Focal adjustment for analyte detection package
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorsAnita Rogacs, Viktor Shkolnikov, Ning Ge
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Abstract
An analyte detection system includes an analyte detection package to be presented to a reading device, and a focus mechanism to adjust a focal point of the analyte detection package relative to the reading device, with the analyte detection package including a surface-enhanced luminescence analyte stage, the reading device including optics to receive scattered radiation emitted luminescence from the analyte stage, and the focus mechanism to adjust the focal point relative to the optics.
Claims20
An analyte detection system, comprising:
- an analyte detection package to be presented to a reading device, the analyte detection package including a surface-enhanced luminescence analyte stage having a surface and surface-enhanced luminescence structures extended from the surface, the reading device including optics to receive emitted luminescence from the analyte stage;
- a registration plate to contact the surface of the analyte stage;
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- a focus mechanism to move the registration plate to adjust a focal point of the analyte detection package relative to the optics of the reading device.
An analyte detection system, comprising:
- a surface-enhanced luminescence analyte stage having a surface and surface-enhanced luminescence structures extended from the surface;
- optics to receive emitted luminescence from the analyte stage;
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- a focus mechanism to adjust a focal length between the analyte stage and the optics, the focus mechanism including a registration plate having registration pins in contact with the surface of the analyte stage.
A method of focusing an analyte detection package, comprising:
- presenting an analyte detection package including a surface-enhanced luminescence analyte stage to a reading device including optics for receiving emitted luminescence from the analyte stage, the analyte stage including surface-enhanced luminescence structures;
- contacting, with a registration plate of a focus mechanism, a surface of the analyte stage from which the surface-enhanced luminescence structures extend;
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- adjusting a focal point of the analyte detection package relative to the optics of the reading device, including moving, via the registration plate, the analyte detection package with the focus mechanism.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.