Module For Operational Control Of The Guided Advance/Withdrawal Device Of The Needle Added To The Smart Substance Injection Device On Board Equipment For Inoculating Substances Inside A Fertile Egg And Smart Method For Injection Inside A Fertile Egg
20210368744 · 2021-12-02
Inventors
Cpc classification
A61D7/00
HUMAN NECESSITIES
A61M5/20
HUMAN NECESSITIES
A61M2005/2013
HUMAN NECESSITIES
A61M5/3286
HUMAN NECESSITIES
International classification
A01K45/00
HUMAN NECESSITIES
A61D1/02
HUMAN NECESSITIES
A61M5/20
HUMAN NECESSITIES
Abstract
Module for operational control of the guided advance/withdrawal device of the needle added to the smart substance injection device on board equipment for inoculating substances inside a fertile egg and smart method for injection inside a fertile egg, wherein the “inoculation of substances” inside a fertile egg, be this into the embryo, in the case of vaccines, and even into the amniotic fluid, in the case of a nutrient or nutritional vaccine complex, allows the injection needle (11) to be brought close at a controlled speed.
Claims
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12. A device for intelligently injecting substance inside a fertilized egg, wherein a conventional injector device and an injector body are formed, the lower part of which supports a levelling spring whose lower end has a coupling cup, the interior of which includes a perforator and through which the stem of an injection needle passes through, which is coupled to a needle coupler, wherein the upper part of the injector body is connected to this assembly and the intelligent injection device is mounted, comprising of a stepper motor to which a spindle shaft is mounted perpendicularly to the rotor axis, and wherein the stepper motor is mounted and affixed on a platform which in turn is mounted passively through its holes, through the guide columns and still threaded, through a threaded hole next to the spindle axis, and these onto guides having their bases fixed on the injector body, there being defined a touch sensor, mounted and fixed on the top of a guide column and immediately below the platform, wherein in the starting position of ab inoculation cycle, its upper surface receives interference from the lower surface of this platform and in addition, a position sensor is mounted on the bottom of a guide column, where immediately below the platform a needle support platform is defined on which the needle coupler is mounted and also passively mounted through its holes, through the guide columns and next to the spindle axis.
13. A process for intelligent injection of a substance using the device for intelligently injecting substance into a fertilized egg according to claim 12, wherein for a condition where an embryo is touched, and where the substance to be inoculated is a nutrient or nutritional vaccine complex, the operational kinematics of the substance intelligent injector device according to claim 1 are defined by the following steps: Step 1: Initial setup, wherein the support platform descends until the coupling cup touches the upper surface of the fertile egg, and this condition is established on the platform with the aid of the injector stabilizer device locks the injector in the vertical position; Step 2: Shell drilling, wherein again the support platform, practices a downward movement, taking the drill already in linear motion towards the shell, promoting its drilling; Step 3: Advance of the needle, wherein the stepper motor is activated, providing a rotational movement of the spindle axis that promotes the downward displacement of the needle support platform, which brings with it the needle, where the PLC calculates the displacement having a reference line and the number of electrical pulses sent by the stepper motor; Step 4: Embryo encounter, wherein at the moment when the needle touches the embryo, the mass of the embryo shows resistance to perforation, causing an opposite force next to the needle that displaces the support platform of the needle and the needle coupler upwardly, with also displacement upward from the stepper motor platform, wherein when platform stops having contact with the touch sensor, a signal is sent to the PLC that recognises the embryo encounter, and immediately cuts off the power of the stepper motor, interrupting the needle displacement; Step 5: Retreat for inoculation, wherein the PLC sends a signal for the inversion of the rotation of the stepper motor, and consequent inversion of the rotation of the spindle axis, promoting a discreet displacement of the needle and needle coupler and the consequent slight retreat of the needle, becoming free in the amniotic fluid; Step 6: Inoculation of the substance, wherein having the needle free in the amniotic fluid the PLC emits a signal to the substance injection mechanism, inoculating it; Step 7: Total needle retraction, wherein the PLC sends a signal for the inversion of rotation of the stepper motor, with an inversion of rotation of the spindle axis, promoting a retreat displacement of the needle support platform and the needle coupler and total needle retreat; and Step 8: Retrieval for initial status, wherein the PLC sends a signal to the support platform that describes an upward movement, returning the entire set of the substance inoculation module to its original position, and distancing itself from the fertile egg properly inoculated with nutrient or nutritional vaccine complex.
14. The process for the intelligent injection of a substance inside a fertile egg according to claim 13, wherein for a condition where the embryo is touched, the operational kinematics of the intelligent substance injector device are such that where the substance is a vaccine, step 5 is characterized as a forward inoculation step, where the PLC sends a signal for maintaining the rotation of the stepper motor, and consequent maintenance of the rotation of the spindle axis, promoting a slight downward displacement of the needle support platform and the needle coupler and consequent slight advance of the needle, penetrating the Embryo in an intramuscular or subcutaneous form.
15. The process for intelligently injecting of a substance inside a fertile egg according to claim 13, wherein for a condition where the Embryo is not touched, in step 3 advancing of the needle is characterized by the PLC maintaining the operation signal of the stepper motor, where the needle support platform describes a downward movement until it finds the position reference sensor, whereby immediately the PLC receives this and sends the operational interruption signal to the stepper motor, with steps 7 and 8 being performed immediately in the condition where the Embryo is found.
16. The process for intelligently injecting of a substance inside a fertile egg according to claim 13, wherein for a condition of non-perforation of the eggshell in step 2 to proceed to step 3, advancing of the needle is characterized by the needle describing a minimum displacement until it collides with the eggshell, wherein the PLC recognizes this interference and the minimum displacement of the needle, interrupting the motor operation and the displacement of the plate and the consequent displacement of the needle, immediately repeating steps 7 and 8 and the PLC sends a non-conformity warning signal to a human machine interface.
17. An operating control module for the needle guidance in an intelligent substance injector, where a general operational control module is connected to the intra ovo substance inoculation module, more specifically its plurality of substance injection devices to which are added respective injection needle guided advance/retraction devices whose remote connection with PLC of the general operational control module is performed by the communication module of the injectors with the wireless communication PLC, which is characterized by a general operational control module composed of a 12V power supply connected via wiring to the body of the intelligent injector device and a general CLP; a module for communicating the injectors with the PLC composed of a dedicated PLC and a wireless router, where a smart communicating device, composed of a controller, is applied to the intelligent injector device wi-fi and a driver.
18. An operating control module for the needle guidance in an intelligent substance injector according to claim 17, wherein for the added wireless communicator device, the wi-fi controller is characterized in that it is an ESP8266MOD controller.
19. An operating control module for the needle guidance in an intelligent substance injector according to claim 17, wherein for the wireless communicator device added, the driver is characterized by being an A3967 driver.
20. An operating control module for the needle guidance in an intelligent substance injector for wireless communication, whose operational logic according to claim 17 is characterized by the wireless router of the injectors' communication module with the PLC sending signal to the wi-fi controller of the wireless communicating device coupled to the body of the intelligent injection device that activates the drive which in turn promotes the activation of the stepper motor of the forward/displacement device of the needle, with consequent intra ovo displacement of the needle of the intelligent injector device, where the course of this displacement is dictated by the solidary operation of the touch sensor and the position sensor also of the intelligent injection device, where the end of stroke of the needle is reached, this condition is recognized by the driver, which information is captured by the wi-fi controller which in turn sends the stop motion message P for the wireless router, which in turn sends the signal to the PLC of the general operational control module that returns signal to the same wireless router which in turn sends signal to the WIFI controller, which again sends through the driver the command to stop the stepper motor of the intelligent injection device.
21. An operating control module for the needle guidance in an intelligent substance injector according to claim 12, wherein alternatively the module of communication of the injectors with the CLP, is employing a wired communication, and is characterized by comprising a 12V power supply, connected via cabling to the body of the intelligent injector device, a digital input card connected by cabling to the sensors, specifically the touch sensor and the position sensor of the intelligent injection device, a control driver connected via cabling to the stepper motor of the intelligent injection device and a network adapter, with all components individually connected, also by physical cabling, to the PLC of the operational control module.
22. An operating control module for the needle guidance in an intelligent substance injector for wired communication, whose operational logic is according to claim 21 and characterized by the CLP to activate the control drive of the operational control module that sends the stepper motor activation command of the needle forward/reverse device, promoting the intra-egg displacement of the needle of the injector device, where the course of this displacement is dictated by the solidary operation of the touch sensor and the position sensor as well as the intelligent injection device that sends the travel stop message to the digital input card that sends the signal to the PLC which in turn sends a new signal to the control drive to stop the stepper motor.
Description
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
[0121] A set of drawings and block diagram presented as an appended part to this descriptive report has the object of supporting full understanding of the subsequent topic of the detailed description of the invention, where in a remiss way, contemplates both the field of application and the state of the art considered useful to the understanding of the invention and finally a preferred embodiment of the invention itself, including the detailing of its inventive constructive concept and corresponding operational logic embedded therein, wherein:
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DETAILED DESCRIPTION
[0150] The following detailed description should be read and interpreted with reference to the drawings and block diagram presented, representing the state of the art for poultry breeding system, evidencing the intra egg inoculation module, illustrating its negative aspect, and then presenting a preferred embodiment of the invention in the form of an intelligent substance injection device, and further demonstrating its operational logic, is not intended to limit the scope of the invention, this limited only to that set forth in the claims.
[0151] The of the system of development and reproduction of birds.
[0152] Applicants understand that it is imperative to provide the reader with an overview of the bird breeding system, more specifically for the development of fertile eggs, up to the pre-stage-shield, where, through
[0157] Going beyond as well defined in the topic of Field of Application, the invention finds particular utility and application together with the intra-egg substance inoculation module (M3), which as well defined in the block diagram of
[0162] Again, as well defined in the Field of Application topic, the invention has been devised to make intelligent the operation of the substance injector device (d32), wherein to such a device is added a new device, referred to in that carton as “(d35)” whose practical effect of its introduction allows an inoculation operation with guided advancement of the injection needle in detriment of the blind advance inoculation operation which characterizes the conventional substance inoculation module.
[0163] For better understanding, in the development of the present detailed description, the connection between injector needle guiding device (d35)+substance injector device (d32) will be referred to as an “intelligent injector device”, referenced in drawings by reference number (A), from
[0164] Operational management of all devices is performed via the PLC device (d).
[0165] b. State of the Art
[0166] In the development of the topic of Fundamentals of the Technique, the module of intra-egg inoculation (M3) was exhaustively analyzed, showing its main negative point, which is shown in
[0167] In order to provide more transparency to the cause of the problem, the conventional relief device (d32) is illustrated in
[0179] Once again, the operational concept from the actuation of a pneumatic valve (e11), is responsible for the so-called “blind advance” of the needle (e10) inside the egg (Ov).
[0180] W. From the Inventive Concept
[0181] c1 Intelligent Injector Device (A)
[0182] c.1.1 Constructive concept: In order to counterbalance the “blind advance” of the needle (e10), the unprecedented “injection needle/needle guided device (d35)” has been devised which is added to the operating elements of the injection device wherein said union will be referred to as the “smart injector device (A)”, which is applied to the intra-egg substance inoculation module (M3) instead of the conventional injection device (d32), as shown in
[0183] In order to emphasize the desired technical effect, of inoculation of substance, be it vaccine, nutrient or even nutritional vaccine complex, with maximum efficacy and that minimizes embryo deaths, it is said, a desire long recognized by experts in the subject, is presented in
[0184] In the case of vaccine inoculation, the PLC (d1) acyl device is an operative kinematics routine of the intelligent injector device (A), where it in turn promotes a discrete advance of the needle tip (11) over the epidermis of the embryo (Em), promoting precise and sufficient penetration only to enter intramuscularly or subcutaneously, for subsequent injection of the substance (Su), specifically a vaccine, as illustrated in
[0185] If nutrient inoculation, or even nutritional vaccine complex, the PLC device (d1) triggers the operational kinematics routine of the smart injector device (A), where in a remittent manner, it promotes a discreet withdrawal of the needle end (11) from the epidermis of the embryo (Em), isolating the end of the needle (11) into the amniotic fluid (Li), for subsequent injection of the substance (Su), specifically a nutritional or nutritional vaccine complex, as shown in
[0186] c.1.2 Of the distinguishing feature: In order to render feasible the intra-egg (Su) inoculation conditions, under the conditions illustrated in
[0190] Guide columns 3, a set of three columns whose bases are fixed on the injector body 7, and from which the platform 2 and the needle support platform 6 are mounted. [0191] a touch sensor (4) mounted and fixed to the top of a guide column (3), and immediately below the platform (2), where in the start position of the inoculation cycle, its upper surface receives interference from the lower surface of the platform (2) of the step motor (1), said sensor having a function to send signal to the PLC (d1) when the controlled touch of the needle (11) occurs with the epidermis of the embryo (Em); [0192] Position sensor (5), mounted to the lower part of a guide column (3), in a reference position ensuring that if the needle support platform (6) touches it, a signal is sent indicating PLC (d1) that there is no embryo (Em) inside the egg (Ov), or even that there is no egg in the niche of the incubation tray (Bi), see
[0200] The motor components 1, platforms 2 and 6 are driven by the PLC (d1), which in turn emits signal in response to the signal by the contact or absence of contact of the sensor (4).
[0201] c.1.3. Operational logic: an operational condition will be described considering the inoculation of nutrient or nutritional vaccine complex, ie where the final condition is to inoculate the substance directly into the amniotic fluid (Li), as shown in
[0202] c1.3.1 Condition where the embryo is touched, considering that the substance to be inoculated is a nutrient or a nutritional vaccine complex, the following kinematics of the intelligent injection device (A) are defined: [0203] Step 1: Initial set up, as shown in
[0211] c 1.3.2 Condition where the embryo is touched: considering that the substance to be inoculated is a vaccine, the steps are maintained in their entirety: steps 1, 2, 3, 4. 7 and 8, discretely changing Steps .5 and .6, as described below: [0212] Step 5: Advancing for inoculation, where the PLC (d1) sends signal for maintaining the rotation of the step motor (1), and consequently maintaining the rotation of the spindle axis (1a), promoting a discrete downward displacement of the support platform of the needle (6) and the needle coupler (6a) and consequent discreet advancement of the needle (11), penetrating the embryo, intramuscularly or subcutaneously; [0213] Step 6: Inoculation of the substance, where the needle (11) penetrates the embryo intramuscularly or subcutaneously, PLC (d1) signals the injection mechanism of the substance, inoculating it, where for the present example it treats of a vaccine.
[0214] c1.3.3: Condition wherein the embryo is not touched: the intelligent injection device (A) provides for the possibility of not being identified the embryo, which may occur due to a failure in the egg-laying procedure and the inoculation tray (Bi) has been loaded with an unfertilized egg, or even because the fertilized egg does not exist in the corresponding niche of that tray of inoculation (Bi), where to avoid inoculation, vaccine, nutrient or nutritional vaccine complex is unduly or better innocuous, and consequently wasting an input of significant added value, the inoculation system operates with the following logic: [0215] Steps 1 and 2 are repeated in the condition where the embryo is found;
[0216] Step 3: Advancing of the needle 11, as evidenced in
[0217] c 1.3.4 Egg shell non-drilling condition: as shown in
[0218] c.2 Injector module communication system with PLC: as shown in
[0219] c.2.1 Communication by Physical Cabling:
[0220] c.2.1.1 Constructive concept: as shown in
[0225] All components of the injector communication module with the PLC (M5) are also individually connected by physical cabling (Ca54) to the PLC (d1) of the operational control module (M1).
[0226] c.2.1.2 Operational concept: as shown in
[0227] Although this constructive configuration is feasible from the functional point of view, it presents as a restriction the fact that the control drivers (d53) are external to the injector, which in considering the need for a driver (d53) for each injector (A) generates a very large structure for the communication system as a whole, which helps to hamper the installation operation in the PLC transition (d1) and substance inoculation module (m3), where this situation will be repeated whenever there is a need for replacement of intelligent injector device units (A).
[0228] Finally, in the form of communication with physical cabling, the need for a large control structure (driver's) and specific wiring makes it necessary to design a complete equipment with a large control structure, making it practically impossible to adapt it to equipment pre-existing, resulting in a slow and costly implementation by the company that will exploit the intra-egg vaccination and nutrition market. As will be appreciated, while this embodiment of the injector communicating module with the PLC (m5) is feasible and technically effective, it fails to meet all the objectives previously listed in the topic of the Invention Proposal.
[0229] c.2.2 Wireless Communication:
[0230] c.2.2.1 Constructive concept: As shown in
[0231] The general operational control module (Thousand) is presented in the form of a compact panel composed of the following components: [0232] 12V power supply (d51), connected via the head of the intelligent injector device (A); and [0233] PLC (d1), for general control of the substance inoculation equipment.
[0234] The injectors communication module with the PLC (M51) is also defined in a compact form composed of the following components: [0235] Dedicated PLC (d55): deals with a PLC dedicated exclusively to the needle advancing/retracting device defining the smart injector device (A1); and [0236] Wireless router (d56): responsible for remote communication with the general PLC (d1) of the substance inoculation equipment and with the driver (12) installed in the body (7) of the intelligent injector device (A1).
[0237] Lastly, the intelligent injector device (A1) has its constructive and operational concept identical to that described for the smart injector device (A), see
[0238] c.2.2.2 Operational concept: The wireless router (d56) of the injector communication module with the PLC (M51) sends signal to the WIFI controller (12a) of the attached wireless communicator device (12) to the body (7) of the smart injector device (A1), which activates the drive (12b) which in turn promotes the actuation of the step motor (1) of the needle advancing/displacing device (d35), with consequent intra-egg of the smart injector device (A1), where the travel of said displacement is dictated by the solid operation of the touch sensor (4) and the position sensor (5) also provided in the smart injector device (A1), wherein the end of the needle stroke is recognized by the driver 12b, which information is picked up by the WIFI controller 12a which in turn sends the scroll-stop message to the wireless router (d56), which sends the signal to the PLC (d1) of the general operational control module, which returns signal to the same wireless router d56, which in turn sends signal to WIFI controller 12a, which again sends through the driver 12b the command for shutting down the step motor 1, of the smart injector device (A1).
[0239] With the composition of an injection device based on the smart injector (A1) device coupled with a wireless communicator device (12), it becomes practically “plug and play” in its implementation in existing in-ovo vaccination equipment, whereby only conventional injectors are replaced by intelligent injectors (A1) and a mobile panel with a wireless router (d56) of a reduced size compared to conventional vaccination equipment.
[0240] Lastly, this second embodiment of the dedicated PLC communication system (d55) and Intelligent Injector (A1), generates great financial savings, as it can also be applied to the PLC communication system with other operating devices, for example, for removal of fertile eggs, handling, dosing and transfer of eggs.
[0241] As it is possible to verify, this second embodiment fully attenuates the roll of previously defined objectives, providing a communication system between the dedicated PLC (d55) and all intelligent (A1) compact injection devices, which minimizes the congestion, as shown in
[0242] The choice of preferred embodiments for the smart injection devices (A) and (A1) and operational control module of the needle guided advance/withdrawal device attached to such smart injection devices, claimed in this carton and described in this detail is provided by way of example only. Modifications, modifications and variations may be made to any other embodiments of such intelligent injection devices (A) and (A1), changes which may be devised by those skilled in the art without, however, departing from the objective disclosed in the claim invention, which is exclusively defined by the appended claims.
[0243] It will be seen from what has been described and illustrated that the “OPERATIONAL CONTROL MODULE FOR THE NEEDLE ADVANCE/WITHDRAWAL DEVICE COMBINED WITH A SMART SUBSTANCE INJECTOR DEVICE FOR SUBSTANCE INOCULATION INTO FERTILIZED EGGS AND INTELLIGENT SUBSTANCE INOCULATION INTO FERTILIZED EGGS” are in accordance with the rules governing the invention patent in light of the Industrial Property Law, deserving for which the respective privilege has been disclosed.