CN113135423A

CN113135423A - Culture dish sorting and collecting mechanism

Info

Publication number: CN113135423A
Application number: CN202010045752.5A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 杨富成; 李朝文; 郑劲林
Original assignee: Beijing Huironghe Technology Co Ltd
Current assignee: Beijing Huironghe Technology Co Ltd
Priority date: 2020-01-16
Filing date: 2020-01-16
Publication date: 2021-07-20
Anticipated expiration: 2040-01-16
Also published as: CN113135423B

Abstract

The invention discloses a culture dish sorting and collecting mechanism, which adopts the technical scheme that the culture dish sorting and collecting mechanism comprises a machine base, a sorting port and a collecting port, wherein the sorting port and the collecting port are positioned on the machine base; the lifting component pushes the culture dish to respectively enter and exit the sorting port and the collecting port; the subpackaging turntable is positioned below the sorting port and the collecting port pair and rotates the culture dish below the sorting port to the position below the collecting port; the sorting port is provided with a clamping assembly for elastically clamping the culture dish, and the clamping assembly comprises a power source which is driven by a pull rope to return to a separation position; the collection mouth is equipped with the collection dog that utilizes the culture dish by supreme one-way back-up down, collects and is connected with the torsional spring of usefulness that resets between dog and the frame, utilizes the centre gripping subassembly can centre gripping culture dish one by one, utilizes the collection dog that has the torsional spring to realize unidirectional rotation to realize collecting the culture dish one by one, reaches to sort one by one the culture dish efficient and to having irritated the culture dish after the solution and carry out the purpose of collecting one by one.

Description

Culture dish sorting and collecting mechanism

Technical Field

The invention relates to the field of solution subpackaging, in particular to a culture dish sorting and collecting mechanism.

Background

Solution packaging is a necessary process in drug screening and microbial solutions. In order to obtain good drug ingredients and to clarify the effect of the drug on the microorganism, high-throughput drug and microorganism effect experiments need to be performed. The solution subpackaging work process mainly comprises three steps, namely, culture dish sorting, culture dish subpackaging and finished product collecting.

In the prior art, as the culture dishes are mostly box-shaped, the culture dishes filled with the solution are stacked one by one from top to bottom and are difficult to collect, the culture dishes are generally sorted and collected by manual operation, and obviously, the working efficiency of the manual operation is lower; therefore, a mechanism is needed to effectively sort the culture dishes one by one and collect the culture dishes filled with the solution one by one.

Disclosure of Invention

The invention aims to provide a culture dish sorting and collecting mechanism, which can be used for clamping culture dishes one by utilizing a clamping assembly and collecting the culture dishes one by utilizing a collecting stop block which is provided with a torsion spring and realizes unidirectional rotation, so that the aims of efficiently sorting the culture dishes one by one and efficiently collecting the culture dishes filled with solution one by one are fulfilled.

The technical purpose of the invention is realized by the following technical scheme:

a culture dish sorting and collecting mechanism comprises a machine base, a sorting port and a collecting port, wherein the sorting port and the collecting port are positioned on the machine base; the lifting component pushes the culture dish to respectively enter and exit the sorting port and the collecting port; the subpackaging turntable is positioned below the sorting port and the collecting port and rotates the culture dish below the sorting port to a position below the collecting port; the sorting port is provided with a clamping assembly for elastically clamping the culture dish, and the clamping assembly comprises a power source which is driven by a pull rope to return to a separation position; the collection port is provided with a collection stop block which is opened by utilizing the culture dish from bottom to top in a one-way, and a torsional spring for resetting is connected between the collection stop block and the machine base.

By adopting the technical scheme, the culture dish is singly clamped by the clamping assembly, when the lifting assembly below the clamping assembly ascends, the clamping assembly is opened under the pulling action of the pull rope, the culture dish is placed on the lifting assembly under the action of gravity, and is placed on the subpackaging turntable by the lifting assembly, however, along with the placement of the culture dish, the power source of the pull rope is closed, the clamping assembly resets to the clamping position under the action of elasticity to clamp the next culture dish, so that the culture dishes above the sorting port can be stacked, and the clamping assembly is matched with the lifting assembly to realize efficient sorting action one by one;

and letter sorting mouth department below is after pouring into the solution to the culture dish of partial shipment carousel department, drive through the partial shipment carousel, reach the below of collecting the mouth, utilize lifting unit to deliver to the culture dish and collect mouthful top, because collect the one-way upward rotation function of dog, the culture dish can be with collecting the dog by supreme opening down, and after the culture dish is arranged in and is collected the dog top, lifting unit whereabouts, and the culture dish then falls and collects the dog top, the culture dish is collected the dog and is supported, so utilize by the mode that stacks from supreme down, realized collecting one by one the culture dish efficient.

Preferably, the clamping assembly comprises clamping plates symmetrically arranged on two sides, and a spring for pushing the clamping plates on the two sides to move in a clamping manner in opposite directions is arranged on the base.

Through adopting above-mentioned technical scheme, the opening of both sides is bigger when two symmetries of splint set up and make splint open, so be difficult to receive the fender when the culture dish whereabouts for the whereabouts one by one of culture dish is more smooth and easy high-efficient.

Preferably, the power source is arranged on the outer side of the subpackaging turntable, and the pull rope slides in a connecting mode through a pulley.

Through adopting above-mentioned technical scheme, the purpose of adoption stay cord, the tensile transmission direction of change that the stay cord can be free to can be good place power supply and centre gripping subassembly separation two places, make more installation space vacate in the inside of this design mechanism, the equipment of this design mechanism is more convenient with the installation.

Preferably, the clamping plate comprises a flat clamping edge and guiding edges positioned on two sides of the clamping edge, and the guiding edges are outwards turned out to be arranged to be in an outwards splayed shape.

By adopting the technical scheme, the clamping edges are flat, so that the clamping force of each position of each clamping edge is similar, the culture dish is stably clamped by any contact position of the clamping edges, the clamping edges are flat, the culture medium can be stably clamped, shaking caused by unbalanced clamping force in the clamping process of the culture medium is avoided, and the clamping edges are flat, so that efficient one-by-one sorting action is further realized; when empty culture dish stacked, the in-process that the culture dish falls to splint can be with slight rocking and take place the offset, lead to the contained side to be difficult to direct clamp accurate culture medium, and the edge of the guide limit increase centre gripping of utilizing outer eight characters form to utilize the effect of its hypotenuse of outer eight characters form to the culture dish guide slide to smooth contained side department, make the more stability of the action of letter sorting in-process centre gripping culture dish, further realize the efficient and sort the action one by one.

Preferably, a blocking edge which enables the culture dish to limit the movement at the clamping edge is connected between the clamping edge and the guide edge.

Through adopting above-mentioned technical scheme, the effect that separates the flange is in order to prevent that the culture dish from along guiding the limit roll-off, can be so that the culture dish is only by the centre gripping in the contained side, can be so that the culture dish and the lifting unit that are aimed at by the centre gripping more accurate, further realize the efficient letter sorting action one by one.

Preferably, the collecting stop blocks are symmetrically arranged and form a U-shaped opening.

By adopting the technical scheme, the U-shaped opening provides more observation spaces, so that workers can observe the culture dish below the collection opening through the gap of the U-shaped opening conveniently; the U-shaped mouth shape lightens the weight of the collecting stop block, lightens the top holding resistance of the culture, is more beneficial to the opening of the culture dish and collects the stop block, and further realizes the one-by-one collection of the culture dish high efficiency.

Preferably, the lower side of collecting the dog is equipped with the restriction and collects the baffle that the excessive elasticity of dog resets, and the baffle passes through the fix with screw at the frame, and the cap portion of screw is contradicted and is collected the dog, and the height-adjustable who unscrews the screw collects the angle that dog elasticity reset.

Through adopting above-mentioned technical scheme, can adjust the position of collecting the dog reset state according to the demand of culture dish shape, through adjusting screw's the height of unscrewing, collect the dog and can be the different angles of tilt up or downward sloping, the angle of tilt up or downward sloping is less than 30 degrees, collects the dog and also can be the level and place, has realized collecting the culture dish efficient of different models one by one. Excessive elastic return means that the collection stop is rotated to 90 degrees vertically, which is to be avoided.

Preferably, the lifting assembly comprises a first tray pointing to the sorting port, a second tray pointing to the collecting port and a lifting block for pushing the first tray and the second tray to lift synchronously, a guide rail is fixed on the machine base, and the lifting block slides at the guide rail; the machine base is provided with a driving belt which drives the lifting block to move, and the driving belt is connected with a lifting motor.

By adopting the technical scheme, the lifting motor and the transmission belt are adopted for transmission, and an air cylinder or an oil cylinder is not adopted, because the oil cylinder needs an oil tank and an oil pump, the noise is high, and the volatilization of the oil can generate great negative influence on the liquid in the culture dish; the air pump is also noisy, which is not beneficial to the use in the environment of the laboratory, so the lifting motor and the transmission belt are adopted for transmission.

Preferably, the drive belt is connected with 3 take-up pulleys, and 3 take-up pulleys are arranged into equilateral triangle, and the take-up pulley that elevator motor connects is kept away from the elevator.

By adopting the technical scheme, the stable stretching of the transmission belt can be realized by utilizing the stability of the triangle in the position layout of the 3 tension pulleys, and the stress of the three tension pulleys tends to be approximate as much as possible due to the equilateral triangle shape; and elevator motor keeps away from the elevator for elevator motor's installation space is bigger, the equipment and the installation of this design mechanism of being convenient for.

Preferably, the elevator block includes the tooth mouth clamping piece and is connected the clamping piece, and the drive belt centre gripping is between tooth mouth clamping piece and connection clamping piece to tooth mouth clamping piece passes through bolt locking with connection clamping piece.

Through adopting above-mentioned technical scheme, the coefficient of friction of tooth mouth clamping piece is great, and the interlock of tooth mouth clamping piece to the drive belt is more stable for the interlock drive belt that the elevator can be firmly, make lifting unit's lift action more stable.

Drawings

FIG. 1 is a schematic structural view of a solution dispensing system according to an embodiment;

FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram of the position of the plate sorting and collecting mechanism in the solution dispensing system according to the embodiment;

FIG. 3 is a schematic structural diagram of a plate sorting and collecting mechanism according to an embodiment; FIG. 4 is a schematic structural view of the clamp plate and the spring in the embodiment;

FIG. 5 is a schematic view showing the structure of a collecting baffle in the embodiment;

FIG. 6 is a schematic configuration diagram of a power source in the embodiment;

FIG. 7 is a schematic view showing a connection relationship between a lift motor and a belt in the embodiment;

figure 8 is a schematic diagram of the position relationship between the split rotary table and the clamping assembly in the embodiment.

In the figure:

1. a culture dish storage assembly; 1a, storing blank spaces;

2. a machine base; 21. a sorting port; 22. a collection port;

3. a lifting assembly; 31. a first tray; 32. a second tray; 33. a lifting block; 34. a guide rail; 35. a lifting motor; 351. a transmission belt; 36. a tension wheel; 37. a tooth mouth clamping piece; 38. connecting the clamping pieces; 39. a bolt;

4. a split charging turntable; 4a, an empty groove;

5. a clamping assembly; 51. pulling a rope; 52. a power source; 53. a splint; 54. a spring; 55. clamping edges; 56. a guide edge; 57. separating the blocking edge; 58. a pulley;

61. collecting a stop block; 62. a torsion spring; 63. a baffle plate; 64. and (4) screws.

Detailed Description

The present invention will be described in further detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

As shown in FIGS. 1 and 2, the plate sorting and collecting mechanism of the embodiment is installed in a solution dispensing system. The solution subpackaging system comprises a culture dish storage assembly 1, a culture dish for storing an empty culture dish and/or filling solution and a machine base 2, wherein the machine base 2 is provided with a sorting port 21 and a collecting port 22; the culture dish sorting assembly is used for discharging the empty culture dishes in the culture dish storage assembly 1 from the sorting port 21 and then conveying the empty culture dishes to the subpackaging turntable 4; the dish lid is uncovered with the culture dish to partial shipment carousel 4 department, and solution conveying component adds the solution to empty culture dish, later uncovers the culture dish closing cap after the subassembly will annotate the liquid, and partial shipment carousel 4 rotates the culture dish that will annotate the liquid and transports culture dish collection mouth 22 below to push back another of culture dish storage assembly 1 and deposit the blank, thereby accomplish the partial shipment work of empty culture dish.

The storage assembly 1 for the culture dish comprises N storage spaces 1a (N ≧ 2), wherein an empty culture dish is placed in each of the N-1 storage spaces a, and the remaining one storage space 1a is empty and no culture dish is placed therein, preferably N =10 in the present invention, that is, the empty culture dish can be filled with 9 storage spaces 1a at most. The 10 storage spaces a are circumferentially arranged around the vertical central line of the culture dish storage assembly 1, the 10 storage spaces 1a are all circular, and the 10 storage spaces 1a are circumferentially arranged to form a circle. The culture dish storage assembly 1 is connected with a motor (not shown in the figure), and the motor can drive the culture dish storage assembly 1 to rotate around the axis of the culture dish storage assembly 1, so that the position of each storage space 1a is changed.

As shown in fig. 3 and 4, the culture dish sorting and collecting mechanism includes a base 2, the base 2 is an integral screw connection structure, the base 2 in fig. 3 is a part of the integral base 2, and the base 2 is a metal base; the frame 2 is equipped with clamping component 5, two splint 53 that clamping component 5 installed on frame 2, two splint 53 install the both sides at letter sorting mouth 21 along the radial line symmetry of letter sorting mouth 21 respectively. When the first tray 31 is positioned at the lower position of the machine base 2, the two clamping plates 53 clamped block the sorting opening 21, when the first tray 31 ascends to support a culture dish, the power source 52 and the clamping plates 53 are linked through the pull rope 51, and the pull rope changes the pulling path through the pulley 58; the power source 52 is arranged at one side of the machine base 2, so that the power source 52 is far away from the clamping plate 53; the power source 52 is activated and pulls the pull cord 51 so that the clamp plate 53 opens the sorting opening 21. The clamping plate 53 comprises a flat clamping edge 55 and guiding edges 56 at both sides of the clamping edge 55, and the guiding edges 56 are turned outwards to present a shape of a Chinese character 'ba'. A stop edge 57 is connected between the clamping edge 55 and the guide edge 56 to limit the movement of the culture dish at the clamping edge 55.

Working principle of the clamping assembly 5: sorting mouth 21 both sides are equipped with the splint 53 of the empty culture dish of centre gripping, and splint 53 realizes the separation through the stay cord 51 that power supply 52 drove, and power supply 52 is the motor, and frame 2 is equipped with the spring 54 that promotes the splint 53 centre gripping, and spring 54 promotes two closed sorting mouths 21 of splint 53, and the rotatory stay cord 51 of power supply 52 makes two splint 53 separation reach the effect that sorting mouth 21 was opened. When the first tray 31 holds the culture dish in the culture dish storage assembly, the culture dish needs to be clamped and conveyed to the culture dish split charging turntable, two clamping plates 53 are arranged on the machine base 2, and the two clamping plates 53 are used for supporting and clamping the culture dish.

As shown in fig. 2 and 8, when the culture dish sorting operation is performed, the power source 52 is a motor, the power source 52 rotates the pull rope 51, the pull rope 51 pulls the clamp plate 53 to open the sorting opening 21 on the base 2, the first tray 31 ascends to seal the sorting opening 21, when the diffuse reflection sensor on the first tray 31 detects that no culture dish exists in the storage space a, the culture dish storage assembly continues to rotate under the driving of the first motor until the next storage space a is aligned with the first tray 31, when the diffuse reflection sensor on the first tray 31 detects that there is an empty culture dish in the storage space a, the culture dish storage assembly stops rotating, at this time, the empty culture dish is aligned with the sorting opening 21, then the lifting assembly 3 drives the first tray 31 to descend by the height of one culture dish, at this time, the empty culture dish descends along with the first tray 31, and after descending by the height of one culture dish, the power source 52 stops operating, the spring 54 pushes the two clamping plates 53 to move oppositely, so that the culture dish on the empty culture dish is clamped; then first tray 31 drives empty culture dish and descends to the bottommost, and empty culture dish falls among them empty slot 4a on the partial shipment carousel 4, and the partial shipment carousel has 5 empty slots 4a, and the letter sorting work of culture dish is accomplished.

The empty culture dishes entering the empty slots 4a rotate along with the subpackaging rotating discs 4, and at the moment, the other empty slot 4a on the subpackaging rotating discs 4 is ensured to be aligned with the sorting port 21, therefore, the invention preferably arranges 5 empty slots 4a on the subpackaging rotating discs 4, after the empty culture dishes fall into one empty slot 4a, the empty culture dishes enter the subpackaging station along with the clockwise rotation degree of the subpackaging rotating discs 4, and at the moment, the other empty slot a on the subpackaging rotating discs 4 is aligned with the sorting port 21, so that the sorting work of the second empty culture dish is prepared. In order to save the working time and improve the working efficiency, the invention is further provided that the subpackaging work of the first empty culture dish and the sorting work of the second culture dish are carried out simultaneously.

The sub-packaging turntable 4 is further provided with a second tray 32, the base 2 is provided with a collecting port 22 for the second tray 32 to go in and out, the edge of the collecting port 22 is provided with a collecting stop 61 which is opened from bottom to top in a single direction, a baffle 63 for limiting the excessive elastic reset of the collecting stop 61 is arranged below the collecting stop 61, the baffle 63 is fixed on the base 2 through a screw 64, the cap of the screw 64 is abutted against the collecting stop 61, and the elastic reset angle of the height-adjustable collecting stop 61 for screwing out the screw 64 is adjusted. Collect dog 61 through pivot swivelling joint at baffle 63, collect and be connected with the torsional spring 62 that resets usefulness between dog 61 and the baffle 63, torsional spring 62 will collect dog 61 and push away to contradict at screw 64 cap position, reach the purpose that supports the culture dish after the liquid filling.

The first tray 31 and the second tray 32 are driven by the lifting assembly 3, the lifting assembly 3 comprises a first tray 31 pointing to the sorting opening 21, a second tray 32 pointing to the collecting opening 22, and a lifting block 33 pushing the first tray 31 and the second tray 32 to lift synchronously, a guide rail 34 is fixed on the machine base 2, and the lifting block 33 slides on the guide rail 34; the machine base 2 is provided with a transmission belt 351 for driving the lifting block 33 to move, and the transmission belt 351 is connected with a lifting motor 35. The transmission belt 351 is connected with 3 tension pulleys 36, and the 3 tension pulleys 36 are arranged in an equilateral triangle; opposite to the tension pulley 36 connected with the lifting motor 35, a section of transmission belt 351 is arranged, the section of transmission belt 351 is provided with a lifting block 33, and the section of transmission belt 351 is vertically arranged, so that the lifting block 33 is separated from the lifting motor 35 at two far sides. The elevator block 33 includes a notched jaw 37 and a connecting jaw 38, the belt 351 is clamped between the notched jaw 37 and the connecting jaw 38, and the notched jaw 37 and the connecting jaw 38 are locked by a bolt 39.

The working principle is as follows: sorting out the empty culture dishes stacked above the machine base 2 one by one and conveying the empty culture dishes to the lower part of the machine base 2; and the treated culture dishes are transported to be stacked above the housing 2.

The lifting component 3: the synchronous belt driving wheel is fixed on the lifting motor 35, the transmission belt 351 is fixed on three synchronous tensioning wheels 36 to form a triangle, the transmission belt 351 at one section is in a vertical state, and the vertical transmission belt 351 is connected with the lifting block 33.

The synchronous tensioning wheel 36 is driven by the lifting motor 35 to rotate, the driving belt 351 drives the lifting block 33 to move up and down, and the first tray 31 and the second tray 32 are fixed on the lifting block 33, so that synchronous lifting movement of the two trays is realized.

The opening and closing principle of the sorting clamping plates 53: the pull ropes 51 are all in anti-loosening states, and the reset springs 54 eject the sorting clamping plates 53 out, so that the sorting clamping plates 53 are closed. When the driving hinge wheel rotates anticlockwise under the driving of the hinge wheel motor, one pull rope 51 fixed on the driving hinge wheel can pull the driven hinge wheel to rotate anticlockwise, and the two pull ropes 51 fixed on the driven hinge wheel respectively pull the left and right clamping plates 53 to move from two sides, so that the opening of the sorting clamping plates 53 is realized. When the driving hinge wheel rotates clockwise, the pull rope 51 is gradually loosened, and the reset spring 54 pushes out the sorting clamping plate 53 to return to the closed state again.

The collection stopper 61 is opened and closed: collect dog 61 and can freely upwards turn and can not turn downwards around the pivot, when up-going motion is down followed to the culture dish, the culture dish can freely break open the collection dog 61 on both sides about, makes it upwards turn, waits the culture dish to collect dog 61 back through two completely, collects dog 61 and can drive automatic re-setting under the torsional spring 62 that resets usefulness, forms closed state again, prevents the culture dish of top and falls down.

The above description is only a preferred embodiment of the present invention, and the protection scope of the present invention is not limited to the above embodiments, and all technical solutions belonging to the idea of the present invention belong to the protection scope of the present invention. It should be noted that modifications and embellishments within the scope of the invention may occur to those skilled in the art without departing from the principle of the invention, and are considered to be within the scope of the invention.

Claims

1. The utility model provides a culture dish letter sorting and collection mechanism which characterized by: comprises a machine base (2), a sorting port (21) and a collecting port (22) which are positioned on the machine base (2);

a lifting component (3) which pushes the culture dish to respectively enter and exit the sorting port (21) and the collecting port (22);

the subpackaging turntable (4) is positioned below the sorting port (21) and the collecting port (22) and rotates the culture dish below the sorting port (21) to the position below the collecting port (22);

the sorting port (21) is provided with a clamping assembly (5) for elastically clamping the culture dish, and the clamping assembly (5) comprises a power source (52) which is driven by a pull rope (51) to return to a separation position;

the collecting port (22) is provided with a collecting stop block (61) which is pushed open from bottom to top in a single direction by using a culture dish, and a torsion spring (62) for resetting is connected between the collecting stop block (61) and the machine base (2).

2. The culture dish sorting and collection mechanism of claim 1, wherein: the clamping assembly (5) comprises clamping plates (53) which are symmetrically arranged on two sides, and a spring (54) for pushing the clamping plates (53) on the two sides to move in a clamping manner in opposite directions is arranged on the machine base (2).

3. The culture dish sorting and collection mechanism of claim 1, wherein: the power source (52) is arranged on the outer side of the split charging turntable (4), and the pull rope (51) is connected and slides through a pulley (58).

4. The culture dish sorting and collection mechanism of claim 2, wherein: the clamping plate (53) comprises a flat clamping edge (55) and guiding edges (56) positioned on two sides of the clamping edge (55), and the guiding edges (56) are outwards turned out to be in a splayed shape.

5. The culture dish sorting and collection mechanism of claim 4, wherein: a blocking edge (57) which limits the movement of the culture dish at the clamping edge (55) is connected between the clamping edge (55) and the guide edge (56).

6. The culture dish sorting and collection mechanism of claim 1, wherein: the two collecting blocks (61) are symmetrically arranged, and the collecting blocks (61) are in a U-shaped opening shape.

7. The culture dish sorting and collection mechanism of claim 1, wherein: the lower part of the collecting stop block (61) is provided with a baffle (63) for limiting the excessive elastic reset of the collecting stop block (61), the baffle (63) is fixed on the machine base (2) through a screw (64), the cap part of the screw (64) is abutted against the collecting stop block (61), and the height of the screw (64) can be adjusted to adjust the elastic reset angle of the collecting stop block (61).

8. The culture dish sorting and collection mechanism of claim 1, wherein: the lifting assembly (3) comprises a first tray (31) pointing to the sorting opening (21), a second tray (32) pointing to the collecting opening (22) and a lifting block (33) for pushing the first tray (31) and the second tray (32) to lift synchronously, a guide rail (34) is fixed on the machine base (2), and the lifting block (33) slides on the guide rail (34); the machine base (2) is provided with a transmission belt (351) for driving the lifting block (33) to move, and the transmission belt (351) is connected with a lifting motor (35).

9. The culture dish sorting and collection mechanism of claim 8, wherein: the transmission belt (351) is connected with 3 tension pulleys (36), the 3 tension pulleys (36) are arranged in an equilateral triangle, and the tension pulley (36) connected with the lifting motor (35) is far away from the lifting block (33).

10. The culture dish sorting and collection mechanism of claim 9, wherein: the lifting block (33) comprises a tooth opening clamping piece (37) and a connecting clamping piece (38), the transmission belt (351) is clamped between the tooth opening clamping piece (37) and the connecting clamping piece (38), and the tooth opening clamping piece (37) and the connecting clamping piece (38) are locked through a bolt (39).