Patent Application
20130189157
This application claims the priority benefit of China application serial no. 201210017855.6, filed on Jan. 20, 2012. The entirety of the above-mentioned patent application is hereby incorporated by reference herein and made a part of this specification.
1. Field of the Invention
The invention relates to an analysis equipment and a rotating device thereof, and more particularly to a blood analysis equipment and a rotating device thereof.
2. Description of Related Art
In clinical examinations of blood components, various types of blood analysis apparatuses may be used to analyze blood. For example, a blood analysis apparatus of prior art is designed to be able to divide whole blood into blood serum or plasma and components containing blood cells and to analyze the separated blood plasma. A method of separating the blood plasma from the whole blood sample includes: disposing the whole blood sample in a blood analysis cassette, and then rotating the blood analysis cassette to separate the plasma of a lower specific gravity from the whole blood sample with centrifugation force.
Based on the above method, the blood plasma may be analyzed to obtain required parameters. For patients under complicated medical treatment procedures such as operations and patients under special care for serious diseases, it is especially important to determine the parameters of the patients. The parameters provide medical staff with important information regarding statuses of the patients and allow the medical staff to provide proper and complete treatments to the patients. However, in the above process of separating the blood plasma from the whole blood sample, if the medical staff fail to perform proper cleaning in advance, then in operating the blood analysis cassette, other liquid (such as potion or other blood) often attach to the blood analysis cassette. When the blood analysis cassette rotates, the liquid attached to the blood analysis cassette is often tossed to other elements inside the blood analysis apparatus and the blood analysis equipment becomes moldy or bacteria grow therein, which causes the properties of the blood analysis apparatus to decline and influences the analysis accuracy.
The invention provides a rotating device; a blood analysis equipment using the rotating device has a better analysis accuracy.
The invention provides a blood analysis equipment has a better analysis accuracy.
The invention proposes a rotating device including a main body, a tray, a cover and a motor. The tray is disposed in the main body and is adapted to support an object. The cover is disposed in the main body and is adapted to cover the object. The motor is disposed in the main body and is adapted to drive the object to rotate. When the object rotates to cause a liquid on the object to move away from the object, the cover prevents the liquid from moving to the main body.
In an embodiment of the invention, the tray has a projection and a groove adjacent to each other. The projection is adapted to support the object. The liquid rotating with the object moves to the cover, and flows to the groove from the cover.
In an embodiment of the invention, the cover includes a top wall and at least a side wall. The side wall is connected to a side of the top wall, wherein the side wall is adapted to guide the liquid to flow to the groove.
In an embodiment of the invention, a bottom of the side wall has a guiding plate, and the guiding plate tilts from the bottom of the side wall towards the groove.
In an embodiment of the invention, a bottom of the side wall has a guiding plate, and the guiding plate is parallel to the top wall.
In an embodiment of the invention, the tray has a positioning slot. The object has a protrusion portion adapted to insert into the positioning slot to position the object on the tray.
In an embodiment of the invention, the positioning slot passes through the tray, and the motor is located under the tray and connected to the object through the positioning slot.
In an embodiment of the invention, the tray is slidably disposed in the main body and suitable for sliding relative to the main body to move into or out of the main body. When the tray moves into the main body, the object supported on the tray is aligned to the cover.
In an embodiment of the invention, the cover is detachably assembled in the main body.
The invention proposes a blood analysis equipment including a rotating device and an analysis unit. The rotating device includes a main body, a tray, a cover and a motor. The tray is disposed in the main body and is adapted to support an object, wherein the object is adapted to contain a tested blood. The cover is disposed in the main body and is adapted to cover the object. The motor is disposed in the main body and is adapted to drive the object to rotate for separating an ingredient from the tested blood. When the object rotates to cause a liquid on the object to move away from the object, the cover prevents the liquid from moving to the main body. The analysis unit is for analyzing the ingredient.
In an embodiment of the invention, the component is blood plasma. The object is further adapted to contain a reagent. The motor is adapted to drive the tray to rotate so as to mix the blood plasma and the reagent.
In an embodiment of the invention, the tray has a projection and a groove adjacent to each other. The projection is adapted to support the object. The liquid moves to the cover, and flows to the groove from the cover.
In an embodiment of the invention, the cover includes a top wall and at least a side wall. The side wall is connected to a side of the top wall, wherein the side wall is adapted to guide the liquid to flow to the groove.
In an embodiment of the invention, a bottom of the side wall has a guiding plate. The guiding plate tilts from the bottom of the side wall towards the groove.
In an embodiment of the invention, a bottom of the side wall has a guiding plate. The guiding plate is parallel to the top wall.
In an embodiment of the invention, the tray has a positioning slot. The object has a protrusion portion adapted to insert into the positioning slot to position the object on the tray.
In an embodiment of the invention, the positioning slot passes through the tray. The motor is located under the tray and connected to the object through the positioning slot.
In an embodiment of the invention, the tray is slidably disposed in the main body and suitable for sliding relative to the main body to move into or out of the main body. When the tray moves into the main body, the object supported on the tray is aligned to the cover.
In an embodiment of the invention, the cover is detachably assembled in the main body.
Based on the above, in the blood analysis equipment of the invention, the object for containing the tested blood is supported by the tray of the rotating device, and the cover covers the object. Therefore, when the motor drives the object to rotate, the cover prevents the liquid (such as medicinal liquid or other blood) adhered to the object from being tossed to other elements in the main body due to the centrifugation force, which ensures that the inside of the main body is clean, prevents the blood analysis equipment from becoming moldy or bacteria from growing, and makes the blood analysis equipment have a better analysis accuracy.
In order to make the aforementioned features and advantages of the invention more comprehensible, embodiments accompanying figures are described in detail below.
The accompanying drawings constituting a part of this specification are incorporated herein to provide a further understanding of the invention. Here, the drawings illustrate embodiments of the invention and, together with the description, serve to explain the principles of the invention.
The motor 118 is disposed in the main body 112 and is adapted to drive the object 20 to rotate for separating an ingredient 52 from the tested blood 50, and the analysis unit 120 is adapted to analyze the ingredient 52. More specifically, when the motor 118 drives the object 20 to rotate, the ingredient 52 in the tested blood 50, with the help of centrifugation force, flows from a central part of the object 20 to an edge part of the object 20 through a channel 22. In
When the motor 118 drives the object 20 to rotate, the cover 116 prevents the liquid 30 (such as medicinal liquid or other blood) adhered to the object 20 from being tossed to the main body 112 due to the centrifugation force, which ensures that the inside of the main body 112 is clean, prevents the liquid 30 from adhering to other elements in the blood analysis equipment 100 and causing the elements to be moldy or bacteria to grow, and makes the blood analysis equipment 100 have a better analysis accuracy.
In the present embodiment, the ingredient 52 separated from the tested blood 50 is, for example, blood plasma, and the object 20 is further adapted to contain a reagent 24. When the motor 118 drives the tray 114 to rotate and makes the ingredient 52 to be separated to flow to the edge part of the object 20, the ingredient 52 mixes with the reagent 24 so as to facilitate an analysis.
In the present embodiment, the tray 114 has a projection 114a, a groove 114b, and a positioning slot 114c. The projection 114a is adapted to support the object 20 to move into and out of the main body 112. The positioning slot 114c passes through the tray 114, and the object 20 has a protrusion portion 26 which is adapted to insert into the positioning slot 114c to position the object 20 on the tray 114. The motor 118 is located under the tray 114 and connected to the object 20 through the positioning slot 114c. When the motor 118 drives the tray 114 to rotate, the liquid 30 is tossed to the cover 116 with the help of centrifugation force and flows from the cover 116 to the groove 114b (as indicated by the dashed arrow).
More specifically, the cover 116 includes a top wall 116a and two side walls 116b. The two side walls 116b are connected to two sides of the top wall 116a respectively; a bottom of each of the side walls 116b has a guiding plate 116c which is parallel to the top wall 116a. In this way, the liquid 30 tossed off the object 20 to the cover 116 may flow to the groove 114b through the guidance of each of the side walls 116b and their guiding plates 116c. In addition, the cover 116 of the present embodiment is assembled in the main body 112 in, for example, a detachable way, such as being disposed on a rail or fixed with hooks. When the cover 116 is to be detached, the hooks are pushed to release the cover 116, or the cover 116 slides out along the rail, which facilitates the installment, detachment and cleaning of the cover 116.
The invention does not limit shapes and sizes of the side walls of the cover. Examples with reference to the drawings are provided below to further illustrate it.
Based on the above, in the blood analysis equipment of the invention, the object for containing the tested blood is supported by the tray of the rotating device, and the cover covers the object. Therefore, when the motor drives the object to rotate, the cover prevents the liquid (such as medicinal liquid or other blood) adhered to the object from being tossed to other elements in the main body due to the centrifugation force, which ensures that the inside of the main body is clean, prevents the blood analysis equipment from becoming moldy or bacteria from growing, and makes the blood analysis equipment have a better analysis accuracy.
Though the invention has been disclosed above by the embodiments, they are not intended to limit the invention. It will be apparent to one of ordinary skill in the art that modifications and variations to the described embodiments may be made without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention. Therefore, the protecting range of the invention falls in the appended claims.
| Number | Date | Country | Kind |
|---|---|---|---|
| 201210017855.6 | Jan 2012 | CN | national |
