Automatic compounding machine for food and medicine preparation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing methods for converting solid food and drugs into liquid suspensions are inefficient and time-consuming, leading to inaccurate dosing and difficulties for populations with swallowing issues, such as children, the elderly, and critically ill patients.
Innovation Solution
An automatic compounding machine equipped with an automatic powder dropping module, water filling module, and a bottle holder with drive motors and magnetic blocks, which mixes and stirs solid food, tablets, or capsules with special powders and pure water to create a liquid suspension, ensuring accurate dosing and efficient preparation.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If manual operation is used to convert solid food and drugs to liquid suspensions, then the process is simple, but it is inefficient and time-consuming
Solution Approach 1:
The compounding machine is divided into multiple functional modules: powder dropping module, water filling module, mixing module, and control module. Each module performs a specific function, allowing the system to process multiple operations simultaneously and efficiently convert solid food and drugs into liquid suspensions without requiring complex integrated mechanisms.
Solution Approach 2:
The machine automatically measures, dispenses, and mixes ingredients without continuous manual intervention. The control system autonomously manages the compounding process, reducing the need for operator skill and minimizing manual labor while maintaining high preparation efficiency.
2Measurement precision
If manual grinding is used for tablets or capsules, then the equipment is simple, but the dosing is inaccurate and results in dose loss
Solution Approach 1:
The system replaces manual grinding with an automatic mixing mechanism that uses magnetic blocks to rotate and mix ingredients in a bottle. This mechanical substitution eliminates the imprecision and material loss associated with manual grinding while maintaining simplicity.
Solution Approach 2:
A magnetic stirring bar serves as an intermediary element that transfers rotational motion from the magnetic blocks to the liquid suspension, ensuring thorough and uniform mixing without direct mechanical contact with the bottle contents, thereby preventing dose loss.
3Adaptability or versatility
If solid food or drugs are provided in traditional form, then the preparation is simple, but populations with swallowing difficulties cannot consume them
Solution Approach 1:
The machine changes the physical state parameter of the food or drug from solid to liquid suspension form. This parameter transformation makes the substance consumable for populations with swallowing difficulties while preserving the nutritional or medicinal content, achieving adaptability without significantly increasing operational complexity.
Applied Scientific Principles
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Function Achieved in This Case
Facilitates the conversion of solid food and drugs into liquid suspensions efficiently, saving time and effort while ensuring accurate dosing, making it easier for populations with swallowing difficulties to consume medications and food.
Implementation Method 1
the drive shaft of the first drive motor is provided with a first mounting plate, and the first mounting plate is provided with two magnetic blocks at intervals
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AI summary
The present invention presents an automatic compounding machine for food and medicine and relates to the technical field of food and medicine preparation. An automatic compounding machine for food and medicine, including a hatch, the hatch is provided with an automatic powder dropping module for feeding special powder, an automatic water filling module for feeding water, and a bottle holder for supporting a mixing bottle; the bottle holder is provided with a first drive motor, and the drive shaft of the first drive motor is provided with a first mounting plate, and the first mounting plate is provided with two magnetic blocks at intervals. The present invention can be used for mixing and stirring the contents of solid food, tablets or capsules with special powders and pure water into a liquid suspension, thus facilitating the taking of solid food or drugs, and the accurate dosing division of drugs, saving time and effort with high preparation efficiency.