Smear slide preparing apparatus and smear slide preparing method
AssigneeSysmex Corporation
InventorMitsuo YAMASAKI
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Abstract
The present invention is to present a smear slide preparing apparatus capable of properly providing sample-related information on a predetermined area of a slide glass even when glass shards and dust and the like are attached to the predetermined area. A smear slide preparing apparatus comprises: a smear section for smearing a sample on a slide glass; an attached matter removing section for removing attached matter which is attached to a sample-related information area of the slide glass; and a sample-related information providing section for providing sample-related information which is related to the sample on the sample-related information area of the slide glass, the attached matter having been removed from the sample-related information area.
Claims20
A smear slide preparing apparatus comprising:
- a smear section for smearing a sample on a slide glass;
- an attached matter removing section for removing attached matter which is attached to a sample-related information area of the slide glass;
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- a sample-related information providing section for providing sample-related information which is related to the sample on the sample-related information area of the slide glass, the attached matter having been removed from the sample-related information area.
A smear slide preparing method, comprising steps of:
- smearing a sample on a slide glass;
- transporting the slide glass through a first position to a second position;
- automatically removing attached matter which is attached on a sample-related information area of the slide glass at the first position;
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- automatically providing sample-related information on the sample-related information area of the slide glass at the second position.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.