An automated mineral sample dispensing and retention system
By designing an automated mineral sample dispensing and retention system, a robotic arm and computer controller are used to automate the dispensing and retention of samples. This solves the problems of cumbersome manual operation, large errors, and dust hazards in existing technologies, improves work efficiency and detection accuracy, and protects occupational health.
Patent Information
- Authority / Receiving Office
- CN · China
- Patent Type
- Utility models(China)
- Current Assignee / Owner
- CHANGCHUN GOLD RES INST
- Filing Date
- 2025-05-21
- Publication Date
- 2026-05-26
AI Technical Summary
The current mineral sample packaging and storage work relies on manual operation, which is cumbersome and poses a dust hazard, resulting in large errors, low detection accuracy, insufficient automation, and affecting work efficiency and safety.
Design an automated mineral sample dispensing and retention system, including a conveying unit, a weighing unit, a placement unit, and a moving unit. Employ a robotic arm and a computer controller to achieve automated sample dispensing and retention, reduce human error, and ensure testing accuracy and occupational health.
It improves work efficiency, reduces labor costs, standardizes management, reduces dust hazards, ensures testing accuracy and safety, and achieves fully automated sample management.
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Abstract
Description
Technical Field
[0001] This utility model relates to the technical field of mineral sample dispensing and retention processes, specifically to an automatic mineral sample dispensing and retention system. Background Technology
[0002] With the development of the global economy, the demand for mineral resources continues to grow. Accurately detecting information such as the type, grade, and reserves of minerals is crucial for guiding the exploration and development of mineral resources. Before mineral testing, it is necessary to repackage mineral samples and retain any remaining samples.
[0003] The current work of dispensing and storing mineral samples mainly relies on manual labor. Staff members need to manually dispense each mineral sample one by one, which is a cumbersome process. In addition, the dust generated by the mineral samples during the work process affects the health of the staff. The storage of samples is also affected by factors such as individual differences and fatigue of the staff, which makes the management of mineral samples difficult. Moreover, staff members are prone to fatigue and make mistakes such as misnumbering of sample numbers, which seriously reduces the accuracy of detection and makes subsequent detection of mineral samples meaningless.
[0004] In view of this, it is necessary to study a fast, efficient and convenient automatic mineral sample dispensing and retention system for the workflow of automatic dispensing and retention of mineral samples. The system should be able to achieve automatic dispensing and retention, ensure the accuracy of sample testing, standardize the post-management of samples, ensure the occupational health and safety of staff, and improve work efficiency and quality. This is to solve the technical problems mentioned above, such as the need for operators to perform operations at each step, low degree of automation, and large human error in sample management. Utility Model Content
[0005] In view of the technical problems existing in the background technology, the dispensing and retention process of mineral samples requires operators to perform each step, resulting in low automation and large human error in sample management. This utility model provides an automatic dispensing and retention system for mineral samples, which is fast, efficient and convenient. The system can automatically dispense mineral samples according to their numbers, retain remaining samples and trace the quality of remaining samples, ensuring the accuracy of mineral sample dispensing and retention information. It can be fully automated in batches, which is beneficial to the occupational health and safety of workers and improves work efficiency and quality.
[0006] This utility model provides an automatic mineral sample dispensing and retention system, which includes:
[0007] The conveying unit is used to convey the original sample box and the wide-mouth sample bag respectively, including a first conveying unit for conveying the original sample box and a second conveying unit for conveying the wide-mouth sample bag;
[0008] Weighing unit, used for weighing dispensing samples and retaining samples, including a weighing balance for dispensing mineral samples and a residual sample balance for retaining and weighing the remaining mineral samples.
[0009] The placement unit is used for the placement of disassembled and retained samples, including a residual sample sorting box for placing the original sample box containing the remaining mineral samples and a test sample sorting box for placing the wide-mouth sample bag containing the disassembled mineral samples.
[0010] The moving unit picks up the original sample box and the wide-mouth sample bag from the conveying unit respectively, and moves the original sample box and the wide-mouth sample bag to the weighing unit and the placement unit in sequence. It includes a first robotic arm for moving the original sample box and a second robotic arm for moving the wide-mouth sample bag.
[0011] As a further improvement of this utility model, the automatic mineral sample dispensing and retention system also includes an encoding scanner.
[0012] As a further improvement of this utility model, the automatic mineral sample dispensing and retention system also includes a computer controller; the computer controller is electrically connected to the weighing unit and the code scanner respectively, and is used to read the data of the code scanner, the weighing balance and the residual sample balance.
[0013] As a further improvement of this utility model, the automatic mineral sample dispensing and retention system also includes a dust collection table; the coding scanner, the sample weighing balance and the residual sample balance are respectively placed above the dust collection table.
[0014] As a further improvement of this utility model, the vacuuming table is a porous vacuuming tabletop structure, and the vacuuming table is provided with several sets of vacuuming partitions to isolate the code scanner, the weighing balance and the residual sample balance respectively.
[0015] As a further improvement of this utility model, the first conveying unit is a sample conveyor belt; the sample conveyor belt is equipped with sample partitions.
[0016] As a further improvement of this utility model, the second conveying unit includes a sample bag rack and rollers disposed at the bottom of the sample bag rack for rolling conveying wide-mouth sample bags.
[0017] As a further improvement of this utility model, the original sample box and the wide-mouth sample bag are respectively provided with a one-to-one corresponding coding strip.
[0018] As a further improvement of this utility model, the outer walls of the original sample box are provided with rough grooves on both sides to facilitate gripping by the first robotic arm.
[0019] As a further improvement of this utility model, the original sample box is composed of a separable upper box part and a lower box part, wherein the upper box part has a narrow opening structure.
[0020] As a further improvement of this utility model, the sample bag rack is divided into three layers, and each layer has several rollers at the bottom.
[0021] As a further improvement of this utility model, both the residual sample sorting box and the test sample sorting box are provided with partitions of predetermined spacing inside.
[0022] As a further improvement of this utility model, the wide-mouth sample bag is provided with an opening and closing part for pouring in the sample and sealing the bag.
[0023] Beneficial effects:
[0024] The automatic mineral sample dispensing and retention system provided by this utility model has the following technical advantages:
[0025] 1. Significantly improves work efficiency: The system uses a fully automated robotic arm to continuously perform the dispensing and storage of mineral samples. The high degree of automation significantly improves work efficiency and greatly reduces labor costs.
[0026] 2. Standardized Management: The system can collect the mineral sample number and the precise weight of the remaining sample through a computer controller, and standardize the placement and packaging of the tested mineral samples and the remaining mineral samples, which facilitates the tracking and subsequent management of mineral samples. The standardized management significantly reduces human error.
[0027] 3. Reduced radiation exposure to operators: It reduces the harm to operators' health from dust during mineral sample packaging and storage, which is beneficial to the occupational health and safety of workers.
[0028] 4. Long-term stable use: The system is an integrated device with low natural wear and tear, can be used repeatedly for a long time, and has low economic cost.
[0029] In summary, the automatic mineral sample dispensing and retention system provided by this utility model is easy to operate and highly automated. It can achieve automatic dispensing and retention, ensure the accuracy of detection and weighing, standardize the post-management of mineral samples, ensure the occupational health and safety of staff, and improve work efficiency and quality. Thus, it effectively overcomes the technical defects of existing mineral sample dispensing and retention processes, which require manual operation at each stage, have a low degree of automation, and suffer from poor detection accuracy due to large human errors in sample management.
[0030] The above description is merely an overview of the technical solution of this utility model. In order to better understand the technical means of this utility model and to implement it in accordance with the contents of the specification, and to make the above and other objects, features and advantages of this utility model more obvious and understandable, specific embodiments of this utility model are given below. Attached Figure Description
[0031] To more clearly illustrate the technical solution of this utility model, the accompanying drawings used in this utility model will be briefly described below. Obviously, the drawings described below are merely some embodiments of this utility model. For those skilled in the art, other drawings can be obtained based on these drawings without any creative effort.
[0032] Figure 1 This is a schematic diagram of the left side of the automatic mineral sample dispensing and retention system provided in this embodiment of the utility model;
[0033] Figure 2 This is a schematic diagram of the right side of the automatic mineral sample dispensing and retention system provided in this embodiment of the present invention;
[0034] Figure 3 This is a top view schematic diagram of the automatic mineral sample dispensing and retention system provided in this embodiment of the utility model;
[0035] Explanation of reference numerals in the attached figures:
[0036] 1. Sample conveyor belt; 2. Computer controller; 3. Sample bag rack; 4. Rollers; 5. Wide-mouth sample bag; 6. First robotic arm; 7. Sample weighing balance; 8. Dust collection table; 9. Remaining sample balance; 10. Dust collection partition; 11. Second robotic arm; 12. Remaining sample storage box; 13. Measurement sample storage box; 14. Encoding scanner; 15. Original sample box. Detailed Implementation
[0037] The embodiments of the present invention will now be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. These embodiments are merely illustrative of the present invention and should not be construed as limiting the scope of protection of the present invention.
[0038] Unless otherwise defined, all technical and scientific terms used herein have the same meaning as commonly understood by one of ordinary skill in the art to which this invention pertains; the terminology used herein is for the purpose of describing particular embodiments only and is not intended to be limiting of the invention; the terms “comprising” and “having”, and any variations thereof, in the specification, claims, and foregoing description of the invention, are intended to cover non-exclusive inclusion.
[0039] In the description of the embodiments of this utility model, technical terms such as "first" and "second" are used only to distinguish different objects and should not be construed as indicating or implying relative importance or implicitly specifying the number, specific order, or primary and secondary relationship of the indicated technical features. In the description of the embodiments of this utility model, "multiple" means two or more, unless otherwise explicitly defined.
[0040] In this document, the term "embodiment" means that a particular feature, structure, or characteristic described in connection with an embodiment may be included in at least one embodiment of the present invention. The appearance of this phrase in various places throughout the specification does not necessarily refer to the same embodiment, nor is it a separate or alternative embodiment mutually exclusive with other embodiments. It will be explicitly and implicitly understood by those skilled in the art that the embodiments described herein can be combined with other embodiments.
[0041] In the description of this utility model embodiment, the term "and / or" is merely a description of the relationship between related objects, indicating that three relationships can exist. For example, A and / or B can represent: A existing alone, A and B existing simultaneously, or B existing alone. Additionally, the character " / " in this document generally indicates that the preceding and following related objects have an "or" relationship.
[0042] In the description of the embodiments of this utility model, the term "multiple" refers to two or more (including two), similarly, "multiple sets" refers to two or more (including two sets), and "multiple pieces" refers to two or more (including two pieces).
[0043] In the description of the embodiments of this utility model, the technical terms "center," "longitudinal," "lateral," "length," "width," "thickness," "upper," "lower," "front," "rear," "left," "right," "vertical," "horizontal," "top," "bottom," "inner," "outer," "clockwise," "counterclockwise," "axial," "radial," and "circumferential" indicate the orientation or positional relationship based on the orientation or positional relationship shown in the accompanying drawings. They are only for the convenience of describing the embodiments of this utility model and simplifying the description, and do not indicate or imply that the device or element referred to must have a specific orientation, or be constructed and operated in a specific orientation. Therefore, they should not be construed as limitations on the embodiments of this utility model.
[0044] In the description of the embodiments of this utility model, unless otherwise explicitly specified and limited, technical terms such as "installation," "connection," "joining," and "fixing" should be interpreted broadly. For example, they can refer to a fixed connection, a detachable connection, or an integral part; they can refer to a mechanical connection or an electrical connection; they can refer to a direct connection or an indirect connection through an intermediate medium; they can refer to the internal communication of two components or the interaction between two components. For those skilled in the art, the specific meaning of the above terms in the embodiments of this utility model can be understood according to the specific circumstances.
[0045] To address the technical problems of existing mineral sample packaging and retention processes, which require manual operation at each stage, have low automation, and suffer from poor detection accuracy due to large human errors in sample management, this invention provides an automated mineral sample packaging and retention system. This system boasts a high degree of automation, enabling automated packaging of mineral samples by number, retention of remaining samples, and traceability of remaining sample quality. It ensures the accuracy of mineral sample packaging and retention information, and allows for fully automated batch processing, which benefits the occupational health and safety of workers and improves work efficiency and quality.
[0046] Please refer to Figures 1 to 3 As shown, this utility model provides an automatic mineral sample dispensing and retention system, which includes: original sample box 15, wide-mouth sample bag 5, conveying unit, weighing unit, placement unit, moving unit, code scanner 14, computer controller 2, and dust collection table 8.
[0047] The original sample box 15 and the wide-mouth sample bag 5 are respectively provided with corresponding coding strips.
[0048] The outer walls of the original sample box 15 are provided with rough grooves on both sides to facilitate gripping by the first robotic arm 6 in the moving unit.
[0049] The original sample box 15 consists of a separable upper box and a lower box, which facilitates the pouring of ore samples. The upper box has a narrow opening structure.
[0050] The wide-mouth sample bag 5 is provided with an opening and closing part for pouring in the sample and sealing the bag.
[0051] The conveying unit is used to convey the original sample box 15 and the wide-mouth sample bag 5 respectively, and includes a first conveying unit for conveying the original sample box 15 and a second conveying unit for conveying the wide-mouth sample bag 5.
[0052] In some embodiments, the first conveying unit is a sample conveyor belt 1; the sample conveyor belt 1 is equipped with sample dividers. The second conveying unit includes a sample bag rack 3 and rollers 4 disposed at the bottom of the sample bag rack 3 for rolling and conveying wide-mouth sample bags 5.
[0053] The weighing unit is used for weighing the dispensed samples and the retained samples, including a weighing balance 7 for dispensing and weighing mineral samples and a residual sample balance 9 for weighing the remaining mineral samples.
[0054] The placement unit is used for the placement of disassembled samples and retained samples, including a residual sample sorting box 12 for placing the original sample box 15 containing the remaining mineral samples, and a test sample sorting box 13 for placing the wide-mouth sample bag 5 containing the disassembled mineral samples.
[0055] Both the residual sample sorting box 12 and the test sample sorting box 13 are equipped with partitions at predetermined intervals inside.
[0056] The moving unit picks up the original sample box 15 and the wide-mouth sample bag 5 from the conveying unit respectively, and moves the original sample box 15 and the wide-mouth sample bag 5 to the weighing unit and the placement unit in sequence. It includes a first robotic arm 6 for moving the original sample box 15 and a second robotic arm 11 for moving the wide-mouth sample bag 5.
[0057] The encoder scanner 14 is used to scan the sample coding strip on the original sample box 15 and transmit the coding strip data to the computer controller 2.
[0058] The computer controller 2 is electrically connected to the weighing unit, the encoder scanner 14, and the moving unit, respectively, and is used to read the data from the encoder scanner 14, the weighing balance 7, and the residual sample balance 9, and transmit the coded bar scanning data to the second robotic arm 11.
[0059] Above the vacuum table 8 are a code scanner 14, a sample weighing balance 7, and a residual sample balance 9.
[0060] The vacuum table 8 has a porous vacuum tabletop structure and is equipped with several sets of vacuum partitions 10 to isolate the code scanner 14, the weighing balance 7 and the residual sample balance 9 respectively.
[0061] Example 1
[0062] This embodiment 1 provides an automatic mineral sample dispensing and retention system, which mainly includes a sample conveyor belt 1, a computer controller 2, a sample bag rack 3, rollers 4, a wide-mouth sample bag 5, a first robotic arm 6, a sample weighing balance 7, a dust collection table 8, a residual sample balance 9, a dust collection partition 10, a second robotic arm 11, a residual sample sorting box 12, a measurement sample sorting box 13, an encoding scanner 14, and a sample box 15.
[0063] The first robotic arm 6 is positioned next to the sample conveyor belt 1, while the dust collection table 8 is located between the first robotic arm 6 and the second robotic arm 11. The dust collection table 8 houses an encoder scanner 14, a sample weighing balance 7, and a residual sample balance 9, all separated by a dust collection partition 10. A sample bag rack 3 is located near the second robotic arm 11, used to hold wide-mouth sample bags 5. The residual sample collection box 12 and the measurement sample collection box 13 are located on either side of the end of the dust collection table 8.
[0064] Specifically, the sample conveyor belt 1 is equipped with sample dividers to facilitate the neat separation and placement of the original sample boxes 15.
[0065] The vacuuming table 8 is equipped with three vacuuming partitions 10, and the tabletop of the vacuuming table 8 is also a porous vacuuming structure.
[0066] The sample bag rack 3 can be divided into three layers, and each layer is equipped with rollers 4 at the bottom.
[0067] The wide-mouth sample bag 5 has an overall size of 10cm in length, 5cm in width, and 10cm in height. It is made of kraft paper and has an opening at the top.
[0068] The remaining sample sorting box 12 and the test sample sorting box 13 are made of rigid PVC material. They are both 1m long, 15cm wide and 10cm high. They are both equipped with partitions inside, and the distance between each partition is 10cm.
[0069] The original sample box 15 is made of rigid PVC material and has dimensions of 10cm in length, 5cm in width, and 10cm in height. It has a detachable design with two parts (upper box and lower box) to facilitate the pouring of mineral samples. The upper part (upper box) has a narrow opening design. The outer walls of the original sample box 15 have rough grooves on both sides to facilitate gripping by the first robotic arm 6.
[0070] The dust collection table 8 is a dust collection workbench with a porous mesh structure. The dust collection components are connected to the lower end of the mesh surface of the workbench, which can promptly remove the powder generated during the work process.
[0071] The working principle and process of the above-mentioned automatic mineral sample dispensing and retention system are as follows:
[0072] First, the top cover (upper box part) of the original sample box 15 can be opened to hold mineral samples. The original sample boxes 15 containing mineral samples are numbered and placed sequentially on the sample conveyor belt 1 to obtain original sample boxes 15 with sample code strips. The wide-mouth sample bag 5 on the other side is also copied and numbered according to the sample numbering order to obtain a wide-mouth sample bag 5 with a one-to-one corresponding code strip.
[0073] After numbering, the first robotic arm 6 first grabs the original sample box 15 containing the mineral sample from the sample conveyor belt 1, and then places it in front of the coding scanner 14 to scan the sample coding strip to obtain the coding data. The wide-mouth sample bags 5 are placed sequentially on the sample bag rack 3, and move downwards by gravity with the rollers 4, making it easier for the second robotic arm 11 to grab them. The second robotic arm 11 grabs the wide-mouth sample bag 5 corresponding to the sample number and places it on the weighing balance 7.
[0074] Then, the first robotic arm 6 pours the mineral sample from the original sample box 15 into the wide-mouth sample bag 5 on the weighing balance 7. When the reading of the weighing balance 7 reaches the set weight, the first robotic arm 6 stops pouring and places the original sample box 15 containing the remaining mineral sample on the residual sample balance 9. After reading the weight, the residual sample balance 9 transmits the weighing data to the computer controller 2. The first robotic arm 6 places the original sample box 15 containing the remaining sample into the residual sample collection box 12, while the second robotic arm 11 picks up the wide-mouth sample bag 5 containing the dispensed sample and places it into the sample collection box 13.
[0075] During this process, the computer controller 2 reads data from the encoder scanner 14, the weighing balance 7, and the residual sample balance 9, respectively. Furthermore, throughout the entire operation, the dust extraction partition 10 on the dust extraction table 8 must be opened, relying on the dust extraction partition 10 and the porous dust extraction table surface to clean and absorb sample dust.
[0076] This process is repeated continuously and automatically to automate the dispensing and storage of mineral samples.
[0077] In summary, this utility model provides an automatic mineral sample dispensing and retention system, relating to the technical field of mineral sample dispensing and retention processes. It includes a conveying unit for conveying original sample boxes and wide-mouth sample bags, comprising a first conveying unit for conveying the original sample boxes and a second conveying unit for conveying the wide-mouth sample bags; a weighing unit for weighing the dispensed and retained samples, comprising a weighing balance for weighing the dispensed mineral samples and a residual sample balance for weighing the remaining retained mineral samples; a placement unit for placing the dispensed and retained samples, comprising a residual sample collection box for placing the original sample boxes containing the remaining mineral samples and a sample collection box for placing the wide-mouth sample bags containing the dispensed mineral samples; and a moving unit for gripping the original sample boxes and wide-mouth sample bags from the conveying unit and sequentially moving them to the weighing and placement units, comprising a first robotic arm for moving the original sample boxes and a second robotic arm for moving the wide-mouth sample bags. This highly automated system can automatically package mineral samples by number, retain remaining samples, and trace the quality of remaining samples, ensuring the accuracy of mineral sample packaging and retention information. The fully automated batch processing is beneficial to the occupational health and safety of workers, and improves work efficiency and quality. Therefore, it effectively overcomes the technical shortcomings of existing mineral sample packaging and retention processes, which require manual operation at each stage, have low automation, and suffer from poor detection accuracy due to large human errors in sample management.
[0078] It should be noted that this utility model is not limited to the above-described embodiments. The above embodiments are merely examples, and any embodiments with the same structure and function as the technical concept within the scope of this utility model are included within the technical scope of this utility model. Furthermore, various modifications that can be conceived by those skilled in the art to the embodiments, and other ways of constructing by combining some of the constituent elements of the embodiments, are also included within the scope of this utility model without departing from the spirit of this utility model.
Claims
1. An automated mineral sample dispensing and retention system, characterized in that, include: The conveying unit is used to convey the original sample box and the wide-mouth sample bag respectively, including a first conveying unit for conveying the original sample box and a second conveying unit for conveying the wide-mouth sample bag; Weighing unit, used for weighing dispensing samples and retaining samples, including a weighing balance for dispensing mineral samples and a residual sample balance for retaining and weighing the remaining mineral samples. The placement unit is used for the placement of disassembled and retained samples, including a residual sample sorting box for placing the original sample box containing the remaining mineral samples and a test sample sorting box for placing the wide-mouth sample bag containing the disassembled mineral samples. The moving unit picks up the original sample box and the wide-mouth sample bag from the conveying unit respectively, and moves the original sample box and the wide-mouth sample bag to the weighing unit and the placement unit in sequence. It includes a first robotic arm for moving the original sample box and a second robotic arm for moving the wide-mouth sample bag.
2. The automatic mineral sample dispensing and retention system according to claim 1, characterized in that, The automatic mineral sample dispensing and retention system also includes an encoding scanner.
3. The automatic mineral sample dispensing and retention system according to claim 2, characterized in that, The automatic mineral sample dispensing and retention system also includes a computer controller; the computer controller is electrically connected to the weighing unit, the encoder scanner, and the moving unit respectively, and is used to read the data from the encoder scanner, the weighing balance, and the residual sample balance.
4. The automatic mineral sample dispensing and retention system according to claim 2, characterized in that, The automatic mineral sample dispensing and retention system also includes a dust collection table; the coding scanner, the sample weighing balance, and the residual sample balance are all placed above the dust collection table.
5. The automatic mineral sample dispensing and retention system according to claim 4, characterized in that, The vacuuming table has a porous vacuuming tabletop structure, and several sets of vacuuming partitions are provided on the vacuuming table.
6. The automatic mineral sample dispensing and retention system according to claim 1, characterized in that, The first conveying unit is a sample conveyor belt; the sample conveyor belt is equipped with sample dividers.
7. The automatic mineral sample dispensing and retention system according to claim 1, characterized in that, The second conveying unit includes a sample bag rack and rollers disposed at the bottom of the sample bag rack for rolling conveying wide-mouth sample bags.
8. The automatic mineral sample dispensing and retention system according to claim 2, characterized in that, The original sample box and the wide-mouth sample bag are each equipped with a corresponding code strip.
9. The automatic mineral sample dispensing and retention system according to claim 1, characterized in that, The outer walls of the original sample box are provided with rough grooves on both sides to facilitate gripping by the first robotic arm.
10. The automatic mineral sample dispensing and retention system according to claim 1, characterized in that, The original sample box consists of a separable upper box and a lower box, wherein the upper box has a narrow opening structure.