CN218022409U

CN218022409U - Feeding mechanism and boxing device

Info

Publication number: CN218022409U
Application number: CN202222325285.9U
Authority: CN
Inventors: 龙照; 陈巍然; 宋国翠; 李鹏; 汪小知
Original assignee: Suzhou Zhilan Intelligent Detection Technology Research Institute Co ltd
Current assignee: Suzhou Zhilan Intelligent Detection Technology Research Institute Co ltd
Priority date: 2022-08-31
Filing date: 2022-08-31
Publication date: 2022-12-13
Anticipated expiration: 2032-08-31

Abstract

The utility model provides a feeding mechanism and a boxing device, wherein the feeding mechanism comprises a frame, a feeding mechanism and a conveying driving mechanism, a storage bin is arranged on one side of the feeding mechanism, a plurality of rows of sliding holes which are parallel and arranged at intervals are arranged on a bottom plate of the feeding mechanism, the sliding holes extend along the length direction of the bottom plate, and the head end and the tail end of each sliding hole are respectively positioned on the inner side and the outer side of the storage bin; the baffle plate of the storage bin crossing the sliding hole is provided with an upward convex feeding hole, and the feeding hole and the sliding hole are arranged in a one-to-one correspondence manner. The feed mechanism of this structure, the during operation, the liquid-transfering gun head that will loose the form is poured into the storage silo, carry actuating mechanism motion to make the liquid-transfering gun head fall in the slide opening, liquid-transfering gun head joint is at the slide opening top, rifle head lower part extends the slide opening below and gets into the slide opening in the storage cavity outside through the feed inlet, arrange in proper order around a plurality of liquid-transfering gun heads in every slide opening and form the liquid-transfering gun head of multirow, the liquid-transfering gun head of multiseriate neatly arranging is carried to the slide opening afterbody by the automation simultaneously, be convenient for cooperate follow-up feed mechanism to get the material.

Description

Feeding mechanism and boxing device

Technical Field

The utility model relates to a biological assay apparatus packing technical field, concretely relates to feed mechanism and cartoning device.

Background

Some apparatuses, such as pipette tips, are basic consumables for liquid suction of pipettors, and for convenience of use, the pipette tips are usually arranged in a tip box in order. When the tips of a tip magazine are removed, a person is generally required to manually rearrange and insert the loose pipette tips into the tip magazine, which takes a long time.

The invention discloses a material taking mechanism for automatically moving and loading pipette tips in bulk, which can be used for simultaneously inserting and taking a plurality of rows and a plurality of rows of pipette tips.

SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL

Therefore, the to-be-solved technical problem of the utility model lies in overcoming the feed mechanism among the prior art and can't be with the equipment of bulk in succession and be the defect that multiseriate ground exported to the rear side station.

Therefore, the utility model provides a feeding mechanism, include

A frame;

the feeding mechanism is arranged on the rack; a storage bin is arranged on one side of the feeding mechanism, a plurality of rows of sliding holes which are parallel and arranged at intervals are arranged on a bottom plate of the feeding mechanism, the sliding holes extend along the length direction of the bottom plate, and the head end and the tail end of each sliding hole are respectively positioned on the inner side and the outer side of the storage bin; the baffle plate of the storage bin crossing the sliding hole is provided with an upward convex feeding hole, and the feeding holes are arranged in one-to-one correspondence with the sliding hole; the head of the equipment to be conveyed is suitable for being clamped at the top of the sliding hole, and the head of the equipment to be conveyed can slide through the feeding port;

and the conveying driving mechanism is used for driving the feeding mechanism to move so as to convey the material to be conveyed to the tail end of the sliding hole.

Optionally, the feeding mechanism further includes an anti-blocking mechanism, the anti-blocking mechanism includes a rotary driving source and a cleaning component disposed at a driving end of the rotary driving source, the cleaning component is located in the storage bin, and a rotary path of the cleaning component covers the feeding hole.

Optionally, in the above feeding mechanism, the baffle is inclined downwards towards the inside of the storage bin.

Optionally, in the feeding mechanism, the baffle plate is thin at the top and thick at the bottom, and the feed inlet extends along the thickness direction of the baffle plate;

the feeding mechanism further comprises a cover plate, the cover plate is connected with the baffle plate and arranged outside the storage bin and covers the upper portion of the sliding hole, and the cover plate is provided with a limiting surface for limiting the materials to be conveyed to jump upwards; the limiting surface is positioned above the top wall of the feeding hole or is flush with the top wall of the feeding hole.

Optionally, in the above feeding mechanism, a plurality of sliding grooves are correspondingly formed in the cover plate above the sliding hole one by one, the bottom wall of each sliding groove is the limiting surface, and the width of each sliding groove is greater than that of the sliding hole.

Optionally, in the feeding mechanism, an elastic limiting member is disposed at the top of the tail end of the sliding hole, the elastic limiting member extends along the length direction of the sliding hole, and one end of the elastic limiting member, which faces the storage bin, is adapted to abut against the head of the equipment to be conveyed; the width of the tail end of the sliding hole is larger than that of the front end of the sliding hole.

Optionally, in the above feeding mechanism, the sliding groove extends to the upper portion of the tail portion of the sliding hole, and the elastic limiting members are provided in plurality and are disposed in the sliding groove in a one-to-one correspondence manner.

Optionally, in the feeding mechanism, the conveying driving mechanism is a linear vibrator, and the linear vibrator is arranged on the rack; the linear vibrator is connected with the feeding mechanism.

Optionally, in the above feeding mechanism, a plurality of rows of the sliding holes are arranged at equal intervals.

The utility model provides a boxing device, including anyone in the above-mentioned feed mechanism and feeding agencies, feeding agencies is movably set up in feeding agencies bottom.

The utility model discloses technical scheme has following advantage:

1. the utility model provides a feed mechanism of this structure, in operation, the storage silo is poured into to the liquid-transfering gun head of form that will loose, carry actuating mechanism drive feed mechanism motion to make the liquid-transfering gun head fall to the slide opening, liquid-transfering gun head joint is at the slide opening top, the rifle head lower part extends the slide opening below and gets into the slide opening in the storage cavity outside through the feed inlet, arrange in proper order around a plurality of liquid-transfering gun heads in every row of slide opening and form multirow liquid-transfering gun head, the liquid-transfering gun head of multiseriate neatly arranging is carried to the slide opening afterbody by the automation simultaneously, the follow-up feed mechanism of being convenient for cooperate gets the material.

2. When the anti-blocking mechanism works, the rotary driving source drives the cleaning component to rotate, the cleaning component rotates to the feeding port from top to bottom and sweeps the accumulated pipette heads to the storage bin back to the direction of the feeding port, and the pipette heads are prevented from being blocked to the feeding port.

3. The baffle is towards the inside downward sloping of storage silo, and the liquid-transfering gun head can follow the automatic landing of baffle inclined plane to the bottom plate when baffle department butt joint, and the cooperation brush is used for effectively preventing liquid-transfering gun head and piles up.

4. The top wall of the limiting surface and the feed inlet is positioned above the end head of the pipetting gun head, and the pipetting gun head is effectively prevented from jumping out of the slide hole upwards under the condition of large vibration force of the conveying driving mechanism so as to convey the pipetting gun head to the tail part of the slide hole along the slide hole.

5. A plurality of sliding chutes are correspondingly arranged on the cover plate above the sliding hole one by one, and the head of the pipette head is arranged in the sliding chutes to guide the pipette head to move so as to prevent the pipette head from being inclined.

6. The top of slide opening tail end is equipped with elasticity locating part, and the locating part butt liquid-transfering gun head to make each arrange liquid-transfering gun head align to arrange, the liquid-transfering gun head is got to the corresponding insertion of taking mechanism from the bottom plate bottom of being convenient for.

7. The elastic limiting pieces are embedded in the sliding grooves in a one-to-one corresponding mode so as to guide and limit the elastic limiting pieces in the contraction process.

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 embodiments or the technical solutions in the prior art will be briefly described below, and it is obvious that the drawings in the following description are 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 perspective view of a feeding mechanism provided in embodiment 1 of the present invention;

fig. 2 is a schematic view of the feeding mechanism provided in embodiment 1 of the present invention after the cover plate is removed;

fig. 3 is a sectional view of the cover plate of the feeding mechanism provided by the embodiment of the present invention in cooperation with the storage bin;

FIG. 4 is a schematic view of the base plate of FIG. 1;

fig. 5 is a schematic view of the cover plate of fig. 1.

Description of reference numerals:

101. a frame; 102. a feeding mechanism; 1021. a storage bin; 1022. a base plate; 10221. a slide hole; 1023. a baffle plate; 10231. a feed inlet; 1024. a cover plate; 10241. a limiting surface; 10242. a chute; 1025. an elastic limiting member; 103. a conveying drive mechanism; 104. an anti-blocking mechanism; 1041. a rotary drive source; 1042. a cleaning member.

Detailed Description

The technical solutions of the present invention will be described more clearly and completely with reference to the accompanying drawings, and it should be understood that the described embodiments are only some embodiments of the present invention, not all embodiments. Based on the embodiments in the present invention, all other embodiments obtained by a person skilled in the art without creative work belong to the protection scope of the present invention.

In the description of the present invention, it should be noted that the terms "center", "upper", "lower", "left", "right", "vertical", "horizontal", "inner", "outer", and the like indicate orientations or positional relationships based on orientations or positional relationships shown in the drawings, and are only for convenience of description and simplification of description, but do not indicate or imply that the device or element referred to must have a specific orientation, be constructed and operated in a specific orientation, and thus, should not be construed as limiting the present invention. Furthermore, the terms "first," "second," and "third" are used for descriptive purposes only and are not to be construed as indicating or implying relative importance.

In the description of the present invention, it is to be noted that, unless otherwise explicitly specified or limited, the terms "mounted," "connected," and "connected" are to be construed broadly, and may be, for example, fixedly connected, detachably connected, or integrally connected; can be mechanically or electrically connected; they may be connected directly or indirectly through intervening media, or they 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.

Furthermore, the technical features mentioned in the different embodiments of the invention described below can be combined with each other as long as they do not conflict with each other.

Example 1

The embodiment provides a feeding mechanism, which comprises a rack 101, a feeding mechanism 102 and a conveying driving mechanism 103, wherein the feeding mechanism 102 is arranged on the rack 101; a storage bin 1021 is arranged on one side of the feeding mechanism 102, a plurality of rows of sliding holes 10221 which are arranged in parallel and at intervals are arranged on a bottom plate 1022 of the feeding mechanism 102, the sliding holes 10221 extend along the length direction of the bottom plate 1022, and the head end and the tail end of each sliding hole 10221 are respectively positioned on the inner side and the outer side of the storage bin 1021; the storage bin 1021 is provided with a convex feeding hole 10231 on a baffle 1023 crossing the sliding hole 10221, and the feeding hole 10231 and the sliding hole 10221 are arranged in a one-to-one correspondence manner; the head of the material to be conveyed is suitable for being clamped at the top of the sliding hole 10221, and the feed inlet 10231 is used for the head of the material to be conveyed to slide through; the feeding driving mechanism 103 is used for driving the feeding mechanism 102 to move to feed the material to be fed to the rear end of the slide hole 10221.

The material to be conveyed that this feed mechanism is suitable for to carry is that arbitrary head is big, the little equipment in lower part to the material to be conveyed can slide into slide opening 10221, head can the joint at slide opening 10221 top automatically through its lower part of conveying actuating mechanism 103 vibration effect. For example, the material to be conveyed may be a pipette tip or a test tube, and the operation of the feeding mechanism will be described by taking the material to be conveyed as the pipette tip as an example.

The feed mechanism of this structure, in operation, the liquid-transfering gun head that will loose the form is poured into storage silo 1021, carry actuating mechanism 103 motion to make the liquid-transfering gun head fall in slide opening 10221, liquid-transfering gun head joint is at the slide opening 10221 top, the rifle head lower part extends slide opening 10221 below and gets into the slide opening 10221 in the storage cavity outside through feed inlet 10231, arrange in proper order around a plurality of liquid-transfering gun heads in every slide opening 10221 and form multirow liquid-transfering gun head, the liquid-transfering gun head that multiseriate neatly arranged is by the automatic transport to slide opening 10221 afterbody simultaneously, be convenient for cooperate follow-up feed mechanism to get the material.

Referring to fig. 1 and fig. 2, the feeding mechanism further includes an anti-blocking mechanism 104, the anti-blocking mechanism 104 includes a rotary driving source 1041 and a cleaning member 1042 provided at a driving end of the rotary driving source 1041, the cleaning member 1042 is located in the storage bin 1021, and a rotation path of the cleaning member 1042 covers the feeding port 10231. The pipette tips tend to jam against the stop plate 1023 because the slide hole 10221 is stopped by the stop plate 1023. When the anti-blocking mechanism 104 is in operation, the rotary driving source 1041 drives the cleaning component 1042 to rotate, the cleaning component 1042 rotates from top to bottom to the feeding port 10231 and sweeps the accumulated pipette tips to the storage bin 1021 opposite to the direction of the feeding port 10231, so as to prevent the pipette tips from being blocked to the feeding port 10231.

Alternatively, the rotary driving source 1041 is a motor fixed on the outer sidewall of the storage bin 1021, and a motor shaft extends into the storage bin 1021 and is connected to the cleaning member 1042. For example, the cleaning member 1042 is a brush, and a brush fixing rod is connected to an output shaft of the motor, and the brush is arranged across the slide hole 10221 at the front side of the feed inlet 10231. Optimally, the brush is in a vertical state, the cleaning surface at the bottom of the brush is attached to the top surface of the bottom plate 1022, and the cleaning effect is good.

Referring to fig. 1 to 3, the barrier plates 1023 are inclined downward toward the interior of the storage bin 1021, and when the barrier plates 1023 are butted, the pipette heads can automatically slide down to the bottom plate 1022 along the inclined surfaces of the barrier plates 1023, so that the pipette heads enter the rotating path area of the brush and are matched with the brush to effectively prevent the pipette heads from being stacked.

Referring to fig. 3, the barrier 1023 is thin on top and thick on bottom, and the feed inlet 10231 extends in the thickness direction (left-right direction in fig. 2) of the barrier 1023; the feeding mechanism further comprises a cover plate 1024, the cover plate 1024 is connected with the baffle 1023 and arranged outside the storage bin 1021 and covers the sliding hole 10221, and the cover plate 1024 is provided with a limiting surface 10241 for limiting the upward jumping of the pipette head; stop surface 10241 is located above the top wall of feed inlet 10231 or flush with the top wall of feed inlet 10231. That is, spacing face 10241 links up the roof setting of feed inlet 10231 of baffle 1023, and feed mechanism during operation, the roof of spacing face 10241 and feed inlet 10231 is located pipette head end top, under the great condition of conveying actuating mechanism 103 vibrational force, effectively prevents pipette head bounce-up slip-out hole 10221 to slide-out hole 10221 afterbody conveying pipette head along slide-out hole 10221. Preferably, the stop surface 10241 is located above the top wall of the feed port 10231 to ensure that the pipette tips can enter the area of the cover 1024 smoothly.

Optionally, the baffles 1023 are right triangular in longitudinal section. The lateral wall of storage bin 1021 outside baffle 1023 passes through the bolt fastening on baffle 1023, and storage bin 1021 lateral wall is rectangular frame, and rectangular frame one end bottom is equipped with the turn-ups, and the turn-ups is fixed on bottom plate 1022. Two sides of the rectangular frame outside the storage bin 1021 extend towards the tail of the bottom plate 1022 to form a surrounding barrier for shielding the cover plate 1024. The inner side of the enclosure is flanged, and the enclosure is fixed on the bottom plate 1022 through the flanged edge.

Referring to fig. 5, a plurality of sliding chutes 10242 are correspondingly arranged on the cover plate 1024 above the sliding hole 10221 one by one, the bottom wall of the sliding chute 10242 is a limiting surface 10241, and the width of the sliding chute 10242 is greater than that of the sliding hole 10221. The pipette tip slides out of the liquid storage bin along the slide hole 10221, and the head of the pipette tip is arranged in the slide groove 10242 to guide the pipette tip to move so as to prevent the pipette tip from being inclined. The bottom surface of the cover plate 1024 outside the slide groove 10242 is attached to the top surface of the bottom plate 1022, and both sides of the cover plate 1024 in the width direction are fixed to the bottom plate 1022.

Referring to fig. 2, an elastic limiting member 1025 is disposed on the top of the rear end of the slide hole 10221, the elastic limiting member 1025 extends along the length direction of the slide hole 10221, one end of the elastic limiting member 1025 facing the storage bin 1021 is suitable for abutting against the head of the pipette head, and the width of the rear end of the slide hole 10221 is greater than that of the front end thereof. Because the plugs of the material taking mechanism are arranged at equal intervals, a plurality of rows of pipette tips are conveyed to the elastic limiting part 1025, the limiting part abuts against the pipette tips, so that the pipette tips of each row are sequentially abutted forwards and backwards, and the elastic limiting part 1025 enables the pipette tips of the foremost row close to the tail end of the slide hole 10221 to be arranged, so that the pipette tips of each row are arranged in alignment, and the material taking mechanism can conveniently correspondingly insert and take the pipette tips from the bottom of the bottom plate 1022. The material taking mechanism inserts the pipette heads from one side of the bottom plate 1022 and moves towards the position right below the bottom plate 1022, then the material taking mechanism moves towards the tail part of the slide hole 10221 to drive the pipette heads to extrude the elastic limiting part 1025, the pipette heads at the forefront row move to the tail end of the slide hole 10221, the pipette heads automatically fall onto the material taking mechanism under the action of gravity due to the large width of the slide hole 10221 at the tail end, and the pipette heads at the subsequent rows move to the tail part of the slide hole 10221 in sequence and fall onto the material taking mechanism, so that simultaneous material taking of multiple rows and multiple rows of pipette heads is realized

Referring to fig. 5, the slide slot 10242 extends to the upper portion of the tail portion of the slide hole 10221, the elastic limiting members 1025 are provided in a plurality and are disposed in the slide slot 10242 in a one-to-one correspondence manner, each elastic limiting member 1025 can separately and independently abut against each row of pipette tips, and the elastic limiting member 1025 is embedded in the slide slot 10242 to guide and limit the elastic limiting member 1025 during the contraction process.

The end of the slide way 10242 is closed to limit the elastic limiting member 1025. The tail end of the elastic limiting member 1025 is fixed on the cover plate 1024 by bolts. Optionally, the elastic limiting member 1025 is a spring.

Preferably, the rows of slide holes 10221 are equally spaced to simultaneously transport multiple rows of equally spaced pipette tips.

Referring to fig. 1 and 2, the conveying driving mechanism 103 is a linear vibrator, and the linear vibrator is disposed on the frame 101; the linear vibrator is connected to a feed mechanism 102. The linear vibrator oscillates back and forth to deliver the pipette tips toward the rear end of slide aperture 10221. The top of the linear vibrator is connected to the bottom plate 1022 of the feeding mechanism 102.

As a first alternative embodiment of the embodiment 1, the conveying driving mechanism 103 may also be a vibration motor, the bottom plate 1022 of the feeding mechanism 102 is fixed on the frame 101 through a spring, and the vibration motor is fixed on the feeding mechanism 102; the conveying driving mechanism 103 can also be a reciprocating motor, one end of the reciprocating motor is fixed on the rack 101, the output end of the reciprocating motor is connected with the feeding mechanism 102, and the reciprocating motor drives the feeding mechanism 102 to horizontally reciprocate for feeding.

As a second alternative to embodiment 1, the elastic limit 1025 can also be any other element with the same properties as a spring; the elastic limiting member 1025 can be an integral structure, the width of which extends along the width direction of the bottom plate 1022, and the elastic limiting member 1025 is integrally abutted against each row of pipette tips or compressed. At this time, a through groove for accommodating the elastic limiting member 1025 is correspondingly formed on the cover plate 1024.

As a third alternative embodiment of the embodiment 1, the slide groove 10242 may not be arranged on the cover plate 1024, and the bottom surface of the cover plate 1024 directly serves as a limiting surface 10241 to limit the jumping of the pipette tip.

Example 2

The embodiment provides a boxing apparatus, which comprises the feeding mechanism and the taking mechanism in embodiment 1, wherein the taking mechanism is movably arranged at the bottom of the feeding mechanism 102.

Feed mechanism on the cartoning device can be carried the liquid-transfering gun head of multiseriate neatly arranging to slide opening 10221 afterbody by automatic simultaneously, is convenient for cooperate the feeding mechanism to get the material.

It should be understood that the above examples are only for clarity of illustration and are not intended to limit the embodiments. Other variations and modifications will be apparent to persons skilled in the art in light of the above description. And are neither required nor exhaustive of all embodiments. And obvious variations or modifications can be made without departing from the scope of the invention.

Claims

1. A feed mechanism, comprising:

a frame (101);

the feeding mechanism (102) is arranged on the rack (101); a storage bin (1021) is arranged on one side of the feeding mechanism (102), a plurality of rows of sliding holes (10221) which are arranged in parallel and at intervals are arranged on a bottom plate (1022) of the feeding mechanism (102), the sliding holes (10221) extend along the length direction of the bottom plate (1022), and the head end and the tail end of each sliding hole (10221) are respectively positioned on the inner side and the outer side of the storage bin (1021); a convex feeding hole (10231) is arranged on a baffle (1023) of the storage bin (1021) crossing the slide hole (10221), and the feeding hole (10231) and the slide hole (10221) are arranged in a one-to-one correspondence manner; the head of the material to be conveyed is suitable for being clamped at the top of the sliding hole (10221), and the feed inlet (10231) is used for the head of the material to be conveyed to slide through;

the conveying driving mechanism (103) is used for driving the feeding mechanism (102) to move so as to convey the material to be conveyed to the tail end of the slide hole (10221).

2. The feeding mechanism according to claim 1, further comprising an anti-blocking mechanism (104), wherein the anti-blocking mechanism (104) comprises a rotary driving source (1041) and a cleaning member (1042) provided at a driving end of the rotary driving source (1041), the cleaning member (1042) is located in the storage bin (1021), and a rotation path of the cleaning member (1042) covers the feeding opening (10231).

3. A feed mechanism as claimed in claim 1 or 2, wherein the baffle (1023) slopes downwardly towards the interior of the bin (1021).

4. A loading mechanism according to claim 3, wherein said shutter plate (1023) is thin on top and thick on bottom, and said feed port (10231) extends in the thickness direction of said shutter plate (1023);

the feeding mechanism further comprises a cover plate (1024), the cover plate (1024) is connected with the baffle plate (1023) and arranged outside the storage bin (1021) and covers the sliding hole (10221), and the cover plate (1024) is provided with a limiting surface (10241) for limiting the materials to be conveyed to jump upwards; the limiting surface (10241) is positioned above the top wall of the feed port (10231) or is flush with the top wall of the feed port (10231).

5. The feeding mechanism according to claim 4, wherein a plurality of sliding grooves (10242) are correspondingly arranged on the cover plate (1024) above the sliding hole (10221), the bottom wall of each sliding groove (10242) is the limiting surface (10241), and the width of each sliding groove (10242) is larger than that of the corresponding sliding hole (10221).

6. The feeding mechanism according to claim 5, wherein an elastic limiting member (1025) is disposed at the top of the tail end of the slide hole (10221), the elastic limiting member (1025) extends along the length direction of the slide hole (10221), and one end of the elastic limiting member (1025) facing the storage bin (1021) is adapted to abut against the head of the material to be conveyed; the width of the tail end of the slide hole (10221) is larger than that of the front end thereof.

7. The feeding mechanism according to claim 6, wherein the sliding slot (10242) extends to the upper portion of the tail portion of the sliding hole (10221), and the elastic limiting member (1025) is provided in a plurality of sliding slots (10242) in a one-to-one correspondence.

8. The feed mechanism according to claim 1 or 2, characterized in that the conveying drive mechanism (103) is a linear vibrator arranged on the frame (101); the linear vibrator is connected with the feeding mechanism (102).

9. Feed mechanism according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the rows of slide holes (10221) are equally spaced.

10. A cartoning apparatus comprising a loading mechanism and a take-off mechanism according to any one of claims 1 to 9, the take-off mechanism being movably arranged at a bottom of the feeding mechanism (102).