CN111751975A - Slide glass placing device and microscope - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a slide glass placement device and a microscope, wherein the slide glass placement device includes: the clamping device comprises a clamping piece extending along a first direction, wherein the clamping piece is provided with clamping grooves which are spaced along a second direction and are oppositely arranged, an opening is formed at the interval between the two clamping grooves, the clamping grooves are provided with an upper clamping surface and a lower clamping surface which are oppositely arranged along a third direction, and the first direction, the second direction and the third direction are mutually vertical; the upper clamping surfaces of the two clamping grooves are positioned on the same plane and extend along the first direction, and the lower clamping surface is used for applying pressing force along the third direction to the glass slide placed in the clamping grooves so as to enable the glass slide to be attached to the upper clamping surfaces. The glass slide is placed on the glass slide placing device, so that the observation by a microscope is facilitated.

Description

Slide glass placing device and microscope

Technical Field

The invention relates to the technical field of microscopes, in particular to a glass slide placing device and a microscope.

Background

The microscope is an optical instrument formed by one lens or a combination of a plurality of lenses, and is widely applied to the fields of medical health, biological detection, metallographic detection, integrated circuit detection and the like. A slide is typically placed on a stage and the specimen placed on the slide is viewed by movement of the stage, e.g., in the X-direction and Y-direction.

For example, chinese patent publication No. CN208037422U discloses an automatic transfer device for microscope slides for medical examination, which includes a microscope and a transfer belt, the transfer belt is located below an objective lens of the microscope, the microscope or the transfer belt has a transfer belt start or stop control unit, and the transfer belt has a slide; and the conveyor belt starting or stopping control unit is used for controlling the starting or stopping of the conveyor belt according to the positions of the slide and the objective lens. The microscope slide glass clamp aims to solve the problems that objects to be observed on the slide glass are easily polluted and the working efficiency is low due to the fact that the position relation between the slide glass clamp and the slide glass of the microscope is manually adjusted.

Disclosure of Invention

An object of the present invention is to provide a slide glass placing device including: the clamping device comprises a clamping piece extending along a first direction, wherein the clamping piece is provided with clamping grooves which are spaced along a second direction and are oppositely arranged, an opening is formed at the interval between the two clamping grooves, the clamping grooves are provided with an upper clamping surface and a lower clamping surface which are oppositely arranged along a third direction, and the first direction, the second direction and the third direction are mutually vertical; the upper clamping surfaces of the two clamping grooves are positioned on the same plane and extend along the first direction, and the lower clamping surface is used for applying pressing force along the third direction to the glass slide placed in the clamping grooves so as to enable the glass slide to be attached to the upper clamping surfaces.

Optionally, the number of the clamping pieces is at least two, the clamping pieces are arranged along the second direction, and the upper clamping surfaces of the clamping grooves of the adjacent clamping pieces are located on the same plane.

Optionally, the locking groove includes a blocking plate and an elastic member, which are oppositely disposed along the third direction, the blocking plate extends along the first direction and has the upper locking surface, and the elastic member extends along the first direction and has the lower locking surface.

Optionally, the elastic member is a plurality of elastic pieces extending along the first direction.

Optionally, two of the card slots that are arranged at intervals along the second direction are used for placing a plurality of glass slides, each of the two card slots is integrally formed along the first direction, and has a width at least equal to the sum of the widths of the plurality of glass slides, and the elastic member includes a support plate extending along the first direction, and a fastening elastic nail that is arranged on the support plate and faces the baffle.

Optionally, the reference frame is provided with the clamping member, and the reference frame includes a first connecting plate arranged in parallel and opposite to the second direction, the first connecting plate extends in the first direction, and a second connecting plate arranged in parallel and opposite to the first direction, the second connecting plate extends in the second direction, and the first connecting plate and the second connecting plate enclose the reference frame.

Optionally, at least one of the first connecting plates is provided with a positioning groove on the outer side for cooperating with the positioning member to limit the movement of the slide placing device in the first direction.

Optionally, positioning grooves are formed in the outer sides of the two first connecting plates, and the positioning grooves are symmetrically arranged along the second direction.

Optionally, one of the two second connecting plates is provided with an opening, the other one of the two second connecting plates is provided with a blocking portion opposite to the opening, and the clamping groove is located between the opening and the blocking portion along the first direction.

The present invention also provides a microscope comprising: a base; an objective lens; the slide placement device of any of the above claims, the slide placement device being positioned between the objective lens and the base, the slide placement device being disposed on the base.

The present invention also provides a microscope comprising: a base; an objective lens; the slide placement device of any of the above claims, the slide placement device being positioned between the objective lens and the base, the slide placement device being disposed on the base; and the positioning piece is matched with a positioning groove in the glass slide placing device.

Optionally, the positioning member is a set spring nail.

Optionally, at least two of the elastic fastening nails are arranged along the first direction, one of the elastic fastening nails is matched with the positioning groove, and the rest elastic fastening nails apply pressing force to the first connecting plate along the second direction.

As described above, the present invention provides a slide glass placing apparatus including: along the joint spare of first direction extension, joint spare has along the interval of second direction and the draw-in groove that sets up relatively, and the interval between two draw-in grooves forms the opening, and along the third direction, the draw-in groove has relative last joint face and the lower joint face that sets up, first direction, second direction and third direction mutually perpendicular. The upper clamping surfaces of the two clamping grooves are positioned on the same plane and extend along the first direction, the glass slide is placed in the two clamping grooves, and the glass slide is clamped through the two clamping grooves; and the lower clamping surface applies pressing force along a third direction to the glass slide placed in the clamping groove so as to enable the glass slide to be attached to the upper clamping surface of the clamping groove. Because the last joint face of draw-in groove is in the coplanar, when the slide of so different specifications was placed on the objective table, the upper surface of all slides (with the surface of the last joint face laminating of draw-in groove) flushed, guaranteed that all slide upper surfaces of different thickness are all in the coplanar all the time, the upper surface of slide is towards microscope's objective, and because be equipped with the opening between two draw-in grooves, the light source can see through the slide, does benefit to microscope observation like this.

In order that the foregoing and other objects, features, and advantages of the invention will be readily understood, a preferred embodiment of the invention will be hereinafter described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

Drawings

FIG. 1 is a first perspective view of a slide placement device according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 2 is a side view of a slide placement device according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 3 is a schematic view of the positional relationship of a slide and a slot in a slide placement device according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 4 is a second perspective view of a slide placement device according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 5 is a third perspective view of a slide placement device according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 6 is a first top view of a slide placement device according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 7 is a second top view of the slide placement device in accordance with the embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 8 is a fourth perspective view of a slide placement device according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 9 is a fifth perspective view of a slide placement device according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 10 is a third top view of a slide placement device according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 11 is a fourth top view of a slide placement device in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 12 is a sixth perspective view of a slide placement device according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 13 is a seventh perspective view of a slide placement device according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 14 is a first perspective view of a microscope in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 15 is a second perspective view of a microscope in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention.

Detailed Description

The following description of the embodiments of the present invention is provided for illustrative purposes, and other advantages and effects of the present invention will become apparent to those skilled in the art from the present disclosure. While the invention will be described in conjunction with the preferred embodiments, it is not intended that features of the invention be limited to these embodiments. On the contrary, the invention is described in connection with the embodiments for the purpose of covering alternatives or modifications that may be extended based on the claims of the present invention. In the following description, numerous specific details are set forth in order to provide a thorough understanding of the present invention. The invention may be practiced without these particulars. Moreover, some of the specific details have been left out of the description in order to avoid obscuring or obscuring the focus of the present invention. It should be noted that the embodiments and features of the embodiments may be combined with each other without conflict.

Referring to fig. 1 to 4, the present invention provides a slide glass placement device 1 including: the card member 10 extends along a first direction (shown as an X direction in fig. 1 and 4), and the card member 10 has card slots 11 spaced and oppositely arranged along a second direction (shown as a Y direction in fig. 1 to 4). The spacing between the two card slots 11 forms an opening 12 through which a light source can pass through the slide 20. Along a third direction (shown in a Z direction in fig. 2 to 4), the card slot 11 has an upper engaging surface 13a and a lower engaging surface 14a which are oppositely arranged, wherein the first direction, the second direction and the third direction are perpendicular to each other. The clamping surface of the clamping groove 11 is the surface for clamping the slide glass 20, that is, the clamping surface 13a and the lower clamping surface 14a of the clamping groove 11 clamp the slide glass, so that the clamping groove 11 clamps the slide glass 20.

In this embodiment, the upper clamping surfaces 13a of the two clamping grooves 11 are in the same plane (plane a in fig. 3) and extend in the first direction, the slide 20 is placed in the two clamping grooves 11, and the slide 20 is clamped by the two clamping grooves 11; and the lower clamping surface 14a applies a pressing force in the third direction to the slide 20 placed in the clamping groove 11, so that the upper surface of the slide 20 is attached to the upper clamping surface 13a of the clamping groove 11, and the upper surface of the slide 20 is ensured to be always attached to the upper clamping surface 13a of the clamping groove 11.

Because the upper clamping surfaces 13a of the clamping grooves 11 are positioned on the same plane, when the glass slides 20 with different specifications are placed on the object stage, the upper surfaces of all the glass slides 20 (the surfaces attached to the upper clamping surfaces 13a of the clamping grooves 11) are flush, so that the upper surfaces of all the glass slides 20 with different thicknesses are always positioned on the same plane, the upper surfaces of the glass slides 20 face the objective lens 2a of the microscope, and because the opening 12 is arranged between the two clamping grooves 11, the light source can penetrate through the glass slides 20, so that the microscope observation is facilitated.

It should be noted that, in the first direction, the number of the slide glasses 20 placed in the clip member 10 of the slide glass placing device 1 is not limited, and referring to fig. 1, in the present embodiment, 10 sets of the slide glasses 20 are placed in the clip member 10. In addition, the number of the clamping members 10 is not limited, and the number of the clamping members 10 is three in the present embodiment, and in other embodiments, may be one (refer to fig. 8 and 12), two, or another number. The three clamping members 10 are arranged along the second direction, and the upper clamping surfaces 13a of the clamping grooves 11 of the adjacent clamping members 10 are positioned on the same plane. That is, in the present embodiment, the upper click surfaces 13a of the click grooves 11 of all the click members 10 of the slide glass placement device 1 are in the same plane, so that the upper surfaces of slide glasses 20 of different specifications are in the same plane after the slide glasses 20 are placed, for example, referring to fig. 1 and 4, 10 sets of slide glasses 20 are placed in each click member 10, and then the upper surfaces of 30 sets of slide glasses 20 placed in three click members 10 are in the same plane.

In addition, the length of the clamping pieces 10 in the first direction is not limited, and when a plurality of clamping pieces 10 exist, the length of each clamping piece 10 can be equal or unequal; the number of the slide glass 20 placed in each clip member 10 is not limited, and the same number of the slide glass 20 can be placed, or different numbers of the slide glass 20 can be placed according to the requirement.

Specifically, referring to fig. 3, 8 and 9 in combination with fig. 1, 2 and 5, the card slot 11 includes a blocking plate 13 and an elastic member 14, which are oppositely disposed along the third direction, the blocking plate 13 extends along the first direction and has an upper card-engaging surface 13a, and the elastic member 14 extends along the first direction and has a lower card-engaging surface 14 a. The slide 20 is held by the shutter 13 and the elastic member 14, and the elastic member 14 applies a pressing force in the third direction to the slide 20 to bring the upper surface of the slide 20 into abutment with the upper clamping surface 13a of the shutter 13.

The elastic member 14 may be formed integrally or may be provided in plural independent bodies. In this embodiment, referring to fig. 5, the elastic members 14 are plural and extend along the first direction, and fig. 5 shows that each clip member 10 has ten elastic members 14. That is, in the present embodiment, each of the engaging members 10 has 10 sets of engaging grooves 11 along the second direction. In other embodiments, a corresponding number of springs may be provided as desired, for example, with reference to fig. 9, four springs 14 are shown in fig. 9. In addition, the specific type of the elastic member 14 is not limited, and it is sufficient that the elastic member 14 can provide an elastic force in the third direction, and in this embodiment, referring to fig. 5 and 9, the elastic member 14 is an elastic piece which provides an elastic force in the third direction, and when the slide 20 is placed between the elastic piece and the barrier 13, a pressing force in the third direction is applied to the slide 20, so that the upper surface of the slide 20 is attached to the upper clamping surface 13a of the barrier 13.

In other embodiments, referring to fig. 12 and 13, two card slots 11 spaced apart in the second direction are used for holding a plurality of slides 20, each of the two card slots 11 being integrally formed in the first direction and having a width (dimension in the first direction) at least equal to the sum of the widths of the plurality of slides. That is, in the present embodiment, the clip member 10 has a set of slots formed by two slots spaced along the second direction. In this embodiment, the elastic member 14 includes a support plate 18 extending in the first direction, and a fastening nail (not shown) provided on the support plate 18 and facing the shutter 13. In this embodiment, eight fastening elastic nail mounting holes 17 are formed in the support plate 18, a fastening elastic nail is mounted in each fastening elastic nail mounting hole 17, when a glass slide 20 is placed between each fastening elastic nail and the baffle 13, the glass slide 20 can extrude the fastening elastic nail, and the fastening elastic nail can be compressed in the third direction and generate elastic force along the third direction, so that the upper surface of the glass slide 20 is tightly attached to the upper clamping surface 13a of the baffle 13. In other embodiments, other numbers of fastening pegs may be provided, such as ten, twelve, etc.

With continued reference to fig. 4 to 6, 8, and 10, the slide glass placement device 1 of the present invention further includes a reference frame 1a, the reference frame 1a being mounted with the snap 10, the reference frame 1a including first connecting plates 50 disposed in a second direction oppositely and in parallel, the first connecting plates 50 extending in the first direction, and second connecting plates 30 disposed in the first direction oppositely and in parallel, the second connecting plates 30 extending in the second direction, the first connecting plates 50 and the second connecting plates 30 enclosing the reference frame 1 a. In this embodiment, referring to fig. 6, four baffles 13 are disposed at intervals along the second direction, and the baffles 13 and the elastic members 14 of the card slot 11 are disposed on opposite sides of the first connecting plate 50 along the third direction. That is, in the present embodiment, four first connection plates 50 are provided at intervals in the second direction. The number of the first connection plates 50 is not limited, for example, in other embodiments, referring to fig. 10, two first connection plates 50 are provided at intervals in the second direction.

Referring to fig. 7 and 5, and fig. 9 and 11, the slide glass placing apparatus 1 of the present invention is further provided with a protective plate 16 extending in the first direction, and the protective plate 16 covers the elastic member 14, preferably a spring plate as the elastic member 14, and may function to shield the elastic member 14.

In this embodiment, the second connecting plate 30 is provided with a handle 32. The number of the handles 32 is not limited, and the handles 32 are used for carrying the slide glass placement device 1.

With reference to fig. 4, in the present embodiment, the positioning slots 15 are disposed on the outer sides of the two first connecting plates 50, and the outer sides of the first connecting plates 50 of the present invention include: a positioning groove 15 is arranged on the outer side of the baffle 13 on the first connecting plate 50; or, a positioning groove 15 is arranged on the outer side of the first connecting plate 50 body; or, the positioning slot 15 is arranged on the outer side of the first connecting plate 50 body and the outer side of the baffle 13. In this embodiment, the positioning grooves 15 are disposed on the first connecting plate 50 outside the baffle 13, the positioning grooves 15 are symmetrically disposed along the second direction, and the positioning grooves 15 are used to cooperate with the positioning members to limit the movement of the slide glass placing device 1 in the first direction.

Referring to fig. 4, the positioning element is disposed on a base 40 of a microscope 2, and when the slide glass placement device 1 for placing the slide glass 20 is carried to the microscope 2 to observe a sample, the positioning groove 15 is engaged with the positioning element, and the slide glass placement device 1 is restricted from moving relative to the base 40 in the first direction, and when the base 40 drives the slide glass placement device 1 to move, the positioning groove 15 and the positioning element are matched to eliminate the shake and the gap of the slide glass placement device 1 during the movement. Moreover, the two positioning grooves 15 are symmetrically arranged, so that the slide glass placing device 1 can be conveniently placed on the base 40 of the microscope 2.

In other embodiments, a positioning groove 15 is formed on the outer side of one of the two first connecting plates 50. The shape of the positioning slot 15 is not limited, and it can be matched with a positioning member. In this embodiment, the positioning groove 15 is a V-shaped groove. In addition, the number of the positioning slots 15 is not limited, in this embodiment, one positioning slot 15 is disposed on the first connecting plate 50, and in other embodiments, other numbers of positioning slots may be disposed.

In addition, referring to fig. 4, one of the two second connecting plates 30 of the present invention is provided with an opening 31, and the other is provided with a blocking portion (not shown) opposite to the opening 31, and the card slot 11 is located between the opening 31 and the blocking portion in the first direction. The slide 20 enters the clamping member 10 from the opening 31 on the second connecting plate 30, the previous slide 20 is pushed into the clamping groove 11 of the clamping member 10 by the next slide 20, and the blocking part can limit the slide 20 at the forefront end from being pushed out of the clamping groove 11. In other embodiments, the second connecting plates 30 are provided with openings 31 corresponding to the card slots 11, and the slides 20 can be placed from both sides of the card member 10.

Referring to fig. 14 and 15, the present invention also provides a microscope 2 including: a base 40 and an objective lens 2a, and a slide glass placement device 1 as described in any of the above embodiments, the slide glass placement device 1 being located between the objective lens 2a and the base 40, the slide glass placement device 1 being provided on the base 40.

Referring to fig. 4, the base 40 of the stopper is provided with a positioning element, the positioning element is matched with the positioning slot 15 in the slide glass placing device 1, and the movement of the slide glass placing device 1 in the first direction relative to the base 40 is limited. In this embodiment, the base 40 has a side thrust plate 41 and a stopper pin arranged at intervals in the second direction. The lateral thrust plate 41 extends in a first direction. The number of the limit pins is not limited, and two positioning pins 43 are arranged at intervals along the first direction in the embodiment. One of the first connecting plates 50 on the outer side of the slide glass placement device 1 abuts against the positioning pins 43, and the other first connecting plate 50 abuts against the lateral pushing plate 41. Corresponding to the slide glass placing device 1 clamped by the lateral pushing plate 41 and the limiting pins.

In this embodiment, the positioning member is a fastening elastic nail. Three fastening elastic nail mounting holes 42 are formed in the lateral pushing plate 41, a fastening elastic nail is arranged in each fastening elastic nail mounting hole 42, one fastening elastic nail is matched with the positioning groove 15, and the rest fastening elastic nails apply pressing force to the first connecting plate 50 along the second direction. Thus, the movement of the slide placement device 1 in the first and second directions relative to the base 40 is limited, and the cooperation of the positioning slot 15 and the positioning member eliminates wobbling and play of the slide placement device 1 during movement when the base 40 moves the slide placement device 1.

In other embodiments, at least two of the resilient fastening nails are arranged in the first direction, one of the resilient fastening nails engages with the positioning slot 15, and the remaining resilient fastening nails apply a pressing force to the first connecting plate 50 in the second direction.

In summary, the above-mentioned embodiments are provided only for illustrating the principles and effects of the present invention, and not for limiting the present invention. Any person skilled in the art can modify or change the above-mentioned embodiments without departing from the spirit and scope of the present invention. Accordingly, it is intended that all equivalent modifications or changes which can be made by those skilled in the art without departing from the spirit and technical spirit of the present invention be covered by the claims of the present invention.

Claims (10)

1. A slide placement device, comprising:

the clamping device comprises a clamping piece extending along a first direction, wherein the clamping piece is provided with clamping grooves which are spaced along a second direction and are oppositely arranged, an opening is formed at the interval between the two clamping grooves, the clamping grooves are provided with an upper clamping surface and a lower clamping surface which are oppositely arranged along a third direction, and the first direction, the second direction and the third direction are mutually vertical;

the upper clamping surfaces of the two clamping grooves are positioned on the same plane and extend along the first direction, and the lower clamping surface is used for applying pressing force along the third direction to the glass slide placed in the clamping grooves so as to enable the glass slide to be attached to the upper clamping surfaces.

2. The slide glass placing device according to claim 1, wherein the number of the engaging members is at least two, and the engaging members are arranged along the second direction, and upper engaging surfaces of the engaging grooves of adjacent engaging members are located on the same plane.

3. The slide placement device according to claim 1, wherein the catch slot includes a baffle extending in the first direction and having the upper catch surface and a resilient member extending in the first direction and having the lower catch surface that are oppositely disposed in the third direction.

4. The slide placement device according to claim 3, wherein the resilient member is a plurality of resilient tabs extending in the first direction.

5. The slide placement device according to claim 3, wherein a plurality of slides are placed in two of said slots spaced apart in said second direction, each of said two slots being integrally formed in said first direction and having a width at least equal to the sum of the widths of said plurality of slides, and said elastic member includes a support plate extending in said first direction and a set pin disposed in said support plate and facing said retainer.

6. The slide placement device of claim 1, further comprising a reference frame to which the snap is mounted, the reference frame including first connecting plates disposed in opposing parallel relation along the second direction, the first connecting plates extending along the first direction, and second connecting plates disposed in opposing parallel relation along the first direction, the second connecting plates extending along the second direction, the first and second connecting plates enclosing the reference frame.

7. The slide placement device according to claim 6, wherein an outer side of at least one of said first connection plates is provided with a positioning slot for cooperating with a positioning member to limit movement of said slide placement device in said first direction.

8. A microscope, comprising:

a base;

an objective lens;

the slide placement device of any of claims 1-7, positioned between the objective lens and the base, the slide placement device being disposed on the base.

9. A microscope, comprising:

a base;

an objective lens;

the slide placement device of claim 7, the slide placement device being positioned between the objective lens and the base, the slide placement device being disposed on the base;

and the positioning piece is matched with a positioning groove in the glass slide placing device.

10. The microscope of claim 9, wherein the positioning member is a set spring nail.

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