Improved inoculating loop for inoculating viscous sputum specimen
By designing and improving the sleeve and connecting rod structure of the inoculation ring, and using the adjustment component to achieve length adjustment, the problem of the non-adjustable length of the existing inoculator has been solved, improving the flexibility of use and the convenience of operation.
Patent Information
- Application Number
- CN202520292515.7
- Authority / Receiving Office
- CN · China
- Patent Type
- Utility models(China)
- Current Assignee / Owner
- Filing Date
- 2025-02-24
- Publication Date
- 2026-02-27
- Estimated Expiration
- 2035-02-24
AI Technical Summary
The existing specimen inoculator cannot be length adjusted, resulting in low flexibility of use and causing inconvenience to staff.
An improved inoculation ring was designed, comprising a sleeve and a connecting rod. The length can be adjusted by an adjustment component, including the cooperation of a support rod, a connecting rod, a locking tooth, and a spring, which allows the connecting rod to move within the sleeve, providing flexible adjustment functionality.
This improves the flexibility of using the inoculation loop, allowing staff to adjust its length as needed and enhancing operational convenience.
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Abstract
Description
TECHNICAL FIELD
[0001] The utility model relates to the field of medical technology, concretely is a kind of modified inoculation ring for viscous sputum specimen inoculation. BACKGROUND
[0002] Microorganism test is to inoculate specimen to suitable culture medium and cultivate, make microorganism grow and breed after separation single bacterial colony with clinical significance, and then it is identified and detected by various techniques to detect target pathogenic microorganism, so as to provide key basis for clinical diagnosis of disease, guide drug use and assess disease condition. Specimen inoculation is the process of moving the target microorganism to the culture medium agar plate according to aseptic operation technique, spreading the specimen to the culture medium agar plate in one area, and then zoning the second area, the third area and the fourth area, to obtain single pathogenic bacterial colony. The quality of specimen inoculation in microbiology laboratory is crucial for finding pathogenic bacteria, and is the first step to complete microbiology test work with high quality.
[0003] The prior art with publication number CN218146679U discloses a non-uniform specimen inoculator, which comprises: an inoculator, a spherical body composed of a plurality of flat strip-shaped rings, used for hooking non-uniform specimens; an inoculation ball, arranged at the top of the inoculator, used for spreading the non-uniform specimens on the agar plate; and a handheld rod, arranged at the bottom of the inoculator, used for holding. The inoculator can complete the grabbing and inoculation of viscous non-uniform specimens such as sputum, avoid the use of non-special inoculation tools of sterile cotton swabs, reduce the generation of medical waste, and facilitate the use of staff.
[0004] However, the above-mentioned inoculator cannot adjust its length during use, has low flexibility in use, and causes inconvenience to the staff, so a modified inoculation ring for viscous sputum specimen inoculation is proposed to solve the above-mentioned problems. UTILITY MODEL CONTENT
[0005] In view of the deficiencies of the prior art, the utility model provides a modified inoculation ring for viscous sputum specimen inoculation, which has the advantages of convenient length adjustment, solves the problem that the existing specimen inoculator cannot adjust its length during use, has low flexibility in use, and causes inconvenience to the staff.
[0006] To achieve the above-mentioned purpose, the utility model provides the following technical scheme: a modified inoculation ring for viscous sputum specimen inoculation, comprising a sleeve, a connecting rod movably inserted into the inner side of the sleeve, an inoculator fixedly connected to the end of the connecting rod away from the sleeve, and an adjusting assembly arranged between the sleeve and the connecting rod.
[0007] The adjusting assembly comprises a supporting rod, one end of the supporting rod is hinged with a connecting rod, two ends of the connecting rod are fixedly connected with a first connecting block and a second connecting block respectively, one side of the first connecting block close to the connecting rod is provided with a clamping tooth, one side of the first connecting block away from the connecting rod is connected with a first spring, one side of the second connecting block away from the connecting rod abuts against a mounting plate, the outer side of the mounting plate is fixedly connected with a pressing block, and the pressing block extends to the outer side of the sleeve.
[0008] Further, a holding sleeve is fixedly sleeved on the outer wall of the sleeve, and the holding sleeve is a silica gel sleeve.
[0009] Further, the number of the adjusting assemblies is two groups, and the two groups of adjusting assemblies are respectively located on the left and right sides of the connecting rod.
[0010] Further, the supporting rod is fixedly installed in the inside of the sleeve, a strip-shaped tooth groove is formed on the outer wall of the connecting rod, and the clamping tooth is matched with the strip-shaped tooth groove.
[0011] Further, a fixing block is fixedly installed in the inside of the sleeve, and one end of the first spring away from the first connecting block is fixedly connected with the fixing block.
[0012] Further, a fixing plate is fixedly installed in the inside of the sleeve, and a second spring is connected between the fixing plate and the second connecting block.
[0013] Further, one end of the fixing plate away from the connecting rod is fixedly connected with a mounting shaft, and the mounting shaft penetrates the inside of the mounting plate.
[0014] Further, a third spring is arranged between the mounting plate and the fixing plate, and the third spring is sleeved on the outer wall of the mounting shaft.
[0015] Compared with the prior art, the improved inoculation ring for thick sputum specimen inoculation has the following beneficial effects:
[0016] The improved inoculation ring for thick sputum specimen inoculation drives the mounting plate to move by pressing the pressing block, pushes the second connecting block to move, simultaneously squeezes the second spring and the third spring, the second connecting block drives the connecting rod to rotate along the hinge point of the supporting rod, thereby driving the first connecting block to move and squeezing the first spring, so that the clamping tooth is separated from the strip-shaped tooth groove on the connecting rod, the connecting rod can be moved along the inside of the sleeve, the length is adjusted, the staff can use conveniently, the use flexibility is improved, and the problem that the length of the existing specimen inoculator cannot be adjusted, the use flexibility is low, and the staff is inconvenient is solved. BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS
[0017] Figure 1 It is a sectional view of the utility model structure.
[0018] Figure 2 For the utility model Figure 1 The enlarged structural schematic view of A is shown.
[0019] Figure 3 It is the structural schematic view of the first connecting block of the utility model.
[0020] Figure 4 It is the structural front view of the utility model.
[0021] In the figure: 1, sleeve; 2, connecting rod; 3, inoculator; 4, holding sleeve; 5, support rod; 6, connecting rod; 7, first connecting block; 8, pawl; 9, first spring; 10, fixed block; 11, second connecting block; 12, mounting plate; 13, pressing block; 14, second spring; 15, fixed plate; 16, mounting shaft; 17, third spring. Specific implementation
[0022] The technical scheme in the embodiments of the utility model will be clearly and completely described in combination with the drawings in the embodiments of the utility model, and obviously, the described embodiments are only part of the embodiments of the utility model, not all the embodiments. Based on the embodiments in the utility model, all other embodiments obtained by the person skilled in the art without creative labor belong to the protection scope of the utility model.
[0023] Embodiment one:
[0024] Please refer to Figures 1 to 4 In the embodiment, the improved inoculation ring for viscous sputum specimen inoculation includes a sleeve 1, a connecting rod 2 movably inserted into the inner side of the sleeve 1, an inoculator 3 fixedly connected to the end of the connecting rod 2 away from the sleeve 1, and the inoculator 3 is a spherical body composed of two flat strip-shaped rings, which increases the contact area with non-uniform specimens and is easier to rotate and hook to the viscous sputum specimen, facilitating use.
[0025] In the embodiment, adjusting assemblies are arranged between the sleeve 1 and the connecting rod 2, and the number of the adjusting assemblies is set to two groups, and the two groups of adjusting assemblies are respectively located on the left and right sides of the connecting rod 2.
[0026] In the embodiment, the adjusting assembly includes a support rod 5 fixedly installed in the inside of the sleeve 1, a connecting rod 6 hingedly connected to one end of the support rod 5, a first connecting block 7 and a second connecting block 11 fixedly connected to the two ends of the connecting rod 6, respectively, a pawl 8 arranged on the side of the first connecting block 7 close to the connecting rod 2, a first spring 9 connected to the side of the first connecting block 7 away from the connecting rod 2, a mounting plate 12 abutting against the side of the second connecting block 11 away from the connecting rod 2, a pressing block 13 fixedly connected to the outside of the mounting plate 12, and the pressing block 13 extending to the outside of the sleeve 1.
[0027] Wherein, the inside of sleeve 1 is fixedly installed with fixed block 10, the end of first spring 9 away from first connecting block 7 is fixedly connected with fixed block 10, simultaneously, the inside of sleeve 1 is fixedly installed with fixed plate 15, second spring 14 is connected between fixed plate 15 and second connecting block 11, the end of fixed plate 15 away from connecting rod 2 is fixedly connected with mounting shaft 16, mounting shaft 16 penetrates the inside of mounting plate 12, third spring 17 is arranged between mounting plate 12 and fixed plate 15, and third spring 17 is sleeved on the outer wall of mounting shaft 16.
[0028] It can be understood that the first spring 9 is convenient for the elastic adjustment of the position of the first connecting block 7, the second spring 14 is convenient for the elastic adjustment of the position of the second connecting block 11, and the third spring 17 is convenient for the elastic adjustment of the position of the mounting plate 12 and the pressing block 13.
[0029] It should be noted that the outer wall of the connecting rod 2 is provided with a strip-shaped tooth groove, the clamping teeth 8 are matched with the strip-shaped tooth groove, and the cooperation of the clamping teeth 8 and the strip-shaped tooth groove is convenient for limiting the connecting rod 2, and the structure is stable.
[0030] Example two:
[0031] Please refer to Figure 1 On the basis of example one, the outer wall of the sleeve 1 is fixedly sleeved with a holding sleeve 4, the holding sleeve 4 is a silica gel sleeve, and the holding sleeve 4 can be conveniently held by the staff, and has the effect of anti-skid.
[0032] The working principle of the above example is:
[0033] In use, the mounting plate 12 is driven to move by pressing the pressing block 13, the second connecting block 11 is driven to move, the second spring 14 and the third spring 17 are squeezed, the second connecting block 11 drives the connecting rod 6 to rotate along the hinge point of the supporting rod 5, thereby driving the first connecting block 7 to move and squeezing the first spring 9, so that the clamping teeth 8 are separated from the strip-shaped tooth groove on the connecting rod 2, the connecting rod 2 can be moved along the inside of the sleeve 1, the length is adjusted, when the connecting rod 2 is adjusted to the appropriate position, the first spring 9, the second spring 14 and the third spring 17 are used to elastically reset the adjusting assembly, the clamping teeth 8 are matched with the strip-shaped tooth groove on the connecting rod 2 again, and the limiting is completed.
[0034] It should be noted that in this paper, the indicated orientation or positional relationship is based on the orientation or positional relationship shown in the drawings, and is only for the convenience of describing the application and simplifying the description, and does not indicate or imply that the indicated device or element must have a specific orientation, be constructed and operated in a specific orientation, and therefore cannot be understood as a limitation on the application.
[0035] It has to be noted that, in the present document, the terms "first", "second", etc. merely serve to identify a subject or action from another subject or action, without necessarily requiring or implying any actual such relationship or order between such subjects or actions. Moreover, the terms "comprising", "containing", or any other similar term are intended to encompass non-exclusive inclusions, such that a process, method, article, or apparatus that comprises a list of elements does not include only those elements but can also include other elements not expressly listed or inherent to such process, method, article, or apparatus. An element proceeded by "comprises... a", "contains... a", or "includes... a" does not, without more constraints, exclude the existence of additional identical elements in the process, method, article, or apparatus that comprises the element.
[0036] While the embodiments of the present application have been illustrated and described, it will be understood by those skilled in the art that various changes, modifications, substitutions, and alterations can be made therein without departing from the spirit and scope of the application, which is defined by the appended claims and their equivalents.
Claims
1. A modified inoculation loop for inoculating viscous sputum specimens, comprising a sleeve (1), wherein a connecting rod (2) is movably inserted into the inner side of the sleeve (1), and an inoculator (3) is fixedly connected to the end of the connecting rod (2) away from the sleeve (1), characterized in that: An adjustment assembly is provided between the sleeve (1) and the connecting rod (2); The adjustment assembly includes a support rod (5), one end of which is hinged to a connecting rod (6). The two ends of the connecting rod (6) are respectively fixedly connected to a first connecting block (7) and a second connecting block (11). The first connecting block (7) has a locking tooth (8) on the side near the connecting rod (2). The side of the first connecting block (7) away from the connecting rod (2) is connected to a first spring (9). The side of the second connecting block (11) away from the connecting rod (2) is abutted against a mounting plate (12). A pressing block (13) is fixedly connected to the outside of the mounting plate (12). The pressing block (13) extends to the outside of the sleeve (1).
2. The improved inoculation loop for inoculating viscous sputum specimens according to claim 1, characterized in that: A grip sleeve (4) is fixedly fitted onto the outer wall of the sleeve (1), and the grip sleeve (4) is a silicone sleeve.
3. The improved inoculation loop for inoculating viscous sputum specimens according to claim 1, characterized in that: The number of adjustment components is set to two sets, and the two sets of adjustment components are located on the left and right sides of the connecting rod (2), respectively.
4. The improved inoculation loop for inoculating viscous sputum specimens according to claim 1, characterized in that: The support rod (5) is fixedly installed inside the sleeve (1), and the outer wall of the connecting rod (2) is provided with a strip-shaped toothed groove, and the locking tooth (8) is adapted to the strip-shaped toothed groove.
5. The improved inoculation loop for inoculating viscous sputum specimens according to claim 1, characterized in that: A fixing block (10) is fixedly installed inside the sleeve (1), and the end of the first spring (9) away from the first connecting block (7) is fixedly connected to the fixing block (10).
6. The improved inoculation loop for inoculating viscous sputum specimens according to claim 1, characterized in that: A fixing plate (15) is fixedly installed inside the sleeve (1), and a second spring (14) is connected between the fixing plate (15) and the second connecting block (11).
7. The improved inoculation loop for inoculating viscous sputum specimens according to claim 6, characterized in that: The mounting plate (15) is fixedly connected to a mounting shaft (16) at one end away from the connecting rod (2), and the mounting shaft (16) passes through the inner side of the mounting plate (12).
8. The improved inoculation loop for inoculating viscous sputum specimens according to claim 7, characterized in that: A third spring (17) is provided between the mounting plate (12) and the fixing plate (15), and the third spring (17) is sleeved on the outer wall of the mounting shaft (16).
Citation Information
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Non-uniform specimen inoculator
CN218146679U