KR101089802B1 - An assembly apparatus for medical electrode - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a medical electrode assembly device for automatically assembling a snap and an electrode element to a base.
The apparatus comprises: a first drum 40 having a plurality of seating blocks 41 on which the electrode elements 4 are seated; First supply means for continuously supplying the electrode element 4 to each seating block 41; A plurality of seating grooves 51 provided in parallel to the first drum 40 and rotated at the same speed as the first drum 40 and the snap 1 is seated at the same interval as the seating block 41 on the same circumferential surface. The formed second drum 50; And a second supply means for continuously supplying the snap 1 to each seating groove 51.
According to the present invention, the assembling apparatus for medical electrodes has the electrode element 4 and the snap 1 continuously from the first and second guide rails 61 and 71 when the first and second drums 40 and 50 are intermittently rotated. By supplying to each of the mounting block 41 and the mounting groove 51, the electrode element 4 and the snap 1 is continuously assembled to the base 3, thereby improving the productivity of the medical electrode than the conventional device.

Description

An assembly apparatus for medical electrode

The present invention relates to a device for assembling a medical electrode that can automatically manufacture a bio-electrode composed of various components such as a snap, a base, an electrode element, and a biocompatible conductive polymer gel adhesive. The present invention relates to a device for assembling medical electrodes that can be automatically assembled to a base.

Medical electrodes that measure the biopotential need to be directly connected to a part of the living body in order to induce weak electric signals efficiently and guide them to an electrocardiogram, etc., but only by contacting the medical electrodes to the skin, Since the living body is not electrically bonded and complex potentials or impedances are generated due to unstable contact between the medical electrode and the skin, electrical signals cannot be measured accurately.

Therefore, the medical electrodes are not irritating to the skin and at the same time, the medical electrodes are brought into close contact with the skin to attach a stable electric signal to the living body through the conductive polymer gel adhesive which can be induced from the living body to the external device.

Medical electrodes employing such conductive polymer gel adhesives are shown in FIGS. 1 to 3. The medical electrode 10 is formed in the form of a foam pad, a woven fabric, a nonwoven fabric, and a tape, and is coated on one surface of an acrylic biocompatible adhesive 3a and attached to the other surface of the base 3 to evaporate moisture. The back of the polymer material with the logo printed on it, and the snap of the stainless steel material or nickel-coated brass material provided at the center of the mutually attached base 3 and the reinforcement material 2 to be fixed to each other. 1) and an exposed surface of the electrode element 4 to which silver / silver chloride is coated on the glass fiber-reinforced plastic, and a lead wire (not shown) connecting the ECG and the electrode is connected. The conductive polymer gel adhesive (5) provided to cover the, and the polymer gel adhesive (5) and the release film 6 of the polymeric material attached to protect the remaining adhesive portion of the base (3).

As described above, the medical electrode 10 composed of the snap 1, the reinforcing material 2, the base 3, the electrode element 4, the conductive polymer gel adhesive 5, and the release film 6 is provided with each component. Sequentially supplied and transported within the assembled automatically assembled electrode is made.

An apparatus for manufacturing such an electrode is disclosed in Korean Patent Registration No. 10-0458262.

In particular, FIGS. 4A-4D and 5 of the disclosed manufacturing apparatus combine the snap 1 and the electrode element 4 to a slit hole 3c (see FIG. 3) formed in the center of the base 3 and the reinforcement 2. The binding unit is shown.

The coupling unit 110 receives the snap 1 to vibrate and has a first vibration hopper 111 having a first guide 111 a for guiding the snap 1 downward to face the sticker 2. And a second vibration having a second guide 112a for receiving and supplying the electrode element 4 to vibrate and guiding the electrode element 4 above the base sheet 30 corresponding to the snap 1. And a hopper 112.

And between the vibration hopper (111, 112) is provided with a support block 113, which is supported by a pneumatic cylinder 114 for adsorbing the electrode element 4, and the lifting cylinder 118 is provided below the support block 113 The lifting block 115 which is lifted along the guide rods 116 and 117 is provided.

The elevating block 115 has an upper plate 115a and a lower plate 115b formed therebetween, and the base sheet 30 to which the reinforcing material 2 is attached is passed therebetween, and an electrode element is formed on the upper surface of the upper plate 115a. A first movable guide plate 119 to which 4) is supplied is provided, and a through hole 115c through which the electrode element 4 passes is formed.

In addition, the pusher 126 is provided on the upper plate 115a to push the electrode element 4 supplied from the second guide 112a toward the first guide plate 119. These pushers 126 and the first guide plate 119 are reciprocated by cylinders 128 and 127.

The lower plate 115b is provided with a mounting groove 115d through which the snap 1 is supplied from the first guide 111a. Although not shown in the lower plate 115b, a pusher for supplying the snack 1 supplied from the first guide 111a to the seating groove 115d is provided in the same manner as in the upper plate 115a.

The lower plate 115b of the elevating block 115 is elevated to the bottom surface of the base sheet 30, and the electrode element 4 supplied to the first guide plate 119 is lowered while being adsorbed to the pneumatic cylinder 114. Thus, a portion of the electrode element 4 is coupled to the snap 1 through the base sheet 30 and the reinforcing material 2 through the slit hole 3c.

However, the coupling unit as described above, after the electrode element 4 and the snap 1 are supplied to the upper plate 115a and the lower plate 115b of the elevating block 115, respectively, the elevating block 115 raises the electrode element. (4) and the snap (1) is combined, and then only after the elevating block 115 is lowered to its original position, the new electrode element 4 and the snap (1) can be supplied to the upper plate 115a and the lower plate 115b again. As a result, productivity is limited.

Korea Patent Registration No. 10-0458262

The present invention has been made to solve the above problems, an object of the present invention is to provide a medical electrode assembly device to improve the productivity of the medical electrode by improving the coupling speed of the electrode element and the snap.

In the present invention to achieve the above object, in the assembly apparatus of the medical electrode for coupling the electrode element having a pin portion on the base coated with an adhesive on the bottom to be adhered to the skin of the body and a snap formed with the coupling groove, mutually,

A first drum which is rotated by power and has a plurality of seating blocks on which the electrode elements are seated at regular intervals on the same circumferential surface; First supply means for continuously supplying the electrode elements to the seating blocks; A second drum provided in parallel with the first drum and having a plurality of seating grooves rotated at the same speed as the first drum and seated at the same interval as the seating block on the same circumferential surface; And second supply means for continuously supplying the snaps to the respective seating grooves.

The pin portion of the electrode element penetrates from one surface of the base and engages with the snap located on the other side of the base while driving the base between the first drum and the second drum.

In the device of the present invention, the first drum is formed in a cylindrical shape, and each of the seating blocks has a through hole communicating with the inside of the first drum, and the inside of the first drum is made into a vacuum rather than the outside at atmospheric pressure. The electrode device is characterized in that the vacuum suction to the seating block.

In addition, the device of the present invention, the second drum is formed in a cylindrical shape, each seating groove is formed with a suction hole communicating with the inside of the second drum, the inside of the second drum is made of a vacuum than the outside the snap is It is characterized in that the vacuum suction to the seating groove.

In addition, the upper surface of the second drum is provided with an alignment plate in contact with the tip is rotatable, characterized in that the snap derailed from the seating groove is seated in the seating groove by the alignment plate.

The first supply means includes a first hopper accommodating the electrode elements and applying vibration to align the electrode elements, and electrode elements connected to the first hopper and aligned in line with the vibration. A first guide rail guiding to an upper side of the first guide rod, a first guide rod provided at an upper side of the first guide rail and the first drum, a first movable block movably coupled to the first guide rod, and the movement A first pneumatic cylinder coupled to the block for adsorbing an electrode element from the first guide rail and supplying the electrode element to the seating block;

The second supply means accommodates the snaps and applies a vibration to the second hopper to align the snaps, and connected to the second hopper to guide the snaps aligned in a line with the vibration to the upper side of the second drum A second guide rail, a second guide rod provided on an upper side of the second guide rail and the second drum, a second movable block movably coupled to the second guide rod, and coupled to the second movable block And a second pneumatic cylinder which sucks a snap from the second guide rail and supplies the snap groove to the seating groove.

According to the present invention, an assembly device for medical electrodes is provided with electrode elements and snaps continuously supplied from the first and second guide rails to respective seating blocks and seating grooves when the first and second drums are intermittently rotated, whereby the electrode elements and the snaps are formed on the base. Since it is continuously assembled to improve the productivity of the medical electrode than the conventional device.

1 is a perspective view showing a conventional medical electrode,
Fig. 2 is a sectional view of Fig. 1,
3 is an exploded perspective view of FIG. 1;
4a to 4d are cross-sectional views of an operating state of a conventional device for coupling an electrode element and a snap;
5 is a perspective view of the conventional device of FIG.
6 is a schematic cross-sectional view of the device of the present invention;
FIG. 7 is a schematic perspective view illustrating the first and second drum parts of FIG. 6;
8 is a cross-sectional view showing a mounting block and a mounting groove portion of the first and second drums;
9 is another embodiment of a second drum portion,
10 is a perspective view of the base to which the reinforcing material is attached;
FIG. 11 is a rear perspective view of FIG. 10.

The medical electrode applied to the embodiment of the present invention has a structure as shown in FIGS. In addition, assembling can be performed more quickly and continuously than in the prior art, thereby improving the productivity of the medical electrode.

1 to 3, the electrode element 4 has a pin portion protruding upward, and the snap 1 has a structure in which a coupling groove to which the pin portion is coupled is formed.

3, 6 and 7 showing the assembling apparatus of the embodiment of the present invention, the apparatus is rotated by power and a plurality of seating blocks on which the electrode elements 4 are seated at regular intervals on the same circumferential surface ( A first drum 40 formed with 41; First supply means for continuously supplying the electrode elements (4) to the seating blocks (41); A plurality of seating grooves provided in parallel to the first drum 40 and rotated at the same speed as the first drum 40 and the snap 1 is seated on the same circumferential surface at the same interval as the seating block 41. A second drum (50) in which (51) is formed; And second supply means for continuously supplying the snaps 1 to the seating recesses 51, respectively.

Referring to FIG. 7, the first drum 40 and the second drum 50 are rotated at the same rotational speed by gears 45 and 55 engaged with each other.

Between the first drum 40 and the second drum 50, as shown in FIG. 10, a sheet having a reinforcing material 2 attached to one surface of the base 3 passes therethrough, wherein the electrode element 4 The pin portion penetrates from one surface of the base 3 and engages with the snap 1 located on the other surface side of the base 3.

Meanwhile, as shown in FIG. 6, the slit holes 2b and 3c (see FIG. 3) are formed by the punch 210 so that the pin portion of the electrode element 4 can easily penetrate the base 3.

7 and 8, the first drum 40 is formed in a cylindrical shape, and each of the seating blocks 41 has a through hole 41a communicating with the inside of the first drum 40. The inside of the first drum 40 is made to be vacuum than the outside at atmospheric pressure so that the electrode element 4 is vacuum-adsorbed to the seating block 41.

In addition, the second drum 50 is formed in a cylindrical shape, and each of the seating grooves 51 is provided with a suction hole 50a communicating with the inside of the second drum 50, and the second drum 50. By making the inside of the vacuum than the outside so that the snap (1) is vacuum-adsorbed to the seating groove (51).

The first supply means accommodates the electrode elements 4 and applies a vibration to the first hopper 60 for aligning the electrode elements 4, and is connected to the first hopper 60 so that the vibration is applied in a row. A first guide rail 61 for guiding the electrode elements 4 arranged in the upper side to the upper side of the first drum 40, and an upper side of the first guide rail 61 and the first drum 40. The first guide rod 82 to be moved, The first movable block 80 is movably coupled to the first guide rod 82, The first guide rail 61 is coupled to the movable block 80 And a first pneumatic cylinder (81) for sucking the electrode element (4) therefrom and supplying it to the seating block (41).

The second supply means is connected to the second hopper 70 and the second hopper 70 to receive the snap (1) and apply the vibration to align the snap (1) aligned in a line A second guide rail 71 for guiding the snaps 1 to the upper side of the second drum 50, and a second guide rail 71 provided on the upper side of the second guide rail 71 and the second drum 50. A guide rod 92, a second movable block 90 movably coupled to the second guide rod 92, and a second movable block 90 coupled to the second movable block 90 from the second guide rail 71. A second pneumatic cylinder 91 for sucking the snap 1 and supplying it to the seating groove 51 is provided.

Meanwhile, referring to FIG. 9, on the upper surface of the second drum 50, an alignment plate 200 whose tip is close to (or in contact with) the surface of the second drum 50 is rotatably provided, and thus the seating is performed. The snap 1 derailed from the groove 51 is stably seated in the seating groove 51 by the alignment plate 200.

The assembly apparatus of the medical electrode of the present invention configured as described above is operated as follows.

First, as shown in FIGS. 6, 10, and 11, the sheet having the reinforcing material 2 attached to the surface of the base 3 is allowed to travel between the first drum 40 and the second drum 50. The electrode element 4 and the snap 1 are supplied to the first drum 40 and the second drum 50, respectively, while the first drum 40 and the second drum 50 are rotated.

The electrode elements 4 accommodated in the first hopper 60 are guided toward the first drum 40 along the first guide rail 61 while being aligned by vibration, and the snaps 1 received in the second hopper 70. They are guided toward the second drum 50 along the second guide rail 71 while being aligned by vibration.

The electrode element 4 located at the tip of the first guide rail 61 is adsorbed by the first pneumatic cylinder 81 and supplied to the seating block 41, and similarly positioned at the tip of the second guide rail 71. The snap 1 is sucked by the second pneumatic cylinder 91 is supplied to the seating groove (51).

The first and second pneumatic cylinders 81 and 91 may be moved left and right by the first and second moving blocks 80 and 90, and may be moved up and down by the operation of a cylinder. The first and second movable blocks 80 and 90 may be moved along the first and second guide rods 82 and 92 by a linear motor or a cylinder operation.

On the other hand, the vacuum by the air suction is formed in each of the first drum 40 and the second drum 50, the electrode element 4 and the snap (1) is a seating block 41 and a seating groove ( 51 can be stably coupled.

In particular, referring to Figures 8 and 9, the snap (1) can be unstable landing when seated in the seating groove 51 from the second pneumatic cylinder (91), in this case the alignment plate 200 The unstable landed snap (1) can be stably coupled to the seating groove (51).

As described above, the electrode elements 4 and the snaps 1 supplied to the first and second drums 40 and 50 are coupled to each other while being adjacent to each other. Through the slit holes 2b and 3c of (2), it is coupled to the snap 1.

The coupling between the electrode element 4 and the snap 1 is made continuously while the first and second drums 40 and 50 are rotated.

After the electrode element 4 and the snap 1 are assembled to the reinforcing material 2 and the base 3, referring to FIG. 3, a process of attaching the adhesive material 5 and the release film 6 is usually performed. Is made through the device.

In the above-described apparatus for assembling the medical electrode of the present invention, when the first and second drums 40 and 50 are intermittently rotated, the electrode element 4 and the snap 1 are first and second guide rails 61 and 71. By supplying to each of the seating block 41 and the mounting groove 51 in succession, the electrode element 4 and the snap (1) is continuously assembled to the base (3), the productivity of the medical electrode than the conventional device Improve.

1 ... snap 4 ... electrode element
40 ... the first drum 50 ... the second drum
60 ... Hopper 70 ... Hopper 2
80 ... 1st moving block 90 ... 2nd moving block

Claims (5)

In the assembling apparatus of the medical electrode which mutually couples the electrode element (4) having a pin portion and the snap (1) formed with a coupling groove on the base (3) to which the adhesive is applied to the skin of the body so as to adhere to the skin of the body,
A first drum 40 which is rotated by power and has a plurality of seating blocks 41 on which the electrode elements 4 are seated at predetermined intervals on the same circumferential surface;
First supply means for continuously supplying the electrode elements (4) to the seating blocks (41);
A plurality of seating grooves provided in parallel to the first drum 40 and rotated at the same speed as the first drum 40 and the snap 1 is seated on the same circumferential surface at the same interval as the seating block 41. A second drum (50) in which (51) is formed;
And second supply means for continuously supplying the snaps 1 to the seating recesses 51,
While driving the base 3 between the first drum 40 and the second drum 50, the pin portion of the electrode element 4 penetrates from one surface of the base 3 so that the other surface side of the base 3 passes. Assembly device for medical electrodes, characterized in that coupled to the snap (1) located in. The method of claim 1, wherein the first drum 40 is formed in a cylindrical shape, each of the seating block 41 is formed with a through hole 41a in communication with the interior of the first drum 40,
Assembly apparatus of the medical electrode, characterized in that the electrode element (4) is vacuum-adsorbed to the seating block 41 by making the inside of the first drum (40) a vacuum than the outside of the atmospheric pressure. The method of claim 2, wherein the second drum 50 is formed in a cylindrical shape, each seating groove 51 is formed with a suction hole (50a) in communication with the interior of the second drum (50),
Assembly of the medical electrode, characterized in that the inside of the second drum (50) to be vacuum than the outside so that the snap (1) is vacuum-adsorbed in the seating groove (51). According to claim 3, wherein the alignment plate 200, the front end of which is in contact with the upper surface of the second drum 50 is provided so as to be rotatable,
Assembly device for medical electrodes, characterized in that the snap (1) derailed from the seating groove (51) is seated in the seating groove (51) by the alignment plate (200). 5. The first hopper 60 according to any one of claims 1 to 4, wherein the first supply means accommodates the electrode elements 4 and vibrates to align the electrode elements 4 with the first hopper 60; The first guide rail 61 and the first guide rail 61 connected to the hopper 60 to guide the electrode elements 4 arranged in a line as the vibration is applied to the upper side of the first drum 40. And a first guide rod 82 provided on an upper side of the first drum 40, a first movable block 80 movably coupled to the first guide rod 82, and the movable block ( And a first pneumatic cylinder 81 coupled to 80 to suck the electrode element 4 from the first guide rail 61 and to supply it to the seating block 41.
The second supply means is connected to the second hopper 70 and the second hopper 70 to receive the snap (1) and apply the vibration to align the snap (1) aligned in a line A second guide rail 71 for guiding the snaps 1 to the upper side of the second drum 50, and a second guide rail 71 provided on the upper side of the second guide rail 71 and the second drum 50. A guide rod 92, a second movable block 90 movably coupled to the second guide rod 92, and a second movable block 90 coupled to the second movable block 90 from the second guide rail 71. And a second pneumatic cylinder (91) for adsorbing a snap (1) and supplying it to the seating groove (51).

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