CN218736516U

CN218736516U - Feeding cage for monitoring animal weight

Info

Publication number: CN218736516U
Application number: CN202223445434.1U
Authority: CN
Inventors: 卢言慧; 杜亚格; 程方骁; 宋颖; 郑婕
Original assignee: Peking University
Current assignee: Peking University
Priority date: 2022-12-22
Filing date: 2022-12-22
Publication date: 2023-03-28
Anticipated expiration: 2032-12-22

Abstract

The utility model discloses a rearging cage of monitoring animal weight relates to animal experiment technical field, which comprises an outer shell, the screen panel, drinking water mechanism, the bottom plate, the connecting piece, the apron, weighing sensor, the reference numeral inductor, electronic chip ring sum no paper record appearance, the shell is the uncovered structure in upper end, the screen panel sets up in the upper end of shell, weighing sensor sets up the bottom in the shell, the bottom plate sets up on weighing sensor, the upper portion of bottom plate is provided with the connecting piece, the upper portion of connecting piece is provided with the apron, drinking water mechanism sets up on the screen panel, drinking water mechanism's lower extreme extends the top of apron, the lower surface of apron is provided with the reference numeral inductor, electronic chip ring is used for setting up in waiting to monitor the animal and stores up the reference numeral information of waiting to monitor the animal, electronic chip ring and reference numeral inductor signal connection, reference numeral inductor and weighing sensor all are connected with no paper record appearance electricity. The rearing cage reduces the operation steps, saves the experiment time of experimenters and improves the accuracy of weight measurement.

Description

Feeding cage for monitoring animal weight

Technical Field

The utility model relates to an animal experiment technical field especially relates to a rearging cage of monitoring animal weight.

Background

With the development of biomedicine, animal experiments become an important research means in scientific research, and rodents such as mice and rats are widely used. In medical research, animal models such as metabolic diseases such as diabetes and the like, obesity, consumptive diseases and the like need to be established, further research on disease occurrence and development or drug intervention curative effect needs to be carried out, and the body weight of a mouse needs to be monitored routinely in the drug intervention process. Most of the current monitoring methods are electronic scales, the mouse needs to be grabbed out of a rearing cage and placed into a glass beaker or other containers for weight measurement, but the grabbing of the mouse is inconvenient, and if the mouse needing weight monitoring is too many, a laboratory technician spends a long time, the operation is complex, and the consumed time is long. And the mouse is comparatively nimble, and the jump can arouse the jump of weighing scale numerical value in the container in the measurement process, influences experimenter's reading, probably leads to the selection of reading to have certain subjectivity, influences the accuracy of experimental result.

SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL

For solving the technical problem, the utility model provides a monitoring animal weight's rearging cage has reduced operating procedure, has practiced thrift experimenter's experimental time, has improved the accuracy of weight measurement.

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

the utility model provides a rearging cage of monitoring animal weight, including shell, screen panel, drinking water mechanism, bottom plate, connecting piece, apron, weighing sensor, reference numeral inductor, electronic chip ring sum no paper record appearance, the shell is the open structure in upper end, the screen panel set up in the upper end of shell, weighing sensor set up in bottom in the shell, the bottom plate set up in on the weighing sensor, the upper portion of bottom plate is provided with the connecting piece, the upper portion of connecting piece is provided with the apron, drinking water mechanism set up in on the screen panel, drinking water mechanism's lower extreme extends the top of apron, the lower surface of apron is provided with the reference numeral inductor, the electronic chip ring is used for setting up on waiting to monitor the animal, the electronic chip ring is used for saving wait to monitor the reference numeral information of animal, the electronic chip ring with reference numeral inductor signal connection, the reference numeral inductor with weighing sensor all with no paper record appearance electricity is connected.

Preferably, the connecting piece includes a plurality of spliced poles, and the lower extreme of each spliced pole all is fixed in the upper surface of bottom plate, and the upper end of each spliced pole all is fixed in the lower surface of apron.

Preferably, the cover plate comprises a central plate and an annular inclined plate, the upper end of each connecting column is fixed to the lower surface of the central plate, the label sensor is arranged in the middle of the lower surface of the central plate, the upper end of the annular inclined plate is fixed to the outer edge of the central plate, and the annular inclined plate is inclined downwards from one end close to the central plate to one end far away from the central plate.

Preferably, the drinking mechanism comprises drinking bottles, drinking pipes and balls, the drinking bottles are obliquely arranged on the net cover and are obliquely arranged from one end far away from the cover plate to one end close to the cover plate, each drinking pipe comprises a straight pipe and an inverted cone-shaped pipe arranged at one end of the straight pipe, the upper end of the straight pipe extends into the drinking bottle, the straight pipe is obliquely arranged from one end far away from the cover plate to one end close to the cover plate, the balls are arranged in the inverted cone-shaped pipe, and the diameter of each ball is smaller than the inner diameter of the big end of the inverted cone-shaped pipe and larger than the inner diameter of the small end of the inverted cone-shaped pipe.

Preferably, the mesh enclosure is a V-shaped metal mesh enclosure.

Preferably, the paper-free recorder further comprises a weighing sensor data transmission line and a label inductor signal transmission line, wherein the weighing sensor is electrically connected with the paper-free recorder through the weighing sensor data transmission line, and the label inductor is electrically connected with the paper-free recorder through the label inductor signal transmission line.

Preferably, the paperless recorder is disposed at a side of the exterior of the housing.

Preferably, the paperless recorder comprises a control panel, a data display screen and a USB data copy interface.

The utility model discloses for prior art gain following technological effect:

the utility model discloses a monitoring animal weight's rearging cage, weighing sensor sets up the bottom in the shell, and the bottom plate sets up on weighing sensor, and the upper portion of bottom plate is provided with the connecting piece, and the upper portion of connecting piece is provided with the apron, and drinking water mechanism sets up on the net cover, and drinking water mechanism's lower extreme extends the top of apron, and the lower surface of apron is provided with the reference numeral inductor, and electronic chip ring and reference numeral inductor signal connection, reference numeral inductor and weighing sensor all are connected with no paper record appearance electricity. The electronic chip ring with the stored label information is installed on the animal to be monitored, the animal to be monitored is induced to drink water through the water drinking mechanism to be stood on the cover plate, when the label inductor senses the electronic chip ring, the label can be recorded by the paperless recorder, the time is recorded, the weight is measured by the weighing sensor, and the label, the weight and the measuring time of the animal to be monitored are stored and recorded on the paperless recorder. The utility model discloses a rearging cage of monitoring animal weight has realized that animal feeding and weight monitoring are as an organic whole, has reduced the animal and has snatched, see the step of animal reference numeral, weight measurement and record, and direct monitoring animal weight copies out data, can practice thrift the experimenter's experimental time greatly, has improved the accuracy of weight measurement simultaneously.

Drawings

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

FIG. 1 is a three-dimensional structure diagram of a feeding cage for monitoring the weight of animals according to the present invention;

FIG. 2 is a front view of the cage for monitoring the weight of an animal provided by the present invention;

fig. 3 is a schematic diagram of the use of the electronic chip ring of the feeding cage for monitoring the weight of an animal provided by the present invention;

fig. 4 is a schematic structural view of the feeding cage for monitoring the weight of the animal provided by the utility model when the ball blocks the inverted cone-shaped tube;

figure 5 is the utility model provides a structure schematic diagram when appearing the space between ball and the back taper pipe of the rearging cage of monitoring animal weight.

Description of reference numerals: 100. a cage for monitoring the weight of the animal; 1. a housing; 2. a mesh enclosure; 3. a drinking bottle; 4. a drinking pipe; 41. a straight pipe; 42. a reverse tapered tube; 5. a ball bearing; 6. a cover plate; 61. central plate (ii) a; 62. an annular inclined plate; 7. a weighing sensor; 8. a base plate; 9. connecting columns; 10. a label sensor; 11. a load cell data transmission line; 12. a label inductor signal transmission line; 13. a paperless recorder; 14. a control panel; 15. a data display screen; 16. a USB data copy interface; 17. an electronic chip ring; 18. animals to be monitored.

Detailed Description

The technical solutions in the embodiments of the present invention will be described clearly and completely with reference to the accompanying drawings in the embodiments of the present invention, and it is obvious that the described embodiments are only some embodiments of the present invention, not all embodiments. 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.

The utility model aims at providing a rearging cage of monitoring animal weight has reduced operating procedure, has practiced thrift experimenter's experimental time, has improved the accuracy of weight measurement.

In order to make the aforementioned objects, features and advantages of the present invention more comprehensible, the present invention is described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings and the following detailed description.

As shown in fig. 1-5, this embodiment provides a rearging cage 100 for monitoring animal weight, which includes a housing 1, a mesh enclosure 2, a drinking mechanism, a bottom plate 8, a connecting member, a cover plate 6, a weighing sensor 7, a label sensor 10, an electronic chip ring 17 and a paperless recorder 13, wherein the housing 1 is of an upper-end open structure, the mesh enclosure 2 is disposed at the upper end of the housing 1, the weighing sensor 7 is disposed at the bottom of the housing 1, the bottom plate 8 is disposed on the weighing sensor 7, the upper portion of the bottom plate 8 is provided with the connecting member, the upper portion of the connecting member is provided with the cover plate 6, the drinking mechanism is disposed on the mesh enclosure 2, the lower end of the drinking mechanism extends to the upper portion of the cover plate 6, the lower surface of the cover plate 6 is provided with the label sensor 10, the electronic chip ring 17 is used for being disposed on an animal 18 to be monitored, the electronic chip ring 17 is used for storing label information of the animal 18 to be monitored, the electronic chip ring 17 is in signal connection with the label sensor 10, and both the label sensor 10 and the weighing sensor 7 are electrically connected with the paperless recorder 13. The drinking water mechanism is used for inducing an animal 18 to be monitored to stand on the cover plate 6, only the next animal 18 to be monitored can stand by adjusting the size of the cover plate 6, the weight of only one animal 18 to be monitored is guaranteed to be monitored at each time, when the animal 18 to be monitored stands on the cover plate 6, the mark number sensor 10 on the lower surface of the cover plate 6 senses the electronic chip ring 17, mark number information is transmitted to the paperless recorder 13, the mark number of the paperless recorder 13 can be recorded, the time is recorded at the same time, time and mark number correspond when data are exported, and the time recorded by combining the weight can be obtained by corresponding to the weight of the animal 18 to be monitored.

During the use, install the electronic chip ring 17 that stores label information on waiting to monitor animal 18, it makes it stand on apron 6 to drink water through the induction of drinking water mechanism waiting to monitor animal 18, when label inductor 10 sensed electronic chip ring 17, paperless record appearance 13 alright record its label, and the time is also noted simultaneously, and weighing sensor 7 measures the weight, and then will wait to monitor animal 18's label, weight and measuring time's data storage and record on paperless record appearance 13. The rearing cage 100 for monitoring the weight of the animal in the embodiment integrates animal rearing and weight monitoring, the weight of the animal can be directly measured in the rearing cage, the animal needs to be grabbed out of the rearing cage for the previous weight monitoring and then put into a container on a weight scale for measurement, and the steps can be saved; the weight and the mark number of the animal can be sensed, and the method is very friendly to the experiment needing numbering and recording; be equipped with no paper record appearance 13, can come out the direct copy of experimental data to leading-in computer need not the artifical leading-in computer of data with this record of experimental record, reduced the animal in this embodiment promptly and snatched, seen the step of animal label, weight measurement and record, direct monitoring animal weight copies out data, can practice thrift experimenter's experimental time greatly, improved weight measurement's accuracy simultaneously.

Specifically, the connecting piece includes a plurality of spliced poles 9, and the lower extreme of each spliced pole 9 all is fixed in the upper surface of bottom plate 8, and the upper end of each spliced pole 9 all is fixed in the lower surface of apron 6. It should be noted that the connecting member may also be a cylinder, the lower end of the cylinder is fixed on the bottom plate 8, and the upper end of the cylinder is fixed on the cover plate 6.

Specifically, the cover plate 6 comprises a central plate 61 and an annular inclined plate 62, the upper end of each connecting column 9 is fixed to the lower surface of the central plate 61, the number sensor 10 is arranged in the middle of the lower surface of the central plate 61, the number sensor 10 is bonded to the lower surface of the central plate 61 in the embodiment, the upper end of the annular inclined plate 62 is fixed to the outer edge of the central plate 61, the annular inclined plate 62 is arranged in a downward inclined mode from one end close to the central plate 61 to one end far away from the central plate 61, and the annular inclined plate 62 is arranged to facilitate the animal 18 to be monitored to climb onto the central plate 61.

Specifically, drinking water mechanism includes drinking water bottle 3, drinking water pipe 4 and

ball

5, 3 slopes of drinking water bottle set up on screen panel 2, and drinking water bottle 3 is by keeping away from the one end of apron 6 to the one end downward sloping setting that is close to apron 6, drinking water pipe 4 includes straight tube 41 and sets up in the back taper pipe 42 of straight tube 41 one end, the upper end of straight tube 41 extends in drinking water bottle 3, straight tube 41 is by keeping away from the one end of apron 6 to the one end downward sloping setting that is close to apron 6, ball 5 sets up in back taper pipe 42, the diameter of ball 5 is less than the internal diameter of the major axis end of back taper pipe 42 and is greater than the internal diameter of the minor axis end of back taper pipe 42. After the drinking bottle 3 is obliquely placed on the mesh enclosure 2, water in the drinking bottle 3 flows into the inverted conical tube 42 through the straight tube 41, as shown in fig. 4, the water cannot flow out under the blocking effect of the ball 5 in an initial state, as shown in fig. 5, when an animal 18 to be monitored stands on the cover plate 6 and licks or pushes the ball 5, the ball 5 moves towards the oblique upper side, at the moment, a gap is formed between the ball 5 and the inverted conical tube 42, so that the water can flow down, the animal 18 to be monitored can drink water, when the ball 5 is not licked or pushed any more, the ball 5 moves towards the oblique lower side under the action of gravity, and the inverted conical tube 42 is blocked again.

In the present embodiment, the mesh cap 2 is a V-shaped metal mesh cap. That is, the mesh enclosure 2 in this embodiment includes the first inclined mesh plate and the second inclined mesh plate that are connected, and the inclined setting of the drinking bottle 3 can be realized by fixing the drinking bottle 3 on the upper portion of the first inclined mesh plate.

The embodiment also comprises a weighing sensor data transmission line 11 and a label inductor signal transmission line 12, wherein the weighing sensor 7 is electrically connected with the paperless recorder 13 through the weighing sensor data transmission line 11, and the label inductor 10 is electrically connected with the paperless recorder 13 through the label inductor signal transmission line 12.

In this embodiment, the paperless recorder 13 is disposed on one side of the exterior of the housing 1, and the paperless recorder 13 is powered by a conventional 220v voltage.

In this embodiment, the paperless recorder 13 includes a control panel 14, a data display 15 and a USB data copy interface 16.

The specific using process is as follows: when the weight of the mouse needs to be measured, the power supply is plugged, and the switch of the paperless recorder 13 is turned on, so that the measurement can be carried out. The mouse foot is sleeved with an electronic chip ring 17, and the mark number of the mouse is identified through a mark number inductor 10 at the lower part of the cover plate 6. The mouse is induced to drink water through the drinking bottle 3, the mouse needs to stand on the cover plate 6 when drinking water, if the residence time of the mouse on the cover plate 6 is more than or equal to 2 seconds, the weight can be accurately measured by the weighing sensor 7, the data of the mouse label, the weight and the measurement time are stored and recorded on the paperless recorder 13, and the mouse can be checked through the data display screen 15. After one week of rearing, each mouse in the rearing cage will drink water several times, and the weight of each time will be recorded. If the data needs to be copied, the USB flash disk can be inserted into the USB data copying interface 16 to copy the data, the data can be in an Excel form, the data exceeding or smaller than the normal weight range of a mouse can be deleted in a computer, and then the weight of the mouse is subjected to dynamic change analysis. And after the weight measurement is finished, the switch of the paperless recorder 13 is closed, and the power supply is pulled out.

The principle and the implementation mode of the present invention are explained by applying specific examples in the present specification, and the above descriptions of the examples are only used to help understanding the method and the core idea of the present invention; meanwhile, for the general technical personnel in the field, according to the idea of the present invention, there are changes in the concrete implementation and the application scope. In summary, the content of the present specification should not be construed as a limitation of the present invention.

Claims

1. The utility model provides a rearging cage of monitoring animal weight, its characterized in that, includes shell, screen panel, drinking water mechanism, bottom plate, connecting piece, apron, weighing sensor, reference numeral inductor, electronic chip ring sum no paper record appearance, the shell is the open structure in upper end, the screen panel set up in the upper end of shell, weighing sensor set up in bottom in the shell, the bottom plate set up in on the weighing sensor, the upper portion of bottom plate is provided with the connecting piece, the upper portion of connecting piece is provided with the apron, drinking water mechanism set up in on the screen panel, the lower extreme of drinking water mechanism extends the top of apron, the lower surface of apron is provided with the reference numeral inductor, electronic chip ring is used for setting up on waiting to monitor the animal, electronic chip ring is used for the storage wait to monitor the reference numeral information of animal, electronic chip ring with reference numeral inductor signal connection, the reference numeral inductor with weighing sensor all with no paper record appearance electricity is connected.

2. A rearcage for monitoring the weight of an animal as claimed in claim 1, wherein the connector includes a plurality of connecting posts, a lower end of each of the connecting posts being secured to the upper surface of the base plate and an upper end of each of the connecting posts being secured to the lower surface of the cover plate.

3. The animal weight monitoring cage of claim 2, wherein the cover plate includes a central plate and an annular inclined plate, the upper end of each connecting column is fixed to the lower surface of the central plate, the label sensor is disposed at the middle of the lower surface of the central plate, the upper end of the annular inclined plate is fixed to the outer edge of the central plate, and the annular inclined plate is inclined downward from one end close to the central plate to one end far away from the central plate.

4. The rearing cage for monitoring the weight of animals according to claim 1, wherein the drinking mechanism comprises drinking bottles, drinking tubes and balls, the drinking bottles are obliquely arranged on the net cover and are obliquely arranged from one end far away from the cover plate to one end close to the cover plate, the drinking tubes comprise straight tubes and inverted cone-shaped tubes arranged at one ends of the straight tubes, the upper ends of the straight tubes extend into the drinking bottles, the straight tubes are obliquely arranged from one end far away from the cover plate to one end close to the cover plate, the balls are arranged in the inverted cone-shaped tubes, and the diameters of the balls are smaller than the inner diameter of the large end of each inverted cone-shaped tube and larger than the inner diameter of the small end of each inverted cone-shaped tube.

5. A rearging cage for monitoring the weight of an animal, as claimed in claim 1, wherein the mesh enclosure is a V-shaped metal mesh enclosure.

6. The rearging cage for monitoring animal weight according to claim 1, further comprising a load cell data transmission line through which the load cell is electrically connected to the paperless recorder and a reference sensor signal transmission line through which the reference sensor is electrically connected to the paperless recorder.

7. A rearging cage for monitoring the weight of an animal, as claimed in claim 1, wherein the paperless recorder is provided on a side of the exterior of the housing.

8. A rearging cage for monitoring the weight of an animal, as claimed in claim 1, wherein the paperless recorder includes a control panel, a data display screen and a USB data copy interface.