Blood collection tube preparation machine

Abstract

The application discloses a blood collection tube preparation machine, and belongs to the technical field of intelligent inspection equipment, which comprises a machine shell, a thermal printer and a picking and labeling device, wherein the top of the machine shell is provided with a sorting device, a control machine is arranged outside the sorting device, the control machine is in signal connection with the thermal printer, the thermal printer and the picking and labeling device can be controlled, a pattern corresponding to a heating element is generated on a thermal sticker when the thermal printer is started, the thermal printer is connected with the tail end of the picking and labeling device, the top end of the picking and labeling device is connected with the sorting device, a take-out device is arranged at the bottom end, a sensor is arranged in the take-out device to detect whether the blood collection tubes are all taken out, when the thermal printer completes the printing of the thermal sticker, the sorting device releases the corresponding blood collection tube into the picking and labeling device in use, when the picking and labeling device is started, the thermal sticker is pasted on the blood collection tube as a label, and then slides into the take-out device.

Description

Technical Field

[0001] This invention relates to the field of intelligent testing equipment technology, specifically to a blood collection tube preparation machine. Background Technology

[0002] Currently, all specimens (including blood, urine, and body fluids) in the hospital's laboratory are automatically scanned with barcodes to record information, which facilitates the information management of blood collection tubes later. Therefore, when patients have their blood collected, they need to print their name, barcode, and test items on a label in advance through the hospital's laboratory information management system. Then, medical staff will affix the label to the blood collection tube for the purpose of information management later.

[0003] The traditional method of storing blood collection tubes involves using a tray with multiple slots for holding the tubes. The tubes are then placed in the slots and removed from the tray when needed by the doctor. However, due to the large number of patients requiring examinations in hospitals, this method not only reduces the efficiency of medical staff and causes long queues at hospital blood collection windows, but also leads to errors in the work, such as incorrect labeling, improper pasting, or forgetting to remove all the blood collection tubes.

[0004] To address this, the applicant proposes a new technical solution that uses a labeling machine to label blood collection tubes and standardizes the workflow of patient information collection, printing, and label application. This saves time for laboratory staff and allows for faster delivery of test reports to clinicians. Summary of the Invention

[0005] Therefore, the present invention provides a blood collection tube preparation machine to solve the problem of low efficiency caused by manual blood collection in the prior art.

[0006] To achieve the above objectives, the present invention provides the following technical solution:

[0007] This invention discloses a blood collection tube preparation machine, comprising:

[0008] The machine casing has a sorter on the top and a control unit on the outside of the sorter.

[0009] A thermal printer contains thermal stickers inside and a dot matrix heater on top. The dot matrix heaters are arranged in the form of square dots or strips and are logically controlled by a controller. When driven, a graphic corresponding to the heated element is generated on the thermal sticker.

[0010] The label picking device is connected at its tail end to the thermal printer to receive the thermal sticker, at its top end to the sorter, and at its bottom end to the extractor. The extractor is equipped with a force-sensitive resistor at its bottom and is connected to the outside.

[0011] When the heat-sensitive printer finishes printing the heat-sensitive label, the sorting device releases the corresponding blood collection tube into the picking labeling device, and when the picking labeling device is started, the heat-sensitive label is pasted on the blood collection tube as a label and slides into the extractor.

[0012] Further, the picking labeling device comprises:

[0013] The frame is provided with a picking mechanism at the front end and a roller frame at the tail end.

[0014] The groove wheel is coaxially connected with the roller frame at the center and is drivingly connected with the dial at the outer edge, and the dial is coaxially connected with the driving motor.

[0015] The crank rocker mechanism is connected with the picking mechanism at the front end and is connected with the dial at the tail end.

[0016] Further, the picking mechanism comprises:

[0017] The suction support is provided with a rubber film at the front end, the rubber film is provided with static electricity, and a pair of rocker arms are provided on both sides.

[0018] The sliding groove is provided with a sliding block inside, and the sliding block is hingedly arranged on the frame.

[0019] Any one of the rocker arms is provided with a sliding groove, and a first hinged position is further provided in the middle of the rocker arm, and the first hinged position is hingedly connected with the front end of the crank rocker mechanism.

[0020] Further, the frame comprises:

[0021] The bottom plate is sequentially provided with a first stand, a second stand and a third stand from front to back, the roller frame is rotatably arranged on the top of the first stand, the second hinged position is arranged on the top of the second stand, and the picking mechanism is arranged on the top of the third stand.

[0022] The compression roller is sleeved on one end of the spring frame at the center, and the other end of the spring frame is arranged on the second stand.

[0023] The transmission roller is coaxially provided with a first pulley at the end, and is rotatably arranged in the bottom plate opposite to the compression roller, and the transmission roller and the compression roller are in abutting contact to clamp the heat-sensitive label.

[0024] Further, the roller frame comprises:

[0025] The prism is provided with a main shaft at the axis, and a pair of clamping seats are arranged on any one side surface.

[0026] The second pulley is coaxially fixed with the end of the main shaft at the axis, and is drivingly connected with the first pulley through the transmission belt.

[0027] Further, the crank rocker mechanism comprises:

[0028] A crank is fixedly connected with the center of the dial at the front end and hingedly connected with one end of the connecting rod at the rear end.

[0029] A rocker is hingedly connected with the other end of the connecting rod at the first end, hingedly connected with the second end at the middle part and hingedly connected with the first hinge position at the tail end.

[0030] Further, the sorting device comprises:

[0031] A sorting slot is internally provided with a plurality of storage cavities, and each storage cavity is provided with a limiting flap at the bottom.

[0032] A plurality of driving devices are arranged at the bottom of the sorting slot and are respectively in driving connection with one limiting flap.

[0033] Further, the limiting flap comprises:

[0034] An L-shaped flap is provided with a rotating shaft at the middle part, and one end of the rotating shaft is coaxially connected with the driving device to drive the L-shaped flap to rotate.

[0035] A crank handle is arranged at the other end of the rotating shaft outside the sorting slot.

[0036] Further, the driving device is a rotary motor, a push-pull electromagnet or a pneumatic cylinder.

[0037] Further, the front end of the control machine is provided with a touch screen.

[0038] The present application has the following advantages:

[0039] The present application can separate the blood collection tubes with different colors required by the patient through the sorting device, and the label is printed by the thermal printer, and when the blood collection tube enters the label picking device, the blood collection tube moves with the clamping seat, and the adsorption support adheres the label sticker to the blood collection tube by electrostatic adsorption. Compared with the prior art, the label can be adhered to the blood collection tube, avoiding the problems of label misplacement, non-standard adhesion, forgetting to take out the blood collection tube and the like caused by manual operation errors, and the work efficiency of the laboratory staff can be greatly improved, so that the detection report can be provided for the clinic faster. BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS

[0040] In order to more clearly illustrate the embodiments of the present application or the technical solutions in the prior art, the drawings needed to be used in the following embodiment or prior art description will be briefly introduced. Obviously, the drawings in the following description are only exemplary, and those skilled in the art can obtain other implementation drawings according to the provided drawings without creating any creative labor.

[0041] The structures, proportions, sizes, etc. shown in the specification are only used to cooperate with the content disclosed in the specification for understanding and reading by those skilled in the art, and are not used to limit the conditions for implementing the application, so they do not have technical significance. Any modification of the structure, change of the proportion relationship or adjustment of the size, without affecting the effect and purpose that can be achieved by the application, should still fall within the scope of the technology disclosed by the application.

[0042] Figure 1 A blood collection tube preparation machine provided by the application is shown in the stereogram;

[0043] Figure 2 A picking and labeling device provided by the application is shown in the stereogram;

[0044] Figure 3 A roller frame provided by the application is shown in the stereogram;

[0045] Figure 4 A machine frame provided by the application is shown in the stereogram;

[0046] Figure 5 A picking mechanism provided by the application is shown in the stereogram;

[0047] Figure 6 A sorting slot lateral perspective view provided by the application is shown in the stereogram;

[0048] Figure 7 A crank rocker mechanism provided by the application is shown in the stereogram;

[0049] Figure 8 A limit flap provided by the application is shown in the stereogram;

[0050] In the figure: 1 machine shell; 2 control machine; 3 sorter; 31 sorting slot; 32 storage cavity; 33 driving device; 34 limit flap; 341 L-shaped flap; 342 crank handle; 343 rotating shaft; 4 thermal printer; 5 picking and labeling device; 51 machine frame; 511 bottom plate; 512 first stand; 513 second stand; 514 third stand; 515 pressure roller; 516 spring frame; 517 first pulley; 518 transmission roller; 519 second hinge position; 52 picking mechanism; 521 suction support; 522 rocker arm; 523 sliding slot; 524 sliding block; 525 rubber film; 526 first hinge position; 53 crank rocker mechanism; 531 crank; 532 connecting rod; 533 rocker; 54 groove wheel; 55 roller frame; 551 prism; 552 clamping seat; 553 main shaft; 554 second pulley; 56 dial; 6 extractor; 7 force-sensitive resistor. DETAILED DESCRIPTION

[0051] The following specific embodiments illustrate the embodiments of the present application, and those skilled in the art can easily understand other advantages and effects of the present application from the disclosure of the present application. Obviously, the described embodiments are part of the embodiments of the present application, rather than all the embodiments. Based on the embodiments of the present application, all other embodiments obtained by those skilled in the art without creative labor fall within the scope of protection of the present application.

[0052] Please refer to Figures 1-8 The present application discloses a blood collection tube preparation machine for standardizing the pasting of printed labels on empty blood collection tubes. The main structure comprises a machine shell 1, a sorting device 3, a thermal printer 4 and a picking and labeling device 5. During blood collection, different colored empty blood collection tubes are loaded into the sorting device 3, which is arranged on the top of the machine shell 1. The top of the machine shell 1 is provided with a slope or a track. The picking and labeling device 5 is installed inside the sorting device 3, so that the sorting device 3 is in communication with the picking and labeling device 5, to transport the corresponding blood collection tubes to the picking and labeling device 5.

[0053] In the present embodiment, the thermal label is printed by the thermal printer 4. The thermal label is installed together with the adhesive in the thermal printer 4. The thermal printer 4 is provided with dot matrix heaters on the top in the form of square dots or strips, which are logically controlled by the installation controller 2. When driven, the dot matrix heaters generate a pattern corresponding to the heating elements on the thermal label, so that the patient information can be displayed in the form of bar codes and fields on the thermal label.

[0054] In the present embodiment, the control machine 2 is arranged outside the sorting device 3. The control machine 2 is an upper computer provided with a single-chip microcomputer, and is provided with a touch screen at the front end. The single-chip microcomputer can be used to control the various subsystems of the labeling machine, so that the labeling machine can operate normally.

[0055] In order to make the pasting of the thermal label conform to the standard, the technical solution disclosed by the present application uses the picking and labeling device 5 to automatically realize the labeling process of the blood collection tube. The tail end of the picking and labeling device 5 is connected with the thermal printer 4, to receive and take down the thermal label. The top end of the picking and labeling device 5 is connected with the sorting device 3, and the bottom end of the picking and labeling device 5 is in communication with the extractor 6, which is in communication with the outside. When the thermal printer 4 completes the printing of the thermal label, the sorting device 3 releases the corresponding blood collection tube into the picking and labeling device 5. When the picking and labeling device 5 is started, the thermal label is pasted on the blood collection tube as a label, and then falls into the extractor 6.

[0056] Thus after the blood collection tube is labeled, it can be directly taken out by the extractor 6, so as to facilitate the medical staff to take it out. In addition, a force-sensitive resistor 7 is arranged at the bottom of the extractor 6, which is used to detect whether the extractor 6 has additional weight, so as to detect whether the blood collection tube is taken out completely. If the medical staff does not take out the blood collection tube, the device will stop running and issue an alarm when blood is collected for the next patient.

[0057] In some embodiments, as Figure 2 , the picking labeling device 5 comprises a rack 51, a picking mechanism 52, a crank rocker mechanism 53, a grooved wheel 54, and a dial 56. The outer edge of the grooved wheel 54 is drivingly connected with the dial 56, so that the dial 56 and the grooved wheel 54 cooperatively form an intermittent mechanism. When the dial 56 rotates one circle, the grooved wheel 54 rotates a certain angle. The center of the grooved wheel 54 is coaxially drivingly connected with a roller frame 55 to drive the grooved wheel 54 to rotate synchronously. The dial 56 is coaxially drivingly connected with a driving motor, which is connected with the control machine 2, for adjusting the speed and number of rotations of the dial 56. In this embodiment, the roller frame 55 is arranged at the tail end of the rack 51, and the front end of the rack 51 is hingedly arranged with the picking mechanism 52. The picking mechanism 52 is hingedly arranged with the first end of the crank rocker mechanism 53, and the tail end is hingedly arranged with the dial 56. Thus, the transmission effect is achieved through the crank rocker mechanism 53, so that the picking mechanism 52 swings back and forth within a certain angle.

[0058] In this embodiment, as Figure 5 , the picking mechanism 52 comprises an adsorption support 521 and a sliding groove 523. The front end of the adsorption support 521 is provided with a rubber film 525, which has good elasticity and is provided with static electricity. Thus, the label paper can be taken out from the base paper by the electrostatic adsorption of the rubber film 525. A pair of rocker arms 522 is arranged on both sides of the adsorption support 521. A sliding block 524 is slidingly arranged in the sliding groove 523, and the sliding block 524 is hingedly arranged on the rack 51. Any one of the rocker arms 522 is provided with the sliding groove 523, and the middle part of the rocker arm 522 is further provided with a first hinged position 526, which is hingedly arranged with the first end of the crank rocker mechanism 53. The rocker arm 522 is hingedly arranged with the crank rocker mechanism 53 to drive the adsorption support 521 to swing back and forth, so as to paste the label paper on the blood collection tube on the roller frame.

[0059] In this embodiment, as Figure 4The rack 51 comprises a bottom plate 511, compression rollers 515 and transmission rollers 518, the compression rollers 515 and the transmission rollers 518 are arranged in pairs, the compression rollers 515 are sleeved on one end of a spring frame 516 at the center, the other end of the spring frame 516 is arranged on the second stand 513, the end of the transmission roller 518 is coaxially provided with a first pulley 517, and the two ends are rotationally arranged on the bottom plate 511 opposite to the position of the compression roller 515, and the hot-sensitive label is clamped by the compression roller 515 and the transmission roller 518. It should be noted that the bottom plate 511 is sequentially provided with a first stand 512, a second stand 513 and a third stand 514 from front to back, wherein the roller frame 55 is rotationally arranged on the top of the first stand 512, the second stand 513 is provided with a second hinge position 519 on the top, and the pickup mechanism 52 is arranged on the top of the third stand 514, so that each assembly on the pickup mechanism 52 can be uniformly arranged to prevent interference between each component.

[0060] In the previous embodiment, specifically as Figure 3 The roller frame 55 comprises a prism 551 and a second pulley 554. The prism 551 is provided with a main shaft 553 at the center, and a pair of clamping seats 552 are arranged on any side surface. The prism 551 rotates along the main shaft 553, and the clamping seat 552 rotates with the prism 551 to receive the blood collection tube. When the clamping seat 552 is in a horizontal position, the suction bracket 521 mounted on the corresponding rocker arm 522 adheres the label sticker to the blood collection tube. Since the rubber film 525 has good elasticity, the rubber film 525 can be well adhered to the outer wall of the blood collection tube, and the label sticker can be accurately adhered and easily recognized by the machine. Further, the second pulley 554 is coaxially fixed with the end of the main shaft 553 at the axis, and is drivingly connected with the first pulley 517 through a transmission belt. Thus, the length of the label sticker is matched with the rotation angle of the dial 56, and the position of the label sticker and the rubber film 525 is avoided from being misaligned.

[0061] In the embodiment, the front end of the crank 531 is fixedly connected with the center of the dial 56, so that the crank 531 and the dial 56 rotate synchronously. The rear end of the crank 531 is hingedly connected with one end of the connecting rod 532, the other end of the connecting rod 532 is hingedly connected with the head end of the rocker 533, the tail end of the rocker 533 is hingedly connected on the first hinge position 526, and the middle part is hingedly arranged on the second hinge position 519, so that the rocker 533 can swing back and forth.

[0062] In some embodiments, the sorting device 3 comprises a sorting groove 31 and a driving device 33, wherein the driving device 33 is a rotary motor, a push-pull electromagnet or a pneumatic cylinder. The inside of the sorting groove 31 is provided with a plurality of storage cavities 32, and each of the storage cavities 32 is provided with a limiting flap 34 at the bottom. The limiting flap 34 is in driving connection with the driving device 33 to drive the limiting flap 34 to rotate. The driving device 33 is provided in a plurality of numbers and is arranged at the bottom of the sorting groove 31 and connected with the control machine 2 to release the corresponding blood collection tubes.

[0063] In the present embodiment, as Figure 6 , the limiting flap 34 comprises an L-shaped flap 341 and a crank 342. The middle part of the L-shaped flap 341 is provided with a rotating shaft 343, one end of the rotating shaft 343 is coaxially connected with the driving device 33 to drive the L-shaped flap 341 to rotate. Each rotation of the L-shaped flap 341 will cause one empty blood collection tube to fall from the storage cavity 32. On the other end of the rotating shaft 343 and outside the sorting groove 31, the crank 342 is arranged. In the case of failure of the driving device 33, the empty blood collection tube can be caused to fall by manually rotating the crank 342, so as to avoid the problem that the equipment cannot work due to poor equipment operation.

[0064] The use process of the embodiment of the present application is as follows:

[0065] Firstly, the patient information is printed on the thermal adhesive paper by the thermal printer as a label, then the sorting device 3 releases the empty blood collection tube, which falls from the top of the casing 1 to the card seat 552, and finally the label picking device is started to rotate the groove wheel 54 by the dial 56, and at the same time, the dial 56 drives the rocker arm 522 to adsorb the label to the empty blood collection tube on the card seat 552 by the crank rocker mechanism. With the rotation of the prismatic body 551, the empty blood collection tube enters the extractor 6. After the medical staff takes out all the empty blood collection tubes, the next patient can collect blood under the condition that the force-sensitive resistor 7 detects the weight.

[0066] Although the present application has been described in detail by general description and specific embodiments above, some modifications or improvements can be made on the basis of the present application, which is obvious to those skilled in the art. Therefore, these modifications or improvements made on the basis of not deviating from the spirit of the present application are within the scope of the present application.

Claims

1. A blood tube preparation machine, characterized by comprising: Include: The shell (1) is provided with a sorting device (3) at the top, and a control machine (2) is provided outside the sorting device (3); A thermal printer (4) is internally provided with a thermal sticker, and a dot matrix heater is provided at the top, which is arranged in the form of a square dot or a strip and is logically controlled by the control machine (2), and when the dot matrix heater is started, a pattern corresponding to the heating element is generated on the thermal sticker; The picking label device (5) is connected with the thermal printer (4) at the tail end, used for receiving the thermal sticker, connected with the sorting device (3) at the top end, and communicated with the extractor (6) at the bottom end, and the bottom of the extractor (6) is provided with a force sensitive resistor (7) and communicated with the outside; Wherein, when the thermal printer (4) completes the printing of the thermal sticker, the sorting device (3) releases the corresponding blood collection tube into the picking label device (5), and when the picking label device (5) is started, the thermal sticker is attached to the blood collection tube as a label and falls into the extractor (6); The picking label device (5) comprises: The rack (51) is hingedly provided with a picking mechanism (52) at the front end, and a roller frame (55) is rotatably provided at the tail end; The groove wheel (54) is coaxially and drivingly connected with the roller frame (55) at the center, and the outer edge is drivingly connected with the dial (56), and the dial (56) is coaxially and drivingly connected with the driving motor; The crank rocker mechanism (53) is hingedly connected with the picking mechanism (52) at the first end and hingedly connected with the dial (56) at the tail end; The picking mechanism (52) comprises: an adsorption support (521) provided with a rubber film (525) at the front end, the rubber film (525) having static electricity, and a pair of rocker arms (522) being provided on both sides; The sliding groove (523) is internally provided with a sliding block (524), and the sliding block (524) is hingedly arranged on the rack (51); Wherein, any one of the rocker arms (522) is provided with a sliding groove (523), and the rocker arm (522) is further provided with a first hinge position (526) at the middle, and the first hinge position (526) is hingedly connected with the first end of the crank rocker mechanism (53); The rack (51) comprises: The bottom plate (511) is sequentially provided with a first stand (512), a second stand (513) and a third stand (514) from front to back, the roller frame (55) is rotatably arranged at the top of the first stand (512), the second hinge position (519) is arranged at the top of the second stand (513), and the picking mechanism (52) is arranged at the top of the third stand (514); The compression roller (515) is sleeved on one end of the spring frame (516) at the center, and the other end of the spring frame (516) is arranged on the second stand (513); The transmission roller (518) is coaxially provided with a first pulley (517) at the end, and is rotatably arranged in the bottom plate (511) at a position opposite to the compression roller (515), and the compression roller (515) and the transmission roller (518) are abutted to clamp the thermal sticker; The roller frame (55) comprises: The prismatic body (551) is provided with a main shaft (553) at the axis, and a pair of clamping seats (552) are arranged on any side face; when the clamping seat (552) is in a horizontal position, the adsorption support (521) mounted on the corresponding rocker arm (522) sticks the label sticker to the blood collection tube; The second belt wheel (554) is coaxially fixed with the end of the main shaft (553) at the axis, and is in transmission connection with the first belt wheel (517) through a transmission belt.

2. The tube preparation machine according to claim 1, wherein The crank rocker mechanism (53) comprises: A crank (531) is fixedly connected with the center of the dial (56) at the front end, and is hingedly connected with one end of a connecting rod (532) at the rear end; A rocker (533) is hingedly connected with the other end of the connecting rod (532) at the first end, is hingedly connected with the first hinge position (526) at the tail end, and is hingedly connected with the second hinge position (519) at the middle part.

3. The tube preparer of claim 1, wherein the tube preparer further comprises a tube unloader that is configured to unload the tubes from the tube magazine. The sorting device (3) comprises: A sorting groove (31) is internally provided with a plurality of storage cavities (32), and the bottom of any one of the storage cavities (32) is provided with a limiting flap (34); A plurality of driving devices (33) are arranged at the bottom of the sorting groove (31) and are respectively in transmission connection with the corresponding limiting flap (34).

4. The tube preparer of claim 3, wherein the tube preparer further comprises a tube unloader that is configured to unload the tubes from the tube magazine. The limiting flap (34) comprises: An L-shaped flap (341) is provided with a rotating shaft (343) at the middle part, and one end of the rotating shaft (343) is coaxially connected with the driving device (33) in transmission, so as to drive the L-shaped flap (341) to rotate; A crank handle (342) is arranged outside the sorting groove (31) and at the other end of the rotating shaft (343).

5. The tube preparer of claim 4, wherein the tube preparer further comprises a tube unloader that is configured to unload the tubes from the tube magazine. The driving device (33) is a rotary motor, a push-pull electromagnet or a pneumatic cylinder.

6. The tube preparer of claim 1, wherein the tube preparer further comprises a tube unloader that is configured to unload the tubes from the tube magazine. The front end of the control machine (2) is provided with a touch screen.

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