Qiwen Zhu,Weiping Cao,Jianwen Zhao,Lihong Shang,Baoping Kuang,Kewei Wang
申请号：
US13988344
公开号：
US08726842B2
申请日:
2011.03.16
申请国别(地区):
US
年份:
2014
代理人:
摘要：
An animal memory training system with a closed rotary maze comprises a maze device and a stimulating device. A rotary wheel (6) driven by a motor (4) is provided on the bottom of the case (1) of the maze device. The motor (4) is set in a central column, and its output shaft is tightly connected with the rotary wheel (6) along the central column shaft direction, thus the rotary wheel (6) is driven by the motor (4) to rotate around said central column. A number of pulleys (12) are set on the lower periphery of the frame of the case (1) to support said rotary wheel (6), and a sieve-like supporting net (5) is arranged above the rotary wheel (6). The stimulating device includes an automatic manipulator stimulating device and a remote control stimulating device. Compared with the existing maze model, the rotary drive action of the training systems rotary wheel is moderate, and is more coincident with the movement actual of animals normal physiological behavior. Further, the stimulating device can respectively realize the rewards and punishments for the experimental animals, and has the characteristics of accurate positioning, timely stimulation, complete stimulation variety, no ravage and convenient operation. The training system has overtaken the existing shortcomings of unilateral dominance in the detection of the present maze training systems, such as Y-maze and T-maze detection.
