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US 12,595,953 B2Granted
Cooling devices for cooling paraffin blocks
AssigneeLeavitt Medical, Inc.
InventorsSorin Musat, Lilian Nicolae Nisif
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Abstract
A cooling device suitable for cooling paraffin tissue blocks with little or no moisture artefacts, as well as the use thereof to obtain good quality serial sections for microscope slides. The slides can be used in histology and anatomical pathology, for example. The cooling device may include a cold plate, a lid, and a sheet of insulating material over the cold plate.
Claims15
A cooling device for cooling paraffin blocks, the cooling device comprising:
- a cold plate configured to maintain a predetermined surface temperature;
- a lid shaped and sized to cover the cold plate and to define an enclosure between the lid and the cold plate when the lid is closed;
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- a perforated sheet of insulating material positioned over a surface of the cold plate to be directly between any paraffin blocks to be cooled and the surface of the cooling plate.
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A cooling device for cooling paraffin blocks, the cooling device comprising:
- a base structure;
- a cold plate in the base structure, the cold plate configured to maintain a predetermined surface temperature of between about-5 degrees Celsius and about 10 degrees Celsius;
- a fan within the base structure to facilitate cooling of the cold plate;
- a lid coupled to the base structure with at least one hinge, the lid shaped and sized to cover the cold plate and to define an enclosure between the lid and the cold plate when the lid is closed, the lid comprising a transparent window;
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- a perforated sheet of insulating polymer material positioned over a surface of the cold plate to be directly between any paraffin blocks to be cooled and the surface of the cooling plate.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.