Specimen handling apparatus

US8347741B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• International Business Machines Corporation · US

Inventors

• Michael Hatzistergos · Beacon, US
• Jonathan Levy · Great Neck, US
• Christopher M. Molella · Poughkeepsie, US
• Paul A. Ronsheim · Hopewell Junction, US
• Dmitriy Shneyder · Hopewell Junction, US
• Vincent Vazquez · Poughkeepsie, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Jun 1, 2010
• Grant date: Jan 8, 2013
• Expiry date: Jan 28, 2031

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G01N23/2204
• WIPO field: Measurement
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A specimen handling apparatus is provided and includes a body in which a bore is defined and a needle having a tip portion and a bit, which is removably insertible into the bore with the tip portion at least partially exposed, the bore and the bit each being formed such that, when the bit is inserted into the bore, the needle is forced into one of first or second rotational positions relative to a long axis thereof.