Removable Loading Device for Medical Containers
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Solution Overview
Problem
The process of loading medical containers into medical product preparation machines is slow and difficult, especially when handling batches, due to the need for individual adapters and manual handling, which increases operator effort and reduces efficiency.
Innovation Solution
A medical product preparation machine equipped with a worktop featuring removable devices with L-shaped claws and protruding teeth for secure fastening, allowing containers to be loaded without individual supports and facilitating batch loading, ensuring correct fastening during filling by robotic means.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If individual adapters and manual handling are used for loading containers, then each container can be securely fastened, but the loading process becomes slow and operator effort increases
Solution Approach 1:
Multiple individual adapters are merged into a single removable device that can hold multiple containers simultaneously. This device includes a support structure with multiple adapter positions and fastening mechanisms that can secure all containers at once, transforming a sequential manual process into a single operational step that maintains security while dramatically improving loading speed.
Solution Approach 2:
The loading system is segmented into a removable device that can be detached and repositioned. This device contains its own integrated fastening mechanisms that can be quickly engaged and disengaged as a unit, allowing operators to load multiple containers into the removable device outside the machine and then install the entire device at once, reducing the number of individual fastening operations required.
2Reliability
If individual adapters are used for each container type, then correct fastening is ensured, but the device complexity and number of components increase
Solution Approach 1:
The removable device is designed with universal compatibility to accommodate multiple container types through a standardized interface. The support structure includes adjustable or interchangeable adapter elements that can be configured for different container geometries, allowing a single removable device to replace multiple specialized adapters while maintaining correct fastening for each container type.
3Manufacturing precision
If containers are placed one at a time on adapters, then proper positioning is achieved, but the loading time increases significantly
Solution Approach 1:
Multiple containers are pre-positioned on the removable device's support structure before being installed in the machine. The removable device allows operators to load and position all containers in advance outside the machine's constrained workspace, then install the entire pre-loaded device as a single unit, achieving proper positioning for all containers simultaneously while dramatically reducing the time spent inside the machine's loading zone.
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AI summary
A machine is for the preparation of medical product. The machine includes a worktop for receiving containers. The worktop includes a series of holes for the introduction into each of them of an injection point belonging to a medical container to be filled. The holes give access to an interior of the machine, so that the injection points of the medical containers remain inside for their filling by the machine. The machine includes a removable device for loading medical containers into the machine. The removable device includes housings for the medical containers and detachable fasteners to the worktop of the machine.