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US 12,435,574 B2Granted
Method of handling slides
AssigneeMikroscan Technologies
InventorsJeffrey Ross Gray, James Clail Crowe
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Abstract
A method of positioning a slide for examination is disclosed. The method includes the steps of placing the slide in a carrier configured to retain the slide, placing the carrier in a cartridge configured to accept the carrier, coupling the cartridge to a microscope, and activating the microscope to automatically extract the carrier from the cartridge and position the carrier such that a portion of the slide is disposed within a field of view (FOV) of the microscope.
Claims6
A carrier, comprising:
- a body comprising a slide mounting area configured to accept a slide having a planar surface;
- and
- a compliant tab comprising a gripper portion configured to couple to the accepted slide and a flexible portion coupled between the body of the carrier and the gripper portion of the compliant tab;
- wherein:
- the slide has a first position and a second position that is displaced from the first position along a first axis perpendicular to the planar surface of the slide;
- the flexible portion is configured to deform when a force is applied to the gripper portion along the first axis such that the slide moves from the first position toward the second position;
- the gripper portion is configured to maintain contact with the slide as the slide moves over a range from the first position to the second position.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.