JP2013256295A - Blood collecting tube preparation device - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a blood collecting tube preparation device capable of accommodating a large number of kinds of blood collecting tubes in a casing in a compact manner, and efficiently transferring the blood collecting tubes.SOLUTION: An accommodation device 40 is arranged in which a plurality of blood collecting tube cases 44 arrayed in the longitudinal direction of a casing are provided so as to be vertically overlapped with a label printing and affixing device, and the blood collecting tubes are accommodated in the plurality of blood collecting tube cases 44 with the blood collecting tubes being laid in the longitudinal direction of the casing. A blood collecting tube preparation device includes a backwardly transferring mechanism 51 for transferring blood collecting tubes fed out from the plurality of the blood collecting tube cases 44 to a back surface side in a laid state in the longitudinal direction of the casing, a vertically transferring mechanism which is arranged on the back surface side of the casing to lift the blood collecting tubes transferred by the backwardly transferring mechanism 51 in the laid state in the right-to-left direction of the casing, and a turn-delivering mechanism 52 which receives the blood collecting tubes transferred by the backwardly transferring mechanism 51, turns the blood collecting tubes in the laid state in the right-to-left direction of the casing, and delivers them to the vertically transferring mechanism.

Description

  The present invention relates to a blood collection tube preparation device for preparing a blood collection tube used for blood collection of a patient.

  2. Description of the Related Art There is known a blood collection tube preparation device that labels a blood collection tube to be used and accommodates it in a tray for each patient in order to perform blood collection smoothly when collecting blood of a patient in a hospital or the like. A blood collection tube preparation device (automatic blood collection device preparation device) described in Patent Document 1 prints a label for a blood collection tube and attaches it to a blood collection tube, and a blood collection tube before label attachment. And a transfer device that transfers the blood collection tube before label application from the storage device to the label printing application device.

  In addition, in the blood collection tube preparation device described in Patent Document 1, the storage device includes a plurality of blood collection tube cases arranged below the label printing application device, and each blood collection case accommodates the blood collection tube, The blood collection tube of the blood vessel case is taken out from the back side and is lifted up to the height of the label printing means by a vertical transfer mechanism arranged on the back side of the housing (housing).

JP 2009-77794 A

  By the way, in the blood collection tube preparation device described in the above-mentioned Patent Document 1, since the blood collection tube cases are stacked below the label printing / applying device, an attempt is made to accommodate various types of blood collection tubes below one label printing / applying device. In this case, it is necessary to stack a large number of blood collection tube cases, and there is a problem that the blood collection tube preparation device tends to be bulky in the height direction.

  The present invention has been made in view of the present situation, and an object of the present invention is to provide a blood collection tube preparation device that can accommodate various types of blood collection tubes in a compact manner and can efficiently transfer the blood collection tubes. .

  The present invention relates to a label printing application device that prints on a label and attaches the printed label to a blood collection tube, and a container that is disposed so as to overlap the label printing application device and accommodates the blood collection tube before label application An apparatus and a transfer device for transferring a blood collection tube from the storage device to a label printing / applying device in a housing, wherein the storage device includes a plurality of storage devices arranged in the front-rear direction of the housing The plurality of blood collection tube cases accommodate the blood collection tubes in a state where they are laid down in the front-rear direction of the housing, and the transfer device is delivered from the plurality of blood collection tube cases. A rear blood transport mechanism that transports the blood collection tube to the back side of the housing in a state where the blood collection tube is laid in the front-rear direction of the housing, and a blood collection tube that is disposed on the rear surface side of the housing and is transported by the rear transport mechanism Laid in the left-right direction of the housing In this state, a vertical transfer mechanism for transferring in a substantially vertical direction and a blood collection tube transferred by the rearward transfer mechanism are received, and the blood collection tube is rotated in a state where it is laid down in the left-right direction of the housing, and delivered to the vertical transfer mechanism. A blood collection tube preparation device comprising a rotation delivery mechanism.

  In such a configuration, since the blood collection tube cases are arranged in the front-rear direction of the housing above or below the label printing application device, a plurality of types of blood collection tubes can be accommodated without stacking the blood collection cases, Even when many types of blood collection tubes are accommodated above and below the printing sticking device, there is an advantage that the blood collection tube preparation device is difficult to be bulky in the height direction. Further, in the present invention, when the blood collection tube is transferred to the back side, the longitudinal direction and the transfer direction of the blood collection tube coincide with each other, so that various types of blood collection tubes having different sizes can be stably transferred to the back side of the housing, As a result, the blood collection tubes of the blood collection tube cases arranged in the front and rear directions can be transferred to the back side of the housing in a short time. Moreover, the width dimension of the rear transfer mechanism can be reduced by matching the longitudinal direction of the blood collection tube with the transfer direction. Further, in the present invention, the rotation transfer mechanism rotates the blood collection tube in the left-right direction of the casing and then transfers it to the vertical transfer mechanism, so that the vertical transfer mechanism is difficult to be bulky on the back side of the casing. .

  In the present invention, the rotation delivery mechanism includes a rotation box that can receive a single blood collection tube, and a box drive device that rotates the rotation box, and the rotation box has a rear transfer mechanism. A receiving position for receiving the transferred blood collection tube in a state of being laid in the front-rear direction of the housing, and a state in which the blood collection tube received from the rear transfer mechanism is laid in the lateral direction of the housing after being rotated substantially horizontally from the receiving position. Thus, a configuration that can be converted into a delivery position for delivery to the vertical transfer mechanism is proposed.

  In such a configuration, the blood collection tube is sent out from the position where the blood collection tube is rotated in the left-right direction of the housing, and therefore the rotation of the blood collection tube and the delivery to the vertical transfer mechanism are continuously performed. Therefore, the blood collection tube can be rotated and delivered in a short time.

  Further, in the above configuration, the rotating box is configured to be convertible between an accommodation state in which the blood collection tube can be held inside and a discharge state in which the blood collection tube is released to the outside, and is normally biased to the accommodation state. When the rotating box is converted from the receiving position to the sending position, the rotating box is rotated in the direction opposite to the rotation direction by the contact member disposed near the sending position. A configuration is proposed in which the box is released at the delivery position.

  According to such a configuration, the rotation and delivery of the blood collection tube can be completed in one operation, so that the rotation and delivery of the blood collection tube can be performed in a shorter time. Further, in such a configuration, since the rotating box body is converted into the released state by the driving force of the box body driving device, it is not necessary to separately provide a driving source for converting the rotating box body, and the configuration of the rotation delivery mechanism is configured. There is also an advantage that it can be simplified.

  Further, in the present invention, each of the plurality of blood collection tube cases includes a delivery mechanism that sends out the accommodated blood collection tubes one by one from the bottom, and the plurality of blood collection tube cases other than the one located at the rearmost part of the plurality of blood collection tube cases The blood collection tube is delivered to the rear transfer mechanism by the delivery mechanism, and the one located at the rearmost part of the plurality of blood collection tube cases is rotated by the delivery mechanism without the rear transport mechanism. A configuration is proposed for direct transmission.

  In such a configuration, since the blood collection tube can be transferred without going through the rearward transfer mechanism in the rearmost blood collection case, the blood collection tube can be labeled and affixed in a shorter time than other blood collection cases. It can be transferred to the device.

  Further, in the present invention, a configuration is proposed in which the plurality of blood collection cases of the storage device can be pulled out integrally in front of the housing by a single slide mechanism.

  In the conventional configuration of Patent Document 1 described above, a plurality of blood collection tube cases are vertically arranged, so that it is necessary to pull out each case in front of the housing. Since they are arranged before and after the housing, there is an advantage that a plurality of blood collection cases can be pulled out in front of the housing and the blood collection tubes can be replenished. In addition, in such a configuration, it is only necessary to provide one slide mechanism for a plurality of blood collection tube cases, so that the configuration for pulling out the blood collection tube case can be simplified compared to the conventional configuration. There are also advantages.

  As described above, according to the present invention, even when multiple types of blood collection tubes are accommodated above and below the label printing / applying device, the blood collection tube preparation device is not easily bulky in the height direction. Further, according to the present invention, since the blood collection tube of the blood collection tube case can be transferred to the back side of the housing in a short time, the blood collection tube can be efficiently transferred from the blood collection case arranged in the front and back to the label printing device.

It is a perspective view of the blood-tube collection preparation apparatus 1 of an Example. 3 is a perspective view of a main body 2. FIG. FIG. 3 is a perspective view of the collection unit 3. 4 is a perspective view showing an internal structure of the main body 2. FIG. It is a perspective view which isolate | separates and shows a part of accommodation unit 5a, 5b and the label printing sticking apparatus 6 from FIG. It is a perspective view of the label printing sticking apparatus 6. FIG. It is explanatory drawing which shows the structure of the label printing sticking apparatus. FIG. 6 is a perspective view of the frame 16 and the vertical transfer mechanism 20. 3 is a perspective view of a vertical transfer mechanism 20 and a parallel transfer mechanism 21. FIG. It is explanatory drawing which shows the transfer path | route of the blood collection tube Y. FIG. 3 is a perspective view of a parallel transfer mechanism 21. FIG. It is explanatory drawing which shows the fluctuation | variation of the movable wall member 27, (a) is the state in which the movable wall member 27 exists in the normal position (alpha), (b) is the state in which the movable wall member 27 is in the discharge position (beta), ( c) shows a state in which the movable wall member 27 is in the push-up position γ. It is explanatory drawing which shows the action | operation of the parallel transfer mechanism. FIG. 10 is an explanatory view showing another operation of the parallel transfer mechanism 21. It is a perspective view of the upper accommodation unit 5a. It is sectional drawing which shows the internal structure of the upper accommodating unit 5a. It is a perspective view of the lower accommodation unit 5b. It is a disassembled perspective view of the lower accommodation unit 5b. 4 is a cross-sectional view of the lower housing device 40. FIG. It is sectional drawing of the lower accommodation unit 5b. It is a top view of the transfer part 41, (a) is the state which has the blood-collecting tube Y on the conveyor 53, (b) is the state which transferred the blood-collecting tube Y to the rotation box 56, (c) A state where the rotary box 56 is rotated to the delivery position T is shown. It is a perspective view of the rotation delivery mechanism 52, (a) shows the state in which the rotation box 56 is in the receiving position S, (b) shows the state in which the rotation box 56 is in the delivery position T.

  Embodiments of the present invention are described according to the following examples.

  FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a blood collection tube preparation device 1 according to the present embodiment as viewed from the front side. The blood collection tube preparatory device 1 includes a main body portion 2 that attaches a label to a required blood collection tube and discharges it, and a collection portion 3 that accommodates the labeled blood collection tube discharged from the main body portion 2 in a tray. Yes.

  As shown in FIG. 2, the main body 2 includes a housing 4 having a substantially rectangular parallelepiped shape. The housing 4 contains a plurality of housing units 5a and 5b for housing blood collection tubes and a label printing application device 6 for printing labels and attaching them to the blood collection tubes. The front panels 9a, 9b, 9c attached to the units 5a, 5b and the label printing device 6 are exposed. A blood collection tube outlet 7 for discharging the labeled blood collection tube is formed on the right side surface of the housing 4, and a monitor 8 for displaying various information is disposed on the housing 4. Is done. As shown in FIGS. 1 and 2, an opening 18 extending in the width direction is formed on the front side of the upper portion of the housing 4, and three opening / closing lids 17 for opening and closing the opening 18 are arranged. Established.

  As shown in FIGS. 1 and 3, the collection unit 3 is installed so as to be adjacent to the right side of the main body unit 2, and stores the blood collection tube in the tray X at a position directly below the blood collection tube discharge port 7 of the main body unit 2. The blood collection tube collection position P is set. Then, the collection unit 3 includes a tray supply device 10 that supplies an empty tray X to the blood collection tube collection position P, a tray discharge device 11 that discharges the tray X that has already been collected from the blood collection tube collection position P, and a blood collection tube And a non-sticking paper printer 13 for printing a printed matter not attached to the tray X and sending it to the tray X. Specifically, the tray supply device 10 sends out empty trays X stacked in the tray accommodating portion 14 to the blood collection tube collection position P one by one by a delivery device (not shown). The tray discharge device 11 is a belt conveyor in the front-rear direction. The empty tray X supplied from the tray supply device 10 onto the tray discharge device 11 is transferred to the blood collection tube collection position P by the tray discharge device 11. After the required blood collection tube is accommodated, it is transferred from the blood collection tube collection position P to the front tray discharge position Q. Further, the non-stick paper printing device 13 is disposed above the blood collection tube collection position P, and is placed at the blood collection tube collection position P by printing and cutting a manually attached label, a blood collection tube instruction, or the like. Drop into Tray X.

  A control device (not shown) that controls the operation of the blood collection tube preparation device 1 is disposed below the collection unit 3. The control device receives blood collection preparation information including information on the patient to collect blood and the type of blood collection tube used for blood collection from the outside. When the blood collection preparation information is received, the control device operates the label printing affixing device 6 and the like. A label on which information is printed is attached to a required blood collection tube and discharged from the blood collection tube discharge port 7. At the same time, the control device waits for an empty tray X at the blood collection tube collection position P, and when the blood collection tubes for one patient are stored in the tray X, the tray X is moved from the blood collection tube collection position P to the tray discharge position Q. And an empty tray X is supplied to the blood collection tube collection position P.

  As described above, the blood collection tube preparation device 1 attaches a label on which necessary information or the like is printed to a blood collection tube used for blood collection based on blood collection preparation information transmitted from the outside, and collects blood collection tubes for one patient. House in one tray. Since the basic configuration of the blood collection tube preparation device 1 is the same as that of the existing device described in Patent Document 1, detailed description thereof is omitted.

  Next, details of the configuration of the main body 2 will be described. 4 and 5 show the inside of the main body 2 by removing the panel 9 on the surface of the housing 4 and the front units 9a, 9b, 9c (see FIG. 2) of the housing units 5a, 5b and the label printing device 6. The structure is shown. The housing units 5a and 5b and the label printing / applying device 6 are unitized into a substantially rectangular parallelepiped shape that is long in the front and rear, and are housed inside the housing 4 and fixed to the frame 16 of the housing 4. Yes. Specifically, three label printing application devices 6 are accommodated side by side in the center of the housing 4, and one upper accommodation unit 5 a is disposed above each label printing application device 6. In addition, one lower housing unit 5b is disposed below each label printing device 6.

  The label printing / applying device 6 includes a label printing device 60 for printing on a label and a label applying device 61 for applying the printed label to a blood collection tube. As shown in FIGS. 6 and 7, the label printing device 60 is arranged from the front to the center of the label printing application device 6, and the label application device 61 is arranged at the rear of the label printing device 6. The Specifically, as illustrated in FIG. 7, the label printing apparatus 60 includes a roll holding unit 62 that holds a roll of label paper, and a printing unit 63 that performs printing on the label paper drawn backward from the roll holding unit 62. And a peeling part 64 for peeling the release paper from the printed label, and a release paper collecting part 65 for winding the peeled release paper. The label printing device 60 can be moved forward by a slide mechanism (not shown), and can be operated by pulling the label printing device 60 forward when refilling the label paper. On the other hand, the label sticking device 61 has a sticking part 66 for sticking the peeled label supplied from the peeling part 64 to the blood collection tube Y, a discharge conveyor 67 for discharging the blood sticking blood tube Y with label attached, and a sampling before label sticking. A receiving unit 68 that receives the blood vessel Y from the outside and a direction detection unit 70 that detects the direction of the blood collection tube Y are provided. More specifically, the receiving portion 68 is a dish-like body that is large enough to accommodate one blood collection tube Y and is arranged on the upper portion of the label sticking device 61. As will be described later, the receiving unit 5a, The blood collection tube Y of 5b is transferred to the receiving unit 68. The blood collection tube Y accommodated in the receiving unit 68 is pushed forward of the receiving unit 68 at a required timing by the operation of the push-out solenoid 69 and supplied to the pasting unit 66 via the direction detecting unit 70. The discharge conveyor 67 is a left-right conveyor disposed immediately below the sticking portion 66, and the transporting route to the blood collection tube discharge port 7 is formed by connecting the discharge conveyor 67 disposed in each label sticking device 61. doing. That is, the labeled blood collection tube Y is dropped from the pasting portion 66 onto the discharge conveyor 67 and carried to the blood collection tube discharge port 7. In addition, since the structure of this label printing sticking apparatus 6 is the same as that of a conventional structure, detailed description is abbreviate | omitted.

  Moreover, the label printing sticking device 6 includes label detection sensors 71a and 71b for detecting the remaining amount of the label before printing. The label detection sensors 71a and 71b detect the label paper affixed to the roll-like release paper based on the light transmittance, and the first sensor 71a installed immediately before the printing unit 63 and the first sensor 71a. There is a second sensor 71b installed in front of one sensor 71a. The first sensor 71a detects a state in which there is no label paper immediately before the printing unit 63, that is, a paper out state. When the first sensor 71a enters a label non-detection state, the first sensor 71a adds a new one to the label print pasting device 6. It becomes impossible to print on a new label until a new label sheet is refilled. On the other hand, the second sensor 71b is arranged in front of the first sensor 71a by five label sheets, and is configured to be in a label non-detection state when the remaining five label sheets. Yes.

  As shown in FIGS. 8 and 9, on the back side of the housing 4, there is a vertical transfer mechanism 20 that lifts the blood collection tube Y of the lower housing unit 5 b vertically up to the vicinity of the height of the label printing device 6. Arranged. One vertical transfer mechanism 20 is provided in each row of the label printing / applying device 6 and the lower housing unit 5b arranged in the left and right three rows. A parallel transfer mechanism 21 that receives the blood collection tube Y lifted by each vertical transfer mechanism 20 and selectively transfers it to the label printing device 6 is disposed on the back side of the housing 4.

  As shown in FIGS. 9 and 10, the vertical transfer mechanism 20 includes an elevating box body 23 that houses a blood collection tube Y in a vertically long frame 22, and an elevating conveyor 24 that repeatedly moves the elevating box body 23 up and down. Are arranged. The elevating box body 23 has a box shape with the upper part opened, is held up and down along the guide rail 25 formed on the frame 22, and the blood collection tube Y is drawn from the lower housing unit 5 b by driving the elevating conveyor 24. It is configured to repeatedly move to a lower position G for receiving and an upper position H for sending the received blood collection tube Y to the parallel transfer mechanism 21. Here, the guide rail 25 that holds the lifting box body 23 is curved so as to tilt forward at the upper portion thereof, so that when the lifting box body 23 is lifted to the upper position, the guide rail 25 tilts forward. The blood collection tube Y accommodated in the interior of the lifting / lowering box body 23 is configured to roll down to the front of the lifting / lowering box body 23.

  As shown in FIGS. 9 and 10, the parallel transfer mechanism 21 is disposed so as to cross the upper front side of the three vertical transfer mechanisms 20, and obliquely above and behind each receiving portion 68 of each label printing device 6. positioned. As shown in FIG. 11, the parallel transfer mechanism 21 is formed by connecting three transfer units 29 capable of sending the blood collection tube Y to the left and right directions and the front of the housing 4 in the width direction.

  As shown in FIG. 11, each transfer unit 29 includes a slide conveyor 28 that can transfer the blood collection tube Y in the left-right direction. Each slide conveyor 28 forms a series of conveyors that transfer the blood collection tubes Y in the left-right direction by being continuous in the left-right direction of the housing 4. Each transfer unit 29 uses a central part on the slide conveyor 28 as a standby part 26. The upper part of the standby unit 26 is open, and the blood collection tube Y that has rolled down from the lifting box body 23 falls into the standby unit 26. As will be described later, the blood collection tube Y accommodated in the upper accommodation unit 5a is also sent to the standby unit 26. As shown in FIG. 12A, the slide conveyor 28 is inclined downward, and the blood collection tube Y dropped on the standby unit 26 is supported by a movable wall member 27 disposed on the front side of the slide conveyor 28. By doing so, the blood collection tube Y is held so as not to roll off from the standby unit 26. Each transfer unit 29 is provided with elevating / lowering wall members 30 that can be moved up and down on both the left and right sides of the standby unit 26, and the blood collection tube Y of the standby unit 26 is normally moved in the horizontal direction by the elevating wall member 30. Restricted to move.

  The movable wall member 27 disposed on the front side of the slide conveyor 28 of each transfer unit 29 is movable in the front-rear direction by a motor 31 as shown in FIG. More specifically, the movable wall member 27 is moved by the motor 31 to a normal position α (see FIG. 12A) located on the front side of the slide conveyor 28 and a discharge position for retreating from the normal position α to the front of the slide conveyor 28. The position is converted to β (see FIG. 12B) and a push-up position γ (see FIG. 12C) that advances from the normal position α to the inside of the slide conveyor 28. The movable wall member 27 is normally held at the normal position α shown in FIG. 12A, and supports the blood collection tube Y supplied to the standby unit 26 from the lower front side. Further, as shown in FIG. 10, a receiving portion 68 of the label printing / applying device 6 is located in front of and below each standby portion 26 of the parallel transfer mechanism 21, and as shown in FIG. Is moved from the normal position α to the discharge position β, the blood collection tube Y held in the standby portion 26 by the movable wall member 27 loses its support and rolls down to the front of the standby portion 26 and is accommodated in the receiving portion 68. It is configured to be. In addition, the movable wall member 27 is converted to the push-up position γ when the blood collection tube Y is transferred to the adjacent standby unit 26 as described later.

  In the parallel transfer mechanism 21, an operation when the blood collection tube Y of the standby unit 26 is transferred to the adjacent standby unit 26 will be described. As shown in FIG. 14A, when the blood collection tube Y held in the central standby unit 26 is transferred to the right standby unit 26, as shown in FIG. The raising and lowering wall members 30, 30 disposed between them are retracted upward, and at the same time, the transferable movable wall member 27 is displaced to the push-up position γ to push up the blood collection tube Y rearward and upward. Then, after the position conversion of the elevating wall member 30 and the movable wall member 27 is completed, the center and right slide conveyors 28 are driven in the right direction. As a result, the blood collection tube Y is transferred to the right standby unit 26 and collides with the elevating wall member 30 disposed on the right side of the standby unit 26 to stop. Then, when the control device detects the blood collection tube Y in the right standby unit 26, the control unit returns the displaced elevation wall member 30 and movable wall member 27 to the normal position α as shown in FIG. Then, the transfer of the blood collection tube Y to the adjacent standby unit 26 is completed. In FIG. 14, the mode of transferring from the center to the standby unit 26 on the right side is shown, but the same procedure is performed when transferring from the right side to the standby unit 26 on the right side or when transferring from the center to the standby unit 26 on the left side. Is executed. When transferring from the right side to the left standby unit 26, first, the blood collection tube Y is transferred to the central standby unit 26, and then the blood collection tube Y is transferred to the left standby unit 26.

  As described above, the parallel transfer mechanism 21 is configured to receive the blood collection tube Y transferred from the upper and lower accommodation units 5a and 5b into the standby unit 26 and send it out to the receiving unit 68 positioned in the lower front side. In addition, the parallel transfer mechanism 21 drives the slide conveyor 28 to transfer the blood collection tube Y to the adjacent standby unit 26, whereby the blood collection tube Y transferred from the storage units 5a and 5b can be attached to any label printing. It can be sent selectively to the device 6.

  Next, the configuration of the upper accommodation unit 5a provided adjacent to the label printing device 6 will be described.

  The upper accommodation unit 5a includes a single blood collection case 80 as shown in FIGS. The blood collection tube case 80 includes a rectifying unit 80a provided on the back side and a storage unit 80b provided on the near side.

  The rectifying unit 80a has a box shape in which an inclined bottom portion 83 that is inclined downward from the upper edge on the front side toward the rear lower side is formed, and at the lower corner thereafter, a delivery opening 84 capable of delivering the blood collection tube Y is formed. A delivery mechanism 85 for delivering the blood collection tubes Y one by one is disposed in the delivery opening 84 formed. The inclined bottom 83 is provided with a rotating plate 82 that rotates the blood collection tube Y on the inclined bottom 83 in a state where it is laid down in the left-right direction of the housing 4.

  As shown in FIG. 16, the delivery mechanism 85 includes an intake roller 86 that takes in the blood collection tube Y, and a motor (not shown) that rotates the intake roller 86. The intake roller 86 is provided with an accommodation recess 88 of a size that can accommodate a single blood collection tube in the outer peripheral portion and is disposed so as to close the delivery opening 84, and a motor drives the intake roller 86 to rotate. Then, the blood collection tube Y near the delivery opening 84 rolls into the housing recess 88, and the blood collection tube Y is released at a position where the housing recess 88 has moved rearward, and falls onto the standby unit 26 of the parallel transfer mechanism 21. It will be.

  As shown in FIGS. 15 and 16, the accommodating portion 80b has a box shape having a length of about two to three times that of the rectifying portion 80a, and can accommodate a larger amount of blood collection tubes Y than the rectifying portion 80a. Yes. A supply mechanism 90 for supplying the blood collection tube Y in the storage unit 80b to the rectification unit 80a is disposed at the bottom of the storage unit 80b. The supply mechanism 90 is inclined upwardly from the rear end of the first conveyor 90a to the rear upper edge of the housing portion 80b from the substantially flat first conveyor 90a provided from the front end to the center of the bottom portion of the housing portion 80b. And a second conveyor 90b. In the supply state of the supply mechanism 90, the conveyors 90a and 90b are driven to move the blood collection tube Y in the accommodating portion 80b backward by the first conveyor 90a. To be transported to. Then, the blood collection tube Y lifted up to the rear upper edge passes over the rear upper edge of the accommodating portion 80b and is sent from the accommodating portion 80b to the rectifying portion 80a. In the supply stop state of the supply mechanism 90, the conveyor tubes 90a and 90b are stopped, so that the blood collection tube Y in the accommodating portion 80b remains in the case.

  Further, as described above, the opening 18 is formed in the upper part of the housing 4 of the main body 2, and the opening / closing lid 17 disposed in the opening 18 is lifted to open as shown in FIG. 1. By opening the portion 18, the blood collection tube Y can be put into the housing portion 80b of the upper housing unit 5a. Thus, with respect to the upper housing unit 5a, the blood collection tube Y can be replenished through the opening 18 provided in the upper portion of the housing 4, so that the blood collection tube 80 is not drawn out to the front of the housing 4. Y can be replenished.

  Next, the configuration of the lower housing unit 5b disposed below the label printing device 6 will be described.

  The lower housing unit 5b, as shown in FIGS. 17 and 18, transfers the lower housing device 40 for housing the blood collection tube Y and the blood collection tube Y sent from the lower housing device 40 to the back side of the housing 4, And a transfer unit 41 for transferring to the vertical transfer mechanism 20. The lower accommodating device 40 and the transfer unit 41 are slidably held in front of the housing 4 by a single sliding mechanism 42, and as shown in FIG. 1, the front panel 9c of the lower accommodating unit 5b. By pulling the handle and pulling out the lower housing apparatus 40 and the like to the front of the housing 4, the lower blood collection apparatus 40 can be supplemented with the blood collection tube Y. The lower housing device 40 constitutes the housing device of the present invention.

  As shown in FIGS. 17 and 18, the lower accommodation device 40 includes four blood collection cases 44 arranged in the front-rear direction, and can accommodate different types of blood collection tubes Y for each of the blood collection cases 44. Yes. As shown in FIGS. 19 and 20, each blood collection tube case 44 is a rectangular parallelepiped box, and its upper part is opened so that the blood collection tube Y can be replenished. Each blood collection tube case 44 is configured to accommodate the blood collection tube Y in a state where it is laid down in the front-rear direction of the housing 4. The bottom of the blood collection tube case 44 is inclined downward from the left side toward the right side, and a delivery opening 46 capable of delivering the blood collection tube Y is formed in the lower right corner thereof. A delivery mechanism 47 for delivering the blood vessels Y one by one to the transfer unit 41 is provided.

  As shown in FIG. 20, the delivery mechanism 47 includes an intake roller 48 that takes in the blood collection tube Y. The intake roller 48 is provided with a notch of a size that can accommodate a single blood collection tube in the outer peripheral portion and is disposed so as to close the delivery opening 46. The intake roller 48 is moved by a motor (not shown). By rotationally driving, the single blood collection tube Y near the delivery opening 46 is taken into the take-in roller 48, and the blood collection tube Y is discharged from the take-in roller 48 above the transfer unit 41. As described above, the blood collection tube Y accommodated in the blood collection tube case 44 moves to the lower right corner of the case along the bottom slope, and is sent to the transfer unit 41 one by one by the delivery mechanism 47.

  In addition, a holding plate 50 for pressing the blood collection tube Y from above is disposed on the upper portion of each blood collection tube case 44. The holding plate 50 is a plate body that is held so as to be movable up and down in the case, and is placed on the blood collection tube Y accommodated in the blood collection tube case 44 so as to keep the direction of the blood collection tube Y from changing. Functions as a weight. Each blood collection tube case 44 is provided with a sensor (not shown) for detecting the height of the holding plate 50 so that the remaining amount of the blood collection tube Y in the blood collection tube case 44 can be grasped by the sensor. It is configured. A sample blood collection tube Y1 is bound to the upper part of the presser plate 50. This sample blood collection tube Y1 is a sample for preventing erroneous insertion of the blood collection tube Y to be put into each case 44.

  As shown in FIGS. 17 and 18, the transfer unit 41 transfers the blood collection tube Y delivered from the blood collection tube case 44 to the rear side, and a rear transfer mechanism 51 for transferring the blood collection tube Y transferred by the rear transfer mechanism 51. A rotation delivery mechanism 52 that rotates and delivers to the vertical transfer mechanism 20 is provided.

  As shown in FIG. 18, the rear transfer mechanism 51 includes an elongate conveyor 53 in the front-rear direction. The conveyor 53 is disposed on the lower right side of the blood collection tube case 44, and the blood collection tube Y delivered from the blood collection tube case 44 falls onto the conveyor 53 as shown in FIG. Become. On the conveyor 53, a pressing block 55 that repeatedly moves back and forth by the operation of the conveyor 53 is disposed, and the blood collection tube Y that has dropped on the conveyor 53 is pressed as shown in FIG. It is pressed by the block 55, transferred to the back side along the conveyor 53, and sent to the rotation delivery mechanism 52 on the back side. Further, the rear transfer mechanism 51 includes guide walls 54 erected on the left and right sides of the conveyor 53, and the blood collection tubes Y are supported by the guide walls 54 from both sides so that the blood collection tubes Y can be more stably transferred. It is configured.

  The rotation delivery mechanism 52 is arrange | positioned at the rear part of the lower accommodation unit 5b. As shown in FIG. 22, the rotation delivery mechanism 52 includes a rotation box 56 that can accommodate a single blood collection tube Y, and a box drive device 57 that rotates the rotation box 56 in the horizontal direction. Yes. The rotary box 56 is an elongated box-shaped member with an open top. A slidable bottom lid member 58 is disposed at the bottom of the rotating box body 56. The rotating box body 56 is accommodated so that the bottom lid member 58 closes the bottom and can hold the blood collection tube Y inside. The state (see FIG. 22A) and the bottom lid member 58 are separated from the bottom, and can be converted into a discharge state in which the blood collection tube Y can be discharged from the bottom (see FIG. 22B). Yes. The bottom cover member 58 is urged to a position where the bottom of the rotary box 56 is closed by a spring (not shown), and the rotary box 56 is normally housed.

  The box drive device 57 supports the rear end of the rotary box 56 and horizontally rotates the rotary box 56 by a motor. The rotary box 56 is positioned at the front end of the conveyor 53 of the rear transfer mechanism 51 by the driving of the box drive device 57, and the receiving position S for receiving the blood collection tube Y from the rear transfer mechanism 51 (FIG. 21B, 22 (a)), the vertical transfer mechanism 20 is rotated 90 degrees horizontally from the receiving position S and the blood collection tube Y received in the rotating box 56 is laid down in the left-right direction of the housing 4. Is converted into a delivery position T (see FIGS. 21C and 22A).

  In addition, a slidable bottom lid member 58 is disposed at the bottom of the rotating box body 56. The rotating box body 56 is configured such that the bottom lid member 58 closes the bottom and can hold the blood collection tube Y inside. And a release state in which the bottom cover member 58 slides from the accommodated state to open the bottom of the rotary box 56 and discharges the blood collection tube Y held inside (see FIG. 22A). 22 (b)). The bottom cover member 58 is urged to a position where the bottom of the rotary box 56 is closed by a spring (not shown), and the rotary box 56 is normally housed.

  More specifically, at the receiving position S of the rotating box body 56, as shown in FIG. 21B, the rotating box body 56 is disposed so as to be continuous with the tip of the conveyor 53 of the rear transfer mechanism 51, and the rear transfer mechanism. The blood collection tube Y transferred to the back side by 51 is pushed into the rotary box 56 by the pressing block 55. Of the four blood collection tube cases 44, the blood collection tube case 44 disposed at the rearmost portion sends out the blood collection tube Y from directly above the rotating box 56 at the receiving position S, so that the rear transfer mechanism 51 is provided. The blood collection tube Y is directly sent to the rotary box 56 without going through.

  On the other hand, at the delivery position T of the rotating box body 56, the rotating box body 56 is configured to be located immediately above the elevating box body 23 at the lower position G, as shown in FIG. 10. Here, as shown in FIG. 21, a contact member 59 made of a metal pin is erected in the vicinity of the delivery position T, and when the rotary box 56 rotates to the delivery position T, the bottom lid member 58. 22 collides with the abutting member 59 and is pressed and slid by the abutting member 59 in the direction opposite to the rotation direction, so that the rotating box 56 is displaced to the delivery position T as shown in FIG. By converting to a discharge state, the blood collection tube Y inside the rotating box body 56 falls directly below the rotating box body 56 and is accommodated in the lifting box body 23.

Below, the action | operation of the blood-tube collection preparation apparatus 1 of a present Example is demonstrated.
As described above, the control device of the blood collection preparation device 1 transfers the blood collection tubes Y used for blood collection from the blood collection cases 44 and 80 of the upper and lower accommodation units 5a and 5b based on the blood collection preparation information received from the outside. The label is transferred to the label printing / applying device 6, and in the label printing / applying device 6, the printed label is applied to the corresponding blood collection tube Y and carried to the blood collection tube discharge port 7. That is, when the blood collection tube preparation device 1 is in operation, as shown in FIG. 10, the blood collection tube Y in the blood collection tube case 80 of the upper housing unit 5 a is sequentially transferred to the label printing device 6 via the parallel transfer mechanism 21. At the same time, the blood collection tube Y of the blood collection tube case 44 of the lower housing unit 5 b is sequentially transferred to the label printing / applying device 6 via the rear transfer mechanism 51, the rotation delivery mechanism 52, the vertical transfer mechanism 20 and the parallel transfer mechanism 21. That is, the transfer device according to the present invention includes the rear transfer mechanism 51, the rotation delivery mechanism 52, the vertical transfer mechanism 20, and the parallel transfer mechanism 21. In this embodiment, the control device of the blood collection tube preparation apparatus 1 not only supplies the blood collection tube Y of the blood collection tube cases 44 and 80 to the label printing / applying device 6 immediately above or directly below, but also a parallel transfer mechanism. 21, the supply of the blood collection tube Y is controlled so that it does not concentrate too much on one label printing device 6 by moving the blood collection tube Y in the left-right direction of the housing 4. The processing speed is increased.

  As described above, in the present embodiment, the lower accommodating device (accommodating device) 40 includes four blood collection tube cases 44, and four types of blood collection tubes Y are provided in one lower accommodating device 40. It can be accommodated. Here, since the blood collection tube cases 44 of the lower accommodation device 40 are arranged in the front-rear direction, even if a plurality of types of blood collection tubes Y are accommodated below the label printing applicator 6, the blood collection preparation device 1 is high. There is an advantage that it is not bulky in the vertical direction.

  Further, in this embodiment, when the blood collection tube Y accommodated in the blood collection tube case 44 of the lower housing device 40 is transferred to the back side of the housing 4, the longitudinal direction of the blood collection tube Y matches the transfer direction. Therefore, various types of blood collection tubes Y of different sizes can be stably transferred to the back side of the housing 4, and the blood collection tubes Y are provided from the blood collection case 44 arranged in the front and back direction to the vertical transfer mechanism 20 on the back side. Can be transported in a short time. In this embodiment, the longitudinal direction of the blood collection tube Y coincides with the transfer direction, so that the width of the rear transfer mechanism 51 can be reduced, and the blood collection tube Y is laid in the horizontal direction of the housing 4. There is also an advantage that the vertical transfer mechanism 20 disposed on the back side of the housing 4 is not bulky by being transferred to the vertical transfer mechanism 20 after being rotated.

  In this embodiment, the rotary box 56 is converted from the receiving position S to the delivery position T, and the rotation of the blood collection tube Y is completed, and at the same time, the blood collection tube Y accommodated in the rotary box 56 is moved vertically. Therefore, there is an advantage that the blood collection tube Y can be continuously rotated and delivered. In particular, in this embodiment, in synchronization with the displacement of the rotating box body 56 from the receiving position S to the sending position T, the rotating box body 56 is converted into a discharge state, and the blood collection tube Y is discharged from the rotating box body 56. Thus, the rotation of the blood collection tube Y and the delivery to the vertical transfer mechanism 20 can be completed in one operation. Further, since the drive source for converting the rotary box 56 to the discharge state is a box drive device 57 that rotationally drives the rotary box 56, a drive source for converting the rotary box 56 to the discharge state is separately provided. There is no need.

  In the present embodiment, the blood collection tube Y accommodated in the blood collection tube case 44 disposed at the rearmost part is directly sent to the rotary box 56 without going through the rear transfer mechanism 51. As compared with the blood collection tube Y of the other blood collection tube cases 44, the blood collection tube Y accommodated in the part of the blood collection tube case 44 can be transferred to the label printing device 6 in a shorter time. Therefore, in such a configuration, the processing speed of the blood collection tube preparation apparatus 1 can be improved by accommodating a type of blood collection tube Y that is relatively frequently used in the rearmost blood collection tube case 44.

  Further, in this embodiment, since the four blood collection cases 44 disposed in the lower housing device 40 can be pulled out together in the front of the housing 4, a conventional configuration in which the blood collection cases are pulled out from the housing for each case. Compared to the above, there is an advantage that the refilling operation of the blood collection tube can be easily performed. In addition, since the number of slide mechanisms can be reduced with respect to the number of blood collection cases, the number of parts can be reduced.

  In addition, the blood-collecting-tube preparation apparatus of this invention can add a various change in the range which is not restricted to the form of the said Example and does not deviate from the summary of this invention. For example, in the above embodiment, the configuration of the present invention is applied to the three lower storage devices (accommodation devices) 40. However, the present invention relates to at least one storage device of the blood collection tube preparation device. It only has to be applied. Moreover, in the said Example, although the accommodation apparatus which concerns on this invention is arrange | positioned 1 unit | set below the label printing sticking apparatus 6, the accommodating apparatus which concerns on this invention is arrange | positioned above the label printing sticking apparatus. It is also possible to arrange a plurality of layers in the vertical direction.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Blood collection tube preparation apparatus 2 Main body part 4 Housing | casing 5a Upper accommodation unit 5b Lower accommodation unit 6 Label printing sticking device 9 Panel 17 Opening / closing lid 18 Opening part 20 Vertical transfer mechanism 21 Parallel transfer mechanism 23 Lifting box body 26 Standby part 27 Movable wall Member 28 Slide conveyor 29 Transfer unit 40 Lower storage device (storage device)
DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 41 Transfer part 42 Slide mechanism 44 Blood-collecting case 46 Delivery opening part 47 Delivery mechanism 48 Taking-in roller 50 Holding plate 51 Backward transfer mechanism 52 Rotation delivery mechanism 53 Conveyor 54 Guide wall 55 Press block 56 Rotating box body 57 Box body drive device 58 Bottom cover member 59 Contact member 67 Discharge conveyor 68 Receiving part 71a, 71b Label detection sensor 80 Blood collection tube G Lower position H Upper position S Receiving position T Delivery position Y Blood collection tube

Claims (5)

A label printing application device for printing on a label and attaching the printed label to a blood collection tube;
A storage device that is disposed so as to overlap with the label printing application device, and stores a blood collection tube before labeling;
In the blood collection tube preparation device, in which the transfer device for transferring the blood collection tube from the storage device to the label printing application device is housed in a housing,
The storage device includes a plurality of blood collection cases arranged in the front-rear direction of the housing,
The plurality of blood collection tube cases accommodate the blood collection tubes in a state where they are laid in the front-rear direction of the housing,
The transfer device is
A rear transfer mechanism that transfers blood collection tubes delivered from the plurality of blood collection tube cases to the back side of the housing in a state in which the blood collection tubes are laid in the front-rear direction of the housing;
A vertical transfer mechanism that is disposed on the back side of the casing and transfers the blood collection tube transferred by the rear transfer mechanism in a substantially vertical direction while being laid in the left-right direction of the casing;
A blood collection tube, comprising: a rotation delivery mechanism that receives the blood collection tube transferred by the rearward transfer mechanism, rotates the blood collection tube in the left-right direction of the housing, and delivers it to the vertical transfer mechanism. Preparation device. The rotation delivery mechanism includes a rotating box that can receive a single blood collection tube, and a box driving device that rotates the rotating box.
The rotating box
A receiving position for receiving the blood collection tube transferred by the rear transfer mechanism in the state of being laid in the front-rear direction of the housing;
It is substantially horizontally rotated from the receiving position, and can be converted into a sending position for sending the blood collection tube received from the rear transfer mechanism to the vertical transfer mechanism in a state where it is laid down in the left-right direction of the housing. The blood collection tube preparation device according to claim 1. The rotating box is configured to be convertible between an accommodation state in which the blood collection tube can be held inside and a release state in which the blood collection tube is released to the outside, and is normally biased to the accommodation state,
When the rotating box body is converted from the receiving position to the sending position, the rotating box body is pressed in the direction opposite to the rotation direction by the contact member disposed in the vicinity of the sending position, so that the rotating box body is sent out. 3. The blood collection tube preparation device according to claim 2, wherein the blood collection device is released at a position. The plurality of blood collection tube cases each include a delivery mechanism that sends out the accommodated blood collection tubes one by one from the bottom,
Among the plurality of blood collection tube cases, except for the one located at the rearmost part, the blood collection tube is delivered to the rear transfer mechanism by the delivery mechanism,
The one located in the rearmost part among the plurality of blood collection tube cases directly sends the blood collection tube to the rotating box body by the delivery mechanism without going through the rear transfer mechanism. 4. The blood collection tube preparation device according to 3.   5. The plurality of blood collection tube cases of the storage device can be integrally pulled out forward of the housing by a single slide mechanism. 6. The blood collection tube preparation device described in 1.

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