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US 10,520,405 B2Granted
Apparatus for providing object to be medically examined by blowing
AssigneeBiodyne Co., Ltd.
InventorWook Bin Im
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Abstract
An apparatus for providing an object to be medically examined by blowing is provided where air is blown into a container in which an object to be medically examined is stored, so as to make the uniform distribution state of the object to be medically examined from the inside of the container, thereby ensuring the sameness of the object to be medically examined, which is to be extracted from the container.
Claims11
An apparatus for handling examination objects, the apparatus comprising:
- a container holder;
- a suction unit positioned to be fluidically coupled to a container held by the container holder;
- a blower;
- a filter transfer device movable to transfer a filter from the suction unit to the blower;
- and
- a controller in communication with the suction unit and the blower, wherein the controller is programmed to cause the apparatus to perform operations including:
- prior to drawing a solution from the container and through the filter, outputting air from the suction unit such that the air flows upwardly through a lower side of a cap filter of the container to cause examination objects resting on an upper side of the cap filter to be uniformly spread in the solution held in the container;
- and
- after uniformly spreading the examination objects in the solution,
- sucking, using the suction unit, the solution through the cap filter to cause the examination objects to be collected along a collection surface of the filter,
- robotically move the filter, which carries the examination objects, away from the container,
- after robotically moving the filter away from the container, causing the suction, unit to suck solution from the filter,
- robotically moving, using the filter transfer device, the filter from the suction unit to the blower while the filter carries the examination objects located along the collection surface, and
- blowing, using the blower, the examination objects from the collection surface onto a surface of a slide.
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An apparatus for handling examination objects, the apparatus comprising:
- a container holder;
- a suction unit;
- a blower;
- a filter transfer device operable to robotically transfer a filter between a first position for coupling with the suction unit and a container, which contains the examination objects and a solution, and a second position for coupling with the blower-unit;
- and
- at least one controller programmed to cause the apparatus to:
- perform a blowing process to move the examination objects away from a cap filter of the container to spread the examination objects in the solution prior to collecting the examination objects along a collection surface of the filter,
- perform a suction process, using the suction unit, to draw solution and at least some of the examination objects through the cap filter such that the examination objects are collected along the collection surface of the filter at the first position,
- cause the apparatus to robotically move the filter, which is carrying the examination objects on the collection surface, away from the container and then perform a solution removal process by sucking solution out of the filter, and
- perform a transfer process, using the blower-unit, by delivering air through the filter at the second position to cause the examination objects to be transferred from the collection surface to a surface of a slide.
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An apparatus for handling examination objects, the apparatus comprising:
- a container holder;
- a suction unit;
- a blower;
- a filter transfer device operable to robotically transfer a filter between a first position for coupling with the suction unit and the container, which contains the examination objects and a solution, and a second position for coupling with the blower;
- and
- at least one controller programmed to cause the apparatus to:
- perform a blowing process to move the examination objects away from a cap filter of the container to, spread the examination objects in the solution prior to collecting the examination objects along a collection surface of the filter,
- perform a suction process, using the suction unit, to draw solution and at least some of the examination objects through the cap filter such that the examination objects are collected along the collection surface of the filter at the first position,
- robotically move the filter, carrying the examination objects on the collection surface, away from the container,
- after robotically moving the filter away from the container,
- causing the suction unit to suck solution from the filter while the filter carries the examination objects, and
- causing, via the blower, the examination objects to be transferred from the collection surface to a surface of a slide.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.