A loading bottle for pipeline transportation
By designing a loading bottle system with airbag sealing, roller support, and gear transmission, combined with UWB chips and rotation sensors, the problem of loading bottle blockage in pneumatic logistics systems was solved, enabling automatic obstacle avoidance and positioning, and improving conveying efficiency and safety.
Patent Information
- Application Number
- CN202410390099.4
- Authority / Receiving Office
- CN · China
- Patent Type
- Patents(China)
- Current Assignee / Owner
- Filing Date
- 2024-04-02
- Publication Date
- 2025-12-09
- Estimated Expiration
- 2044-04-02
AI Technical Summary
In pneumatic logistics systems, loading bottles are prone to blockage during long-distance transport within pipelines, leading to difficulties in positioning and handling.
A loading bottle for pipeline transportation was designed, which adopts an airbag sealing, roller support and gear transmission system, combined with UWB chip and rotation sensor to realize automatic obstacle avoidance and positioning. The airbag expands and contracts to avoid obstacles, the roller rotates to move, and the UWB chip locates the pipeline blockage.
It enables automatic obstacle avoidance and positioning of loaded bottles within the pipeline, ensuring safe transport of goods, reducing manual intervention, and improving transport efficiency and reliability.
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Abstract
Description
TECHNICAL FIELD
[0001] The present application relates to the technical field of pipeline transportation, in particular to a loading bottle for pipeline transportation. BACKGROUND
[0002] In the pneumatic conveying system, the transmission bottle is mainly driven by pneumatic mode to be transmitted, so that the transmission bottle is pneumatically conveyed from one place to another through the transmission pipeline. When the transmission bottle in the feeding pipeline needs to be transmitted to different discharge pipelines, the pneumatic conveying exchange center is needed to exchange the transmission pipeline, so as to complete the exchange transmission between different sub-lines. The medical pneumatic conveying system is a system for transmitting small items such as blood, samples, medicines, documents, x-rays and prescriptions in a closed pipeline. The pneumatic conveying is favored due to its high efficiency, time saving, labor saving and public resource saving, and is widely used in modern hospitals. However, since the pneumatic conveying loading bottle runs in the closed pipeline established in the room, once it is blocked in the pipeline, especially in the long distance pipeline, how to handle and quickly locate has been a big problem for manufacturers and users. Therefore, a loading bottle for pipeline transportation is needed to solve this problem. SUMMARY
[0003] In view of the defects of the prior art, the present application provides a loading bottle for pipeline transportation, which overcomes the defects of the prior art and aims to solve the problems in the background art.
[0004] To achieve the above-mentioned purpose, the present application provides the following technical scheme: a loading bottle for pipeline transportation, comprising a base, a bottle body is fixedly installed on one side of the base, a flexible hose is connected and installed on one side of the bottle body, a connecting seat is fixedly installed on one side of the flexible hose, a sealing cover is connected in the connecting seat through a thread, a first outer frame is fixedly installed on the outer side of the bottle body, an air bag is covered on the outer side of the bottle body, a second outer frame is fixedly installed on the outer side of the connecting seat, a guide plate is fixedly installed on one side of the second outer frame, the guide plate is slidably connected with the first outer frame, a compression spring is arranged in the sealing cover, and a protection plate is connected and installed on one side of the compression spring.
[0005] The base is internally provided with an air inlet pump and an air outlet pump, one side of the air inlet pump and the air outlet pump is connected with a sealing pipe, and the other side of the air inlet pump and the air outlet pump is connected with an air pipe between the air bags, a driving motor is fixedly installed in the base, and a first gear is connected and installed on the output shaft of the driving motor, a second gear is rotatably connected in the base, a plurality of transmission gears are meshingly connected between the first gear and the second gear, a third gear is fixedly installed on one side of the second gear, a fourth gear is meshingly connected on one side of the third gear, first rollers and second rollers are rotatably connected in the first outer frame, a first transmission belt is connected between the fourth gear and the first rollers, a second transmission belt is connected between the first rollers and the second rollers, a UWB chip is arranged in the base, and a transparent plate is arranged outside the UWB chip, a rotation sensor is connected and installed in the air bag, and a ball is rotatably connected in the rotation sensor.
[0006] As a preferred technical scheme of the present application, the sealing cover is externally provided with an embedded rotary handle, which can assist in the assembly and disassembly work and will not hinder the progress, and the inner wall of the sealing cover is flush with the inner wall of the connecting seat, avoiding the generation of height difference inside to cause damage to the articles.
[0007] As a preferred technical scheme of the present application, the guide plate is fixedly installed with a positioning block on one side, and the first outer frame is provided with a positioning strip, the positioning block is designed in a triangular structure, and the positioning strip is adapted thereto, and the guide plate and the positioning block are both made of elastic plate material, which is convenient for adjusting the length and bending and can also play a certain positioning role.
[0008] As a preferred technical scheme of the present application, the sealing pipe is internally provided with a dust screen and a sealing gasket, which can effectively prevent dust from entering and also play a certain sealing role.
[0009] As a preferred technical scheme of the present application, the first outer frame has four, and is designed in a symmetrical manner, which can stably support the first rollers and the second rollers when the air bag is tightened, and the outer wall of the first outer frame is flush with the outer walls of the base and the sealing cover, maintaining the appearance while ensuring that the first rollers and the second rollers can contact the pipeline earlier than the base and the sealing cover.
[0010] As a preferred technical scheme of the present application, the maximum height of the air bag is greater than the height of the first rollers and the second rollers, so that the first rollers and the second rollers are prevented from contacting the pipeline when the air bag is inflated, and the minimum height of the air bag is less than the height of the first rollers and the second rollers, so that the air bag is prevented from contacting the pipeline when it is tightened.
[0011] As a preferred technical scheme of the present application, the base is internally provided with a guide roller, which is connected with the first transmission belt to guide the first transmission belt and effectively reduce the occupied space.
[0012] As a preferred technical scheme of the present application, the ball is rotationally connected with the air bag, and the outer side is slightly higher than the outer wall of the air bag, so that the ball can contact the pipeline while the air bag contacts the pipeline, and the ball can rotate by friction.
[0013] The present application has the following advantages:
[0014] The air bag is used to cover the bottle, and the pipeline is sealed by the air bag, so that the air bag can be moved in the pipeline by the gas, and the air bag can be inflated and deflated by the air inlet pump and the air outlet pump, so that the loaded bottle can continue to move when there is an obstacle on the inner wall of the pipeline.
[0015] The first and second rollers are provided, and the driving motor is used to control the rotation of the first and second rollers through the cooperation of the first and second gears, the transmission gear, the third and fourth gears, the first and second transmission belts, so that the loaded bottle can be moved by the rotation of the air bag when the air bag is deflated.
[0016] The UWB chip is provided, and the UWB technology is a wireless carrier communication technology using a frequency bandwidth of more than 1GHz. It does not use a sine carrier, but transmits data by using a nanosecond non-sine wave narrow pulse, so that the frequency spectrum range is very large, and although wireless communication is used, the data transmission rate can reach more than several hundred megabits per second. Using UWB technology can transmit signals in a very wide bandwidth, which is more excellent than many wireless positioning technologies such as Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, infrared, ultra-wideband, RFID, ZigBee and ultrasonic wave;
[0017] The movement trajectory of the ball and the rotation sensor can be used to determine whether the loaded bottle is moving, so that the internal components can work automatically without manual control.
[0018] The telescopic hose can be used to change the length of the loaded bottle, so that different length objects can be placed, and the guide plate and the positioning block can be used for positioning, and the compression spring and the protective plate are provided, so that the objects can be buffered during movement, and the protection effect is achieved. BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS
[0019] Figure 1 The present application is a 3D structure schematic diagram;
[0020] Figure 2 The present application is a front view;
[0021] Figure 3 The present application is a front structure schematic diagram;
[0022] Figure 4 Fig. 1 is a schematic view of the side structure of the present application;
[0023] Figure 5 Fig. 2 is a schematic view of the cross-sectional structure of the base in the present application;
[0024] Figure 6 Fig. 3 is a schematic view of the cross-sectional structure of the air bag in the present application.
[0025] Fig. 1 is a schematic view of the side structure of the present application;
[0026] 1, base; 2, bottle body; 3, flexible hose; 4, connecting seat; 5, sealing cover; 6, first outer frame; 7, air bag; 8, second outer frame; 9, guide plate; 10, positioning block; 11, positioning strip; 12, compression spring; 13, protective plate; 14, air inlet pump; 15, air outlet pump; 16, sealing tube; 17, air tube; 18, driving motor; 19, first gear; 20, second gear; 21, transmission gear; 22, third gear; 23, fourth gear; 24, first roller; 25, second roller; 26, first transmission belt; 27, second transmission belt; 28, guide roller; 29, UWB chip; 30, transparent plate; 31, rotation sensor; 32, ball. DETAILED DESCRIPTION
[0027] The technical solutions in the embodiments of the present application will be described clearly and completely below with reference to the drawings in the embodiments of the present application. Obviously, the described embodiments are only part of the embodiments of the present application, rather than all the embodiments. Based on the embodiments in 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. EMBODIMENT
[0028] Please refer to Figure 1 - Figure 6The utility model provides a pipeline transportation loading bottle, including base 1, one side fixed mounting of base 1 has bottle body 2, and bottle body 2 one side is connected and is installed with telescopic hose 3, one side fixed mounting of telescopic hose 3 has connecting seat 4, and the threaded connection of sealing cover 5 is carried out in connecting seat 4, and the built-in rotary handle is seted up in sealing cover 5 outside, can assist to carry out the work of dismounting, and will not cause the obstruction of advancing, and the inner wall of sealing cover 5 is flush with the inner wall of connecting seat 4, avoids the high-low difference of inside to cause the damage to article, bottle body 2 outside fixed mounting has first outer frame 6, and bottle body 2 outside covers with air bag 7, connecting seat 4 outside fixed mounting has second outer frame 8, one side fixed mounting of second outer frame 8 has guide plate 9, and guide plate 9 is slidably connected with first outer frame 6, one side fixed mounting of guide plate 9 has locating block 10, and first outer frame 6 is provided with locating strip 11, locating block 10 adopts triangular structure design, and locating strip 11 is adapted, guide plate 9 and locating block 10 are all made of elastic plate material, be convenient for adjusting length and bending also can play certain positioning effect, sealing cover 5 is provided with compression spring 12, and one side connecting of compression spring 12 is installed with protective plate 13, base 1 is provided with air inlet pump 14 and air outlet pump 15, and air inlet pump 14 and air outlet pump 15 one side are all connected and installed with sealing tube 16, sealing tube 16 is provided with dust screen and sealing pad, can effectively avoid the dust entering also can play certain sealing effect, and one side of air inlet pump 14 and air outlet pump 15 is connected with air pipe 17 between air bag 7, base 1 is fixedly installed with drive motor 18, and the output shaft of drive motor 18 is connected and installed with first gear 19, base 1 is rotatably connected with second gear 20, and first gear 19 and second gear 20 are engaged and connected with a plurality of transmission gears 21, one side fixed mounting of second gear 20 has third gear 22, and one side engagement of third gear 22 has fourth gear 23, first outer frame 6 is rotatably connected with first roller 24 and second roller 25, first outer frame 6 has four, and adopts symmetrical design, can when air bag 7 is tightened, utilize first roller 24 and second roller 25 and carry out stable support, the outer wall of first outer frame 6 is flush with the outer wall of base 1 and sealing cover 5, keeps beautiful while guaranteeing that first roller 24 and second roller 25 can be prior to base 1 and sealing cover 5 and pipeline contact, the maximum height of air bag 7 is greater than the height of first roller 24 and second roller 25, makes air bag 7 when swelling prevent first roller 24 and second roller 25 and pipeline contact, and the minimum height of air bag 7 is less than the height of first roller 24 and second roller 25, makes air bag 7 when tightening avoid and pipeline contact, and fourth gear 23 and first roller 24 are connected with first transmission belt 26, first roller 24 and second roller 25 are connected with second transmission belt 27, base 1 is provided with guide roller 28, and guide roller 28 is connected with first transmission belt 26, to first transmission belt 26 play the guiding role, and can effectively reduce the space occupied, base 1 is provided with UWB chip 29,And the UWB chip 29 outside the setting of the transparent plate 30, the air bag 7 in the connection is installed with the rotation sensor 31, and the rotation sensor 31 is rotatably connected with the ball 32, the ball 32 is rotatably connected with the air bag 7, and the outside is slightly higher than the outer wall of the air bag 7, which can contact the pipeline while the air bag 7 expands and contacts the pipeline, so that it can rotate by friction.
[0029] Working principle: when the loading bottle is transported in the pneumatic pipeline, when the pipeline appears obstacles, the loading bottle cannot move, first, the ball 32 stops rotating, is inducted by the rotation sensor 31, and the air inlet pump 14 and the air outlet pump 15 are opened, the air bag 7 is controlled to be tightened and expanded to avoid obstacles, if still unable to move, the air in the air bag 7 is discharged, the bottle body 2 falls and the first roller 24 and the second roller 25 are connected with the inner wall of the pipeline, at the same time, the driving motor 18 is opened, the first gear 19 is controlled to rotate, the first gear 19 controls the second gear 20 and the third gear 22 to rotate synchronously by the transmission gear 21, the third gear 22 controls the first roller 24 and the second roller 25 to rotate by the first transmission belt 26, so that the loading bottle moves, if the pipeline is completely blocked and cannot move, the UWB chip 29 will be opened, a signal is sent, the UWB module A on the loading bottle emits a pulse signal of request nature at Ta1 time on its time stamp, the UWB module B on the receiver receives the signal at Tb1 time on its time stamp, in order to reduce the influence of clock offset, the double-sided two-way ranging method DS-TWR is often used in UWB ranging, Double Sided - Two-Way Ranging, reverse measurement compensation, UWB module A emits a pulse signal of request nature at Ta1 time on its time stamp, UWB module B receives the signal at Tb1 time on its time stamp, then after a certain processing means, UWB module B emits a signal of response nature and request nature at Tb2 time, which is received by UWB module A at Ta2 time on its own time stamp, after processing for a period of time, the response signal is replied at Ta3 time, which is received by module B at Tb3 time on its time stamp. Thus the flight time ToFA_B of the pulse signal between the two UWB modules can be calculated, so as to multiply the speed of light c to determine the distance between the two modules. The user determines the position by the receiver, so as to repair the blocked pipeline.
[0030] The above merely describes the preferred embodiments of the present application and is not used to limit the present application, and although the present application is described in detail with reference to the foregoing embodiments, those skilled in the art can still modify the technical solutions recorded in the foregoing embodiments, or equivalently replace some technical features thereof. Any modification, equivalent replacement, improvement, etc. made within the spirit and principle of the present application shall be included in the protection scope of the present application.
Claims
1. A loading bottle for pipeline transport comprising a base (1), characterised in that, The base (1) is fixedly installed with a bottle body (2) on one side, and a flexible hose (3) is connected and installed on one side of the bottle body (2), one side of the flexible hose (3) is fixedly installed with a connecting seat (4), and the connecting seat (4) is threadedly connected with a sealing cover (5) inside, the bottle body (2) is fixedly installed with a first outer frame (6) outside, and the bottle body (2) is covered with an air bag (7) outside, the connecting seat (4) is fixedly installed with a second outer frame (8) outside, one side of the second outer frame (8) is fixedly installed with a guide plate (9), and the guide plate (9) is slidably connected with the first outer frame (6), the sealing cover (5) is provided with a compression spring (12) inside, and the compression spring (12) is connected and installed with a protective plate (13) on one side. The base (1) is provided with an air inlet pump (14) and an air outlet pump (15), one side of the air inlet pump (14) and the air outlet pump (15) is connected and installed with a sealing pipe (16), and the other side of the air inlet pump (14) and the air outlet pump (15) is connected with the air bag (7) through an air pipe (17), the base (1) is fixedly installed with a driving motor (18), and the output shaft of the driving motor (18) is connected and installed with a first gear (19), the base (1) is rotatably connected with a second gear (20), and a plurality of transmission gears (21) are engagedly connected between the first gear (19) and the second gear (20), one side of the second gear (20) is fixedly installed with a third gear (22), one side of the third gear (22) is engagedly connected with a fourth gear (23), the first outer frame (6) is rotatably connected with a first roller (24) and a second roller (25) inside, the fourth gear (23) and the first roller (24) are connected with a first transmission belt (26), the first roller (24) and the second roller (25) are connected with a second transmission belt (27), the base (1) is provided with a UWB chip (29) inside, and the UWB chip (29) is provided with a transparent plate (30) outside, the air bag (7) is connected and installed with a rotation sensor (31) inside, and the rotation sensor (31) is rotatably connected with a ball (32) inside.
2. The loading bottle for pipeline transportation according to claim 1, characterized in that, The sealing cover (5) is provided with an internal rotary handle outside, and the inner wall of the sealing cover (5) is flush with the inner wall of the connecting seat (4).
3. The loading bottle for pipeline transportation according to claim 1, wherein The guide plate (9) is fixedly installed with a positioning block (10) on one side, and the first outer frame (6) is provided with a positioning strip (11) inside, the positioning block (10) is designed in a triangular structure, and the positioning strip (11) is adapted thereto.
4. The loading bottle for pipeline transportation according to claim 1, wherein The sealing pipe (16) is provided with a dust screen and a sealing gasket.
5. The loading bottle for pipeline transportation according to claim 1, wherein The first outer frame (6) has four, and is designed in a symmetrical manner, the outer wall of the first outer frame (6) is flush with the outer walls of the base (1) and the sealing cover (5).
6. The loading bottle for pipeline transportation according to claim 1, wherein The maximum height of the air bag (7) is greater than the height of the first roller (24) and the second roller (25), and the minimum height of the air bag (7) is less than the height of the first roller (24) and the second roller (25).
7. The loading bottle for pipeline transportation according to claim 1, wherein The base (1) is provided with a guide roller (28) inside, and the guide roller (28) is connected with the first transmission belt (26).
8. The loading bottle for pipeline transportation according to claim 1, wherein The ball (32) is rotatably connected with the air bag (7), and the outer side is slightly higher than the outer wall of the air bag (7).
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