76 results about "Animal cage" patented technology

An animal cage comprises a base and an upper cover, wherein a front side panel, a rear side panel, a left side panel and a right side panel are arranged between the base and the upper cover; the front side panel comprises a first side panel and a second side panel; the rear side panel comprises a third side panel and a fourth side panel; the upper ends of the left side panel and the right side panel are movably connected to the upper cover respectively, and the lower ends are detachably connected to the front side panel and the rear side panel through connecting pieces; the front side panel, the rear side panel, the left side panel and the right side panel can all be folded inwards. The animal cage has the advantages of convenient folding and rapid unfolding.

The invention is a smart crate that includes a variety of improved features to promote safety and peace for both the pet and owner. Specifically, the disclosed crate includes smart technology with a remote monitoring system that allows a user to view, hear, and / or communicate with an animal positioned within the crate. Accordingly, pet and owner anxiety is thereby reduced or eliminated. The crate also includes improved safety features, such as an automatic locking element that allows a user to remotely open and close the crate door. In this way, the animal is allowed to exit the crate interior, such as in the case of an emergency.

An improvement for an animal cage is disclosed. The animal cage may include a first, second, third and fourth vertical wall, each of which is connected to a floor on a first end and includes a top rim opposite to the first end. The improvement includes a support structure and a removable divider. The support structure includes at least one slot, is positioned above the floor and may be connected adjacent to the top rim of the first and second vertical walls. The removable divider is inserted into the slot and extends vertically away from the floor. A snap-fit connection detachably connects the divider to the support structure.

The application relates to an animal cage and an animal imaging system. The animal cage is used for carrying an animal to be scanned into a scanning channel, one end of the animal cage is connected with a scanning bed, and the other end is provided with a stabilizing assembly. The stabilizing assembly comprises a base, a driving member and a plurality of supporting members. The base is fixedly arranged on the animal cage. The supporting members are slidingly connected along the radial direction of the base, and the supporting members are uniformly distributed along the circumferential direction of the base. The driving member is arranged on the base and is movably connected with each supporting member, and is used for driving each supporting member to synchronously slide along the radial direction of the base. When each supporting member is expanded, the stabilizing assembly can abut against and press the inner wall of the scanning channel, can finely adjust the animal cage, can improve the coincidence degree of the axis of the animal cage and the axis of the scanning channel, and can center the animal cage.

An animal enclosure including a plurality of members defining an interior of the enclosure. The plurality of members includes a first member having a frame and a door formed by a plurality of interconnected horizontal and vertical wires. The door is pivotable with respect to the frame and a latch maintains the door in a closed position when latched. At least one of the wires of the door assembly is configured to include one of an access portion and a tab, and at least one of the wires of the frame assembly includes the other of the access portion and the tab. The latch, when moved to an open position, enables sliding movement of the door with respect to the frame. Alignment of the access portion and tab provides for opening of the door and pivoting movement of the door with respect to the frame.

Apparatuses, systems, and methods for the collection and sampling of agents (including organisms and pathogens) to determine the health of an animal colony. A collection media is configured to collect a sample from a target animal, such as a mouse or rat. The collected sample may include dust, feces, fur, urine, saliva, or other aspect of the target animal's environment.

The invention discloses an animal laboratory cage position demand prediction system and method based on the Internet of Things, and the system comprises a data set construction module which is used for constructing a cage position occupation state data set containing a timestamp through the utilization of cage position occupation state data collected by RFID electronic tags installed on all cage positions; the data preprocessing module is used for obtaining a standardized sequence of cage occupation states; the model construction module is used for constructing a prediction model of a fusion attention mechanism by using the attention weighting sequence and the determined difference order, autoregression order and moving average order; the prediction output module is used for executing reasoning calculation through the verified prediction model to obtain a cage position demand prediction value of a future set period; the system can capture and accurately predict the dynamic occupation rule and the future demand trend of the experimental animal cage position in real time, and provides effective guarantee for the optimal configuration of resources and the efficient connection of scientific research tasks in the laboratory management process.

This utility model relates to a tooling for animal cage production, comprising: a bending platform with a preset number of through holes, the through holes penetrating the bending platform; a first bending mechanism including a support platform and a first bending body, the first bending body being mounted on the support platform and the support platform being mounted on the bending platform; a second bending mechanism including a connecting rod, a first connecting member, and a second connecting member, the connecting rod being fixedly connected to the second connecting member, the first connecting member and the second connecting member being fixedly connected together; the connecting rod being adapted to the through holes on the bending platform; a straight column being provided on the bending platform, the straight column being fixedly connected to the bending platform; a first gap being present between the first bending body of the first bending mechanism and the straight column, and a second gap being present between the connecting rod of the second bending mechanism and the straight column, wherein the size of the first gap is variable and the size of the second gap is variable.

The utility model relates to the technical field of machin fixing instruments, in particular to a machin cage inner head fixing tool which comprises a rod body, a pipe sleeve used for connection is integrally constructed on the surface of the bottom end of the rod body, a stud is installed in the pipe sleeve in a screwed mode, and a ring body used for fixing the head of a machin is integrally constructed at the end, away from the pipe sleeve, of the stud. When the cynomolgus monkey is examined and treated, firstly, the cynomolgus monkey cage can be used for fixing the cynomolgus monkey, the rod body is taken through the handle, the ring body at the bottom of the rod body can correspond to the head of the cynomolgus monkey, and the ring body is similar to a circle, so that the contact area with the head of the cynomolgus monkey can be increased, and fixing is firmer; the body and the head of the cynomolgus monkey can be fixed at the same time in cooperation with the animal limiting and fixing function of the animal cage, meanwhile, the stud on the outer side of the ring body is screwed with the pipe sleeve at the bottom of the rod body, the ring body can be conveniently disassembled and assembled, and the ring body of the corresponding specification can be conveniently replaced for use according to the specification of the cynomolgus monkey.

An animal rack system includes an animal monitoring assembly. The animal monitoring assembly includes a study region configured to receive an animal cage, a first emitter panel including a first two-dimensional array of first emitters, and a first receiver panel including a first two-dimensional array of first receivers. The first emitter panel and the first receiver panel are disposed on opposing sides of the study region. The first emitters are configured to emit first beams, and the first receivers are configured to receive emitted first beams from corresponding first emitters. The first receivers are further configured to generate first signals indicative of whether the first receivers received the emitted first beams. The animal monitoring assembly further includes a console configured to process the first signals to track an activity of a subject in the study region.

The invention relates to the technical field of cleaning room robots, and discloses a robot full-automatic cleaning control method and system for a barrier experimental animal cage box. The method comprises the following steps that a starting instruction is responded, a feeding module is controlled to feed, and the feeding state is detected; if yes, an instruction is generated, and the mechanical arm operation module moves to the corresponding position; detecting and scanning the cage box, and clamping and dumping the cage box if the cage box needs to be cleaned; after dumping, the scraping module is aligned and controlled to clean the inner wall, and a scraping completion instruction is generated; and the mechanical arm puts the cage box into the cage washing machine, new material filling is carried out in response to a washing completion instruction, and finally the filled cage box is moved to the discharging module. According to the method, full-process automation of cage box cleaning is achieved, workers do not need to enter and exit from a clean area frequently, secondary pollution is avoided, the environment stability is guaranteed, the cleaning efficiency is improved, dirt can be cleaned more thoroughly, and the experimental sample pollution probability is reduced.

The invention discloses a method for detecting mouse bronchial Bordetella by using a qPCR (quantitative polymerase chain reaction) technology instead of a traditional sacrificial sentinel mouse, and a specific primer and probe combination comprises a forward primer sequence: 5 '-CGTTGTCGGCTTTCGTCTG-3', as shown in SEQ ID NO.1; the sequence of a reverse primer is 5 '-ACTATACGTCGGAAATCTGTTTG-3', and the sequence of the reverse primer is as shown in SEQ ID NO. 2; and a probe sequence: 5 '-FAM-CGGGCCGATAGTCAGGGCGTAG-BHQ1-3', and the probe sequence is as shown in SEQ ID NO. 3. The method disclosed by the invention has the beneficial effects that an analysis method suitable for detecting the bronchial Bordetella in the animal cage environment sample is established, the bronchial Bordetella in the environment sample can be rapidly and accurately detected and quantified by the method, and a technical support is provided for pathogen pollution control.

The present disclosure relates to an animal monitoring system (100) for an animal cage, the animal monitoring system (100) comprising: a physical platform divided into a grid of cells (106) wherein each cell (106) comprises at least one weighing sensor (108); an animal identification system; a processing unit configured to: identify at least one animal on the physical platform using the animal identification system; continuously obtaining a load signal from the load cell (108); the identified position and / or change in position of the at least one animal on the physical platform is tracked based on the load signal from the weighing sensor (108). The present disclosure also relates to a method of investigating an animal in an animal cage.

This invention relates to a multifunctional stainless steel animal cage, belonging to the field of animal cage technology. It includes a cage frame with cage mesh on all six sides. An extrusion mesh is slidably installed inside the cage frame, dividing it into two variable-space chambers. Chain drive mechanisms are symmetrically arranged on the left and right sides of the cage frame, and the cage frame is fixedly connected to the conveyor chain of the chain drive mechanism via a frame connecting plate. A drive shaft is rotatably connected to the rear chamber of the cage frame, with a drive helical gear meshing with a drive helical gear mounted on the shaft, and a drive bevel gear installed at the end of the drive shaft. This invention restricts the animal's movement by changing the activity space within the cage, facilitating capture and reducing the difficulty of capture. This invention can precisely control the movement distance of the extrusion mesh, preventing the animal from pushing the mesh backwards and avoiding injury to the animal during transmission.

A method for animal identification and tracking includes, during a dark cycle: illuminating an interior of an animal cage with light outside of a visible light range; and capturing a first image of the interior of the animal cage. The method also includes: detecting a first identification tag in the first image; extracting a first set of tag features from the first image; identifying a first animal identifier of a first animal, tagged with the first identification tag, based on the first set of tag features; interpreting a first animal position of the first animal occupying the animal cage based on the first image; appending a cage log with the first animal identifier, a first timestamp corresponding to a time of capture of the first image, and the first animal position.

The present invention relates to an animal cage comprising a rigid seal for a junction between two walls of said cage, and a method for manufacturing such a rigid seal. Figure for the abstract: Fig. 1

The utility model relates to the technical field of animal experiment equipment, in particular to an experimental animal metabolite collecting device which comprises a supporting table, an animal cage is fixedly installed on the top of the supporting table through screws, a supporting plate is fixedly installed in the supporting table, and a plurality of first square holes are formed in the supporting plate. A metabolite collecting frame is slidably inserted into the supporting table, an excrement collecting frame is slidably inserted into the metabolite collecting frame, a funnel is fixedly installed on the supporting table, guide rails are fixedly installed on the two sides of the bottom of the funnel, the funnel is located below the excrement collecting frame, and a urine collecting frame is slidably inserted into the supporting table and located at the bottom of the funnel. According to the utility model, animal metabolites enter the excrement collecting frame through the first square hole, excrement is left in the excrement collecting frame, urine enters the urine collecting frame through the second square hole, the excrement and the urine are collected separately, and subsequent research is facilitated.

An improved lid for a small animal enclosure is disclosed. To supply liquid to an interior of the animal enclosure, the disclosed lid may include a receptacle feature configured to accommodate, in a first instance, a bottle and, in a second instance, a soft-bodied container. The disclosed lid also may include one or more bottle retention features configured to facilitate retention of a bottle within the receptacle feature. The disclosed lid further may include a ramp feature adjoining the receptacle feature such that a bottom of the ramp feature transitions to an interior of the receptacle feature. The ramp feature may be configured to have at least a portion of a soft-bodied container laid thereon and to direct (e.g., funnel) liquid contents thereof to the receptacle feature.

The present application belongs to the technical field of animal room ventilation, and discloses an animal cage ventilation device, a ventilation system and a method for an animal room. The animal cage ventilation device comprises a supply air jet integrated in the side of the animal cage, an upper foldable metal plate and a lower foldable metal plate; the supply air jet is internally provided with two horizontal hole plates, and the internal space is divided into three cavities. One side of the upper cavity is connected with an air inlet hose, and communicates with the upper foldable metal plate; the lower cavity is connected with the lower foldable metal plate. The upper cavity is further provided with a vertical hole plate, and is subdivided into two cavities. The contaminated gas generated by the animal cage and the lower manure tank is discharged through the exhaust short pipe on the side of the manure tank and the exhaust hose, and the inner side of the device is provided with an air outlet hole plate. The supply air jet is flexibly installed on the side wall of the animal cage through a sliding mechanism. The present application can adapt to different sizes of experimental animals, supply air to the breathing area to improve air quality, and can also reduce the air volume and load of the air conditioning system of the animal room, thereby solving the problem of high energy consumption.

The utility model relates to the technical field of experimental animal cage ventilation, in particular to an automatic ventilation cleaning device of an experimental animal cage. The cage comprises a supporting frame and a cage body, a fixing groove is formed in the surface of the inner wall of the supporting frame, the cage body is connected with the bottom face of the inner wall of the fixing groove in a clamped mode, two ventilation pipes are arranged on one side of the supporting frame, butt joints are fixedly communicated with the surfaces of the ventilation pipes, and the two ends of one side of the cage body are fixedly communicated with an air inlet pipe and an air outlet pipe respectively. An adjusting mechanism is arranged at the position, corresponding to the air inlet pipe, of the upper end surface of the cage body and comprises an inlaying frame. The experimental animal cage solves the problems that when an experimental animal cage is operated and used, due to the fact that a common experimental animal cage is usually in a closed environment, air in the cage can be cleaned and ventilated by means of ventilation cleaning equipment, meanwhile, conveyed air is filtered by means of a filter plate, and due to long-time use, the experimental animal cage cannot be used for a long time. And the problem that the filter pad is inconvenient to replace and limit is solved.

The utility model relates to the technical field of veterinary examination, in particular to a veterinary examination and treatment animal cage which comprises an animal cage body, a temperature detector, an extension bin and a kettle, a small liquid storage barrel and the temperature detector are arranged on the two sides of the top of the animal cage body respectively, and nozzles are arranged on the top in the animal cage body. An ultraviolet disinfection lamp tube is arranged at the top of one side of the inner wall of the animal cage body, a drying machine is arranged on the outer side of the animal cage body, and an extension bin is installed at the bottom of the animal cage body through a reserved opening and bolts; the front side of the animal cage body is connected with a cage door through a rotating shaft, and an observation window and a kettle are arranged on the surface of the cage door. After the L-shaped clamping block and the clamping groove are mutually clamped, the kettle is fixed by rotating the tightening bolt, the kettle can be quickly assembled, water drinking of animals is not affected, and meanwhile, a worker can conveniently replace clean water.

A molecular imaging system for imaging of an awake and freely moving small animal includes a cuboid animal cage for one or more small animals and an enclosure for receiving the animal cage. The cuboid animal cage and the enclosure are transparent to the radiation emitted by the animal. At least part of the animal cage is transparent to light. A detector assembly including multiple molecular imaging detectors immediately surrounds the enclosure for detecting radiation emitted by the small animal. The molecular imaging detectors and the enclosure cover at least three sides of the cuboid animal cage in a U-shaped manner. A motion tracking system for optical tracking of position and orientation of the animal with optical detectors synchronizes movement and molecular images. A computation unit processes data registered by the detector assembly and the motion tracking system.

The invention discloses an experimental animal cage environment detection and analysis method and device, is applied to the technical field of gas detection, and is used for solving the problems that in the prior art, an existing intrusive detection scheme interferes with animals, and due to the fact that multiple environment interferences cannot be corrected, the accuracy and reliability of gas concentration are poor. The method specifically comprises the following steps: determining multiple correction coefficients including an environmental parameter correction coefficient, a sensor aging correction coefficient, an airflow velocity correction coefficient and an air chamber structure correction coefficient based on calibration data, working attenuation data and flow velocity data of a sensor and structural parameters of a detection environment; collecting a gas sample from a gas outlet of the experimental animal cage box; detecting the gas sample to obtain original detection data; correcting the original detection data based on multiple correction coefficients to obtain target detection data; through non-interference gas sample acquisition and multi-dimensional correction of original detection data, the accuracy and reliability of gas concentration and temperature and humidity detection are improved.

A cage orienting apparatus for use in an object cleaning and filling system includes a first conveyor device; a second conveyor device; and a rotating mechanism, operatively connected to the first conveyor device and the second conveyor device, configured to rotate the first conveyor device and the second conveyor device 180°. The first conveyor device and the second conveyor device being positioned such that the first conveyor device and the second conveyor device are substantially parallel.

The utility model relates to a kind of IVC animal cage convenient to clean, it includes: cage box;Partition, the partition is installed in the cage box, and the cage box is divided into upper feeding area and lower excretion area, and mesh is arranged on the partition with interval;Excretion box, the excretion box is movably inserted in the excretion area.The utility model convenient to clean IVC animal cage simple structure, the interior space of cage is divided into upper feeding area and lower excretion area by partition, excretion box is inserted in lower excretion area, excrement generated by feeding animal falls in lower excretion box by partition, when needing cleaning, directly excretion box is extracted and cleaned, it need not open cage and clean, cleaning is convenient and fast, improve the efficiency of cleaning, simultaneously there is no cleaning dead angle, excrement, urine cannot be left in cage box.

An animal enclosure assembly includes a plurality of members including at least a first member, a second member, a third member, and a fourth member. The first member, second member, third member, and fourth member are at least partially formed by a plurality of interconnected first plurality and second plurality of wires. The animal enclosure assembly also includes a door assembly movably coupled to one of the plurality of members and releasably coupled to another of the plurality of members. Each of the plurality of members includes a support frame formed by a plurality of support frame members. At least one support frame member has a first end and a second end such that the first end defines an opening configured to receive an end of another enclosure assembly and the second end forms a peg.

The utility model relates to the field of animal transport equipment, in particular to a living animal transport vehicle, at least two placement frames are arranged in a transport cabin of the living animal transport vehicle at intervals, each placement frame comprises at least one placement plate, and the placement plates are arranged in the horizontal direction and divide the interior of the transport cabin into a plurality of placement layers in the vertical direction; the mounting position of the placement plate on the placement frame is adjustable in the vertical direction; for animals which are small in size and suitable for being caged, the height of the placement layers can be reduced, animal cages can be placed on the placement frames as many as possible, and the placement frames are arranged at intervals, so that workers can walk and assemble and disassemble the animal cages conveniently; for animals which are large in size and not suitable for being caged, the placement frame in the transportation cabin can be detached, so that the animals are loaded in the transportation cabin, the placement frame is adjusted according to factors such as the size habits of the animals, the number of the animals capable of being loaded in the transportation cabin can be increased as much as possible, the transportation efficiency is improved, and the cost is reduced.

The utility model discloses a feeding box convenient for animal cage changing, which belongs to the technical field of animal cages and comprises vertical plates and partition plates, sliding rails are arranged on opposite side surfaces of the vertical plates, the partition plates are slidably connected with the vertical plates through the sliding rails, a movable groove is arranged on the vertical plate on the rear side, an L-shaped positioning rod is slidably connected in the movable groove, and the L-shaped positioning rod is movably connected with the partition plates through the sliding rails. The L-shaped positioning rods are sleeved with springs, the two ends of the springs are fixedly connected with the inner walls of the movable grooves and the L-shaped positioning rods respectively, inserting grooves are formed in the partition plates, the L-shaped positioning rods are pulled out of the inserting grooves, positioning of the partition plates is relieved, the partition plates can be pulled out, a channel is formed between the feeding box body and the cage changing box, and therefore mice can be transferred into the cage changing box. After transferring is completed, the partition plates are put down, when the inserting grooves are aligned with the L-shaped positioning rods again, the pull blocks are loosened, the springs can drive the L-shaped positioning rods to be inserted into the inserting grooves again to position the partition plates, researchers do not need to manually change the cages of the mice through the structure, cage changing is convenient, and safety is high.