Porous metal implant powder cleaning device
Technical Field
The utility model relates to cleaning equipment, in particular to a porous metal implant powder cleaning device.
Background
With the wide application of additive manufacturing technology in the medical industry, more and more metal implants adopt a bionic bone trabecula structure and are implanted into a human body in a porous form. On one hand, the porous structure can promote bone ingrowth and bone fusion, and on the other hand, the porous structure can reduce adverse effects such as stress shielding and the like caused by overhigh elastic modulus of the metal material. However, the porous structure prepared by the additive manufacturing technology often leaves printed powder material or adheres to the inside of the porous structure during the preparation process. Making subsequent residual powder control processes difficult to achieve. In order to solve the problem, enterprises generally adopt repeated ultrasonic cleaning until the powder residue is controlled within a proper standard range, but the process is simple and easy to implement, but the process occupies a large amount of time and resource cost, and the cleaning end point is not easy to control. This also becomes a process problem that plagues porous metal implant manufacturing enterprises.
SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL
The utility model provides a porous metal implant powder cleaning device, and aims to solve the problems that the cleaning efficiency is low and the powder residual rate is high by utilizing ultrasonic waves in the center of the prior art.
In order to achieve the above objects, the present application provides a porous metal implant powder cleaning apparatus, comprising:
the cleaning device comprises a cleaning pool, a plurality of cleaning units and a plurality of clamping units, wherein the cleaning pool is provided with a rotating support, the rotating support is provided with a plurality of clamping platforms for clamping samples, and each clamping platform is provided with 2n clamps; a first water inlet is formed above the rotary support, a plurality of ultrasonic vibration boxes are arranged around the rotary support, the ultrasonic vibration boxes are arranged on the bottom surface and the adjacent side surfaces of the cleaning pool, and a first water outlet is also formed in the bottom surface of the cleaning pool;
a second water inlet is formed above the side edge of the water storage tank, and a second water outlet is formed in the bottom surface of the water storage tank;
the first communicating pipe is connected with the first water inlet and the second water outlet;
the second communicating pipe is connected with the first water outlet and the second water inlet;
and n is a positive integer.
Preferably, the first communicating pipe is provided with a first water pump, and the second communicating pipe is provided with a second water pump.
Preferably, the second communicating pipe is further provided with a filter box, the filter box is arranged between the second water pump and the first water outlet and comprises a transparent box body, a filter screen and a filter membrane are arranged in the box body, and the filter screen is close to one side of the first water outlet.
Preferably, the filter screen is a dense-woven metal screen, and the filtering diameter of the dense-woven metal screen is more than 15 um.
Preferably, the filtration membrane is an aqueous filtration membrane, and the filtration diameter of the aqueous filtration membrane is 5um or more.
Preferably, the second communicating pipe is further provided with a cooling system, and the cooling system is arranged between the second water pump and the second water inlet.
Preferably, the rotating bracket is driven by a motor, and the rotating bracket rotates in the direction opposite to the flowing direction of the water flow in the first water inlet.
The scheme of the utility model has the following beneficial effects:
according to the utility model, water flow is carried out through the cleaning pool and the reservoir, the powder in the porous structure can be effectively washed by matching with the vibration effect of the ultrasonic vibration box, and the water flow in the porous structure can flow out with the powder in the rotating process of the rotating bracket, so that the residual rate of the powder is reduced; in addition, the arrangement mode of the ultrasonic vibration box can provide a cleaning effect more three-dimensionally, and dead angles are avoided.
Drawings
FIG. 1 is a first perspective view of the present invention;
FIG. 2 is a second perspective view of the present invention;
FIG. 3 is a top view of the cleaning tank and the water reservoir;
FIG. 4 is a cross-sectional view taken along line A-A of FIG. 3;
fig. 5 is a sectional view taken in the direction B-B in fig. 4.
[ description of reference ]
1-a cleaning pool, 11-a rotary bracket, 12-a clamp, 13-an ultrasonic vibration box, 2-a water reservoir, 3-a first communicating pipe, 4-a second communicating pipe, 31-a first water pump, 41-a second water pump, 42-a filter box, 43-a filter screen, 44-a filter membrane and 45-a cooling system.
Detailed Description
In order to make the technical problems, technical solutions and advantages of the present invention more apparent, the following detailed description is given with reference to the accompanying drawings and specific embodiments.
As shown in fig. 1 to 5, an embodiment of the present invention provides a porous metal implant powder cleaning apparatus, which includes a cleaning tank 1 and a water reservoir 2, wherein a rotating bracket 11 is disposed in the cleaning tank 1, a plurality of holding platforms for holding a sample are disposed on the rotating bracket 11, and 2n clamps 12 are disposed on each holding platform. Wherein n is a positive integer. The clamping surface of the clamp 12 is made of elastic materials such as silica gel, and can protect the sample from being clamped and damaged. Preferably, the rotary support 11 and the clamping platform are arranged in a hollow manner, so that subsequent water flow is prevented. The rotating frame 11 is polygonal prism-shaped. The rotating bracket 11 is arranged in the middle of the cleaning pool 1 and is driven to rotate by a motor. A first water inlet and a first water outlet are also arranged in the cleaning tank 1, wherein the first water inlet is arranged above the rotating bracket 11, preferably, the first water inlet is not arranged right above the rotating bracket 11. The first water outlet is arranged at the bottom of the cleaning device.
Further, a plurality of ultrasonic vibration boxes 13 are arranged in the cleaning pool 1, and the ultrasonic vibration boxes 13 are arranged on the bottom surface and the adjacent side surfaces of the cleaning pool 1. Preferably, the cleaning tank 1 has a double-layer structure, the inner layer of the cleaning tank is used for containing liquid, and the outer layer of the cleaning tank is used for arranging the ultrasonic vibration box 13, so that the liquid is prevented from wetting the ultrasonic vibration box 13. The arrangement mode of the ultrasonic vibration box 13 can fully perform ultrasonic vibration on the sample on the rotating bracket 11, no vibration dead angle exists, and the vibration frequency is selected according to the product structure characteristics of the sample.
The reservoir 2 is provided with a second water inlet and a second water outlet, wherein the second water inlet is arranged above the side edge of the reservoir 2, and the second water outlet is arranged on the bottom surface of the reservoir 2.
A porous metal implant powder cleaning device further comprises a first communicating pipe 3 and a second communicating pipe 4. The first communicating pipe 3 is used for connecting a first water inlet and a second water outlet, and the second communicating pipe 4 is used for communicating the first water outlet and the second water inlet.
In order to strengthen the water supply capacity of the first communicating pipe 3 and the second communicating pipe 4, the first communicating pipe 3 is provided with a first water pump 31 which can control the water flow rate of the first water inlet to be in the range of 0.1-30m/s and adapt to the cleaning process parameters of different product structure characteristics by adjusting the water flow rate. The second communication pipe 4 is provided with a second water pump 41.
Further, in order to ensure that mutual contamination between the water flows in the cleaning tank 1 and the water reservoir 2 does not occur, a filter cartridge 42 is further disposed on the second communication pipe 4, and the filter cartridge 42 is disposed between the second water pump 41 and the first water outlet. The filtering box 42 is a transparent box, and a filtering net 43 and a filtering membrane 44 are arranged in the filtering box, wherein the filtering net 43 is close to the first water outlet side relative to the filtering membrane 44, and is used for filtering larger powder, and the filtering membrane 44 performs a second filtering. Preferably, the filter screen 43 is a tightly woven metal screen, and the filtering diameter of the tightly woven metal screen is more than 15 um; the filtration membrane 44 is an aqueous filtration membrane having a filtration diameter of 5 um. The second water pump 41 can also pressurize the liquid passing through the filter cartridge 42, improving the filtration efficiency.
The cleaning effect can be monitored by observing/detecting the amount of particles on the filter net 43 or the filter membrane 44 or the weight change of the filter net 43 or the filter membrane 44.
Still be provided with cooling system 45 on second communicating pipe 4, cooling system 45 sets up between second water pump 41 and second water inlet, and its effect lies in the rivers that the cooling flow through in the second communicating pipe 4, avoids arousing rivers temperature rise because of ultrasonic vibration, damages the sample.
The working principle of the utility model is as follows:
the first communicating pipe 3 leads the water flow in the reservoir 2 into the cleaning tank 1, the water flow passes through the rotating bracket 11 to wash the sample on the rotating bracket, and the direction of the water flow is opposite to the rotating direction of the rotating bracket 11 to ensure the washing effect. While the water flow washes, the ultrasonic vibration box 13 vibrates to vibrate the powder in the porous structure, and under the combined action of the water flow and the ultrasonic wave, the powder is thrown out of the porous structure along with the rotation of the rotating support 11.
The flow of water after washing is stored in the reservoir 2 through the second communication pipe 4 and filtered by the filter cartridge 42, so that it is prevented that the water in the reservoir 2 contains a large amount of powder, which interferes with the washing of the washing tub 1 introduced for the second time.
While the foregoing is directed to the preferred embodiment of the present invention, it will be understood by those skilled in the art that various changes and modifications may be made without departing from the spirit and scope of the utility model as defined in the appended claims.