CN217470958U

CN217470958U - Experimental animal cage

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Publication number: CN217470958U
Application number: CN202220608225.5U
Authority: CN
Inventors: 杨伯清; 罗佳菲; 贺婷; 李彬; 岳广新; 王欣
Original assignee: Fuwai Hospital of CAMS and PUMC
Current assignee: Fuwai Hospital of CAMS and PUMC
Priority date: 2022-03-18
Filing date: 2022-03-18
Publication date: 2022-09-23
Anticipated expiration: 2032-03-18

Abstract

The utility model provides an experimental animals cage relates to cage utensil technical field, has solved the cage utensil structure and has caused the technical problem of influence to the environmental factor index. This experimental animals cage utensil, including the cage body, set up ventilation assembly, lighting components, blowdown subassembly and the information acquisition subassembly on the cage body, ventilation assembly is the structure of airing exhaust on supplying air down. The utility model is used for the laboratory animal inhales, can effectively solve because of the interference that cage utensil structure brought, reduces the unnecessary operation to the animal, also plays effective effect to the animal postsurgical recovery.

Description

Experimental animal cage

Technical Field

The utility model belongs to the technical field of cage utensil technique and specifically relates to an experimental animals cage utensil and cage utensil group is related to.

Background

The experimental animal is an animal which is artificially bred, controls the carried microorganisms and parasites, has definite genetic background or clear source and is used for scientific research, teaching, production and verification and other scientific experiments. The experimental animals are used as important supporting conditions of scientific research conditions, according to the environmental factor indexes of the rearing rooms in DB11T 1807-2020 experimental animal environmental conditions, the environmental requirements in the facilities can meet corresponding requirements, but the influence of the living cages in which the animals are located on the environmental factor indexes (the influence indexes mainly comprise temperature difference, ventilation times, illumination, harmful gas and the like) and the change of external environmental factors during the transportation of the animals are ignored; meanwhile, various physical sign indexes of the animals cannot be recorded and obtained in time.

SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL

An object of the utility model is to provide an experimental animals cage utensil and cage utensil group to solve the cage utensil structure that exists among the prior art and cause the technical problem of influence to the environmental factor index.

In order to achieve the above purpose, the utility model provides a following technical scheme:

the utility model provides a pair of experimental animals cage utensil, be in including cage body, setting ventilation assembly, lighting components, blowdown subassembly and information acquisition subassembly on the cage body, ventilation assembly is the exhaust structure of going up of supplying air down.

As a further improvement, the ventilation assembly comprises an air inlet arranged at the lower part of the cage body, an air inlet arranged at the top of the cage body and an air outlet arranged at the two opposite sides of the air inlet, an air pipe communicated with the air inlet, and an air supply connected at the top of the air pipe, and an exhaust fan arranged on the air outlet.

As a further improvement of the utility model, the air supply source is a fan or an indoor air supply assembly; the air supply source also comprises an air conditioner assembly communicated with the ventilation pipeline.

As a further improvement, the air pipe is internally provided with an air volume valve for adjusting air volume.

As a further improvement of the utility model, the lighting assembly is arranged on the top of the cage body; and the lighting assembly is adjustable in opening time and illumination intensity.

As a further improvement of the utility model, the sewage discharge assembly comprises a first guide groove arranged at the rear side of the cage body and a second guide groove arranged at the side of the cage body, a sewage collecting tank is obliquely arranged at the bottom of the cage body, and a notch is arranged at the lower end of the sewage collecting tank and is connected with the first guide groove; one end of the second diversion trench is connected with the first diversion trench, and the other end of the second diversion trench is connected with a sewer.

As a further improvement of the utility model, the information acquisition component comprises a temperature sensing probe, a humidity sensing probe, an air supply quantity sensing probe, an ammonia nitrogen concentration sensing probe and a camera for acquiring animal behavior data; the cage also comprises a weight monitoring element arranged on the grid type bottom plate at the bottom of the cage body.

As a further improvement of the utility model, the cage further comprises an electronic display device arranged at the front side of the cage body, and the electronic display device is electrically connected with the information acquisition assembly; the electronic display device is provided with an expansion interface, a data storage device and a wireless device connecting module.

As a further improvement, the bottom of the cage body is provided with a roller with a locking part, and the cage body is provided with a power supply battery which is electrically connected with the lighting assembly and the information acquisition assembly.

The utility model provides a cage group, which comprises a plurality of experimental animal cages, wherein all the experimental animal cages are arranged side by side in a single layer manner, or all the experimental animal cages are arranged side by side in a multi-layer manner;

when the experimental animal cage is arranged side by side in a single layer, the blowdown assembly comprises first guide grooves arranged on the rear side of each cage body and second guide grooves arranged on the edge of the cage body on the outermost side, two adjacent first guide grooves are integrally communicated, and the second guide grooves are communicated with the first guide grooves on the outermost side; or two adjacent first diversion grooves are arranged in a split manner and connected through a connecting piece, and the second diversion groove is communicated with the first diversion groove on the outermost side;

when the experimental animal cage is arranged side by side in a multilayer manner, the blowdown assembly comprises a first diversion trench arranged at the rear side of each cage body and a second diversion trench arranged at the edge of the cage body at the outermost side of the lowest layer; the first guide groove is connected between the upper layer and the lower layer; two adjacent first diversion grooves in the same row are integrally communicated, and the second diversion groove is communicated with the first diversion groove on the outermost side; or two adjacent first diversion grooves in the same row are arranged in a split manner and connected through a connecting piece, and the second diversion groove is communicated with the first diversion groove on the outermost side.

Compared with the prior art, the utility model following beneficial effect has:

the utility model provides an experimental animals cage utensil can effectively solve because of the interference that cage utensil structure brought, reduces unnecessary operation to the animal, also plays effective effect to animal operation postsurgical recovery.

Drawings

In order to more clearly illustrate the embodiments of the present invention or the technical solutions in the prior art, the drawings used in the description of the embodiments or the prior art will be briefly described below, it is obvious that the drawings in the following description are only some embodiments of the present invention, and for those skilled in the art, other drawings can be obtained according to these drawings without creative efforts.

FIG. 1 is a schematic structural view of the experimental animal cage of the present invention;

fig. 2 is a schematic structural view of an embodiment of the cage set of the present invention.

In figure 1, a cage body; 11. a grid-type bottom plate; 2. a ventilation assembly; 21. an air inlet; 22. an air outlet; 23. a ventilation duct; 24. a fan; 3. a lighting assembly; 4. a blowdown assembly; 41. a first diversion trench; 42. A second guiding gutter; 43. a dirt collecting tank; 44. and a vertical guide groove.

Detailed Description

In order to make the objects, technical solutions and advantages of the present invention clearer, the technical solutions of the present invention will be described in detail below. It is to be understood that the embodiments described are only some embodiments of the invention, and not all embodiments. Based on the embodiments of the present invention, all other embodiments obtained by a person skilled in the art without creative efforts belong to the protection scope of the present invention.

As shown in figure 1, the utility model provides an experimental animals cage utensil, including cage body 1, setting ventilation assembly 2, lighting assembly 3, blowdown subassembly 4 and the information acquisition subassembly on cage body 1, ventilation assembly is the structure of airing exhaust down. In this embodiment, the structure shown in fig. 1 is merely an illustration.

Harmful gas such as ammonia gas generated by animals generally floats on the upper layer, so the concentration of the harmful gas can be effectively solved by adopting upper exhaust, and the harmful gas can not only damage the respiratory system of the animals, but also influence the healing of the wounds after the operations of the animals.

Through adopting air supply down, go up the ventilation module 2 of wind-blowing mode, the advantage is that wind blows out from cage body 1 bottom, except increasing the number of times of taking a breath, can also let cage utensil bottom quick drying fast, and the animal in the cage utensil, its mouth is rushed down during, can breathe fresh air like this, after the animal couches, because bottom circulation of air can play the effect of rapid healing to the postoperative animal to the operation incision.

Further, the ventilation assembly 2 includes an air inlet 21 disposed at a lower portion of the cage body 1, an air outlet 22 disposed at a top portion of the cage body 1 and located at two opposite sides of the air inlet 21, a ventilation duct 23 communicated with the air inlet 21, an air supply source connected to a beginning end of the ventilation duct 23, and an exhaust fan mounted on the air outlet 22. Forced air exhaust is formed by the exhaust fan.

During the use, the wind of air supply source sends into cage body 1 through air intake 21 through ventilation duct 23, then discharges through the air exit 22 at top, has realized the circulation of gas in the cage body 1.

Furthermore, the air supply source is a fan 24 or an indoor air supply assembly, and it should be noted that when the fan 24 is arranged, the fan 24 is used for sending indoor fresh air into the cage body 1, the indoor fresh air is sent by the indoor air supply assembly, the indoor air supply assembly is a product in the prior art and is used for introducing external air into the indoor assembly, and the assembly is not an improvement of the utility model, and the pipeline of the existing indoor air supply assembly is used for connecting the ventilating pipeline 23 to the cage body 1, so that the ventilation of the cage body 1 is realized;

in order to ensure the suitability of the ambient temperature, the temperature in the cage body 1 is kept in a comfortable range, and the air supply source further comprises an air conditioning assembly communicated with the ventilation duct 23. The air conditioning assembly 23 also regulates the air circulating within the cage body 1.

In order to improve the flexibility and applicability of the use of the cage body 1, an air volume valve for adjusting the air volume is arranged in the ventilation duct 23.

As an optional embodiment of the present invention, the lighting assembly 3 is disposed on the top of the cage body 1; and the lighting assembly 3 is the lighting assembly 3 with adjustable turn-on time and illumination intensity. In every cage utensil, set up independent light, the light can carry out time control and illuminance setting, regulates and control to reasonable within range, illumination light and shade alternation time, reference standard.

Of course, the adjustment of the opening time, the opening duration and the illumination, that is, the adjustment of the brightness, can be realized by programming through the control module, and the lamp can be an LED lamp. Since this part of the technology can be implemented by using products in the prior art, it is not described herein.

Further, in this embodiment, the dirt discharging assembly 4 includes a first guiding groove 41 disposed at the rear side of the cage body 1 and a second guiding groove 42 disposed at the lateral side of the cage body 1, a dirt collecting groove 43 is obliquely disposed at the bottom of the cage body 1, and a gap is formed at a lower end of the dirt collecting groove 43 and connected to the first guiding groove 41; one end of the second guiding gutter 42 is connected with the first guiding gutter 41, and the other end is connected with the sewer.

Specifically, the dirt collecting groove 43 is a structure that is arranged in a high-front and low-rear inclined manner, so that a front-rear flushing mode is formed when the dirt collecting groove 43 is flushed, and a diversion trench for excrement is arranged behind the cage and is connected to a sewer pipeline.

It should be noted here that the first guiding gutter 41 may be a U-shaped gutter, or may be a closed box structure, three sides of the dirt collecting groove 43 are all provided with retaining walls, and a joint with the first guiding gutter 41 is not provided with a retaining wall, which has a notch, and a notch edge of the dirt collecting groove 43 may extend to the top of the inner cavity of the first guiding gutter 41, or may extend to a side edge of the first guiding gutter 41, so long as the dirt collected in the first guiding gutter 41 can automatically flow into the first guiding gutter 41 under its own gravity. In order to facilitate pollution discharge, the inner flow passage of the first flow guide groove 41 may also have a slight inclination, the second flow guide groove 42 may also be a U-shaped groove or a tubular structure, and the second flow guide groove 42 may be fixed on the cage body 1 or may not be fixed; the second guiding gutter 42 is used for conveying the dirt collected and guided out of the first guiding gutter 41 into the sewer pipe and discharging the dirt.

The second guide grooves 42 serve to connect between the first guide grooves 41 and the downcomer.

As an optional implementation manner of the utility model, the information acquisition assembly comprises a temperature sensing probe, a humidity sensing probe, an air supply quantity sensing probe, an ammonia nitrogen concentration sensing probe and a camera for acquiring animal behavior data; and also comprises a weight monitoring element arranged on a grid type bottom plate 11 at the bottom of the cage body 1.

The induction probe and the camera are additionally arranged in the cage, so that the temperature, the humidity, the air output and the ammonia and nitrogen concentrations in the individual cage can be monitored; the camera can gather the behavioral data of animal. Through setting up weight monitoring component, can implement and carry out weight monitoring to the animal.

The cage also comprises an electronic display device arranged on the front side of the cage body 1, and the electronic display device is electrically connected with the information acquisition assembly; the electronic display device is provided with an expansion interface, a data storage device and a wireless device connecting module.

The physical sign information of the model animal after operation can not be obtained in time, particularly, the model animal in the aspect of the heart needs anesthesia at each time, the animal can be emergently grabbed, wireless equipment is implanted, the condition of the animal can be mastered at any time, and the operations of the animal and human are reduced.

Specifically, the electronic display screen is arranged on the front side of the cage, the display screen can display actual conditions in the cage, the display screen is provided with an expansion interface and a data storage device, and is convenient for later connection of various animal implantation devices (such as animal sign detection devices, including blood pressure, heart rate, body temperature, blood sugar, weight and the like), data of the devices can be exported and analyzed through the storage device, and can also be connected with wireless devices, and temperature, humidity, air volume and lighting conditions in the cage can be checked and regulated remotely.

Further, cage body 1 bottom is provided with the convenient removal of gyro wheel of taking the locking, still including setting up on cage body 1 with lighting component 3 and information acquisition subassembly electric connection's power supply battery.

The utility model discloses a cage utensil is applicable to experimental animals's daily raising and experimental data and obtains, especially various postoperative animals. The cage specification can be selected and set according to actual needs, and is suitable for experimental miniature pigs, experimental cattle, experimental sheep and experimental non-human primates.

As shown in fig. 2, the utility model also provides a cage set, which comprises a plurality of experimental animal cages, wherein all experimental animal cages are arranged side by side in a single layer manner, or all experimental animal cages are arranged side by side in a multi-layer manner;

when the experimental animal cage is arranged side by side in a single layer, the pollution discharge assembly 4 comprises first guide grooves 41 arranged on the rear side of each cage body 1 and second guide grooves 42 arranged on the edge of the outermost cage body 1, two adjacent first guide grooves 41 are integrally communicated, and the second guide grooves 42 are communicated with the outermost first guide grooves 41; or, two adjacent first guiding grooves 41 are separately arranged and connected by a connecting piece, and the second guiding groove 42 is communicated with the outermost first guiding groove 41; it should be noted that the connecting member referred to herein may be a U-shaped connecting groove, a connecting pipe, etc., as long as it can connect the dirt in the adjacent first guiding grooves 41 to flow from one end to the other end.

When the experimental animal cage is arranged in a multilayer side by side manner, the pollution discharge assembly 4 comprises a first guide groove 41 arranged at the rear side of each cage body 1 and a second guide groove 42 arranged at the edge of the outermost cage body 1 at the lowest layer; the first guide groove 41 is connected between the upper layer and the lower layer; the vertical guide groove 44 is used for guiding the dirt in the first guide groove 41 on the upper layer into the first guide groove 41 on the lower layer; two adjacent first guide grooves 41 in the same row are integrally communicated, and the second guide groove 42 is communicated with the outermost first guide groove 41; or, two adjacent first guide grooves 41 in the same row are separately arranged and connected by a connecting member, and the second guide groove 42 is communicated with the outermost first guide groove 41.

It should be noted that "inward" is a direction toward the center of the accommodating space, and "outward" is a direction away from the center of the accommodating space.

In the description of the present invention, it is to be understood that the terms "center", "longitudinal", "lateral", "length", "width", "thickness", "upper", "lower", "front", "rear", "left", "right", "vertical", "horizontal", "top", "bottom", "inner", "outer", "clockwise", "counterclockwise", "axial", "radial", "circumferential", and the like indicate orientations or positional relationships based on the orientations or positional relationships shown in fig. 1, and are only for convenience of description and simplicity of description, and do not indicate or imply that the device or element referred to must have a particular orientation, be constructed and operated in a particular orientation, and therefore should not be construed as limiting the present invention.

Furthermore, the terms "first", "second" and "first" are used for descriptive purposes only and are not to be construed as indicating or implying relative importance or implicitly indicating the number of technical features indicated. Thus, a feature defined as "first" or "second" may explicitly or implicitly include at least one such feature. In the description of the present invention, "a plurality" means at least two, e.g., two, three, etc., unless specifically limited otherwise.

In the present invention, unless otherwise explicitly specified or limited, the terms "mounted," "connected," "secured," and the like are to be construed broadly, e.g., as being fixedly connected, detachably connected, or integrated; can be mechanically or electrically connected; they may be directly connected or indirectly connected through intervening media, or they may be interconnected within two elements or in a relationship where two elements interact with each other unless otherwise specifically limited. The specific meaning of the above terms in the present invention can be understood according to specific situations by those of ordinary skill in the art.

In the present application, unless expressly stated or limited otherwise, a first feature "on" or "under" a second feature may be directly contacting the second feature or the first and second features may be indirectly contacting the second feature through intervening media. Also, a first feature "on," "above," and "over" a second feature may be directly on or obliquely above the second feature, or simply mean that the first feature is at a higher level than the second feature. A first feature "under," "beneath," and "under" a second feature may be directly under or obliquely under the second feature, or may simply mean that the first feature is at a lesser elevation than the second feature.

In the description of the present specification, reference to the description of "one embodiment," "some embodiments," "an example," "a specific example," or "some examples" or the like means that a particular feature, structure, material, or characteristic described in connection with the embodiment or example is included in at least one embodiment or example of the present invention. In this specification, the schematic representations of the terms used above are not necessarily intended to refer to the same embodiment or example. Furthermore, the particular features, structures, materials, or characteristics described may be combined in any suitable manner in any one or more embodiments or examples. Furthermore, various embodiments or examples and features of different embodiments or examples described in this specification can be combined and combined by one skilled in the art without contradiction.

The above description is only for the specific embodiments of the present invention, but the protection scope of the present invention is not limited thereto, and any person skilled in the art can easily think of the changes or substitutions within the technical scope of the present invention, and all should be covered within the protection scope of the present invention. Therefore, the protection scope of the present invention shall be subject to the protection scope of the claims.

Claims

1. The experimental animal cage is characterized by comprising a cage body, a ventilation assembly, an illumination assembly, a pollution discharge assembly and an information acquisition assembly, wherein the ventilation assembly, the illumination assembly, the pollution discharge assembly and the information acquisition assembly are arranged on the cage body; the ventilation subassembly is including seting up the air intake of cage body lower part, seting up cage body top and with the air intake is located the air exit of relative both sides, with the air pipe of air intake intercommunication, connection are in the air feed source at air pipe top is installed exhaust fan on the air exit.

2. The laboratory animal cage according to claim 1, wherein the air supply source is a fan or an indoor air supply assembly; the air supply source also comprises an air conditioner assembly communicated with the ventilation pipeline.

3. The experimental animal cage as claimed in claim 1, wherein an air volume valve for adjusting air volume is provided in the ventilation duct.

4. The laboratory animal cage according to claim 1, characterized in that the lighting assembly is arranged on top of the cage body; and the illumination assembly is adjustable in turn-on time and illumination intensity.

5. The experimental animal cage as claimed in claim 1, wherein the dirt discharging assembly comprises a first guide groove disposed at the rear side of the cage body and a second guide groove disposed at the lateral side of the cage body, a dirt collecting groove is obliquely disposed at the bottom of the cage body, and a gap is formed at the lower end of the dirt collecting groove and connected with the first guide groove; one end of the second diversion trench is connected with the first diversion trench, and the other end of the second diversion trench is connected with a sewer.

6. The experimental animal cage as claimed in claim 1, wherein the information collecting assembly comprises a temperature sensing probe, a humidity sensing probe, an air supply amount sensing probe, an ammonia nitrogen concentration sensing probe and a camera for collecting animal behavior data; the cage also comprises a weight monitoring element arranged on the grid type bottom plate at the bottom of the cage body.

7. The laboratory animal cage according to claim 6, further comprising an electronic display device mounted on the front side of said cage body, said electronic display device being electrically connected to said information acquisition assembly; the electronic display device is provided with an expansion interface, a data storage device and a wireless device connecting module.

8. The experimental animal cage as claimed in claim 1, wherein the cage body is provided at a bottom thereof with rollers having locking means, and further comprises a power supply battery disposed on the cage body and electrically connected to the illumination assembly and the information acquisition assembly.