Treatment device for treating histological or cytological samples

US10151673B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Leica Biosystems Nussloch GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Bernhard Neef · Schallstadt, DE
• Markus Wittmann · Bruckberg, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jun 22, 2017
• Grant date: Dec 11, 2018
• Expiry date: Jun 22, 2037

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G01N2035/00891
• WIPO field: Measurement
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A treatment device (1) for treating histological or cytological samples has a plurality of containers (6) for different treatment agents and a detection apparatus (2) for detecting a code which unequivocally identifies a type of a treatment agent or a type of a group of treatment agents from a package or replacement container of a treatment agent or group of treatment agents. The device furthermore has an evaluation apparatus (18) that, based on a detected code, ascertains which of the containers is or are to be replenished or replaced, and an indicating apparatus (4) which communicates to a user the ascertained container (6) or containers (6) that is or are to be replenished or replaced. The indicating apparatus may include a display (5) presenting a schematic image of the plurality of containers (6) with image(s) of each ascertained container being marked, and/or a light source (15) that illuminates each ascertained container.