CN215953377U - Full-automatic scanning device for continuously conveying glass slides - Google Patents

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CN215953377U
CN215953377U CN202122231229.4U CN202122231229U CN215953377U CN 215953377 U CN215953377 U CN 215953377U CN 202122231229 U CN202122231229 U CN 202122231229U CN 215953377 U CN215953377 U CN 215953377U
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The utility model provides a full-automatic scanning device for continuously conveying slides, which comprises a slide storage bracket, a slide box moving mechanism, a slide ejection and pushing mechanism, a slide scanning and analyzing mechanism and a slide recovery mechanism, wherein the slide storage bracket is arranged on the slide box; the slide storage bracket is arranged into an upper layer bracket and a lower layer bracket; the slide box moving mechanism is fixedly arranged on a layer of bracket on the slide storage bracket; the slide recovery mechanism is fixedly arranged on the lower layer of the support of the slide storage support; the slide ejection and pushing mechanism is fixedly arranged at the bottom of the slide box moving mechanism and extends to one end of the slide scanning and analyzing mechanism; the slide scanning and analyzing mechanism is used for scanning, analyzing and processing the pushed slide, and the other end of the slide scanning and analyzing mechanism is connected to the slide recovery mechanism. The device can carry out the multiunit side by side, and uninterruptedly carries out work simultaneously, and multiunit work, the mutual noninterference has really realized the full-automatic assembly line operation that supplies the piece, scans, receive the piece infinitely, has saved the manpower, has avoided the damage of slide scanning work, and scanning quality is high, and efficiency is fast.

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Full-automatic scanning device for continuously conveying glass slides
Technical Field
The utility model belongs to the technical field of auxiliary equipment for clinical diagnosis, and particularly relates to a full-automatic scanning device for continuously conveying slides.
Background
The slide scanning system is widely applied to the diagnosis of pathology, hematology, cytology and the like, and is widely applied to clinical diagnosis. Slide scanners are still under development, and there are currently single slide scanners, multi-slide scanners. Due to technical limitation, a plurality of slide scanning instruments on the market are still arranged in a single scanning instrument, the capacity of the single scanning instrument is used for loading a plurality of slides at one time, and after the slides are sequentially and completely scanned, the slides are basically manually loaded in consideration of fragility.
SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL
The technical scheme is as follows: in order to solve the technical problems of slow loading and unloading and low scanning efficiency, the full-automatic scanning device for continuously conveying the glass slides, provided by the utility model, can realize automatic continuous loading of the glass slides and moving of the glass slides to a position below a scanning and analyzing mechanism, and can automatically recover the glass slides, the whole process does not need manual operation, a full-automatic structure is realized, the working efficiency is greatly improved, and the specific technical content is as follows:
comprises a slide storage bracket, a slide box moving mechanism, a slide ejection and pushing mechanism, a slide scanning and analyzing mechanism and a slide recovery mechanism; the slide storage bracket is arranged into an upper layer bracket and a lower layer bracket; the slide box moving mechanism is fixedly arranged in a layer of bracket on the slide storage bracket; one end of the slide sheet discharging and pushing mechanism is fixedly arranged on one side of the slide sheet box moving mechanism, and the other end of the slide sheet discharging and pushing mechanism extends to one side of the slide sheet scanning and analyzing mechanism and is used for continuously pushing a slide sheet to enter the slide sheet scanning and analyzing mechanism; the slide scanning and analyzing mechanism is used for scanning, analyzing and processing the pushed slide, and the other side of the slide scanning and analyzing mechanism is connected to the slide recovery mechanism; the slide recovery mechanism is used for recovering the slide after scanning analysis.
As another improvement, the slide box moving mechanism comprises a slide chamber and a chamber door plate; the glass slide bin is a structure with an opening on three sides and one closed side, and a glass slide is placed in each inclined bin cavity; the bin door plate is a vertical plate and can be placed on the opening side of the slide bin in an opening and closing mode to block the opening, and a clamping block is arranged at the top of the bin door plate.
As another improvement, a clamping groove is formed in a cross beam of the upper layer of the slide storage bracket, and a clamping block of the bin door plate is connected with the clamping groove in a sliding opening and closing mode.
As another improvement, the slide box moving mechanism further comprises a lifting platform, wherein the lifting platform is arranged on the same vertical plane when the clamping block and the clamping groove are clamped together, and is arranged between the middle position of the slide storage bracket and the position of the next layer of bracket in the plane right below the slide bin.
As another improvement, the slide ejection and pushing mechanism comprises a slide placing station and a pushing movement mechanism; the slide placing station is arranged in a structure that a plurality of slides are arranged side by side at intervals, and the slide station at the end part corresponds to the slide position at the outlet of the slide bin and is used for receiving the falling slides; the pushing movement mechanisms are fixedly arranged on two sides of the slide placing station and used for pushing the slide into the slide scanning analysis mechanism.
As another improvement, the pushing movement mechanism comprises an X-axis direction driving mechanism which is used for the slide placing station to move along the X-axis direction; and the Y-axis direction driving mechanism is used for moving the slide placing station along the Y-axis direction.
As another improvement, the slide scanning and analyzing mechanism comprises a bracket, a scanning device, a driving mechanism and an optical isolation scanning mechanism; the scanning equipment is fixedly arranged at the upper end of the bracket, and a plurality of groups of independent slides to be scanned are arranged below the bracket and used for simultaneously scanning and analyzing the plurality of groups of slides; the driving mechanism is used for driving the slide to move and enter the slide recovery mechanism; the optical isolation scanning mechanism is arranged between any two groups of slide stations to be scanned and is of a telescopic structure along the Z-axis direction of the slide.
As another improvement, the driving mechanism comprises an X-axis direction driving mechanism for driving the position of the scanned slide to move along the X-axis direction; and the Y-axis direction driving mechanism is used for driving the scanned slide to move along the Y-axis direction.
As another improvement, the slide scanning and analyzing mechanism further comprises a three-dimensional driving module, which is fixedly mounted on the support, electrically connected with the scanning device, and used for the scanning device to perform three-dimensional movement along the X axis, the Y axis and the Z axis, and focusing during scanning.
As another improvement, the slide recovery mechanism comprises a slide recovery bin, a slide rail and a driving motor; the glass slide recovery bin is of a multilayer partition cavity structure with an opening on one side and three closed sides, and one side of the opening faces to the glass slide scanning analysis mechanism and is used for recovering the scanned glass slides; the slide rail is arranged on one side of the slide scanning and analyzing mechanism and is used for providing a movable rail on the other side face, which is just opposite to the opening of the fixed slide recovery bin; and the driving motor is used for driving the slide recovery bin to move up and down along the slide rail to provide power.
Has the advantages that: compared with the conventional device, the device provided by the utility model has the following advantages:
(1) the device provides slide box and retrieves the mechanism, sets up upper strata, the lower floor at slide storage support independently, can realize providing of upper slide, retrieves after the lower floor slide scans, and area occupied is few, and simultaneously, the overall arrangement has arranged the production flow station, can carry out the slide transmission in an orderly manner, avoids the confusion, makes mistakes, reduce efficiency.
(2) The device, through the draw-in groove at slide storage support entablature, with the fixture block of storehouse door plant between the card and be connected, with the help of the whereabouts of slide storehouse edge lift platform, further, set up every decline take the altitude, just storehouse door plant spills an slope storehouse, release a slide, further realize during the slide slides in next station, whole process does not need manual operation, sets up rationally and ingenious, has reduced the slide damage, and work efficiency is high simultaneously.
(3) The device, through setting up slide play piece push jack mechanism, will slide into the slide and place the slide in the station, under the moving mode of propelling movement mechanism, realize that a plurality of stations put into independent slide in order, optionally fix, through the station removal, realize the splicing of slide, push jack, plectrum, get into next station.
(4) The device, through setting up slide scanning analysis mechanism, can three-dimensional direction realize scanning equipment's focusing and focus, accomplish a plurality of slides that independently distribute side by side at interval simultaneously, scan simultaneously, saved scanning operating time, also avoided makeing mistakes.
Meanwhile, the optical isolation scanning mechanism is arranged between any two groups of slide stations to be scanned and is of a telescopic structure along the Z-axis direction of the slide, so that the device disclosed by the utility model can be applied to slide scanning work under the bright field scanning scene requirement and can also be applied to slide scanning work under the dark field scanning scene. By means of the telescopic structure, light rays are isolated, interference among multiple groups of glass slides scanned simultaneously is avoided, and the scanning process of different glass slides is independently completed.
(5) The device retrieves the mechanism through setting up, carries out the order with the slide of last in-process scanning and retrieves, does not need artifical recovery to reduce the human consumption, has improved work efficiency simultaneously.
(6) Meanwhile, the device provided by the utility model can work in multiple groups side by side and uninterruptedly simultaneously, the multiple groups do not interfere with each other, the full-automatic assembly line operation of supplying, scanning and receiving the slide in an unlimited manner is really realized, the manpower is saved, the damage of the slide scanning work is avoided, the scanning quality is high, and the efficiency is high.
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FIG. 1 is a schematic view of the overall apparatus of the present invention.
FIG. 2 is a schematic structural view of a cross section of a slide scanning analysis structure according to the present invention.
FIG. 3 is a schematic view showing the structure of the slide recovery mechanism of the present invention.
FIG. 4 is a schematic view of the configuration of the slide magazine of the present invention.
In the figure: the slide glass taking and pushing device comprises a slide glass storage bracket 1, a slide glass box moving mechanism 2, a slide glass taking and pushing mechanism 3, a slide glass scanning and analyzing mechanism 4, a slide glass recovery mechanism 5, a slide glass bin 6, a bin door plate 7, a lifting platform 8, a slide glass placing station 9, a pushing and moving mechanism 10, a slide glass recovery bin 11, a slide rail 12 and a clamping block 13.
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The following examples are given to further illustrate the embodiments of the present invention. The following examples are intended to illustrate the utility model but are not intended to limit the scope of the utility model.
The full-automatic scanning device for continuously conveying the slide comprises a slide storage bracket 1, a slide box moving mechanism 2, a slide ejection and pushing mechanism 3, a slide scanning and analyzing mechanism 4 and a slide recovery mechanism 5; the slide storage bracket 1 is arranged into an upper layer bracket and a lower layer bracket; the slide box moving mechanism 2 is fixedly arranged in a layer of bracket on the slide storage bracket 1; one end of the slide sheet discharging and pushing mechanism 3 is fixedly arranged on one side of the slide sheet box moving mechanism 2, and the other end of the slide sheet discharging and pushing mechanism extends to one side of the slide sheet scanning and analyzing mechanism 4 and is used for continuously pushing a slide sheet to enter the slide sheet scanning and analyzing mechanism 4; the slide scanning and analyzing mechanism 4 is used for scanning, analyzing and processing the pushed slide, and the other side of the slide scanning and analyzing mechanism is connected to the slide recovery mechanism 5; the slide recovery mechanism 5 is used for recovering the slide after scanning analysis.
The slide box moving mechanism 2 comprises a slide chamber 6 and a chamber door plate 7; the glass slide bin 6 is a structure with an opening on three sides and one closed side, and a plurality of inclined bin cavities are arranged in a row; the bin door plate 7 is a vertical plate and can be placed on the opening side of the slide bin 6 in an opening and closing mode to block the opening, and a clamping block 13 is arranged on the outer side face of the top or the bottom of the bin door plate.
And a clamping groove is formed in a cross beam of the top bracket or the middle bracket of the slide storage bracket 1, and a clamping block 13 of the bin door plate 7 is connected with the clamping groove in a sliding opening and closing manner.
The slide box moving mechanism 2 further comprises a lifting platform 8, wherein the lifting platform 8 is arranged on the same vertical plane when the clamping block and the clamping groove are clamped, and in the plane right below the slide bin 6, between the middle position of the slide storage support 1 and the position of the next layer of support
The slide ejection and pushing mechanism 3 comprises a slide placing station 9 and a pushing movement mechanism 10; the slide placing station 9 is arranged in a structure that a plurality of slides are arranged side by side at intervals, and the slide station at the end part corresponds to the slide position at the outlet of the slide bin 6 and is used for receiving the falling slides; the pushing movement mechanism 10 is fixedly arranged on two sides of the slide placing station 9 and used for pushing the slide into the slide scanning analysis mechanism 4.
The pushing movement mechanism 10 comprises an X-axis direction driving mechanism and is used for enabling the slide placing station 9 to move along the X-axis direction; and the Y-axis direction driving mechanism is used for the slide placing station 9 to move along the Y-axis direction.
The slide scanning and analyzing mechanism 4 comprises a bracket, scanning equipment, a driving mechanism and an optical isolation scanning mechanism; the scanning equipment is fixedly arranged at the upper end of the bracket, and a plurality of groups of independent slides to be scanned are arranged below the bracket and used for simultaneously scanning and analyzing the plurality of groups of slides; the driving mechanism is used for driving the slide to move and enter the slide recovery mechanism 5; the optical isolation scanning mechanism is arranged between any two groups of slide stations to be scanned and is of a telescopic structure along the Z-axis direction of the slide.
The driving mechanism comprises an X-axis direction driving mechanism and is used for driving the scanned slide to move along the X-axis direction; and the Y-axis direction driving mechanism is used for driving the scanned slide to move along the Y-axis direction.
The slide scanning and analyzing mechanism 4 further comprises a three-dimensional driving module which is fixedly installed on the support, electrically connected with the scanning device and used for the scanning device to move in the three-dimensional direction along the X axis, the Y axis and the Z axis and focus during scanning.
The slide recovery mechanism 5 comprises a slide recovery bin 11, a slide rail 12 and a driving motor; the slide recovery bin 11 is of a multilayer compartment structure with an opening on one side and three closed sides, and one side of the opening faces the slide scanning and analyzing mechanism 4 and is used for recovering the scanned slides; the slide rail 12 is arranged on one side of the slide scanning and analyzing mechanism 4 and is used for providing a moving rail on the other side surface opposite to the opening of the fixed slide recovery bin 11; the driving motor is used for driving the slide recovery bin 11 to move up and down along the slide rail 12 to provide power.
As another embodiment of the utility model, the slide recovery mechanism 5 can also be arranged on the lower layer of the slide storage rack 1, so that the position of the whole device can be coordinated and the space can be saved.
When the full-automatic scanning device for continuously conveying the glass slides works, a group of glass slide bins 6 are conveyed to the lifting platform 8, the clamping blocks 13 are clamped with the clamping grooves, the bin door plate 7 is clamped on the glass slide storage bracket 1, and the glass slide bins are opened to form a cavity to slide out of one glass slide under the action of gravity by driving the lifting platform 8 every time the lifting platform moves for one distance.
The slide slides slide down enter the slide discharging and pushing mechanism 3, the driving mechanism in the X-axis direction and the driving mechanism in the Y-axis direction are adjusted by driving the pushing and moving mechanism, and the slide slides falling down are continuously placed into a plurality of slide placing stations 9 in a row according to the sequence.
And then, the slide is pushed into a scanning station of the scanning equipment by driving a driving mechanism of the slide scanning and analyzing mechanism 4, space preparation of independent scanning work is completed by lifting the optical isolation scanning mechanism, and independent scanning work is carried out on the slide in the independent station.
When the slide scanning device is used for scanning, the slide scanning device can be freely adjusted in the three-dimensional direction according to requirements through the three-dimensional driving module in the three-dimensional direction, and slide scanning is carried out.
And finally, after the scanning is finished, the driving motor and the slide rail 12 are driven to work in a matching way, and the scanned slide is pushed back to the slide recovery bin 11, so that the whole scanning work is finished.
After the slides in the slide magazine 6 are dispensed, the other set of slide magazines can be pushed directly without intermittent circulation, and the above work is repeated until the work requirement is finished.
The above-mentioned embodiments only express several embodiments of the present invention, and the description thereof is more specific and detailed, but not construed as limiting the scope of the utility model. It should be noted that, for a person skilled in the art, several variations and modifications can be made without departing from the inventive concept, which falls within the scope of the present invention. Therefore, the protection scope of the present patent shall be subject to the appended claims.

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1. The full-automatic scanning device for continuously conveying the slide is characterized in that: comprises a slide storage bracket (1), a slide box moving mechanism (2), a slide ejection and pushing mechanism (3), a slide scanning and analyzing mechanism (4) and a slide recovery mechanism (5); the slide storage bracket (1) is arranged into an upper layer bracket and a lower layer bracket; the slide box moving mechanism (2) is fixedly arranged in a layer of support on the slide storage support (1); one end of the slide sheet discharging and pushing mechanism (3) is fixedly arranged on one side of the slide sheet box moving mechanism (2), and the other end of the slide sheet discharging and pushing mechanism extends to one side of the slide sheet scanning and analyzing mechanism (4) and is used for continuously pushing a slide sheet into the slide sheet scanning and analyzing mechanism (4); the slide scanning and analyzing mechanism (4) is used for scanning, analyzing and processing the pushed slide, and the other side of the slide scanning and analyzing mechanism is connected to the slide recovery mechanism (5); the slide recovery mechanism (5) is used for recovering the slide after scanning analysis.
2. The full-automatic scanning device for continuously conveying slides according to claim 1, wherein: the slide box moving mechanism (2) comprises a slide cabin (6) and a cabin door plate (7); the glass sheet bin (6) is a structure with an opening on one side and three sides of a row of a plurality of inclined bin cavities, and a glass sheet is placed in each inclined bin cavity; the bin door plate (7) is a vertical plate and can be placed on the opening side of the slide bin (6) in an opening and closing mode to block the opening, and a clamping block is arranged at the top of the bin door plate.
3. The full-automatic scanning device for continuously conveying slides according to claim 2, wherein: a clamping groove is formed in the cross beam of the slide storage bracket (1), and a clamping block of the bin door plate (7) can be opened and closed with the clamping groove in a sliding mode.
4. The full-automatic scanning device for continuously conveying slides according to claim 3, wherein: the slide box moving mechanism (2) further comprises a lifting platform (8), wherein the lifting platform (8) is arranged on the same vertical plane between the clamping block and the clamping groove, and in the plane right below the slide bin (6), between the middle position of the slide storage support (1) and the position of the next layer of support.
5. The full-automatic scanning device for continuously conveying slides according to claim 4, wherein: the slide ejection and pushing mechanism (3) comprises a slide placing station (9) and a pushing movement mechanism (10); the slide placing station (9) is arranged in a structure that a plurality of slides are arranged side by side at intervals, and the slide station at the end part corresponds to the slide position at the outlet of the slide bin (6) and is used for receiving the falling slide; the pushing movement mechanisms (10) are fixedly arranged on two sides of the slide placing station (9) and are used for pushing the slide into the slide scanning analysis mechanism (4).
6. The full-automatic scanning device for continuously conveying slides according to claim 5, wherein: the pushing movement mechanism (10) comprises an X-axis direction driving mechanism and is used for enabling the slide placing station (9) to move along the X-axis direction; and the Y-axis direction driving mechanism is used for the slide placing station (9) to move along the Y-axis direction.
7. The full-automatic scanning device for continuously conveying slides according to claim 1, wherein: the slide scanning and analyzing mechanism (4) comprises a bracket, scanning equipment, a driving mechanism and an optical isolation scanning mechanism; the scanning equipment is fixedly arranged at the upper end of the bracket, and a plurality of groups of independent slides to be scanned are arranged below the bracket and used for simultaneously scanning and analyzing the plurality of groups of slides; the driving mechanism is used for driving the slide to move and enter the slide recovery mechanism (5); the optical isolation scanning mechanism is arranged between any two groups of slide stations to be scanned and is of a telescopic structure along the Z-axis direction of the slide.
8. The full-automatic scanning device for continuously conveying slides according to claim 7, wherein: the driving mechanism comprises an X-axis direction driving mechanism and is used for driving the scanned slide to move along the X-axis direction; and the Y-axis direction driving mechanism is used for driving the scanned slide to move along the Y-axis direction.
9. The full-automatic scanning device for continuously conveying slides according to claim 7, wherein: the slide scanning and analyzing mechanism (4) further comprises a three-dimensional driving module which is fixedly arranged on the support, electrically connected with the scanning equipment and used for the scanning equipment to move in the three-dimensional direction along the X axis, the Y axis and the Z axis and focus during scanning.
10. The full-automatic scanning device for continuously conveying slides according to claim 1, wherein: the slide recovery mechanism (5) comprises a slide recovery bin (11), a slide rail (12) and a driving motor; the glass slide recovery bin (11) is of a multilayer compartment structure with an opening on one side and three closed sides, and one side of the opening faces the glass slide scanning analysis mechanism (4) and is used for recovering the scanned glass slide; the slide rail (12) is arranged on one side of the slide scanning and analyzing mechanism (4) and is used for providing a moving rail on the other side face opposite to the opening of the fixed slide recovery bin (11); the driving motor is used for driving the slide recovery bin (11) to move up and down along the sliding rail (12) to provide power.
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