Pivoting Adapter for Medical Container Loading
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Solution Overview
Problem
Dosing machines for medications face downtime due to the need to load new medical containers between batches, and the varying shapes and sizes of containers complicate automation of the dosing process.
Innovation Solution
A device comprising an adaptor for medical containers with pivoting and clipping means, which allows quick and easy loading onto a support attached to the dosing machine, ensuring the dosing point is consistently positioned, facilitating automation.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If different shapes and sizes of medical containers are used, then versatility is improved, but positioning precision of the dosing point deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an adapter as an intermediary component between the diverse medical containers and the dosing machine. The adapter standardizes the interface and positioning mechanism, allowing containers of different shapes and sizes to be accommodated while maintaining precise dosing point positioning through the adapter's unified coupling structure.
Solution Approach 2:
The system is segmented into three distinct components: the medical container, the adapter, and the dosing machine. This segmentation allows the adapter to serve as a universal interface that handles the variability of container types while presenting a consistent, precise interface to the dosing machine, thereby resolving the conflict between versatility and positioning precision.
2Productivity
If manual loading of medical containers is used, then device complexity is reduced, but productivity deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The loading mechanism incorporates dynamic elements including pivoting adapters that can rotate into position and clipping means that engage through motion. These dynamic features enable rapid container exchange without requiring complex automated handling systems, achieving high loading speed with moderate device complexity.
3Loss of time
If quick loading mechanism is implemented, then downtime is reduced, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The pivoting and clipping functions are merged into a single integrated adapter assembly. The adapter simultaneously performs positioning through pivoting and securing through clipping, reducing the number of separate mechanisms required and minimizing downtime without proportionally increasing overall device complexity.
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AI summary
Device for loading medical containers in dosing machines, adapter for the containers, support for the adapters and use thereof. Device for loading medical containers on dosing machines, which comprises an adaptor for medical containers and a support for said adaptor, in which the support comprises attachment means to the dosing machine and in which said adaptor and said support comprise means for pivoting relative to one another and means for clipping to each other, said means being arranged in such a way that the pivoting of the adaptor and of the support by means of the pivoting means produces the clipping together of the adaptor and the support; and uses thereof and of the components thereof.