CN213142038U - Microbial incubator - Google Patents

Abstract

The utility model provides a microorganism incubator, belonging to the technical field of microorganism culture, comprising a cylindrical incubator shell; a constant temperature control device and a plurality of object placing plates are arranged in the shell of the incubator; the object placing plate is of a double-layer circular plate structure and comprises a first layer plate and a second layer plate; the first layer plate is formed by alternately splicing a plurality of first solid sector plates and a plurality of first hollow sector plates; the second laminate is formed by alternately splicing a plurality of second solid sector plates and a plurality of second hollow sector plates; the second layer plate can be rotatably attached to the first layer plate in a sealing mode; a closed culture space can be formed between the adjacent object placing plates or between the object placing plates and the culture box shell; and each culture space is provided with an independent box door on the culture box shell. The utility model provides a microbial cultivation case simple structure has reduced the temperature fluctuation range that appears because of the certain sample of sample observation, has promoted the reliability of cultivateing the result.

Description

Microbial incubator

Technical Field

The utility model relates to a microbial cultivation technical field especially relates to a microbial cultivation case.

Background

In the field of microbial applications (e.g., food fermentation processes), microorganisms are often used as viable cell catalysts, and these microorganisms include four broad classes of bacteria, actinomycetes, yeasts, and molds. In the process of culturing microorganisms, the microorganisms are generally placed in an incubator with a constant temperature for culturing and observing by virtue of the bearing effect of a culture dish. The microorganism incubator is provided with a refrigeration and heating bidirectional temperature regulation system, has controllable temperature and is widely applied to constant-temperature culture experiments.

The microorganism incubator in the existing market is generally only provided with a greenhouse and a box door, when a plurality of groups of culture dishes are placed in the greenhouse for culture, sometimes the specific culture condition of a certain or some culture dishes may need to be sampled and observed irregularly and the box door needs to be opened midway, often in the process of opening and closing the box door of the incubator, the influence of the external environment is received, the culture environment of the culture dishes in the incubator can generate temperature fluctuation of a larger amplitude, the culture process of a plurality of microorganisms is sensitive to temperature fluctuation, the traditional incubator structure in the market is adopted, and the reliability of the culture result is reduced.

SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL

Based on the problem that exists among the above-mentioned prior art, the utility model provides a microbial cultivation case solves the in-process of microbial cultivation case among the prior art at switch incubator chamber door, and the cultivation environment to the multiunit culture dish produces the great temperature fluctuation of range and the lower problem of microbial cultivation result reliability that leads to.

The utility model discloses the technical scheme who takes does:

the utility model provides a microorganism incubator, which comprises a cylindrical incubator shell; a constant temperature control device for controlling the temperature of the incubator and a plurality of storage plates which are arranged in parallel and used for storing culture dishes are arranged in the incubator shell; the object placing plate is of a double-layer circular plate structure and comprises a first layer plate and a second layer plate; the first layer plate is formed by alternately splicing a plurality of first solid sector plates and a plurality of first hollow sector plates; the second laminate is formed by alternately splicing a plurality of second solid sector plates and a plurality of second hollow sector plates; the second layer plate can be rotatably attached to the first layer plate in a sealing mode; a closed culture space can be formed between the adjacent object placing plates or between the object placing plates and the culture box shell; and each culture space is provided with an independent box door on the culture box shell.

The utility model provides a microbial incubator, preferably, a plurality of sections of fixing shafts which are coaxially connected are arranged on the vertical central axis of the incubator shell; one section of the fixed shaft is arranged in one of the culture spaces, and the first layer plate in the culture space is rotatably and coaxially connected with the fixed shaft.

The utility model provides a microbial incubator, preferably, the lateral wall of first plywood is provided with and is used for the first rotation of circumferential direction first plywood detains; the side wall of the second layer plate is provided with a second rotating buckle for circumferentially rotating the second layer plate; the first rotating buckle and the second rotating buckle are arranged on the outer surface of the incubator shell in a protruding mode.

The utility model provides a microorganism incubator, preferably, the incubator shell is also provided with a division plate with a cross-shaped horizontal section; the partition plate is provided in each of the culture spaces and one of the partition plates quarters one of the culture spaces; the middle part of the partition plate is provided with a central shaft cylinder, and the partition plate is rotatably sleeved on the outer surface of the fixed shaft through the central shaft cylinder; the partition plate is fixed with the first floor plate, and the partition plate can synchronously rotate along with the first floor plate.

The utility model provides a microbial incubator, preferably, the thermostatic control device includes the wind-guiding mechanism that is used for spreading the fluid evenly in the incubator casing, still includes controller, electrical heating mechanism, cooling body, temperature sensor; the cooling mechanism, the electric heating mechanism and the temperature sensor are respectively electrically connected with the controller.

The utility model provides a microorganism incubator, preferably, the outer wall of the incubator shell is provided with a temperature regulator and a temperature display; the temperature regulator and the temperature display are respectively connected with the controller.

The utility model provides a microbial incubator, preferably, temperature regulator and the temperature display integration on a touch-type display screen; the touch display screen is in communication connection with the controller; the touch display screen is arranged on the surface of the outer wall of the culture box shell.

The utility model provides a microbial cultivation case, preferably, the incubator casing adopts transparent material to make.

The technical scheme has the following advantages or beneficial effects:

the utility model provides a microorganism incubator, which comprises a cylindrical incubator shell; a constant temperature control device and a plurality of object placing plates are arranged in the shell of the incubator; the object placing plate is of a double-layer circular plate structure and comprises a first layer plate and a second layer plate; the first layer plate is formed by alternately splicing a plurality of first solid sector plates and a plurality of first hollow sector plates; the second laminate is formed by alternately splicing a plurality of second solid sector plates and a plurality of second hollow sector plates; the second layer plate can be rotatably attached to the first layer plate in a sealing mode; a closed culture space can be formed between the adjacent object placing plates or between the object placing plates and the culture box shell; and each culture space is provided with an independent box door on the culture box shell. The utility model provides a microbial cultivation case simple structure has reduced the temperature fluctuation range that appears because of the certain sample of sample observation, has promoted the reliability of cultivateing the result.

Drawings

The invention and its features, aspects and advantages will become more apparent from a reading of the following detailed description of non-limiting embodiments with reference to the attached drawings. Like reference symbols in the various drawings indicate like elements. The drawings are not intended to be drawn to scale, emphasis instead being placed upon illustrating the principles of the invention.

FIG. 1 is a schematic perspective view of a microorganism incubator according to example 1 of the present invention;

FIG. 2 is a schematic cross-sectional view of the culture spaces of the middle layer A and the layer B in the microorganism incubator provided in example 1 of the present invention in the vertical direction;

FIG. 3 is a schematic horizontal sectional view of a first plate in a microorganism incubator, according to example 1 of the present invention;

FIG. 4 is a schematic horizontal sectional view of a second plate in a microbial incubator according to example 1 of the present invention;

FIG. 5 is a schematic view of a horizontal cross-section of a microorganism incubator provided in example 1 of the present invention at a partition plate;

FIG. 6 is a schematic view showing the connection of a thermostat control device of a microorganism incubator according to example 1 of the present invention.

Detailed Description

In the description of the present invention, it should be noted that, as the terms "center", "upper", "lower", "left", "right", "vertical", "horizontal", "inner", "outer", etc. appear, the indicated orientation or positional relationship thereof is based on the orientation or positional relationship shown in the drawings, and is only for convenience of description and simplification of description, but does not indicate or imply that the indicated device or element must have a specific orientation, be constructed and operated in a specific orientation, and thus, should not be construed as limiting the present invention. The terms "mounted," "connected," and "connected" should be construed broadly and may include, for example, fixed connections, removable connections, or integral connections; they may be mechanically coupled, directly coupled, indirectly coupled through intervening media, or may be interconnected between two elements. The specific meaning of the above terms in the present invention can be understood in specific cases to those skilled in the art. The embodiments and features of the embodiments in the present application may be combined with each other without conflict. It is noted that the terminology used herein is for the purpose of describing particular embodiments only and is not intended to be limiting of example embodiments according to the present application. When the terms "comprises" and/or "comprising" are used in this specification, as used herein, they specify the presence of stated features, steps, operations, devices, components, and/or combinations thereof. The appearances of the terms first, second, and third, if any, are used for descriptive purposes only and are not intended to be limiting or imply relative importance.

In the following, the technical solutions in the embodiments of the present invention are clearly and completely described with reference to the drawings in the embodiments of the present invention, and it is obvious that the described embodiments are only some embodiments of the present invention, not all embodiments. Thus, the following detailed description of the embodiments of the present invention, presented in the figures, is not intended to limit the scope of the invention, as claimed, but is merely representative of selected embodiments of the invention. Based on the embodiments of the present invention, all other embodiments obtained by those skilled in the art without creative efforts belong to the protection scope of the present invention.

Example 1:

the embodiment 1 of the utility model provides a microorganism incubator, which is shown in figures 1 and 2 and comprises a cylindrical incubator shell 1; the incubator shell 1 comprises a constant temperature control device (not shown in the figure) for controlling the temperature of the incubator and a plurality of storage plates 11 which are arranged in parallel and used for placing culture dishes; the object placing plate 11 is a double-layer circular plate structure, and includes a first layer plate 111 and a second layer plate 112, as shown in fig. 3 and 4; the first laminate 111 is formed by alternately splicing a plurality of first solid fan-shaped plates 1112 and a plurality of first hollow fan-shaped plates 1113; the second layer plate 11 is formed by alternately splicing a plurality of second solid sector plates 1122 and a plurality of second hollow sector plates 1123; the second layer plate 112 can be rotatably attached to the first layer plate 111 in a sealing manner; a closed culture space can be formed between the adjacent shelf boards 11 or between the shelf boards 11 and the incubator casing 1 (as will be understood with reference to the culture spaces of the layers a and B in fig. 1 and 2); an independent box door 14 is arranged on the incubator shell 1 of each culture space.

The embodiment of the utility model provides a microbial cultivation case is when implementing, through set up a plurality of thing boards 11 of putting in incubator casing 1, can place one or more culture dishes respectively on the thing board 11 of putting of different layers and cultivate with constant temperature. During cultivation, the second layer plate 112 is rotated, so that the second solid sector-shaped plate 1122 faces the first solid sector-shaped plate 1112 of the first layer plate 111, and the second hollow sector-shaped plate 1123 faces the first hollow sector-shaped plate 1113 of the first layer plate 111, so that temperature control airflow (cold airflow and/or hot airflow) generated by the thermostatic control device of the microbial incubator conveniently diffuses in different cultivation spaces through air holes of the hollow sector-shaped plates distributed on each layer of object placing plates 11 in a staggered manner, and uniform temperature control among layers of the object placing plates 11 is realized. Because microorganism incubator among the prior art, the chamber door sets up on a whole face of box, when the culture condition of certain culture dish needs to be observed midway, the chamber door needs to be opened by a wide margin, and the heat transfer on a large scale can take place for the constant temperature environment of incubator inside instantaneous with external environment, to the microorganism of temperature sensitive type, has caused great influence to the reliability of cultivateing the result. In the microorganism incubator structure provided in embodiment 1 of the present invention, each layer of cultivation space is provided with an independent door 14, when the condition of the culture dish on one layer of object placing plate 11 needs to be observed, the rotation relationship between the second layer plate 112 and the first layer plate 111 (the rotation manner of the second layer plate 112 relative to the first layer plate 111 in the present invention includes but is not limited to providing a sliding track on the inner wall of the incubator housing 1, and the second layer plate 112 rotates circumferentially relative to the first layer plate 111 along the sliding track) can be utilized to close the channel for fluid to enter and exit in the adjacent cultivation space, specifically, as understood by those skilled in the art, taking the incubator structure shown in fig. 1 of this embodiment 1 as an example, when the worker needs to take the culture dish of the a layer of cultivation space midway to analyze and observe, the second layer plate 112 of the layer of object placing plate 11 can be rotated, so that the second solid sector plate is just opposite to the first hollow sector plate 1122 of the first layer plate 111, the second hollow fan-shaped plate 1123 faces the first solid fan-shaped plate 1112 of the first layer plate 111, so that the isolation of the culture space of the layer A and the relative sealing of the culture space of the layer B are realized, and then the door 14 of the layer A is opened to take out the culture sample on the object placing plate 11. This microbial cultivation case structure, the process of taking the cultivation sample on A layer storage plate 11 is relatively independent for B layer (or more, the number of piles can be based on the utility model provides a microbial cultivation case structure further expands). So, when the staff opened the chamber door 14 at the culture dish place that needs the sample to observe, compare the mode of opening whole chamber door in traditional incubator by a wide margin, outside air only can take place the heat exchange with the culture space of the interior minisphere of incubator in this embodiment 1, the heat transfer volume in outside air current and each layer of culture space of microorganism culture box inside has been reduced, thereby reduced because of the sample observe the culture dish on A layer thing board 11 and lead to the range that the temperature fluctuation appears in the process of cultivateing of other layers of culture dish, the reliability of incubator culture result has been promoted on the one hand, on the other hand can also help implementing the long different cultivation experiment of multiunit cultivation in the multilayer culture space of an incubator, the nimble application scene of microorganism incubator has been widened.

The microorganism incubator provided by the embodiment 1 of the present invention, preferably, referring to fig. 2, a plurality of sections of fixing shafts 13 coaxially connected are arranged on a vertical central axis of the incubator housing 1; a section of the fixed shaft 13 is arranged in one of the culture spaces, and the first floor 111 in the culture space is rotatably and coaxially connected with the fixed shaft 13. In implementation, the first layer plate 111 of each object placing plate 11 of the microorganism incubator provided in embodiment 1 of the present invention can rotate relative to the fixing shaft 13, and the fixing shaft 13 itself does not rotate, so as to support the object placing plates 11 to a certain extent; in order to rotate the first layer board 111 without moving the fixed shaft 13, for example, referring to fig. 3, a rotation bearing mechanism may be disposed between the contact position of the shaft hole 1114 of the center of the first layer board 111 of each object placing board 11 and the fixed shaft 13, and is not limited to a specific form and structure, and similarly, for the microorganism incubator provided by embodiment 1 of the present invention, a circumferential rotation manner of the second layer board 112 relative to the first layer board 111 may also be implemented by disposing a rotation bearing mechanism at the contact position of the central shaft hole 1124 of each second layer board 112 and the fixed shaft 13. First floor 111 is for fixed axle 13 rotatable coaxial coupling, and the technical effect who realizes is that when the utility model provides a microorganism incubator size design is great, when more culture dish can be placed on the individual layer thing board 11, through rotating first floor 111, can rotate the culture dish of target number to near chamber door 14 and take, improved the convenience of sample.

Preferably, in order to facilitate the operation of the experimenter, referring to fig. 2, 3 and 4, in the microorganism incubator provided by embodiment 1 of the present invention, the side wall of the first layer plate 111 is provided with a first rotating buckle 1111 for circumferentially rotating the first layer plate 111; a second rotating buckle 1121 for circumferentially rotating the second layer plate 112 is arranged on the side wall of the second layer plate 112; the first rotating buckle 1111 and the second rotating buckle 1121 are both arranged on the outer surface of the incubator casing 1 in a protruding manner. Through set up first rotation respectively on each puts thing board 11 and detain 1111 and second rotation and detain 1121, can be convenient for the experimenter through manual through rotating the isolation and the intercommunication operation of detaining the realization adjacent cultivation space, promoted the convenience of operation.

Further, as will be understood with reference to FIGS. 2 and 5, the culture box housing 1 is further provided with a partition plate 12 having a cross-shaped horizontal cross section; the partition plate 12 is provided in each of the culture spaces and one of the partition plates 12 quarters one of the culture spaces; a central shaft cylinder 121 is arranged in the middle of the partition plate 12, and the partition plate 12 is rotatably sleeved on the outer surface of the fixed shaft 13 through the central shaft cylinder 121; the partition plate 12 is fixed to the first deck 111, and the partition plate 12 can rotate synchronously with the first deck 111. Referring to fig. 5, by providing a partition plate 12 having a cross-shaped cross section, the partition plate 12 can equally divide a culture space (referring to fig. 2 and 5, the meaning of equally dividing the culture space into four parts is that the height of the partition plate 12 is the same as the height of the culture space, and the horizontal cross section of the partition plate 12 is a cross), and four groups of culture dishes can be placed on the single-layer placing plate 11 through the equally divided culture space, so that the utilization rate of the culture space of each layer can be improved, and the four groups of culture dishes can be well isolated from each other. When a worker needs to take out a certain culture dish (or put in a new culture dish), only the first layer plate 111 of the corresponding object placing plate 11 needs to be rotated, the culture dish (or vacant position) to be taken out is rotated to the corresponding box door 14, when the box door 14 is opened to take out a target sample (or put in the target sample), based on the separation effect of the separation plate 12, the external environment only exchanges heat with one fourth of the culture space obtained by the separation plate in an isolation way, the heat exchange quantity between the air outside the box door 14 and the inside of the culture box shell 1 when the microorganism sample is taken and taken out is further reduced, namely, the temperature fluctuation range caused by the culture environments of other layers of culture spaces and other culture dishes in the culture space of the layer is further reduced, and the reliability of the culture result when the sample is taken or placed is ensured.

The embodiment of the utility model provides a microbial cultivation case, thermostatic control device are not limited to specific structure, as long as can realize carrying out feedback control to the temperature in incubator casing 1 can. In the present embodiment 1, referring to FIG. 6, the thermostatic control device comprises an air guide mechanism (not shown in the figure) for uniformly diffusing the fluid in the culture tank housing 1; the device also comprises a controller 181, an electric heating mechanism 182, a cooling mechanism 183 and a temperature sensor 184; the cooling mechanism 183, the electric heating mechanism 182, and the temperature sensor 184 are electrically connected to the controller 181, respectively. The embodiment 1 of the utility model provides a constant temperature control device's constant temperature principle is: the constant temperature parameters are preset in the controller 181, temperature signals of a plurality of temperature sensors 184 mounted in the incubator casing 1 are collected to the controller 181 in real time, according to temperature values sensed by the plurality of temperature sensors 184, the controller 181 deviates from the preset constant temperature parameters up and down based on the real-time temperature parameters, the electric heating mechanism 182 is driven to change the heating capacity and/or the cooling capacity of the cooling mechanism 183, and the air guide mechanism is utilized to uniformly diffuse hot fluid and/or cold fluid into each layer of culture space of the incubator casing 1, so that the uniform constant of the internal temperature of the microbial incubator is realized.

As a preferred embodiment, in the microorganism incubator provided in example 1 of the present invention, a temperature regulator 191 and a temperature display 192 are provided on the outer wall of the incubator housing 1; referring to fig. 6, the temperature regulator 191 and the temperature display 192 are respectively connected to the controller 181. Through setting up temperature regulator 191, the user of incubator that can be convenient for adjusts the temperature parameter of predetermineeing of constant temperature environment, and controller 181 will be set for the temperature parameter storage and realize thermostatic control based on the parameter of setting for, can carry out nimble self-defined adjustment to the culture environment in the incubator. By providing a temperature display 192, it is convenient to visually display the real-time temperature detected by the temperature sensor 184. Preferably, the temperature sensor 184 is disposed in each layer of cultivation space, and the temperature display 192 displays real-time temperatures of different cultivation spaces in real time, so that an operator can know changes of the cultivation environment in real time, especially when the door 14 needs to be opened, the operator can know temperature fluctuation caused by external factors of the real-time cultivation environment, and an experimenter can better master the influence of the temperature fluctuation on the cultivation of microorganisms. In this embodiment 1, as a more preferable embodiment, the temperature regulator 191 and the temperature display 192 are integrated on a touch display 19; referring to fig. 1, the touch display 18 is provided on the outer wall surface of the incubator casing 1. Therefore, the touch display screen 19 is utilized to realize the functions of touch temperature adjustment and real-time temperature display viewing, and has better human-computer interaction, and moreover, in the embodiment 1, the temperature change curves of the temperature sensors 184 along with time can be automatically displayed on the touch display screen 19, so that an operator can conveniently know the temperature fluctuation dynamic of each layer of culture space in the incubator shell 1, and further, the sensitivity of the culture result of a microorganism sample to the temperature can be researched according to the temperature-time fluctuation curve.

The embodiment of the utility model provides a microbial cultivation case as an optimal implementation mode, can be with the casing processing of incubator casing 1 for transparent housing, adopts transparent material to make promptly, so, can further improve the operator and put thing board 11 target sample or location culture dish vacancy efficiency of taking in the rotation.

Those skilled in the art will appreciate that variations may be implemented by those skilled in the art in combination with the prior art and the above-described embodiments, and will not be described in detail herein. Such variations do not affect the essence of the present invention, and are not described herein.

The above description is directed to the preferred embodiment of the present invention. It is to be understood that the invention is not limited to the particular embodiments described above, and that devices and structures not described in detail are understood to be implemented in a manner common in the art; the person skilled in the art, without affecting the essence of the invention, may make numerous possible variations and modifications, or may modify the equivalent embodiments, without departing from the technical solution of the invention. Therefore, any simple modification, equivalent change and modification made to the above embodiments by the technical entity of the present invention all still fall within the protection scope of the technical solution of the present invention, where the technical entity does not depart from the content of the technical solution of the present invention.

Claims (8)

1. A microbial incubator, comprising a cylindrical incubator housing; a constant temperature control device for controlling the temperature of the incubator and a plurality of storage plates which are arranged in parallel and used for storing culture dishes are arranged in the incubator shell; the object placing plate is of a double-layer circular plate structure and comprises a first layer plate and a second layer plate; the first layer plate is formed by alternately splicing a plurality of first solid sector plates and a plurality of first hollow sector plates; the second laminate is formed by alternately splicing a plurality of second solid sector plates and a plurality of second hollow sector plates; the second layer plate can be rotatably attached to the first layer plate in a sealing mode; a closed culture space can be formed between the adjacent object placing plates or between the object placing plates and the culture box shell; and each culture space is provided with an independent box door on the culture box shell.

2. The microbial incubator of claim 1 wherein the incubator housing has a plurality of sections of coaxially attached stationary shafts disposed on a vertical central axis; one section of the fixed shaft is arranged in one of the culture spaces, and the first layer plate in the culture space is rotatably and coaxially connected with the fixed shaft.

3. The microbial incubator as claimed in claim 2, wherein a side wall of the first layer plate is provided with a first rotation buckle for circumferentially rotating the first layer plate; the side wall of the second layer plate is provided with a second rotating buckle for circumferentially rotating the second layer plate; the first rotating buckle and the second rotating buckle are arranged on the outer surface of the incubator shell in a protruding mode.

4. The microorganism incubator as claimed in claim 2, wherein a partition plate having a cross-shaped horizontal section is further provided in the incubator casing; the partition plate is provided in each of the culture spaces and one of the partition plates quarters one of the culture spaces; the middle part of the partition plate is provided with a central shaft cylinder, and the partition plate is rotatably sleeved on the outer surface of the fixed shaft through the central shaft cylinder; the partition plate is fixed with the first floor plate, and the partition plate can synchronously rotate along with the first floor plate.

5. The microbiological incubator as in claim 1 wherein said thermostatic control device includes an air guide mechanism for uniformly diffusing fluid within said incubator housing, further comprising a controller, an electrical heating mechanism, a cooling mechanism, a temperature sensor; the cooling mechanism, the electric heating mechanism and the temperature sensor are respectively electrically connected with the controller.

6. The microorganism incubator as claimed in claim 5, wherein a temperature regulator and a temperature display are provided on an outer wall of the incubator casing; the temperature regulator and the temperature display are respectively connected with the controller.

7. The microbiological incubator as in claim 6 wherein said temperature regulator and said temperature display are integrated on a touch screen display; the touch display screen is in communication connection with the controller; the touch display screen is arranged on the surface of the outer wall of the culture box shell.

8. A microbiological incubator as claimed in any one of claims 1 to 7 wherein the incubator housing is formed from a transparent material.

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