Medical waste sorting treatment device
By designing a Z-shaped conveyor belt and a guide shell structure, combined with a vision sorting system and a semi-circular toothed blade, the problem of garbage bags obstructing the sorting process was solved, achieving efficient and accurate sorting of medical waste.
Patent Information
- Authority / Receiving Office
- CN · China
- Patent Type
- Utility models(China)
- Current Assignee / Owner
- HARBIN UNIV OF SCI & TECH
- Filing Date
- 2025-04-24
- Publication Date
- 2026-04-10
AI Technical Summary
During the sorting of medical waste, obstructions from garbage bags make it difficult for visual recognition systems to obtain complete waste feature information, affecting the accuracy and efficiency of sorting.
It adopts a Z-shaped conveyor belt and guide shell structure, combined with a vision sorting system, semi-circular toothed blades and collection screen plates. The vibration generated by the motor-driven rotating rod and lifting cam breaks open the garbage bag and uses the vision system to accurately sort medical waste.
It enables efficient and accurate sorting of medical waste wrapped in garbage bags, improving sorting efficiency and integrity, and avoiding the impact of garbage bags on sorting.
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Abstract
Description
TECHNICAL FIELD
[0001] The utility model application belongs to medical waste sorting technical field, concretely is a kind of medical waste sorting processing device. BACKGROUND
[0002] Medical waste refers to the waste generated in medical, preventive, health care and other related activities of medical and health institutions, which has direct or indirect infectivity, toxicity and other harmfulness. These wastes include used syringes, infusion tubes, cotton swabs, surgical dressings, discarded medicines, blood-stained gauze bandages and other types of items. Since they may carry a large number of bacteria, viruses and harmful substances, improper handling can pose a serious threat to the environment and human health.
[0003] It is necessary to sort medical waste. Different types of medical waste require different treatment methods. For example, infectious waste needs strict disinfection and incineration treatment to completely kill pathogens, while recyclable medical waste, such as some plastic products, can be recycled and reused after special treatment, reducing resource waste. If not sorted, mixing all medical waste for disposal will not only increase the cost of disposal, but also may result in incomplete disposal, failing to meet safety and environmental standards, and wasting recyclable resources.
[0004] In reality, medical waste sorting has gradually shifted from traditional manual operation to automation technology, with vision recognition system and mechanical hand collaborative sorting becoming the mainstream solution. The vision system usually uses high-resolution cameras and advanced image recognition technology. The camera takes a full range of pictures of the medical waste on the conveyor belt, obtaining shape, color, texture and other characteristic information of the waste. Then, the image recognition algorithm quickly analyzes and compares this information, matches the identified medical waste type with the pre-set database. For example, when the camera captures an object with features such as elongated and needle, the image recognition system can quickly determine that it is a syringe, which belongs to infectious medical waste. At this time, the mechanical hand moves to the corresponding position according to the instruction from the vision system, and accurately sorts the medical waste from the conveyor belt by clamping, adsorbing and other methods, and places it into the corresponding collection container. This vision and mechanical hand collaborative sorting method can improve the efficiency and accuracy of medical waste sorting, reduce the risk of direct contact with medical waste by manual operation, and also meet the needs of large-scale medical waste disposal.
[0005] However, in the actual scene of current medical waste sorting, the waste is generally transported to the processing site by a garbage truck, or directly dumped on the conveyor belt by relevant personnel to start the conveying process, and the sorting is completed by the cooperation of the visual recognition system and the mechanical hand. However, a large amount of medical waste is packed into a garbage bag when collected. In the dumping link, part of the waste will remain in the garbage bag. These garbage bags often have certain light-shielding and wrapping properties, causing the medical waste remaining in them to be shielded, making it difficult for the camera in the visual recognition system to obtain complete shape, color, texture and other feature information, and unable to accurately scan and analyze and compare, and then unable to accurately identify the type, so that the mechanical hand is difficult to effectively sort the part of the shielded medical waste according to the instruction, affecting the integrity and efficiency of the sorting. Therefore, a medical waste sorting and processing device is provided. Utility model content
[0006] The purpose of the present application is to solve the problems mentioned above, and to provide a medical waste sorting and processing device.
[0007] The technical scheme adopted by the present application is as follows: a medical waste sorting and processing device, comprising a Z-shaped conveyor belt, a guide shell is arranged on the top surface of the Z-shaped conveyor belt, a visual sorting system is arranged at one end of the Z-shaped conveyor belt away from the guide shell, a connecting shell is arranged inside the guide shell, a waste conveying pipeline is arranged on the top surface of the connecting shell, a plurality of semicircular toothed knives are fixedly installed on the inner side wall near the top end of the connecting shell, a connecting buffer assembly connected with the connecting shell is arranged on the side of the guide shell, a rotating rod is movably arranged on one side of the guide shell, a fixed plate is fixedly installed on one side of the guide shell, a motor is fixedly installed on one side of the fixed plate, the driving end of the motor is fixedly connected with one end of the rotating rod, two jacking cams are fixedly installed on the outer surface of the rotating rod, two arc-shaped blocks corresponding to the jacking cams are fixedly installed on the bottom surface of the connecting shell, and a collecting assembly is arranged inside the guide shell.
[0008] In a preferred implementation form, the collecting assembly comprises a rectangular hole, a collecting sieve plate, a push rod, a fixed vertical plate, a connecting shaft, an eccentric push rod, a connecting rod, a pulley one and a pulley two, the inner side wall of the material guiding shell is symmetrically provided with a rectangular hole, the inside of the rectangular hole is provided with a collecting sieve plate, one side of the collecting sieve plate is fixedly provided with a push rod, one end of the push rod extends to the outside of the material guiding shell, the top surface of the Z-shaped conveying belt is fixedly provided with a fixed vertical plate, one side of the fixed vertical plate is rotatably connected with a connecting shaft through a bearing, one end of the connecting shaft is fixedly provided with an eccentric push rod, one side of the eccentric push rod is hingedly provided with a connecting rod, one end of the connecting rod away from the eccentric push rod is hingedly connected with one end of the push rod, the outer surface of the connecting shaft is fixedly provided with the pulley one, the outer surface of one end of the rotating rod is fixedly provided with the pulley two, and the pulley two and the pulley one are connected through a belt.
[0009] In a preferred implementation form, the connecting buffer assembly comprises a protrusion one, a damping spring and a protrusion two, a plurality of protrusion ones are fixedly arranged on the side of the material guiding shell, the top surface of the protrusion one is fixedly provided with a damping spring, a plurality of protrusion twos are fixedly arranged on the side of the connecting shell, and the top end of the damping spring is fixed to the bottom surface of the protrusion two.
[0010] In a preferred implementation form, the bottom surface of the garbage conveying pipeline is fixedly provided with a flexible connecting pipeline, and the bottom surface of the flexible connecting pipeline is fixed to the top end of the connecting shell.
[0011] In a preferred implementation form, one side of the material guiding shell is hingedly provided with a sealing plate through a hinge, and one side of the sealing plate is fixedly provided with a transparent window.
[0012] In a preferred implementation form, the top surface of the Z-shaped conveying belt is provided with a shielding cover.
[0013] The application has the following beneficial effects: in the application, the rotating rod driven by the motor and the jacking cam fixed to the outer surface thereof rotate synchronously, the jacking cam cooperates with the arc-shaped block on the bottom surface of the connecting shell, intermittently jacks up the connecting shell, causes vibration of the connecting shell, promotes the medical waste in the connecting shell to continuously move downward under the vibration, ensures that the garbage bag wrapping the medical waste is completely torn, the device can efficiently and accurately sort the medical waste through the visual sorting system, the half-circular toothed cutter cooperates with the collecting sieve plate to respectively tear and collect the garbage bag, and the influence of the garbage bag on subsequent garbage sorting is effectively avoided. The medical waste is effectively sorted without affecting the integrity of the sorting, and the sorting efficiency is improved. BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS
[0014] Figure 1 The figure is a schematic diagram of the overall structure of the application.
[0015] Figure 2 Figure 1 is a schematic diagram of the rotating rod structure of the present application;
[0016] Figure 3 Figure 2 is a schematic diagram of the internal structure of the material guiding shell of the present application;
[0017] Figure 4 Figure 3 is a schematic diagram of the semicircular tooth cutter structure of the present application;
[0018] Figure 5 Figure 4 is a schematic diagram of the arc-shaped block structure of the present application.
[0019] Marked in the figure: 1, Z-shaped conveying belt; 2, material guiding shell; 3, visual sorting system; 4, connecting shell; 5, garbage conveying pipeline; 6, semicircular tooth cutter; 7, connecting buffer assembly; 701, protrusion one; 702, shock-absorbing spring; 703, protrusion two; 8, rotating rod; 9, fixed plate; 10, motor; 11, jacking cam; 12, arc-shaped block; 13, collecting assembly; 1301, rectangular hole; 1302, collecting sieve plate; 1303, pushing rod; 1304, fixed vertical plate; 1305, connecting rotating shaft; 1306, eccentric pushing rod; 1307, connecting rod; 1308, pulley one; 1309, pulley two; 14, soft connecting pipeline; 15, sealing plate; 16, shielding cover. DETAILED DESCRIPTION
[0020] In order to make the purpose, technical solutions and advantages of the embodiments of the present application more clear, the technical solutions in the embodiments of the present application will be described clearly and completely below in combination with the embodiments of the present application. Obviously, the described embodiments are some of the embodiments of the present application, but not all the embodiments of the present application. Based on the embodiments in the present application, all the other embodiments obtained by those skilled in the art without creative labor fall within the scope of protection of the present application.
[0021] Reference Figure 1The utility model provides a medical waste sorting processing device, including Z type conveying belt 1, the top of Z type conveying belt 1 is provided with shielding cover 16, the top of Z type conveying belt 1 is provided with material guide casing 2, the one end of Z type conveying belt 1 away from material guide casing 2 is provided with visual sorting system 3, material guide casing 2 is installed on the fixed support of Z type conveying belt 1, so as to facilitate subsequent medical waste to be sorted to be guided into Z type conveying belt 1, the shielding cover 16 of setting can play the effect of shielding when medical waste on Z type conveying belt 1 is transported, so that garbage does not fall when conveying, and the visual sorting system 3 and conical material guide cover are provided with at the discharge end of Z type conveying belt 1, the conical material guide cover can evenly guide the medical waste transported by Z type conveying belt 1 into visual sorting system 3, visual sorting system 3 is composed of sorting conveying belt, manipulator, visual camera etc., and sorting conveying belt, manipulator, visual camera are connected through external terminal control system, visual camera captures the image information of medical waste, and transmits it to terminal control system to analyze and identify, after determining the type of garbage, terminal control system sends instructions to manipulator, and manipulator accurately clamps or adsorbs corresponding medical waste according to the instructions and places it into the corresponding collection container, realizes efficient and accurate sorting, and sorting conveying belt, manipulator and visual camera in visual sorting system 3 are common automatic sorting structures in reality, and will not be described in detail here.
[0022] Reference Figure 1 , Figure 2 and Figure 3 , the inside of material guide casing 2 is provided with connecting casing 4, the top of connecting casing 4 is provided with garbage conveying pipeline 5, the bottom of garbage conveying pipeline 5 is fixedly installed with soft connecting pipeline 14, and the bottom of soft connecting pipeline 14 is fixed with the top end of connecting casing 4. Garbage conveying pipeline 5 is used to introduce medical waste collected outside into material guide casing 2, soft connecting pipeline 14 can effectively buffer the impact force when garbage falls, avoid damaging connecting casing 4, and also adapt to slight displacement of connecting casing 4 in subsequent operation, guarantee the smoothness of garbage conveying, the top end of garbage conveying pipeline 5 can be upwardly extended and installed in each department of hospital, and an automatically open or closed sealing door can be installed on the pipeline of garbage conveying pipeline 5, when medical waste needs to be poured, the sealing door can be opened, and vice versa, to realize sealing, so as to improve the treatment effect of medical waste.
[0023] Reference Figure 1 , Figure 3 and Figure 4The plurality of semicircular tooth cutters 6 are fixedly installed on the inner side wall of the connecting shell 4 close to the top end, and the side of the material guiding shell 2 is provided with a connecting buffer assembly 7 connected with the connecting shell 4; when the medical waste falls into the connecting shell 4 along the pipeline, the semicircular tooth cutter 6 can cut the garbage bag, so that the hidden medical waste is exposed, facilitating subsequent visual identification, and the connecting buffer assembly 7 can play a buffering and damping role when the connecting shell 4 is displaced due to vibration and the like, ensuring the stability of the semicircular tooth cutter 6 in the process of breaking the garbage, and avoiding damage to the equipment due to excessive vibration.
[0024] Reference Figure 1 , Figure 2 and Figure 3 The connecting buffer assembly 7 includes a protrusion one 701, a damping spring 702 and a protrusion two 703, a plurality of protrusion ones 701 are fixedly installed on the side of the material guiding shell 2, the top surface of the protrusion one 701 is fixedly installed with the damping spring 702, a plurality of protrusion twos 703 are fixedly installed on the side of the connecting shell 4, and the top end of the damping spring 702 is fixed with the bottom surface of the protrusion two 703; the damping spring 702 plays a role of elastic buffering between the protrusion one 701 and the protrusion two 703, and when the connecting shell 4 subsequently vibrates or is impacted, the damping spring 702 deforms, absorbs and disperses energy, thereby effectively reducing the rigid collision between the connecting shell 4 and the material guiding shell 2, prolonging the service life of the equipment and ensuring stable operation of the device.
[0025] Reference Figure 2 , Figure 3 and Figure 4 A rotating rod 8 is movably arranged on one side of the material guiding shell 2, a fixed plate 9 is fixedly installed on one side of the material guiding shell 2, a motor 10 is fixedly installed on one side of the fixed plate 9, the driving end of the motor 10 is fixed with one end of the rotating rod 8, two jacking cams 11 are fixedly installed on the outer surface of the rotating rod 8, two arc blocks 12 corresponding to the jacking cams 11 are fixedly installed on the bottom surface of the connecting shell 4, and a collecting assembly 13 is arranged in the material guiding shell 2; the motor 10 drives the rotating rod 8 to rotate, and then the jacking cams 11 rotate, the jacking cams 11 cooperate with the arc blocks 12 to intermittently jack up the connecting shell 4, so that the connecting shell 4 vibrates, and the breaking effect of the semicircular tooth cutter 6 on the garbage bag is enhanced.
[0026] Reference Figure 2 , Figure 3 and Figure 5The collecting assembly 13 comprises a rectangular hole 1301, a collecting sieve plate 1302, a pushing rod 1303, a fixed vertical plate 1304, a connecting rotating shaft 1305, an eccentric pushing rod 1306, a connecting rod 1307, a belt pulley one 1308 and a belt pulley two 1309. The inner side wall of the material guiding shell 2 is symmetrically provided with the rectangular hole 1301, and the inside of the rectangular hole 1301 is provided with the collecting sieve plate 1302. One side of the collecting sieve plate 1302 is fixedly provided with the pushing rod 1303, and one end of the pushing rod 1303 extends to the outside of the material guiding shell 2. Through the rectangular hole 1301, the collecting sieve plate 1302 can be moved forward and backward in the future, and a plurality of collecting rods are installed in the collecting sieve plate 1302, so that the garbage bags can be collected in the future, and the convenience is improved.
[0027] Referring to Figure 2 , Figure 3 and Figure 4 , the top surface of the Z-shaped conveying belt 1 is fixedly provided with the fixed vertical plate 1304. One side of the fixed vertical plate 1304 is rotatably connected with the connecting rotating shaft 1305 through a bearing. One end of the connecting rotating shaft 1305 is fixedly provided with the eccentric pushing rod 1306. One side of the eccentric pushing rod 1306 is hingedly connected with the connecting rod 1307. One end of the connecting rod 1307 away from the eccentric pushing rod 1306 is hingedly connected with one end of the pushing rod 1303. The outer surface of the connecting rotating shaft 1305 is fixedly provided with the belt pulley one 1308. The outer surface of one end of the rotating rod 8 is fixedly provided with the belt pulley two 1309. The belt pulley two 1309 and the belt pulley one 1308 are connected through a belt. Through the rotation of the rotating rod 8, the belt pulley two 1309 drives the belt pulley one 1308 to rotate, so that the connecting rotating shaft 1305 rotates. The eccentric pushing rod 1306 on the connecting rotating shaft 1305 pushes the pushing rod 1303 through the connecting rod 1307, and in turn drives the collecting sieve plate 1302 to reciprocate in the rectangular hole 1301. The collecting sieve plate 1302 can collect the garbage bags. The fixed vertical plate 1304 can provide stable support for the connecting rotating shaft 1305, so as to ensure the stable rotation thereof. When the eccentric pushing rod 1306 rotates on the connecting rotating shaft 1305, the connecting rod 1307 is hingedly connected to convert the circular motion into the linear reciprocating motion of the pushing rod 1303, so as to accurately control the movement of the collecting sieve plate 1302 and ensure the reciprocating motion of the collecting sieve plate 1302.
[0028] Referring to Figure 1 , Figure 3 , one side of the material guiding shell 2 is hingedly connected with the sealing plate 15 through a hinge. One side of the sealing plate 15 is fixedly provided with a transparent window. Through the transparent window, personnel can observe the garbage bags collected on the collecting sieve plate 1302. When the garbage bags are collected more, personnel can open the sealing plate 15 to clean the garbage bags, so as to improve the convenience. The sealing plate 15 is fixed in a magnetic manner.
[0029] The implementation principle of the medical waste sorting and processing device embodiment of the application is as follows: personnel pour medical waste into the waste conveying pipeline 5, the waste falls into the connecting shell 4, and then contacts the semicircular tooth cutter 6, the convex teeth on the semicircular tooth cutter 6 quickly cut the waste bag, and the originally shielded medical waste is exposed;
[0030] Then, the personnel start the motor 10, the motor 10 drives the rotating rod 8 and the jacking cam 11 fixed on the outer surface thereof to rotate synchronously, the jacking cam 11 cooperates with the arc-shaped block 12 on the bottom surface of the connecting shell 4, intermittently jacks up the connecting shell 4, causes vibration of the connecting shell 4, and promotes the medical waste in the connecting shell 4 to move downward under the action of vibration, so as to ensure that the waste bag wrapping the medical waste is completely cut, the medical waste falls into the material guiding shell 2, and at the same time, the rotating rod 8 rotates to drive the belt pulley two 1309 to rotate, the belt pulley one 1308 is driven to rotate through the belt transmission, and then the connecting shaft 1305 rotates, the eccentric push rod 1306 at one end of the connecting shaft 1305 pushes the push rod 1303 through the connecting rod 1307, and drives the collection sieve plate 1302 to reciprocate in the rectangular hole 1301, so that the collection sieve plate 1302 can effectively collect the broken waste bag, so as to avoid the interference of the waste bag on the subsequent visual sorting work as much as possible, and greatly improve the operation convenience.
[0031] The device can efficiently and accurately sort medical waste through the visual sorting system 3, and the semicircular tooth cutter 6 and the collection sieve plate 1302 cooperate with each other to cut and collect the waste bag respectively, effectively avoid the influence of the waste bag on the subsequent waste sorting, and significantly improve the accuracy and efficiency of waste sorting.
[0032] The above embodiments are only used to illustrate the technical solutions of the application, but not to limit the same; although the application is described in detail with reference to the foregoing embodiments, those skilled in the art should understand that the technical solutions recorded in the foregoing embodiments can be modified, or some technical features can be replaced by equivalents; and the modification or replacement does not make the essence of the corresponding technical solution deviate from the spirit and scope of the technical solutions of the embodiments of the application.
Claims
1. A medical waste sorting and processing device comprising a Z-shaped conveyor belt (1), characterized in that: The top surface of the Z-shaped conveying belt (1) is provided with a material guiding shell (2), one end of the Z-shaped conveying belt (1) away from the material guiding shell (2) is provided with a visual sorting system (3), the inside of the material guiding shell (2) is provided with a connecting shell (4), the top surface of the connecting shell (4) is provided with a garbage conveying pipeline (5), a plurality of semicircular tooth cutters (6) are fixedly installed on the inside wall close to the top end of the connecting shell (4), the side of the material guiding shell (2) is provided with a connecting buffer assembly (7) connected with the connecting shell (4), a rotating rod (8) is movably arranged on one side of the material guiding shell (2), a fixed plate (9) is fixedly installed on one side of the material guiding shell (2), a motor (10) is fixedly installed on one side of the fixed plate (9), the driving end of the motor (10) is fixedly connected with one end of the rotating rod (8), two jacking cams (11) are fixedly installed on the outer surface of the rotating rod (8), two arc-shaped blocks (12) corresponding to the jacking cams (11) are fixedly installed on the bottom surface of the connecting shell (4), and the inside of the material guiding shell (2) is provided with a collecting assembly (13).
2. The medical waste sorting and processing apparatus of claim 1, wherein: The collecting assembly (13) comprises a rectangular hole (1301), a collecting sieve plate (1302), a pushing rod (1303), a fixed vertical plate (1304), a connecting shaft (1305), an eccentric pushing rod (1306), a connecting rod (1307), a belt pulley I (1308) and a belt pulley II (1309), the inside wall of the material guiding shell (2) is symmetrically provided with the rectangular hole (1301), the inside of the rectangular hole (1301) is provided with the collecting sieve plate (1302), one side of the collecting sieve plate (1302) is fixedly provided with the pushing rod (1303), one end of the pushing rod (1303) extends to the outside of the material guiding shell (2), the top surface of the Z-shaped conveying belt (1) is fixedly provided with the fixed vertical plate (1304), one side of the fixed vertical plate (1304) is rotatably connected with the connecting shaft (1305) through the bearing, one end of the connecting shaft (1305) is fixedly provided with the eccentric pushing rod (1306), one side of the eccentric pushing rod (1306) is hingedly provided with the connecting rod (1307), one end of the connecting rod (1307) away from the eccentric pushing rod (1306) is hingedly connected with one end of the pushing rod (1303), the outer surface of the connecting shaft (1305) is fixedly provided with the belt pulley I (1308), the outer surface of one end of the rotating rod (8) is fixedly provided with the belt pulley II (1309), and the belt pulley II (1309) and the belt pulley I (1308) are connected through the belt.
3. The medical waste sorting and processing apparatus of claim 1, wherein: Said connecting buffer assembly (7) includes bump one (701), shock absorbing spring (702) and bump two (703), the side of the material guide shell (2) is fixedly installed with a plurality of bump one (701), the top surface of bump one (701) is fixedly installed with shock absorbing spring (702), the side of the connecting shell (4) is fixedly installed with a plurality of bump two (703), the top end of shock absorbing spring (702) is fixed with the bottom surface of bump two (703).
4. The medical waste sorting treatment apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein: The bottom surface of the garbage conveying pipeline (5) is fixedly installed with a soft connecting pipeline (14), and the bottom surface of the soft connecting pipeline (14) is fixed with the top end of the connecting shell (4).
5. The medical waste sorting treatment apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein: One side of the material guide shell (2) is hingedly connected with a sealing plate (15) through the hinge, and one side of the sealing plate (15) is fixedly installed with a transparent window.
6. The medical waste sorting treatment apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein: The top surface of the Z-shaped conveying belt (1) is provided with a shielding cover (16).