CN111977326A - Pipette tip arranging and transporting mechanism and pipette tip transporting method - Google Patents

Pipette tip arranging and transporting mechanism and pipette tip transporting method Download PDF

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CN111977326A
CN111977326A CN202010979703.9A CN202010979703A CN111977326A CN 111977326 A CN111977326 A CN 111977326A CN 202010979703 A CN202010979703 A CN 202010979703A CN 111977326 A CN111977326 A CN 111977326A
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李明林
陈国龙
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The invention relates to a pipette tip arrangement and transportation mechanism and a pipette tip transportation method, which comprises a base, a material distribution mechanism and a transportation mechanism which are sequentially arranged on the base, wherein the material distribution mechanism comprises a V-shaped hopper arranged on the base, a rectangular output tube extends downwards from the middle part of the lower end of the V-shaped hopper, the inner diameter of the rectangular output tube can only accommodate one pipette tip, the lower end of the rectangular output tube is provided with a transverse material distribution cylinder, the material distribution cylinder is driven by a material distribution stepping motor, the periphery of the material distribution cylinder is provided with a material distribution groove for accommodating the pipette tip, the transportation mechanism comprises a bracket A, a bracket B and a pipette tip feeding piece which are fixedly arranged on the base and arranged at intervals from left to right, the bracket B is provided with a transportation motor, the transportation motor is connected with the pipette tip feeding piece through a crank and a connecting rod, the left, reasonable in design, the suction head transportation does not have the vibration, and is efficient, contactless friction between feed mechanism and the transport mechanism.

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Pipette tip arranging and transporting mechanism and pipette tip transporting method
Technical Field
The invention relates to a pipette tip arranging and transporting mechanism and a pipette tip transporting method.
Background
The pipette is widely applied to the fields of basic research of life science, drug research and development, cell and animal level toxicology evaluation in the field of public health, high-throughput detection of disease and prevention centers, pharmaceutical analysis, drug metabonomics and the like. In a laboratory, the usage rate of pipette tips is very high, and a large number of pipette tips are consumed in one laboratory every day. The pipette tips sold in the market are provided with box-packed tips and bagged tips which are arranged and assembled in bulk. The former is convenient to use, but is expensive, and increases the experiment cost; the latter is relatively cheap, but needs manual arrangement and assembly of the suction heads, needs a large amount of low-grade repeated labor and wastes manpower and material resources.
Statistically, on average, it takes 3 minutes to insert a single cartridge manually, and it is quite tiring to insert 20 cartridges, and 50 cartridges are at the limit of mental and physical strength. Therefore, the manual loading suction head has the disadvantages of large manpower consumption, low operation efficiency, easy misoperation and incapability of meeting the market demand.
The existing automation equipment has the problems of multiple placing, missing placing, complex structure, friction existing in the connection of the arranging and transporting mechanism and the suction head material taking mechanism and the like, and needs to be improved. The suction head of the existing equipment is transported only by internal force or under the action of added wind force, and the problems of unstable transportation process, blockage and the like exist. The suction head arranging and transporting mechanism on the existing automatic pipette suction head loader adopts a vibrator arranging and transporting mechanism, and has the problems of high noise and low efficiency.
Disclosure of Invention
The invention provides a pipette tip arranging and transporting mechanism and a pipette tip transporting method.
The invention solves the technical problem by adopting the scheme that the pipette tip arranging and conveying mechanism comprises a base, and a material distributing mechanism and a conveying mechanism which are sequentially arranged on the base;
the material distributing mechanism comprises a V-shaped hopper arranged on a base, a rectangular output pipe extends downwards from the middle part of the lower end of the V-shaped hopper, the inner diameter of the rectangular output pipe can only accommodate one suction head, a transverse material distributing cylinder is arranged at the lower end of the rectangular output pipe, one end of the material distributing cylinder is connected and driven with a material distributing stepping motor arranged on the V-shaped hopper through a coupler, and a plurality of material distributing grooves for accommodating the suction heads are uniformly distributed on the periphery of the material distributing cylinder;
the conveying mechanism comprises a connecting rod, a crank, a suction head feeding piece, a support A and a support B which are fixedly arranged on the base and are arranged at left and right intervals, a longitudinally arranged conveying motor is arranged on the support B, one end of the crank is fixedly connected with an output shaft of the conveying motor, the other end of one end of the crank is hinged with one end of the connecting rod, the other end of the connecting rod is hinged with the suction head feeding piece, the left end of the suction head feeding piece is hinged with the support A, a notch with a left end not closed is transversely formed in the upper edge of the suction head feeding piece, the upper surface of the notch is an inclined plane with a right height and a left low height, the groove width of the notch is smaller than.
Furthermore, the V-shaped hopper is fixedly arranged on the base through a bracket C.
Further, the inner width of the V-shaped material is 0-2mm larger than the length of the stub bar.
Further, V-arrangement material package stamp is rectangle section of thick bamboo portion, V type section of thick bamboo portion, the rectangle output tube that sets gradually from top to bottom, and the side is the plane about the V type section of thick bamboo portion.
Furthermore, the bracket B is connected with the bracket A through a horizontal rod.
Furthermore, the shaft parts on the left side and the right side of the material distribution cylinder are respectively arranged on the left side and the right side of the lower end of the rectangular output pipe through bearing seats.
Furthermore, the middle part of the upper end of the bracket A is bilaterally symmetrically provided with two connecting lugs, the left end of the suction head feeding piece is positioned between the two connecting lugs, the connecting lugs are longitudinally provided with pin holes, pin shafts are arranged in the pin holes, and the pin shafts are fixedly arranged on the suction head feeding piece.
A method for transporting pipette tips comprises the following steps: put into the V-arrangement hopper of feed divider with horizontal gesture with the suction head, a suction head in the V-arrangement hopper falls into the branch silo on dividing the material cylinder through the rectangle output tube, divide material step motor to drive and divide every rotatory certain angle of material cylinder, just can make the suction head in a branch silo fall into the notch of suction head pay-off piece, the suction head lower extreme is lower pendulum under the effect of gravity, the great part of diameter on suction head upper portion contacts with notch curb plate upper end, the transportation motor is through the crank, the connecting rod drives suction head pay-off piece reciprocating swing, thereby make the suction head on the baffle move to the output of suction head pay-off piece one by one left under the effect of self gravity and crank rocker mechanism.
Compared with the prior art, the invention has the following beneficial effects: simple structure, reasonable in design, the suction head transportation does not have the vibration, and is efficient, contactless friction between feed mechanism and the transport mechanism.
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The invention is further described with reference to the following figures.
FIG. 1 is a schematic structural view of the apparatus;
FIG. 2 is a schematic structural view of a material distributing cylinder;
FIG. 3 is a schematic view of the structure of the carriage of the transport mechanism;
figure 4 is a schematic view of the structure of the tip feeder;
figure 5 is a schematic view of the structure of the suction head.
In the figure: 1-a base; 2-a material distributing mechanism; 201-a V-shaped hopper; 202-a rectangular output tube; 203-material distributing cylinder; 204-a material-distributing stepping motor; 205-scaffold C; 206-material distributing groove; 3-a transport mechanism; 301-scaffold a; 302-scaffold B; 303-transport motor; 304-a crank; 305-a connecting rod; 306-a tip feeder; 307-horizontal bar; 308-connecting lugs; 309-notch; 4-suction head.
Detailed Description
The invention is further described with reference to the following figures and detailed description.
As shown in fig. 1-5, a pipette tip arrangement and transportation mechanism comprises a base 1, and a material distribution mechanism 2 and a transportation mechanism 3 which are sequentially arranged on the base;
the material distribution mechanism comprises a V-shaped hopper 201 installed on a base, a rectangular output pipe 202 extends downwards from the middle of the lower end of the V-shaped hopper, the inner diameter of the rectangular output pipe can only accommodate one suction head, a transverse material distribution cylinder 203 is installed at the lower end of the rectangular output pipe, one end of the material distribution cylinder is connected and driven with a material distribution stepping motor 204 installed on the V-shaped hopper through a coupler, a plurality of material distribution grooves 206 for accommodating the suction heads are evenly distributed on the periphery of the material distribution cylinder, each material distribution groove can just accommodate one suction head, and the material distribution stepping motor drives the material distribution cylinder to rotate so as to accurately control the discharge amount of the suction heads and enable the;
the transportation mechanism comprises a connecting rod 305, a crank 304, a sucker feeding piece 306, a bracket A301 and a bracket B302 which are fixedly arranged on the base and arranged at intervals on the left and the right, a longitudinal transportation motor 303 is arranged on the bracket B, one end of the crank is connected and fixed with an output shaft of the transportation motor, the other end of one end of the crank is hinged with one end of the connecting rod, the other end of the connecting rod is hinged with the sucker feeding piece, the left end of the sucker feeding piece is hinged with the bracket A, the sucking head feeding piece is transversely provided with a notch 309 with an unclosed left end, the upper surface of the notch is an inclined plane with a right height and a left low, the groove width of the notch is smaller than the outer diameter of the large end of the sucking head, the sucking head is in a conical shape with a big top and a small bottom, the groove width of the notch is equal to a larger diameter part at one position of the upper part of the sucking head, and the larger diameter part is positioned above the gravity center of the sucking head, refer to the attached figure 5, the lower side surface of the large end of the suction head or the lower side surface of the convex part on the periphery of the upper part of the suction head is matched with the upper surface of the notch.
The side face on the right end of the notch is located beside the distributing cylinder, and the conveying mechanism plays a role of bearing up and down, can receive a suction head coming out of the distributing mechanism and can convey the suction head to an input port of a water level material taking mechanism of the automatic pipette suction head loader.
In this embodiment, the V-shaped hopper is fixedly mounted to the base via bracket C205.
In this embodiment, the inner width of the V-shaped material is 0-2mm greater than the length of the stub bar.
In this embodiment, V-arrangement material package stamp is rectangle section of thick bamboo portion, V type section of thick bamboo portion, the rectangle output tube that sets gradually from top to bottom, and the side is the plane about the V type section of thick bamboo portion.
In this embodiment, the bracket B is connected to the bracket a via a horizontal rod 307, and preferably, the bracket B, the horizontal rod, and the bracket B are integrally formed or welded.
In this embodiment, the shaft portions on the left and right sides of the material separating cylinder are respectively mounted on the left and right sides of the lower end of the rectangular output pipe through the bearing seats.
In this embodiment, two engaging lugs 308 are symmetrically arranged in the left and right of the middle of the upper end of the bracket a, the left end of the suction head feeding piece is positioned between the two engaging lugs, pin holes are longitudinally formed in the engaging lugs, pin shafts are arranged in the pin holes, and the pin shafts are fixedly arranged on the suction head feeding piece.
A method for transporting pipette tips comprises the following steps: put into the V-arrangement hopper of feed divider with horizontal gesture with the suction head, a suction head in the V-arrangement hopper falls into the branch silo on dividing the material cylinder through the rectangle output tube, divide material step motor to drive and divide every rotatory certain angle of material cylinder, just can make the suction head in a branch silo fall into the notch of suction head pay-off piece, the suction head lower extreme is lower pendulum under the effect of gravity, the great part of diameter on suction head upper portion contacts with notch curb plate upper end, the transportation motor is through the crank, the connecting rod drives suction head pay-off piece reciprocating swing, thereby make the suction head on the baffle move to the output of suction head pay-off piece one by one left under the effect of self gravity and crank rocker mechanism.
If this patent discloses or refers to parts or structures that are fixedly connected to each other, the fixedly connected may be understood as: a detachable fixed connection (for example using a bolt or screw connection) can also be understood as: non-detachable fixed connections (e.g. riveting, welding), but of course, fixed connections to each other may also be replaced by one-piece structures (e.g. manufactured integrally using a casting process) (unless it is obviously impossible to use an integral forming process).
In the description of this patent, it is to be understood that the terms "longitudinal," "lateral," "upper," "lower," "front," "rear," "left," "right," "vertical," "horizontal," "top," "bottom," "inner," "outer," and the like are used in the orientations and positional relationships indicated in the drawings for convenience in describing the patent, and are not intended to indicate or imply that the referenced devices or elements must have a particular orientation, be constructed and operated in a particular orientation, and are not to be considered limiting of the patent.
The above-mentioned preferred embodiments, further illustrating the objects, technical solutions and advantages of the present invention, should be understood that the above-mentioned are only preferred embodiments of the present invention and should not be construed as limiting the present invention, and any modifications, equivalents, improvements and the like made within the spirit and principle of the present invention should be included in the protection scope of the present invention.

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1. The utility model provides a liquid-transfering gun suction head arrangement transport mechanism which characterized in that: comprises a base, a material distributing mechanism and a conveying mechanism which are sequentially arranged on the base;
the material distributing mechanism comprises a V-shaped hopper arranged on a base, a rectangular output pipe extends downwards from the middle part of the lower end of the V-shaped hopper, the inner diameter of the rectangular output pipe can only accommodate one suction head, a transverse material distributing cylinder is arranged at the lower end of the rectangular output pipe, one end of the material distributing cylinder is connected and driven with a material distributing stepping motor arranged on the V-shaped hopper through a coupler, and a plurality of material distributing grooves for accommodating the suction heads are uniformly distributed on the periphery of the material distributing cylinder;
the conveying mechanism comprises a connecting rod, a crank, a suction head feeding piece, a support A and a support B which are fixedly arranged on the base and are arranged at left and right intervals, a longitudinally arranged conveying motor is arranged on the support B, one end of the crank is fixedly connected with an output shaft of the conveying motor, the other end of one end of the crank is hinged with one end of the connecting rod, the other end of the connecting rod is hinged with the suction head feeding piece, the left end of the suction head feeding piece is hinged with the support A, a notch with a left end not closed is transversely formed in the upper edge of the suction head feeding piece, the upper surface of the notch is an inclined plane with a right height and a left low height, the groove width of the notch is smaller than.
2. The pipette tip organizing transport mechanism of claim 1, wherein: the V-shaped hopper is fixedly arranged on the base through a bracket C.
3. The pipette tip organizing transport mechanism of claim 2, wherein: the inner width of the V-shaped material is 0-2mm larger than the length of the stub bar.
4. The pipette tip organizing transport mechanism of claim 2, wherein: v-arrangement material package stamp from top to bottom sets gradually rectangle section of thick bamboo portion, V type section of thick bamboo portion, rectangle output tube, and the side is the plane about the V type section of thick bamboo portion.
5. The pipette tip organizing transport mechanism of claim 1, wherein: the bracket B is connected with the bracket A through a horizontal rod.
6. The pipette tip organizing transport mechanism of claim 1, wherein: the shaft parts of the left side and the right side of the material distributing cylinder are respectively arranged on the left side and the right side of the lower end of the rectangular output pipe through bearing seats.
7. The pipette tip organizing transport mechanism of claim 1, wherein: the left end of the suction head feeding piece is positioned between the two connecting lugs, pin holes are longitudinally formed in the connecting lugs, pin shafts are arranged in the pin holes, and the pin shafts are fixedly installed on the suction head feeding piece.
8. A method of transporting pipette tips using the pipette tip organizing transport mechanism of claim 1, wherein: put into the V-arrangement hopper of feed divider with horizontal gesture with the suction head, a suction head in the V-arrangement hopper falls into the branch silo on dividing the material cylinder through the rectangle output tube, divide material step motor to drive and divide every rotatory certain angle of material cylinder, just can make the suction head in a branch silo fall into the notch of suction head pay-off piece, the suction head lower extreme is lower pendulum under the effect of gravity, the great part of diameter on suction head upper portion contacts with notch curb plate upper end, the transportation motor is through the crank, the connecting rod drives suction head pay-off piece reciprocating swing, thereby make the suction head on the baffle move to the output of suction head pay-off piece one by one left under the effect of self gravity and crank rocker mechanism.
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