Autosampler

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11320346-B2
Application number	US-202016868815-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	May 7, 2020
Priority date	Jun 13, 2019
Publication date	May 3, 2022
Grant date	May 3, 2022

Abstract

The present invention relates to an autosampler. The autosampler includes a sampling needle, a swing arm, a main shaft, a synchronous rotating pulley, and a rotating shaft sleeve. One end of the swing arm is fixed to the main shaft, and the other end thereof is fixed with the sampling needle for supplying a sample. The rotating shaft sleeve is installed in the synchronous rotating pulley, and the rotating shaft sleeve is mounted on the main shaft. The main shaft can rotate around the central axis of the main shaft in synchronization with the rotating shaft sleeve, and can move up and down in the direction of the central axis with respect to the rotating shaft sleeve. The autosampler is characterized in that it further includes a contact member. The contact member penetrates the synchronous rotating pulley and the rotating shaft sleeve from one side of the synchronous rotating pulley in the radial direction thereof until it comes into contact with the main shaft. The contact member is in rolling contact with the main shaft. According to the present invention, the contact member may provide a radial force to the main shaft so as to eliminate a fitting gap between the main shaft and the rotating shaft sleeve, and may reliably fix the synchronous rotating pulley and the rotating shaft sleeve so as to ensure the accuracy and reproducibility of the injection position.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. Autosampler comprising:
a sampling needle;
a swing arm;
a main shaft;
a synchronous rotating pulley; and
a rotating shaft sleeve,
one end of the swing arm being fixed to the main shaft, and the other end thereof being fixed with the sampling needle for supplying a sample,
the rotating shaft sleeve being installed in the synchronous rotating pulley, and the rotating shaft sleeve being mounted on the main shaft,
the main shaft being rotatable around a central axis of the main shaft in synchronization with the rotating shaft sleeve, and movable up and down in the direction of the central axis with respect to the rotating shaft sleeve,
characterized in that the autosampler further includes a contact member,
the contact member penetrates the synchronous rotating pulley and the rotating shaft sleeve from one side of the synchronous rotating pulley in the radial direction thereof until it comes into contact with the main shaft, and
the contact member is in rolling contact with the main shaft.

2. The autosampler according to claim 1 , wherein
the contact member includes:
a rolling member that comes into rolling contact with the main shaft;
a fixing member which has one end provided with a mounting hole and the other end fixed to the synchronous rotating pulley, and the rolling member being held at the top of the mounting hole; and
an elastic member which is installed inside the mounting hole in such a manner that one end is connected to the rolling member and the other end is fixed to the bottom of the mounting hole so as to bias the rolling member toward the main shaft in the radial direction of the main shaft.

3. The autosampler according to claim 1 , wherein
the contact member is fixed to the synchronous rotating pulley by screwing.

4. The autosampler according to claim 1 , wherein
the peripheral surface of the main shaft includes two flat surfaces facing each other, and
the contact member is in contact with one of the two flat surfaces of the main shaft.

Assignees

• Shimadzu Corp

Inventors

• Sun Shengsheng

Classifications

• G01N35/1095 Primary

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• G01N1/14 Primary

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