Design of a mechanism for sorting and filling of pipette tips into racks

2019 5th Conference on Knowledge Based Engineering and Innovation (KBEI) Pub Date : 2019-02-01 DOI:10.1109/KBEI.2019.8735053

Mohammad Ghanatian, S. Taghvaei, S. Haghpanah

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Pipettes are tools that are used for transporting a measured volume of liquid and they are widely used in laboratories. Pipettes have a disposable tip that is called "pipette tip". A huge number of these pipette tips are kept in a container called "rack". Putting the pipette tips in a rack is a task done several times a day by lab technicians and each time 96 pipette tips should be placed in a rack. As this task is very boring and repetitive, engineers wondered if they can design a mechanized device for doing this chore. This research will describe the design of a one degree of freedom mechanism for sorting and finally filling pipette tips in racks. Since one degree of freedom mechanisms can operate with a single ordinary motor, the mechanism designed in this research has the benefits of high simplicity and low manufacturing cost. After putting the pipette tips in this mechanism and also placing a rack in its specified position and following this, activating the motor, the lab technician can get the rack while the pipette tips are placed in their particular positions.

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设计一种将移液器头分拣并装入架子的机构

移液器是用于输送测量体积的液体的工具，在实验室中广泛使用。移液器有一个一次性的尖端，称为“移液器尖端”。大量的移液管被保存在一个叫做“架子”的容器里。把移液头放在架子上是实验室技术人员每天要做好几次的工作，每次要把96个移液头放在架子上。由于这项工作非常无聊和重复，工程师们想知道他们是否可以设计一种机械化的设备来做这项工作。本研究将描述一个单自由度机构的设计，用于在机架中分选和最终填充吸管头。由于一个自由度的机构可以在单个普通电机上运行，因此本研究设计的机构具有简单性高、制造成本低的优点。在把移液头放在这个机构里，并把一个架子放在它的指定位置之后，激活马达，实验室技术人员就可以在移液头放在它们的特定位置时得到架子。

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