Automatic stainer for staining objects for microscopic examination

US6635225B1 · kind B1 · utility

Assignee

• Leica Microsystems Nussloch GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Stefan Thiem · Heidelberg, DE
• Ralf Kaltenmeier · Schallstadt, DE
• Eric J. Barth · Nashville, US
• Joachim Glasenapp · Heddesheim, DE
• Stefan Kunkel · Aschaffenburg, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Apr 4, 2000
• Grant date: Oct 21, 2003
• Expiry date: Apr 4, 2020

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10T436/114165
• WIPO field: Measurement
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

An automatic stainer for staining objects, arranged on slides for microscopic examination is described. The automatic stainer has multiple reagent containers arranged one behind another for treating the objects. The slides pass through the reagent containers in succession, a transport basket for receiving multiple slides being provided. Multiple transport baskets can be received simultaneously in respective different reagent containers, and are simultaneously lifted out of the respective reagent container by way of a motorized transport mechanism having a lifting device and are respectively transported on into an adjacent reagent container. A removal station that has a collecting reagent container for the simultaneous reception of multiple transport baskets is arranged at the end of the row of reagent containers.