Sample Drawer Interface Highlighting for Faster Tube Handling

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing sample input and output modules in assembly lines lack user-friendly operation interfaces, leading to inefficiencies and user inconvenience during sample handling.

Innovation Solution

A sample processing module equipped with a sample storage device, state detection device, and human-computer interaction device, which highlights the information of the currently opened drawer on a display interface, enhancing user interaction and providing intuitive prompts for operation.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of operation

If the display interface shows all drawer information uniformly, then the information completeness is maintained, but the user cannot quickly identify the opened drawer leading to poor ease of operation

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveease of operationVSAvoidinformation highlighting
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSLoss of information

Solution Approach 1:

The display interface applies different visual qualities to different pieces of information based on drawer state. Specifically, the UI highlights the opened drawer's information (such as drawer number, position, and status) with distinct visual cues like color changes, bold text, or increased size, while keeping other closed drawer information in a standard, non-highlighted state. This local differentiation allows users to quickly identify the opened drawer without losing the contextual information of other drawers, resolving the contradiction between ease of operation and information completeness.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

2Ease of operation

If the system provides detailed information prompts for opened drawer, then the user convenience is improved, but the device complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveuser convenienceVSAvoiddevice complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system automatically detects which drawer is opened through integrated sensors or microswitches, and autonomously updates the display interface to highlight the corresponding drawer information without requiring any additional user input or manual configuration. The processor automatically triggers the highlighting function when it receives the opened drawer signal, providing detailed information prompts seamlessly. This self-service mechanism improves user convenience while minimizing device complexity by leveraging existing system components rather than adding separate control mechanisms.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Data Source

PatentEP4648056A1Sample processing module and method for processing information of sample processing module
Publication Date: 2025.11.12 SHENZHEN NEW INDS BIOMEDICAL ENG CO LTD
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AI summary

The present disclosure relates to a sample processing module and a method for processing information of sample processing module. The sample processing module includes: a sample storage device, the sample storage device including a plurality of drawers for storing sample tubes; a state detection device of each drawer, configured to detect a state of the drawer corresponding to the state detection device; a human-computer interaction device, wherein a display interface of the human-computer interaction device at least includes a first area, configured to display information of the drawer; and a processor, configured to acquire the state of the drawer, and switch from the currently displayed information of the drawer to highlighting the information of a first drawer in the first area in response to detecting that the first drawer is opened, wherein the first drawer is any drawer of the sample storage device.