JPH02176468A - Containing apparatus for columnar material - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To attach and remove a columnar material by one touch and to make it possible to attach and remove a slide cartridge by simple operation by providing protruding strips on the side surface of a containing apparatus for the columnar material, and providing an energizing means and a rotating stopper in a holding member. CONSTITUTION:Two cartridge holding parts 101 and 102 are provided in a cartridge containing apparatus 110 which houses slide cartridges 2 so that the cartridges can be attached and removed freely. The two cartridges 2 can be housed at the same time. Protruding strips 5, 6 and 7 are formed on the side surface which is in parallel with the inserting direction into the holding parts 101 and 102 for the cartridges 2. A plurality of chemical analysis slides 1 are mounted on a compressing coil bar 4 in the cartridge 2. Slide discharging slits 2a are provided at the upper end parts of two facing side surfaces. A planar stopper 106 can be freely rotated with a central part 106a as the center. Recess parts 106b and 106c are formed at two facing end parts in the longitudinal direction. The stopper 106 is attached to the containar apparatus. Thus the apparatus is made compact, and the cartridges can be attached and removed by one touch.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION (Industrial Application Field) The present invention relates to a columnar object storage device that holds a columnar object in a detachable manner, and more specifically, a columnar object storage device that can be attached and detached with a single touch. It is related to.

(Prior Art) Conventionally, a columnar object storage device that allows a columnar object such as a cartridge to enter a predetermined mounting direction and detachably hold it in a holding portion has been widely used in various fields. In addition, in these storage devices, by pushing the columnar object into the holding part, the locking of the columnar object to the device is completed, and by pushing the columnar object into the device again, the lock state of the columnar object to the device is released. There is a known device that allows the columnar object to be taken out with one touch, so to speak.

(Problems to be Solved by the Invention) In the above-mentioned storage device, the mechanism for attaching and detaching the columnar object with one touch usually includes an engaging member that engages the columnar object and a biasing means. The present invention aims to provide a columnar object storage device equipped with a novel attachment/detachment mechanism that can make the device more compact, especially in the direction perpendicular to the columnar object installation direction, by improving the structure of the above mechanism. This is the purpose.

(Means for Solving the Problems) The columnar object storage device of the present invention includes a columnar object that extends in the mounting direction on one side surface of the columnar object parallel to the mounting direction in the mounting direction. At the same time, two protrusions extending in the mounting direction and substantially opposing each other are formed on the rear portion of the one side surface in the mounting direction, and the mounting of the columnar object in the holding part is A biasing means for biasing the columnar object in a direction opposite to the mounting direction is provided on an inner wall surface facing the directional tip surface, and a biasing means is provided on an inner wall surface of the holding section that may be opposed to the one side surface of the columnar object. , a plate-shaped stopper is attached which is rotatable about a point in the center and has a pair of recesses formed at two mutually opposing ends in the longitudinal direction and is engageable with each of the protrusions. When the stopper is arranged with its longitudinal direction parallel to the mounting direction of the columnar object, two of the two protrusions and the one protrusion in the mounting direction The biasing means overlaps only one of the two protrusions, and when rotated from that position, can overlap the other of the two protrusions and the one protrusion in the mounting direction, and the biasing means
The present invention is characterized in that when the columnar object is attached, one of the two protrusions is provided at a position where it can be pressed by the tip end surface of the columnar object before it comes into contact with the stopper.

(Function) When a columnar object is entered into the above-mentioned accommodation device while resisting the urging force of the urging means with the stopper aligned with its longitudinal direction parallel to the installation direction of the columnar object, the above-mentioned 1. The protrusions of the book pass along the sides of the stopper, and one of the two protrusions contacts one of the concave portions of the stopper to rotate the stopper. After that, when the pressing force is released,
The columnar object urged by the urging means moves, and the protrusion of the second book located below the stopper engages with the other concave portion of the stopper from the urging direction, so that the columnar object is moved. It is held within the holding part. Further, when the columnar object is pushed into the holding section again, the two protrusions abut against the longitudinal end face of the stopper from the installation direction of the columnar object, and when the pressing force is released thereafter, the biasing means Due to the urging force of
The above-mentioned protrusion comes into contact with the stopper from the urging direction and rotates the stopper, causing the columnar object to protrude out of the holding section, and the columnar object becomes ready to be taken out from the device.

In this way, in this storage device, the above-mentioned protrusion is formed on the side surface of the columnar object, and the above-mentioned urging means and rotating stopper are provided in the holding part, so that the columnar object can be attached and detached with one touch. be able to. In addition, this storage device is only increased in size by the thickness of one stopper in the direction perpendicular to the mounting direction of the columnar object, and is extremely suitable when it is desired to make the size of the storage device compact in this direction. be.

(Example) Hereinafter, an example of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a columnar object storage device and a slide cartridge, which is a columnar object, according to an embodiment of the present invention.

The accommodation device in this embodiment is
No. 55-184358, etc.,
This is a cartridge storage device 100 that removably stores a slide cartridge 2 formed by stacking a plurality of slides for biochemical analysis vertically and storing two slides. Cartridges 2 can be accommodated at the same time.

As shown in FIG. 2(a), the slide cartridge 2 is made up of a plurality of chemical analysis slides 1 placed on a support base 4 which is biased upward by a compression coil spring 3, and is arranged so as to face each other. A slide discharge slit 2a and a push-out upper lever entry slit 2b are formed at the upper ends of the two side surfaces. The push-out lever 103 that has entered through the push-out lever entry slit 2b pushes the chemical analysis slide 1 located at the top of the cartridge, and this chemical analysis slide 1 is ejected from the slide cartridge 2 through the slide ejection slit 2a. If you push up the chemical analysis slides from below and take out the slides placed at the top one by one, as in this slide cartridge 2, even if the number of slides decreases, the slides will not collapse. Slides can be ejected to the end reliably. FIG. 2(b) shows a state in which all the chemical analysis slides have been taken out from the slide cartridge 2, and the slide cartridge 2 thus emptied is taken out from the slide cartridge storage device 100.

As shown in FIG. 1, the cartridge accommodating device 100 of this embodiment includes two cartridge holding sections 101 and 1.
02 and is rotatable around the rotation axis X, and includes two cartridge holding parts 10.
1 and 102 are formed symmetrically about this rotation axis. Further, each cartridge holding section 101, 102 is
Each holds one slide cartridge 2, and a slide ejection opening 104 is provided on the wall surface of each holding portion at a position overlapping with the slide ejection slit 2a of each slide cartridge 2 to allow the slide to be ejected.
However, push-out lever entry openings 105 that allow the push-out lever 103 to enter are formed at positions overlapping with the push-out lever entry slits 2b. The rotational holding member 11O, which accommodates the slide cartridge 2 in each of the cartridge holding parts 101 and 102, rotates by tgo' around the rotation axis X, thereby alternately pushing out both the cartridge holding parts lot and 102. It is arranged at a slide ejection position facing the lever 103. If the slide cartridge storage device is provided with two cartridge holding parts in this manner, while a chemical analysis slide is being taken out from one slide cartridge, the other cartridge can be replaced, and the rotating holding member By appropriately rotating the slide 110 by 180'', new chemical analysis slides can be supplied one after another, which is convenient.

By the way, the slide cartridge accommodating device of this embodiment has the cartridge holding section 1 of the slide cartridge 2.
It has a structure that allows loading and unloading into and out of slide cartridges 01 and 102 by simply pushing the top surface of each slide cartridge. The cartridge attachment/detachment mechanism of this storage device will be described below.

Cartridge holding part 1 of the slide cartridge 2
On one side parallel to the charging direction to 01 and 102, there are two protrusions 5 and 6 on the upper part and one protrusion 7 on the lower part.
is formed extending in a direction parallel to the charging direction. The two protrusions 5 and 6 are formed to face each other and have the same length, and one protrusion 6 is formed on the same straight line as the protrusion 7. Along with this, the inner wall surface of each of the cartridge holding parts 101 and 102, which faces the surface on which the protrusion of the slide cartridge is formed, includes:
A plate-shaped stopper 10B is attached which is freely rotatable about the center portion 106a and has recesses 108b and 108e formed at two opposing ends thereof in the longitudinal direction. Further, a spring member 107 having a built-in spring is provided on the bottom surface of each of the cartridge holders 101 and 102 as a biasing means. Hereinafter, with reference to FIG. 3, the slide cartridge 2 with respect to the cartridge holding parts 101 and 102
This section explains how to attach and detach the .

When the slide cartridge 2 is pressed from above and enters the cartridge holder, the spring member 107 is in the extended position, and the stopper 10B is in the two recesses 106b, as shown in FIG. 3(a). , 108c
They are located facing up and down, respectively. Further, when the slide cartridge 2 enters, the protrusion 7 on the lower part of the cartridge forms the recesses LO6b and 106c as described above.
It passes by the side of the stopper 108, which is located in the vertical direction, without coming into contact with the stopper 108. In addition, the above two protrusions 5
, 6, the left protrusion 5 is located at a position vertically overlapping the stopper 106 in the above-mentioned position, and when the slide cartridge 2 is further pressed and descends as shown in FIG. 3(b), this protrusion 5 The strip 5 contacts the concave portion 106b of the stopper 10B and rotates the stopper 10B in the counterclockwise direction. The slide cartridge 2 rotates the stopper 10G as described above and rotates the spring member 1 as shown in the figure.
Stop the descent at the most compressed position of 07. Subsequently, when the pressing force on the slide cartridge 2 is released in the state shown in FIG. 3(b), the slide cartridge 2 is pushed upward by the urging force of the spring portion +4'107 as shown in FIG. 3(c). . At this time, the protrusion 7 contacts the diagonally inclined concave portion 1OGc of the stopper 10B from below to rotate the stopper 10G counterclockwise, and the end of the concave portion 10Bc contacts the protrusion 7. As a result, the slide cartridge 2 is locked in the illustrated position. That is, the position shown in FIG. 3(c) is the holding position in the cartridge holding portion of the slide cartridge 2, and at this position, the chemical analysis slide is taken out from the slide cartridge 2 as described above. Also, from the state shown in Fig. 3(a) to Fig. 3(c)
The state shown in is achieved by pressing the slide cartridge 2 from above and immediately releasing it, so that the slide cartridge 2 can be loaded into the cartridge holder with a single touch.

On the other hand, when taking out the slide cartridge from the cartridge holding part, if the slide cartridge 2 is pressed downward again, two protrusions 5 will appear as shown in FIG. 3(d).
, 6 come into contact with the longitudinal end surface of the stopper 10B, the slide cartridge stops descending.

When the pressing force on the slide cartridge 2 is released at this lowering stop position, the slide cartridge 2 is pushed upward by the biasing force of the spring member 107, as shown in FIG. 3(e). At this time, the protrusion 7 contacts the stopper 106 from below and rotates it counterclockwise, so that the stopper 106 forms two recesses 106b and 106.
With the slide cartridge 2 facing upward and downward again, the slide cartridge 2 protrudes upward from the cartridge holding portion and is in a state where it can be pulled upward without contacting the stopper 106.

The state shown in FIG. 3(C) to the state shown in FIG. 3(e) is achieved by pushing in the slide cartridge 2 from above and immediately releasing it, so that the slide cartridge can be held with one touch. It is in a state where it protrudes outside and can be taken out.

As described above, in this embodiment, a protrusion is provided on one side of the slide cartridge, and the cartridge holding portion is provided with a stopper and biasing means that can engage with this protrusion, so that the slide cartridge can be easily moved. Attachment and detachment can be performed by extremely simple operations. In addition, in order to provide the above-mentioned attachment/detachment mechanism, the cartridge holder only needs to be made larger by the thickness of one stopper in the direction perpendicular to the cartridge attachment direction, so it becomes extremely compact in the above direction, and especially As in the above embodiment, this embodiment is extremely suitable for cases where two cartridge holders are arranged in series and used by rotating them appropriately.

It goes without saying that the storage device of the present invention may include only one cartridge holding section.

Moreover, the columnar object accommodated in the accommodation device is not limited to the above-mentioned slide cartridge, but may be any columnar object that can be detachably accommodated in the accommodation device. Further, the shape thereof may be any columnar shape such as a cylinder or a square column as long as it forms a protrusion that can be engaged with the stopper. Furthermore, the mounting direction of the columnar object may be horizontal. Further, the length and position of each protrusion are adjusted as appropriate depending on the shape of the stopper and the position at which it is attached. For example, the two protrusions described above may have different lengths. In addition, the lowermost position of the columnar object in the holding section is the position where the biasing means can be compressed the least as described above, and a locking means for the columnar object is provided in the holding section to prevent such locking. The position may be regulated by means.

(Effects of the Invention) As explained above, according to the columnar object storage device of the present invention, the size of the device is kept compact in the direction perpendicular to the direction in which the columnar object is attached, and the columnar object can be attached and detached with one touch. be able to.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

Fig. 1 is a perspective view of a slide cartridge and a slide cartridge storage device which is a storage device according to an embodiment of the present invention; Figs. 2(a) and (b) are sectional views of the slide cartridge; Fig. 3(a), (b), (c), (d),
(e) is a schematic diagram for explaining loading and unloading of the slide cartridge into the cartridge holding section. 1...Chemical analysis slide 2...Slide cartridge 5, 6.7...Protrusion 100...Slide cartridge storage device 101,
102...Cartridge holding part 10B...S
Tops 106b, 106c...Concave portion 107...Spring member Fig. 2(b)

Claims (1)

[Scope of Claims] In a columnar object storage device that receives a columnar object that enters a predetermined mounting direction in a holding part and holds it removably, the columnar object on one side parallel to the mounting direction of the columnar object is A protrusion extending in the mounting direction is formed on the front part in the mounting direction, and a rear part on the one side surface in the mounting direction,
Two protrusions extending in the mounting direction and substantially opposing each other are formed, and the columnar object is mounted in the mounting direction on an inner wall surface opposite to the distal end surface in the mounting direction of the columnar object in the holding section. A biasing means for biasing is provided, and two biasing means are provided on an inner wall surface of the holding part that is opposite to the one side surface of the columnar object, and are rotatable about a point in the center and are opposed to each other in the longitudinal direction. A plate-shaped stopper having a pair of recesses formed at the side end and capable of engaging with each of the protrusions is attached, and the stopper is arranged with its longitudinal direction parallel to the mounting direction of the columnar object. When it is rotated from that position, only one of the two protrusions overlaps with the two protrusions in the mounting direction, and when rotated from that position, the It can overlap with the other of the two protrusions and the one protrusion,
A columnar structure characterized in that the biasing means is provided at a position where it can be pressed by the tip surface before one of the two protrusions comes into contact with the stopper when the columnar object is mounted. Object storage device.