Interconnected Medical Bag Cassettes for Collective Handling
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current medical bag handling systems face challenges in efficiently managing multiple medical bags during processes like buffy coat pooling, leading to complex workflows and space inefficiencies due to the lack of a cohesive handling system for multiple cassettes.
Innovation Solution
A medical bag handling system featuring interconnected medical bag holding cassettes with a connecting mechanism that allows for easy assembly and layering, enabling collective handling and reducing space requirements, utilizing engaging and protruding portions for secure attachment.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If multiple cassettes are individually hung from the hanging tool, then each medical bag can be handled separately, but work becomes complicated and workability decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent connects multiple cassettes together to form an integrated assembly, allowing them to be handled as a single unit. The connecting means enables cassettes to be linked sequentially, so that operations such as hanging, transferring, or processing can be performed on multiple medical bags simultaneously rather than individually, thereby simplifying the workflow and improving ease of operation.
2Ease of operation
If multiple cassettes are individually arranged, then each medical bag is accessible, but a larger workspace is required
Solution Approach 1:
The patent arranges multiple cassettes in a linear sequence along one dimension by connecting them through the connecting means, rather than spreading them out across a two-dimensional workspace. This dimensional reorganization allows multiple medical bags to be accessed in a compact linear arrangement, reducing the overall workspace area required while maintaining accessibility through the connected structure.
3Area of stationary object
If cassettes are connected in a linear arrangement, then space is saved and collective handling is enabled, but the connecting structure must be simple yet effective
Solution Approach 1:
The connecting means is designed as a separate, modular component that can be independently manufactured and then assembled between cassettes. This segmentation allows the connecting structure to be produced using simple processes and then attached to standard cassettes, reducing the complexity of manufacturing the overall system while still achieving the space-saving linear arrangement and collective handling capabilities.
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AI summary
A medical bag handling system (10) includes a plurality of cassettes (16) capable of holding bags for blood (14), and connecting means (32) capable of connecting one cassette (16) and another cassette (16). Accordingly, the cassettes (16) can be easily connected, and the plurality of bags for blood (14) supported by the respective cassettes (16) can be collectively handled.