Coverslipping module for mounting coverslips onto specimen slides

US9011066B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Leica Biosystems Nussloch GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Joachim Hoffmann · Esslingen am Neckar, DE
• Bernhard Neef · Schallstadt, DE
• Simon Keimer · Leimen, DE
• Karl-Heinz Westerhoff · Eppingen, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jan 20, 2012
• Grant date: Apr 21, 2015
• Expiry date: Oct 30, 2032

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G02B21/34
• WIPO field: Optics
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

The invention relates to a coverslipping module for mounting coverslips onto specimen slides (12) for microscopic investigations, having a transport apparatus (9) for transporting a specimen slide (12) out of a rack (3) or a specimen slide holder to a coverslipping position (13) in which the specimen slide (12) is equipped with a coverslip, and having an alignment device for aligning the specimen slide (12) in the coverslipping position (13) for mounting the coverslip. In order to allow the specimen slide (12) to be reliably and quickly aligned for mounting of the coverslips, thereby ensuring a high level of process dependability with a short processing time, the alignment device are constituted by multiple movable orientation jaws (18) which are arranged so that by closure of the orientation jaws (18), the specimen slide (12) becomes aligned in the coverslipping position (13).