Disclosure of Invention
In order to overcome the problems in the pharyngeal swab collection process, the invention provides a movable test tube supply and packaging device for pharyngeal swab collection, which is not only convenient to carry, but also can improve the automation efficiency of the pharyngeal swab collection process, thereby reducing the workload and infection risk of medical workers.
In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, the present invention provides a portable test tube supply and sealing device for pharyngeal swab collection, comprising:
the bottom of the movable base is provided with at least three pulleys;
the test tube tray is arranged on the top surface of the movable base, and the test tube taking and placing mechanism is arranged on the top surface of the movable base;
the test tube blanking table is arranged right above the test tube tray at intervals to form a carrying channel between the test tube tray and the test tube tray, and the test tube blanking table is sequentially provided with a collecting station, a cutting station, a cap screwing station and a feeding station from front to back along a linear direction;
the test tube carrying mechanism is connected above the test tube blanking table in a sliding manner;
the conveying driver is in transmission connection with the test tube conveying mechanism;
the throat swab cotton swab cutting mechanism is arranged at the cutting station; and
the test tube cap screwing mechanism is arranged at the cap screwing station;
the test tube taking and placing mechanism is used for clamping a test tube from a test tube tray and then transferring the test tube to the test tube carrying mechanism at the feeding station, and after the test tube carrying mechanism receives the test tube at the feeding station, the carrying driver drives the test tube carrying mechanism to slide between the collecting station and the feeding station in a reciprocating mode.
Optionally, the test tube pick and place mechanism includes:
the taking and placing slide rail is fixedly arranged beside the test tube tray and extends along the movement direction of the test tube carrying mechanism;
the bottom of the lifting support column is connected with the taking and placing slide rail in a sliding manner;
the sliding driver is connected with the lifting support column in a sliding manner;
the translation cross beam is in sliding connection with the lifting support column along the vertical direction and extends towards the test tube blanking table side;
the lifting driver is in transmission connection with the translation cross beam;
the test tube clamping assembly is connected with the translation cross beam in a sliding mode in the horizontal direction; and
and the translation driver is in transmission connection with the test tube clamping assembly.
Optionally, the sliding driver drives the lifting support column to slide along the pick-and-place slide rail, so that the projection of the translation cross beam on the horizontal plane is separated from the projection area of the test tube blanking table on the horizontal plane;
the lifting driver drives the translation cross beam to reciprocate so that the height of the test tube clamping assembly can be matched with the height of the test tube tray or the test tube carrying mechanism;
the translation driver drives the test tube clamping assembly to slide back and forth along the extension direction of the translation cross beam so that the test tube clamping assembly can be aligned with a test tube in the test tube tray or a test tube carrying mechanism.
Optionally, the fortune pipe box that extends along a rectilinear direction is seted up at its top to test tube unloading platform, fortune pipe box opens in the front end and is located the uncovered of test tube unloading platform front side, gather the station, cut the station, spiral cover station and material loading station follow the uncovered of fortune pipe box is arranged along the extending direction of fortune pipe box in proper order.
Optionally, a tube dropping channel located below the tube conveying groove is formed in the test tube blanking table.
Optionally, the tube dropping channel extends downward from the rear side of the test tube blanking table to the front side of the test tube blanking table, and is open at the front side of the test tube blanking table to form a tube taking opening.
Optionally, a tube dropping opening located near the feeding station is formed in the bottom of the tube conveying groove, and the tube dropping opening is communicated with the tube dropping channel.
Optionally, the inside of test tube blanking platform has been seted up and has been located fortune pipe box below cotton swab blanking passageway, the bottom of fortune pipe box has been seted up and has been located the cotton swab collection mouth of cutting station department, the cotton swab collection mouth with cotton swab blanking passageway is linked together.
Optionally, the swab discharging channel extends obliquely downward to a side surface of the test tube discharging table and is open at the side surface to form a swab outlet.
One of the above technical solutions has the following advantages or beneficial effects: because its transport of being convenient for, but also can improve the automation efficiency of pharynx swab collection process, reduced medical personnel's work burden and infection risk.
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 a part of the embodiments of the present invention, and not all of the embodiments. All other embodiments, which can be obtained by a person skilled in the art without any inventive step based on the embodiments of the present invention, are within the scope of the present invention.
In the drawings, the shape and size may be exaggerated for clarity, and the same reference numerals will be used throughout the drawings to designate the same or similar components.
Unless defined otherwise, technical or scientific terms used herein shall have the ordinary meaning as understood by one of ordinary skill in the art to which this invention belongs. The use of "first," "second," and similar terms in the description and claims of the present application do not denote any order, quantity, or importance, but rather the terms are used to distinguish one element from another. Also, the use of the terms "a," "an," or "the" and similar referents do not denote a limitation of quantity, but rather denote the presence of at least one. The word "comprise" or "comprises", and the like, means that the element or item listed before "comprises" or "comprising" covers the element or item listed after "comprising" or "comprises" and its equivalents, and does not exclude other elements or items. "upper", "lower", "left", "right", and the like are used merely to indicate relative positional relationships, and when the absolute position of the object being described is changed, the relative positional relationships may also be changed accordingly.
In the following description, terms such as center, thickness, height, length, front, back, rear, left, right, top, bottom, upper, lower, etc., are defined with respect to the configurations shown in the respective drawings, and in particular, "height" corresponds to a dimension from top to bottom, "width" corresponds to a dimension from left to right, "depth" corresponds to a dimension from front to rear, which are relative concepts, and thus may be varied accordingly depending on the position in which it is used, and thus these or other orientations should not be construed as limiting terms.
Terms concerning attachments, coupling and the like (e.g., "connected" and "attached") refer to a relationship wherein structures are secured or attached, either directly or indirectly, to one another through intervening structures, as well as both movable or rigid attachments or relationships, unless expressly described otherwise.
According to an embodiment of the present invention, shown in fig. 1 and 2, it can be seen that the mobile test tube supply and packaging device 1 for pharyngeal swab collection comprises:
amovable base 18, the bottom of which is provided with at least threepulleys 181;
atest tube tray 16 and a test tube pick-and-place mechanism 15 disposed on the top surface of themovable base 18, wherein a plurality ofempty test tubes 161 are vertically stacked in thetest tube tray 16;
the test tube blanking table 12 is arranged right above thetest tube tray 16 at intervals to form a carrying channel between the test tube tray and the test tube tray, and the test tube blanking table 12 is sequentially provided with acollecting station 125, acutting station 126, acap screwing station 127 and afeeding station 128 from front to back along a straight line direction;
a testtube carrying mechanism 129 slidably connected to the test tube unloading table 12;
acarrying driver 1291 in transmission connection with the testtube carrying mechanism 129;
the throat swab cottonswab cutting mechanism 13 is arranged at thecutting station 126; and
the test tubecap screwing mechanism 14 is arranged at thecap screwing station 127;
the test tube pick andplace mechanism 15 picks up atest tube 161 from thetest tube tray 16 and transfers thetest tube 161 to the testtube carrying mechanism 129 at theloading station 128, and after the testtube carrying mechanism 129 receives thetest tube 161 at theloading station 128, thecarrying driver 1291 drives the testtube carrying mechanism 129 to slide back and forth between thecollecting station 125 and theloading station 128.
Referring to fig. 1 to 3, the test tube pick andplace mechanism 15 includes:
a pick-and-place slide rail 151 fixedly provided beside thetest tube tray 16 and extending along the moving direction of the testtube carrying mechanism 129;
the bottom of the liftingsupport column 153 is slidably connected with the taking and placing slide rail 151;
a sliding driver, which is slidably connected with the liftingsupport column 153;
atranslation cross beam 154 which is connected with the liftingsupport column 153 in a sliding manner along the vertical direction and extends towards the test tube blanking table 12 side;
a lifting driver in transmission connection with thetranslation beam 154;
a testtube gripping assembly 155, which is slidingly connected to thetranslation cross-beam 154 in the horizontal direction; and
a translation driver in transmission connection with the testtube gripping assembly 155.
Referring to fig. 1 again, the sliding driver drives the liftingsupport column 153 to slide along the pick-and-place slide rail 151, so that the projection of thetranslation beam 154 on the horizontal plane is separated from the projection area of the test tube blanking table 12 on the horizontal plane;
the lifting driver drives thetranslation beam 154 to reciprocate so that the testtube clamping assembly 155 can be matched with thetest tube tray 16 or the testtube handling mechanism 129 in height;
the translation drive drives the testtube gripping assembly 155 to slide back and forth along the extension direction of thetranslation cross beam 154 so that the testtube gripping assembly 155 can be aligned with thetest tube 161 in thetest tube tray 16 or the testtube handling mechanism 129.
Referring to fig. 4 and 5, thetube discharging platform 12 is provided at a top thereof with atube conveying groove 122 extending along a straight line, thetube conveying groove 122 is open at a front end to form anopening 121 located at a front side of thetube discharging platform 12, and the collectingstation 125, the cuttingstation 126, thecap screwing station 127 and theloading station 128 are sequentially arranged from theopening 121 of thetube conveying groove 122 along an extending direction of thetube conveying groove 122.
Further, a tube dropping channel located below thetube conveying groove 122 is opened inside the test tube blanking table 12.
Further, the drop tube path extends obliquely downward from the rear side of the test tube blanking table 12 to the front side of the test tube blanking table 12, and is open at the front side of the test tube blanking table 12 to form a take-outnozzle 123.
Further, atube dropping opening 124 located near the feedingstation 128 is formed at the bottom of thetube conveying groove 122, and thetube dropping opening 124 is communicated with the tube dropping channel.
Further, a cotton swab blanking channel located below thetube conveying groove 122 is formed in the test tube blanking table 12, a cottonswab collecting opening 131 located at the cuttingstation 126 is formed in the bottom of thetube conveying groove 122, and the cottonswab collecting opening 131 is communicated with the cotton swab blanking channel.
Further, the swab discharging passage extends obliquely downward to the side of the test tube discharging table 12 and is open at the side to form a swab outlet.
The test tube supply and packaging device 1 is further electrically connected with a computer, specifically, the computer is electrically connected with the test tube pick-and-place mechanism 15, the throat swab cottonswab cutting mechanism 13 and the test tubecap screwing mechanism 14, the computer is used for receiving feedback signals of all the mechanisms and sending different control instructions to related drivers according to different feedback signals so as to control the test tube pick-and-place mechanism 15 to perform pick-and-place and transfer operations of the test tube, control the throat swab cottonswab cutting mechanism 13 to perform the cotton swab tail cutting operation and control the test tubecap screwing mechanism 14 to perform the cap screwing operation of the test tube cap, and finally, orderly operation and cooperation of all the components in the test tube transfer and cap screwing processes are realized, so that the collection process can be carried out according to the following steps:
step S1, in the initial stage, the testtube handling mechanism 129 is located at theloading station 128 to receive thetest tube 161 for pharyngeal swab collection, the testtube gripping assembly 155 is capable of gripping anempty test tube 161 from thetest tube tray 16 and transferring thetest tube 161 to the testtube handling mechanism 129 at theloading station 128 each time in cooperation with the plurality of drivers, and when the testtube handling mechanism 129 receives thetest tube 161, the test tube gripping module thereon grips thetest tube 161 and keeps thetest tube 161 in an upright state in which the test tube cap of the test tube is facing upward;
step S2, then, the testtube handling mechanism 129 is driven by thehandling driver 1291 to thecap screwing station 127 along with thetest tube 161 thereon, and then the test tubecap screwing mechanism 14 at thecap screwing station 127 unscrews the cap of thetest tube 161 and holds the cap in the test tubecap screwing mechanism 14;
step S3, then, the testtube handling mechanism 129, along with thetest tube 161 with the cap screwed off thereon, is driven by thehandling driver 1291 to the collectingstation 125 and exposes thetest tube 161 from theopening 121, and the health care professional inserts the collected pharyngeal swab into thetest tube 161;
step S4, subsequently, the testtube carrying mechanism 129 with thetest tube 161 thereon is driven by the carryingdriver 1291 to the cuttingstation 126, the cottonswab cutting mechanism 13 at the cuttingstation 126 cuts off the excess cotton swab tail, then, the testtube carrying mechanism 129 with thetest tube 161 thereon is driven by the carryingdriver 1291 to thecapping station 127, the cottonswab cutting mechanism 13 puts the cut cotton swab tail into the cotton swab handpiece opening 131 for collection, and at the same time, the testtube capping mechanism 14 at thecapping station 127 re-screws the tube cap of thetest tube 161 onto the test tube opening to cap the test tube opening;
step S5, finally, the testtube carrying mechanism 129 is driven to theloading station 128 by the carryingdriver 1291 along with thetest tube 161 thereon, and the test tube clamping module on the testtube carrying mechanism 129 puts the sealedtest tube 161 into the blankingport 124 and guides the sealedtest tube 161 to thetube taking port 123 for detection.
And step S6, repeating the steps S1-S5 until the collection operation of all throat swabs is completed.
The number of apparatuses and the scale of the process described herein are intended to simplify the description of the present invention. Applications, modifications and variations of the present invention will be apparent to those skilled in the art.
The features of the different implementations described herein may be combined to form other embodiments not specifically set forth above. The components may be omitted from the structures described herein without adversely affecting their operation. Further, various individual components may be combined into one or more individual components to perform the functions described herein.
Furthermore, while embodiments of the invention have been described above, it is not limited to the applications set forth in the description and the embodiments, which are fully applicable in a variety of fields of endeavor to which the invention pertains, and further modifications may readily be made by those skilled in the art, it being understood that the invention is not limited to the details shown and described herein without departing from the general concept defined by the appended claims and their equivalents.