A blood product manufacturing pipeline

Abstract

The utility model discloses a blood finished product flow line, including blood bank and label packing mechanism, its characterized in that, the blood bank has the turnover disc operation area and turnover basket operation area, and each operation area is equipped with inlet and outlet respectively, and the turnover basket operation area still has sorting table, the label packing mechanism carries out label and secondary packing to the blood product from the turnover disc operation area, then will label the packed blood product and send into the turnover basket operation area bag by bag, and completes the type dress basket on the automatic sorting table. Through the layout of optimization blood bank equipment each module, constitutes a set of blood finished product flow line that avoids manual intervention, improves operation efficiency, and the blood product of label -sticking is in the unit of disc and is discharged, and the blood product after dress basket is in the unit of basket and is discharged. Bagged blood product is arranged and is laid on the turnover disc, and is convenient for collaborative robot to snatch and convey to labeler one by one, improves operation efficiency, and the temperature safety of blood product is guaranteed.

Description

Technical Field

[0001] This utility model relates to the field of blood management technology, and in particular to a blood product processing line. Background Technology

[0002] After the blood is separated and prepared, it needs to be stored for testing. After the testing is completed, it needs to be labeled and repackaged. This process is called blood productization. The finished blood is then sorted, packed into baskets, and stored in a refrigerated environment.

[0003] In the current operation, while machines are used to label and repackage the tested blood products, manual labor is typically used to move the bagged blood products to the vicinity of the machine and then place them sequentially on the machine's loading platform, resulting in low efficiency. Furthermore, since the handling and loading operations are carried out at room temperature, the blood products are exposed to a non-refrigerated environment for extended periods, making it difficult to guarantee their safety. Utility Model Content

[0004] To solve at least one of the above-mentioned technical problems, this utility model provides a blood product processing line. By rationally arranging the equipment, the blood product processing operation forms a closed loop, realizing fully automatic operation, thereby avoiding manual intervention, improving work efficiency, and ensuring the temperature safety of the blood.

[0005] The technical solution adopted in this utility model is to design a blood product production line, including a blood bank and a labeling and packaging mechanism. The blood bank has a turnover tray operation area and a turnover basket operation area. Each operation area is provided with an entrance and an exit. The turnover basket operation area also has a sorting table. The labeling and packaging mechanism labels and repackages the blood products from the turnover tray operation area, and then sends the labeled and packaged blood products bag or box by bag into the turnover basket operation area, where they are sorted and packed into baskets on an automatic sorting table.

[0006] In some embodiments, the turntable operation area includes a turntable inlet, a turntable storage rack, a turntable mobile robot, a turntable conveyor belt, and a blood product outlet; the turntable basket operation area includes a blood product inlet, a turntable basket storage rack, a turntable basket mobile robot, a turntable basket conveyor belt, a sorting table, and a turntable basket outlet, with the inlet and outlet located on the facade of the warehouse.

[0007] In some embodiments, the labeling and packaging mechanism is located outside the warehouse, with its first end connected to the blood product outlet of the turnover tray operation area and its last end connected to the blood product inlet of the turnover basket operation area.

[0008] In some embodiments, the labeling and packaging mechanism includes a collaborative robot, a labeling module, a packaging module, and a blood product single-bag warehousing module, wherein the blood product single-bag warehousing module is connected to the turnover basket conveyor belt in the turnover basket operation area.

[0009] In some embodiments, a blood product outbound workbench is provided outside the blood bank and is connected to the exit of the turnover tray operation area for outbound trays containing unlabeled blood. The blood product outbound workbench is connected to the first end of the labeling and packaging mechanism.

[0010] In some embodiments, a collaborative robot and a packaging box hopper are provided between the labeling module and the outbound workbench. The collaborative robot loads the blood products from the turnover tray on the outbound workbench into packaging boxes, and then places the boxed blood products onto the conveyor belt of the labeling module.

[0011] In some implementations, the packaging box hopper is located at the rear end of the labeling module, and the blood products are placed into the packaging box after being labeled.

[0012] In some embodiments, the robotic arm on the sorting table loads blood products from the conveyor belt into turnover baskets according to blood type, and the turnover basket mobile robot delivers the turnover baskets containing the blood types to the shelf or sends them out of the warehouse through the turnover basket outlet.

[0013] In some embodiments, the turnover tray work area and the turnover basket work area are arranged vertically, parallel to each other, or perpendicular to each other in space.

[0014] Compared with the prior art, the present invention has the following beneficial effects:

[0015] This invention optimizes the layout of each module of the blood bank equipment, enabling the finished blood processing operation to form a closed loop, achieving fully automated operation, and forming a blood finished product production line that avoids manual intervention and has high operational efficiency.

[0016] Bagged blood products are loaded onto turnover trays and enter the blood bank in tray units. When labeling is required, the blood products in the blood bank exit from the blood product outlet, also in tray units. The bagged blood products are arranged on the turnover trays, making it easy for collaborative robots to pick them up one by one and deliver them to the labeling machine, improving operational efficiency and ensuring the temperature safety of the blood products. After labeling and packaging, the blood products are sent one bag at a time to the turnover basket work area, where they are sorted and basketed on an automated sorting table. Then, they are stored or issued in basket units, thus realizing the finished product status of blood, facilitating subsequent blood product sorting and order-based delivery. Attached Figure Description

[0017] The present invention will now be described in detail with reference to specific embodiments and accompanying drawings. To illustrate the details and facilitate understanding of its principles, the drawings are not necessarily to scale, and similar reference numerals may describe similar components in different views. The accompanying drawings generally illustrate the embodiments discussed herein by way of example and not limitation. Wherein:

[0018] Figure 1 This is a schematic diagram of the production line in an embodiment.

[0019] Figure 2 This is a top view of the pipeline layout in an embodiment.

[0020] Figure 3 This is a side view of the pipeline layout in an embodiment.

[0021] Figure 4 This is a schematic diagram of the end side of the pipeline layout in an embodiment.

[0022] Figure 5 This is a schematic diagram showing that the turnover tray work area and the turnover basket work area are set up in parallel.

[0023] In the diagram: 1. Blood bank; 2. Labeling machine; 3. Blood product outlet; 4. Blood product inlet; 5. Turntable work area; 6. Turntable basket work area; 7. Turntable storage rack; 8. Turntable; 9. Turntable conveyor belt; 10. Turntable inlet; 11. Tray-carrying robot; 12. Workbench; 13. Warehousing conveyor belt; 14. Collaborative robot; 15. Packaging box hopper; 16. Turntable basket; 17. Sorting table; 18. Bagging robot; 19. Turntable basket storage rack; 20. Turntable basket moving robot; 21. Turntable basket conveyor belt; 22. Guide rail; 23. Turntable basket outlet; 24. Bagged blood products; 25. Labeling module conveyor belt; 26. Turntable basket conveyor belt. Detailed Implementation

[0024] The following are specific embodiments of this utility model, and the technical solution of this utility model will be further described with reference to the accompanying drawings. However, this utility model is not limited to these embodiments, and the following embodiments do not limit the utility model involved in the claims. In addition, all combinations of features described in the embodiments are not necessarily necessary for the solution of the utility model.

[0025] The principle and structure of this utility model will be described in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings and embodiments.

[0026] Example

[0027] like Figure 1 , 2As shown in Figures 3 and 4, a blood product processing line includes a blood bank 1 with a low-temperature environment for preserving blood products and a labeling and packaging mechanism located outside the blood bank 1. The first end of the labeling and packaging mechanism is connected to the blood product outlet of the turnover tray operation area, and the second end is connected to the blood product inlet of the turnover basket operation area. The labeling and packaging mechanism includes a collaborative robot, a labeling module, a packaging module, and a single-bag blood product storage module. The single-bag blood product storage module is connected to the turnover basket conveyor belt in the turnover basket operation area. The labeling module is for bagged blood products 24. The labeling module is a device that can mark or affix text, numbers, or codes to blood bags or packaging boxes containing blood bags. For example, a labeling machine 2 can be used. The labeling information includes, for example, blood type information and date information. In this embodiment, a labeling machine 2 is used. The labeling module is located between the blood product outlet 3 and the blood product inlet 4 of the blood bank 1. A blood product conveying device is provided between the labeling module and the blood product outlet 3 and the blood product inlet 4. The blood product conveying device enables the blood products to exit from the blood product outlet 3, be labeled by the labeling module, and then return to the blood bank 1 through the blood product inlet 4. The blood product conveying device can be, for example, a robot, a robotic arm, a conveyor belt, or other factory automation equipment capable of conveying blood products between workstations.

[0028] The blood bank 1 includes a turnover tray operation area 5 and a turnover basket operation area 6; the blood product outlet 3 and the blood product inlet 4 are both located in the turnover basket operation area 6; the turnover tray operation area 5 is equipped with a turnover tray storage rack 7 and a turnover tray mobile robot; the turnover basket operation area 6 is equipped with a turnover basket storage rack 19, a blood product sorting device, and a turnover basket picking and placing device for transferring the turnover baskets between the turnover basket storage rack 19 and the blood product sorting device.

[0029] The turnover tray work area and the turnover basket work area can be arranged vertically, parallel to each other, or perpendicular to each other in space, for example, as shown below. Figure 5 As shown, the turnover tray work area and the turnover basket work area are set up in parallel.

[0030] In this embodiment, the blood bank 1 has a rectangular body. The turnover tray operation area 5 and the turnover basket operation area 6 are arranged adjacent to each other along the length of the rectangular blood bank 1. The blood product outlet 3 and the blood product inlet 4 are both located on the same end side of the blood bank 1, and the turnover basket operation area 6 is adjacent to the blood product outlet 3 and the blood product inlet 4.

[0031] The blood bank 1 is equipped with a rotating tray storage rack 7 and a rotating tray transfer device. The rotating tray storage rack 7 stores rotating trays 8, and the rotating trays store unlabeled blood products. The rotating tray transfer device includes a rotating tray conveyor belt 9 disposed between the rotating tray storage rack 7 and the blood product outlet 3. The rotating tray conveyor belt 9 transports the rotating trays out of the blood product outlet 3 so that the blood products can be transported by the blood product transfer device to the labeling machine 2 outside the bank for labeling.

[0032] The bagged blood products awaiting inspection are loaded onto a turnover tray and enter the blood bank in tray units. The bagged blood products are arranged on the turnover tray, making it easy for the collaborative robot to pick them up one by one and transfer them to the labeling machine, which improves the efficiency of operation and ensures the temperature safety of the blood products.

[0033] The turntable transfer device also includes a turntable mobile robot, which is used to transfer the turntable between the turntable storage rack 7 and the turntable conveyor belt 9.

[0034] The blood bank 1 also includes a turntable inlet 10, and the turntable mobile robot will transfer the turntable sent from the turntable inlet to the turntable storage rack 7.

[0035] The rotating pallet moving robot can be, for example, a robotic arm, an industrial robot, or any other device capable of picking up and placing pallets within a certain range. In this embodiment, the rotating pallet moving robot is a pallet-carrying robot 11 that can move along a guide rail 22. Both sides of the guide rail 22 are provided with rotating pallet storage racks 7, allowing the rotating pallet moving robot to pick up and place pallets from the storage racks 7 on both sides. The rotating pallet conveyor belt 9 extends from the storage racks 7 to the blood product outlet 3. A rotating pallet inlet 10 is located on the side wall of the blood bank 1. The rotating pallet moving robot can receive pallets fed in from the inlet and then place them on the storage racks 7 or the conveyor belt 9.

[0036] The blood bank 1 is provided with an outbound workbench 12 corresponding to the blood product outlet 3. The end of the turntable conveyor belt 9 extends out of the blood product outlet 3 and is adjacent to the outbound workbench 12, so that the turntable conveyor belt 9 can transport the turntable carrying the unlabeled blood products through the blood product outlet 3 to the outbound workbench 12.

[0037] The blood product conveying device includes a single-bag blood product receiving module located between the labeling machine 2 and the blood product inlet 4. The single-bag blood product receiving module is an receiving conveyor belt 13, which is used to convey the labeled blood products from the labeling machine 2 to the blood product inlet 4. The blood products are bagged blood products 24. The packaging module includes a blood product cartoning machine located between the labeling module and the blood product outlet 3, and a packaging box hopper 15 provided with packaging boxes for the blood product cartoning machine. The packaging box hopper 15 is located at the rear end of the labeling module. The blood product cartoning machine is a collaborative robot 14. The collaborative robot 14 picks up the packaging boxes from the packaging box hopper 15 and places them on the feeding platform of the labeling machine 2. Then, it puts the bagged blood products 24 into the packaging boxes to form boxed blood products. The labeling machine 2 then affixes a label to the packaging boxes. The labeled boxed blood products then enter the blood bank 1 via the receiving conveyor belt 13. The labeling machine 2 has a feeding platform and a labeling module conveyor belt 25, which can send the boxed blood products into the labeling machine for labeling.

[0038] The blood product inlet and the sorting station are connected by a turnover basket conveyor belt 26. That is, the turnover basket conveyor belt is located between the warehouse conveyor belt and the sorting station. The warehouse conveyor belt transports the blood products to the turnover basket conveyor belt, and then the turnover basket conveyor belt transports the blood products to the sorting station.

[0039] After being labeled, the blood products are stored in turnover baskets in the blood bank 1. The blood bank 1 is equipped with a blood product sorting device corresponding to the blood product inlet 4. The blood product sorting device loads the labeled blood products into the corresponding turnover baskets, for example, different blood types are sorted into different blood baskets.

[0040] The blood sorting device includes a sorting table 17 corresponding to the blood inlet 4 and a crating robot 18. The end of the inbound conveyor belt 13 extends into the blood inlet 4 and is adjacent to the sorting table 17, thereby conveying the labeled boxed blood products to the sorting table 17.

[0041] The blood bank 1 is also equipped with a turnover basket storage rack 19 and a turnover basket transfer device. The turnover basket transfer device includes a turnover basket picking and placing device, which transfers the turnover basket between the sorting table 17 and the turnover basket storage rack 19. The basket loading robot 18 loads the blood products on the sorting table 17 into the turnover basket.

[0042] An image recognition device can be set up to work with the crate-packing robot 18. The image recognition device is used to identify different information on the blood bags, such as blood type information. The crate-packing robot 18 sorts different blood products into different blood baskets according to the information identified by the image recognition device.

[0043] The turnover basket operation area 6 is equipped with turnover basket storage racks on both sides, and guide rails 22 are provided between the turnover basket storage racks on both sides. The turnover basket picking and placing device is a turnover basket mobile robot 20 that can move automatically along the guide rails 22. The sorting table 17 is located below the turnover basket storage racks.

[0044] The blood bank 1 also includes a turnover basket outlet 23, and the turnover basket transfer device further includes a turnover basket conveying device for conveying the turnover baskets from the turnover basket outlet to outside the bank. The turnover basket conveying device is, for example, a turnover basket conveyor belt 21 connected between the turnover basket storage rack 19 and the turnover basket outlet 23. The basket retrieval robot places the turnover basket containing blood products onto the turnover basket conveyor belt, and the turnover basket conveyor belt removes the labeled blood products from the bank in the form of whole baskets.

[0045] In this embodiment, the outlet 23 of the turnover basket is located on the side wall of the blood bank 1, above the sorting table 17 and the turnover basket storage rack. The turnover tray conveyor belt 9 can pass between the turnover basket storage racks 19.

[0046] One application scenario is that when labeling of blood products in the warehouse is required, the pallet-carrying robot 11 moves the pallet containing bagged blood products 24 from the pallet storage rack 7 to the pallet conveyor belt 9. The pallet conveyor belt 9 then delivers the pallet to the outbound workbench 12 outside the warehouse. The collaborative robot 14 picks up the packaging boxes from the packaging box hopper 15 and places them on the feeding table of the labeling and packaging machine. Then, the bagged blood products 24 are placed into the boxes, the packaging boxes containing the bagged blood products 24 are labeled, and then the packaging boxes are sent to the inbound conveyor belt. The conveyor belt 13 enters the cold storage and arrives at the sorting table 17. At the same time, the turnover basket mobile robot 20 picks up several empty baskets from the turnover basket storage rack 19 in the warehouse and sends them to the sorting table 17. The packing robot 18 packs the blood boxes (bags) sent by the box conveyor belt into different baskets according to blood type, completing the sorting and packing operation. The turnover baskets carrying the sorted blood boxes are either sent to the turnover basket storage rack 19 for storage or exited from the turnover basket outlet 23 through the turnover basket conveyor belt 21.

[0047] Another application scenario is that the packaging box hopper 15 is placed in another location. After the turnover tray containing blood products is released from the warehouse, the collaborative robot 14 puts the blood products onto the material dispensing table of the labeling and packaging machine. The subsequent actions are the same as described above, except that the boxing step is omitted.

[0048] Those skilled in the art should understand that the core innovation of this embodiment lies in the layout of the various modules of the blood bank 1 equipment, thereby forming a blood product processing line that avoids manual intervention and improves operational efficiency. It does not lie in the modification of any specific piece of equipment, but in the layout and coordination of these devices to improve efficiency. The equipment used can be commercially available products, such as conveyor belts, labeling machines 2, robotic arms, and robots, as long as they can perform the corresponding operations on the materials. There are no special requirements, as these are mature technologies, and their principles and structures will not be elaborated here. Simply purchasing commercially available products is sufficient.

[0049] The specific embodiments described herein are merely illustrative examples illustrating the spirit of this utility model. Those skilled in the art to which this utility model pertains may make various modifications or additions to the described specific embodiments or use similar methods to replace them, without departing from the spirit of this utility model or exceeding the scope defined by the appended claims.

Claims

1. A blood product processing line, comprising a blood bank and a labeling and packaging mechanism, characterized in that, The blood bank has a turnover tray operation area and a turnover basket operation area. Each operation area has an entrance and an exit. The turnover basket operation area also has a sorting table. The labeling and packaging mechanism labels and repackages the blood products from the turnover tray operation area. Then, the labeled and packaged blood products are sent into the turnover basket operation area bag by bag, and sorted and packed into baskets on the automatic sorting table.

2. The blood product processing line according to claim 1, characterized in that, The turntable operation area includes a turntable inlet, a turntable storage rack, a turntable mobile robot, a turntable conveyor belt, and a blood product outlet; the turntable basket operation area includes a blood product inlet, a turntable basket storage rack, a turntable basket mobile robot, a turntable basket conveyor belt, a sorting table, and a turntable basket outlet, with the inlet and outlet located on the facade of the warehouse.

3. The blood product processing line according to claim 1, characterized in that, The labeling and packaging mechanism is located outside the warehouse, with its first end connected to the blood product outlet of the turnover tray operation area and its last end connected to the blood product inlet of the turnover basket operation area.

4. The blood product processing line according to claim 2, characterized in that, The labeling and packaging mechanism includes a collaborative robot, a labeling module, a packaging module, and a blood product single-bag warehousing module, wherein the blood product single-bag warehousing module is connected to the turnover basket conveyor belt in the turnover basket operation area.

5. The blood product processing line according to claim 4, characterized in that, A blood product outbound workbench is set up outside the blood bank and is connected to the exit of the turnover tray operation area. It is used to outbound the turnover tray containing unlabeled blood. The blood product outbound workbench is connected to the first end of the labeling and packaging mechanism.

6. The blood product processing line according to claim 5, characterized in that, A collaborative robot and a packaging box hopper are set between the labeling module and the outbound workbench. The collaborative robot loads the blood products from the turnover tray on the outbound workbench into packaging boxes, and then places the boxed blood products onto the conveyor belt of the labeling module.

7. The blood product processing line according to claim 6, characterized in that, The packaging box hopper is located at the rear end of the labeling module. After the blood products are labeled, they are then placed into the packaging box.

8. The blood product processing line according to claim 2, characterized in that, The robotic arm on the sorting table loads the blood products from the conveyor belt into the turnover baskets according to blood type. The turnover basket mobile robot then delivers the turnover baskets containing the blood products to the shelf or out of the warehouse through the turnover basket outlet.

9. The blood product processing line according to claim 1, characterized in that, The turnover tray work area and the turnover basket work area are arranged in a front-to-back manner, parallel to each other, or perpendicular to each other.

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