamber 206a and then enter the exit buffer chamber 205 to change clothing, thereby further reducing the possibility that the related personnel may carry bacteria and viruses carried by the sample away from the laboratory.
The foregoing is only a preferred embodiment of the present invention, and it should be noted that, for those skilled in the art, a plurality of improvements and decorations can be made without departing from the principle of the present invention, and these improvements and decorations should also be regarded as the protection scope of the present invention.
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1. The mobile vehicle-mounted integrated biosafety laboratory is characterized by comprising a vehicle chassis (10), wherein an equipment cabin (30) and a carriage (20) are arranged on the vehicle chassis (10), and a sample detection chamber (201), a sample preparation chamber (202) and a reagent preparation chamber (203) are formed in the carriage (20) in a partitioned mode.
2. The mobile on-board integrated biosafety laboratory according to claim 1, characterized in that said sample detection chamber (201), said sample preparation chamber (202) and said reagent preparation chamber (203), at least one being equipped with a buffer chamber comprising two doors and a buffer zone located between said two doors.
3. A mobile on-board integrated bio-safety laboratory according to claim 1, wherein said car (20) is provided with an entrance and an entrance, respectively equipped with an entrance buffer chamber (204) and an exit buffer chamber (205), said entrance buffer chamber (204) and said exit buffer chamber (205) each comprising two doors and a buffer zone between said two doors.
4. The mobile vehicle-mounted integrated biosafety laboratory according to claim 1, characterized in that the interior of the carriage (20) is further partitioned to form a decontamination chamber (207), and/or the interior of the carriage (20) is further partitioned to form a temporary soil storage chamber (208).
5. The mobile on-board integrated bio-safety laboratory according to claim 1, wherein the front portion of the interior of the car (20) is partitioned to form a decontamination chamber (207), a temporary soil storage chamber (208) arranged side by side in the width direction of the car (20); the sample detection chamber (201), the sample preparation chamber (202), and the reagent preparation chamber (203) are arranged at the middle of the carriage (20) in the length direction; the carriage (20) is provided with an inlet and an entrance, which are arranged at the rear part of the carriage (20).
6. The mobile vehicle-mounted integrated biosafety laboratory according to claim 5, characterized in that the temporary soil storage chamber (208) is provided with an outlet, the outlet is provided on the side surface of the carriage (20), the outlet is provided with a first door (208a), and the temporary soil storage chamber (208) is communicated with the decontamination chamber (207) through an isolated conveying channel (20 a); and/or the sample detection chamber (201), the sample preparation chamber (202) and the reagent preparation chamber (203) are communicated through an isolation transfer passage (20a), and the sample preparation chamber (202) is communicated with the outside of the carriage (20) through the isolation transfer passage (20 a).
7. The mobile vehicle-mounted integrated biosafety laboratory according to claim 5, wherein the carriage (20) is provided with a passage (206) near one side and extending from the middle part to the tail part of the carriage (20) along the front-back direction, and the sample detection chamber (201), the sample preparation chamber (202) and the reagent preparation chamber (203), the inlet and the entrance are all close to the other side of the carriage (20) and are all provided with doors facing the side of the passage (206).
8. The mobile vehicle-mounted integrated biosafety laboratory according to claim 7, characterized in that said decontamination chamber (207) is provided with an outlet towards the rear of said carriage (20), said outlet being provided with a second door (207a) and facing the front end of said tunnel (206).
9. The mobile on-board integrated bio-safety laboratory according to claim 7, wherein the rear portion of the car (20) is partitioned to form an inlet buffer chamber (204) and an outlet buffer chamber (205) which are disposed near one side of the car (20) and distributed in a front-rear direction, the inlet buffer chamber (204) and the outlet buffer chamber (205) each include two doors and a buffer area between the two doors, a first door of the two doors is opened to a side of the rear portion of the car (20), and a second door of the two doors is opened to a side of the tunnel (206).
10. The mobile vehicle-mounted integrated biosafety laboratory according to any one of claims 1 to 9, characterized in that the bottom of the vehicle chassis (10) is provided with legs (40).
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