Inverted microscope objective table heating device

By designing a heating and heat preservation mechanism on the inverted microscope stage, the problems of uneven heating of the slide and heat loss were solved, achieving stable temperature control and accurate observation results.

CN223711920UActive Publication Date: 2025-12-23INNER MONGOLIA MEDICAL UNIV
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Application Number
CN202423114093.9
Authority / Receiving Office
CN · China
Patent Type
Utility models(China)
Current Assignee / Owner
Filing Date
2024-12-17
Publication Date
2025-12-23
Estimated Expiration
2034-12-17

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Technical Problem

Traditional inverted microscope stages lack heating functions or have uneven heating, resulting in low temperature control precision, making it difficult to meet the needs of temperature-sensitive experiments. Furthermore, the two ends of the slide are exposed to the outside air, causing rapid heat loss and affecting the observation results.

Method used

An inverted microscope stage including a heating mechanism and a top insulation mechanism was designed. It uses an electric heating wire and an insulation layer. The end of the slide is covered by a receiving groove and an insulation cover plate. Combined with an adjustment mechanism, the insulation cover plate can be quickly covered and removed to reduce heat loss.

Benefits of technology

It effectively maintains a constant temperature on the slide, reduces heat loss, ensures the accuracy and stability of observation results, and is easy to use.

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Abstract

The utility model relates to the technical field of inverted microscope accessories, in particular to an inverted microscope objective table heating device. The glass slide heating device comprises an objective table and a light transmitting opening formed in the objective table, a heating mechanism is assembled between the objective table and the light transmitting opening, the heating mechanism is used for heating a glass slide, and the heating mechanism comprises a bearing groove, an electric heating wire and a heat preservation layer. Through the structural design of the heating mechanism and the top heat preservation mechanism, heat preservation can be conveniently carried out on the end portion of the glass slide in the bearing groove, the heat preservation cover plate can cover the upper portion of the glass slide, invasion of external cold air is effectively isolated, the heat dissipation speed is greatly reduced, and the heat preservation effect is improved. And through the structural design of the adjusting mechanism, the device can quickly cover the heat preservation cover plate above the glass slide, and meanwhile, after observation is finished, the heat preservation cover plate can be conveniently and quickly removed from the upper part of the glass slide, so that use is facilitated.
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TECHNICAL FIELD

[0001] The utility model relates to inverted microscope accessory technical field especially, it relates to a kind of inverted microscope stage heating device. BACKGROUND

[0002] In biomedical, cell culture, material science and many research fields, it is often necessary to observe and analyze samples under microscope. For some temperature-sensitive experiments, such as cell observation, biochemical reaction process monitoring, etc., it is crucial to maintain the sample in a suitable and stable temperature environment. However, traditional inverted microscope stages generally do not have heating function, or their heating devices have problems such as uneven heating, low temperature control precision, complex structure, difficult to install and maintain, etc., which cannot meet the needs of high-precision experiments.

[0003] For example, a general optical microscope stage constant temperature heating device with publication (announcement) number CN220933271 U is closely attached to the stage, which can maintain constant temperature and does not affect the operation of the microscope. The constant temperature heating device is composed of a heating module and a constant temperature control module. The heating module is mainly composed of a heating film. The heating film is installed on the microscope stage after being perforated, and is closely attached to the stage. The thickness is thin, which will not affect the observation and use of the microscope on the slide specimen.

[0004] In summary, the existing technology has the following technical problems: the above-mentioned existing technology can achieve the effect of warming the bottom of the slide, but the two ends of the slide are directly exposed to the external air, which causes the heat transferred from the heating and insulating device to the slide to be quickly lost. Therefore, the specimen on the slide is easy to lose the required temperature, which causes the deviation of the observation results of the specimen data. Therefore, we propose a kind of inverted microscope stage heating device. UTILITY MODEL CONTENT

[0005] The utility model aims to provide a kind of inverted microscope stage heating device to solve the problems raised in the above background.

[0006] To solve the above technical problems, the utility model adopts the following technical solutions:

[0007] A kind of inverted microscope stage heating device, including stage, and the light transmission port being set on stage, the stage is equipped with heating mechanism between light transmission port, the heating mechanism is used to warm the slide, the heating mechanism includes receiving groove, electric heating wire and heat preservation layer, the top of the stage and the position corresponding to light transmission port are provided with receiving groove, the receiving groove is communicated with light transmission port, the side of receiving groove is all provided with heat preservation layer, the inside of the stage and the position surrounding light transmission port are fixed with electric heating wire.

[0008] Preferably, a top heat preservation mechanism is arranged between the support platform and the receiving groove, and the top heat preservation mechanism is used for heat preservation of two ends of the slide glass.

[0009] Preferably, the top heat preservation mechanism comprises a fixed cylinder, a movable rod, a cylinder-shaped frame, an adjusting rod and a heat preservation cover plate, both ends of the support platform are fixed with the fixed cylinders, one end of the fixed cylinder is slidably connected with the movable rod, one end of the movable rod is fixed with the cylinder-shaped frame, the end of the cylinder-shaped frame away from the movable rod is fixed with the adjusting rod, and one end of the adjusting rod is connected with the heat preservation cover plate corresponding to the position of the receiving groove through buckling.

[0010] Preferably, an adjusting mechanism is arranged between the fixed cylinder and the adjusting rod, and the adjusting mechanism is used for adjusting the position of the adjusting rod.

[0011] Preferably, the adjusting mechanism comprises a pressure relief rod, a limiting disc, a first connecting spring, a first metal spring piece, a metal bent piece, a second metal spring piece, a limiting port, a second connecting spring and a fixed sleeve, the inner side of the movable rod is slidably connected with the pressure relief rod, one end of the pressure relief rod is fixed with the limiting disc, one side of the limiting disc is fixed with the first connecting spring, one end of the first connecting spring is fixed with the first metal spring piece, one side of the top of the first metal spring piece is integrally fixed with the metal bent piece, one end of the metal bent piece is integrally fixed with the second metal spring piece, the inner side of the second metal spring piece is slidably connected with the pressure relief rod, the connecting position of the second metal spring piece and the metal bent piece is provided with a protrusion, the top of the fixed cylinder is provided with the limiting port corresponding to the position of the protrusion, the limiting port is slidably connected with the protrusion, the outer side of the cylinder-shaped frame is sleeved with the second connecting spring, one end of the second connecting spring is fixed with the cylinder-shaped frame, the other end of the second connecting spring is fixed with the fixed sleeve, the inner side of the fixed sleeve is fixed with the fixed cylinder, and the adjusting rod is slidably connected with the fixed sleeve.

[0012] Preferably, the bottom of one end of the pressure relief rod is provided with a force guiding inclined surface, the inner side of the second metal spring piece is provided with a rectangular groove corresponding to the position of the force guiding inclined surface, and the bottom of the inner side of the rectangular groove is slidably connected with the force guiding inclined surface.

[0013] It can be seen without doubt that the above technical solutions of the present application can certainly solve the technical problems to be solved by the present application.

[0014] Meanwhile, through the above technical solutions, the present application at least has the following beneficial effects:

[0015] 1. The utility model discloses a structure design through the heating mechanism and the top heat preservation mechanism, make the device convenient to the end of the glass slide in the receiving groove heat preservation, make the heat preservation cover plate can cover the top of glass slide, effectively isolated the invasion of outside cold air, greatly slow down the heat loss rate.

[0016] 2. The utility model discloses a structure design through the adjusting mechanism, make the device can quickly cover the top of glass slide with heat preservation cover plate, and after observation, can conveniently quickly remove heat preservation cover plate from the top of glass slide, be favorable to use. DRAWINGS

[0017] In order to more clearly illustrate the utility model embodiment technical scheme, below will to the drawing needed to use in the embodiment description simple introduction, obviously, below description in the drawing is some embodiments of the utility model, for the ordinary skill in the art person, under the premise of not paying creative labor, can also obtain other drawings according to these drawings.

[0018] Figure 1 It is the structural schematic diagram of the utility model;

[0019] Figure 2 It is the sectional structure schematic diagram of the utility model's object table;

[0020] Figure 3 It is the sectional structure schematic diagram of the utility model's fixed cylinder;

[0021] Figure 4 It is the connecting structure schematic diagram of the utility model's movable rod and pressure release rod;

[0022] Figure 5 It is the connecting structure schematic diagram of the utility model's guide slope and rectangular groove.

[0023] In the drawings, the component list represented by each sign is as follows:

[0024] In the drawings: 1, object table;2, light transmission port;3, receiving groove;4, electric heating wire;5, heat preservation layer;6, fixed cylinder;7, movable rod;8, cylinder-shaped frame;9, adjusting rod;10, pressure release rod;11, limit disc;12, first connecting spring;13, first metal spring piece;14, metal bending piece;15, second metal spring piece;16, limit port;17, second connecting spring;18, fixed sleeve;19, heat preservation cover plate;20, guide slope;21, rectangular groove. DETAILED DESCRIPTION

[0025] In order to make the purpose, technical scheme and advantages of the utility model clearer and more apparent, the utility model will be further described in detail below in combination with the drawings and examples. It should be understood that the specific examples described herein are only used to explain the utility model and not to limit the utility model.

[0026] Embodiment 1

[0027] With reference to Figures 1-3 The utility model discloses an inverted microscope stage heating device, including stage 1 and the light -transmitting port 2 of setting on stage 1, stage 1 is assembled with the light -transmitting port 2 between the warming mechanism, and the warming mechanism is used for carrying out the warming to the glass slide, and the warming mechanism includes the receiving groove 3, electric heating wire 4 and the heat preservation layer 5, and the top of stage 1 and the position corresponding with the light -transmitting port 2 are set with the receiving groove 3, and the receiving groove 3 is communicated with the light -transmitting port 2, and the side of receiving groove 3 is all provided with the heat preservation layer 5, and the inside of stage 1 and the position around the light -transmitting port 2 are fixed with electric heating wire 4, and the thickness of glass slide is slightly greater than the depth of receiving groove 3;PID control principle is the most widely used electric heating wire temperature control method at present. Electric heating wire 4 adopts PID control, and PID control is through the continuous adjustment proportion, integral, differential three parameters to make the temperature of electric heating wire stable in a set value range, and the commonly used product is Cr20Ni80, and it is the existing mature technology, and here will not be repeated.

[0028] Stage 1 and receiving groove 3 are assembled with top heat preservation mechanism, and the top heat preservation mechanism is used for carrying out heat preservation to both ends of the glass slide.

[0029] The top heat preservation mechanism includes fixed cylinder 6, movable rod 7, barrel-shaped frame 8, adjusting rod 9 and heat preservation cover plate 19, both ends of stage 1 are fixed with fixed cylinder 6, one end of fixed cylinder 6 is slidably connected with movable rod 7, one end of movable rod 7 is fixed with barrel-shaped frame 8, one end of barrel-shaped frame 8 away from movable rod 7 is fixed with adjusting rod 9, one end of adjusting rod 9 is connected with heat preservation cover plate 19 corresponding with the position of receiving groove 3 through buckle, and adjusting rod 9 and heat preservation cover plate 19 are detachably connected, so that subsequent different specifications of heat preservation cover plate 19 can be replaced according to needs, to adapt to different needs of glass slide.

[0030] Embodiment 2

[0031] Further optimize embodiment 1, specifically, as Figures 4-5 Adjusting mechanism is assembled between fixed cylinder 6 and adjusting rod 9, and the adjusting mechanism is used for adjusting the position of adjusting rod 9.

[0032] The adjusting mechanism comprises a pressure relief rod 10, a limiting disc 11, a first connecting spring 12, a first metal spring piece 13, a metal bending piece 14, a second metal spring piece 15, a limiting port 16, a second connecting spring 17 and a fixing sleeve 18, the inner side of the movable rod 7 is slidably connected with the pressure relief rod 10, one end of the pressure relief rod 10 is fixed with the limiting disc 11, one side of the limiting disc 11 is fixed with the first connecting spring 12, one end of the first connecting spring 12 is fixed with the first metal spring piece 13, one side of the top of the first metal spring piece 13 is integrally fixed with the metal bending piece 14, one end of the metal bending piece 14 is integrally fixed with the second metal spring piece 15, the inner side of the second metal spring piece 15 is slidably connected with the pressure relief rod 10, the connecting position of the second metal spring piece 15 and the metal bending piece 14 is provided with a protrusion, the top of the fixed cylinder 6 is provided with the limiting port 16 corresponding to the position of the protrusion, the limiting port 16 is slidably connected with the protrusion, the outer side of the cylindrical frame 8 is sleeved with the second connecting spring 17, one end of the second connecting spring 17 is fixed with the cylindrical frame 8, the other end of the second connecting spring 17 is fixed with the fixing sleeve 18, the fixing sleeve 18 is fixed with the inner side of the fixed cylinder 6, the adjusting rod 9 is slidably connected with the fixing sleeve 18, after the observation of the glass slide is finished, the pressure relief rod 10 is pressed, the force guide inclined surface 20 is used for pressing the bottom of the inner side of the rectangular groove 21, the second metal spring piece 15 is pushed to move downwards, the second metal spring piece 15 is separated from the limiting port 16, at this moment, the elastic force of the second connecting spring 17 pushes the cylindrical frame 8 to move and reset, at this time, the protrusion on the top of the second metal spring piece 15 is in contact with the top of the inner side of the fixed cylinder 6 again, the cylindrical frame 8 drives the movable rod 7 to reset synchronously, the adjusting rod 9 drives the heat preservation cover plate 19 to reset, the heat preservation cover plate 19 is removed to cover the glass slide, and the user can take the glass slide.

[0033] The bottom of one end of the pressure relief rod 10 is provided with the force guide inclined surface 20, the inner side of the second metal spring piece 15 is provided with the rectangular groove 21 corresponding to the position of the force guide inclined surface 20, the force guide inclined surface 20 is slidably connected with the bottom of the inner side of the rectangular groove 21, through the arrangement of the force guide inclined surface 20, when the pressure relief rod 10 moves, the force guide inclined surface 20 is used for pressing the bottom of the inner side of the rectangular groove 21, the protrusion on the top of the second metal spring piece 15 can be quickly separated from the limiting port 16.

[0034] It can be known from the above that:

[0035] The present application is aimed at the technical problem that the prior art can realize the heating effect on the bottom of the glass slide, but the two ends of the glass slide are directly exposed to the external air, which leads to the rapid loss of the heat transferred from the heat preservation device to the glass slide, therefore, the specimen on the glass slide is easy to lose the required temperature, and the deviation of the specimen data observation result is caused; the technical scheme of the above-mentioned embodiments is adopted.

[0036] In use, the slide is placed on the inner side of the receiving groove 3, and then the electric heating wire 4 is started to heat, and the temperature of the slide can be maintained by the heat preservation layer 5, so that the temperature is constant, then the movable rod 7 is pressed to move along the inner side of the fixed cylinder 6, so that the cylindrical frame 8 drives the second metal spring 15 to move, and the protrusion at the top of the second metal spring 15 moves synchronously along the top of the fixed cylinder 6, and due to the material characteristics of the metal bending piece 14, the metal bending piece 14 is deformed and shrinks under stress along the bending part, when the protrusion at the top of the second metal spring 15 corresponds to the position of the limiting port 16, at this time, the metal bending piece 14 rebounds, so that the protrusion at the top of the second metal spring 15 enters the limiting port 16, and the adjusting rod 9 drives the heat preservation cover plate 19 to move to the end of the slide to heat the end, thereby reducing the temperature loss.

[0037] Through the above setting, the above technical problems can be solved, and the following technical effects are achieved:

[0038] 1、 the temperature of the end of the slide in the receiving groove 3 can be maintained by the temperature heating mechanism and the top heat preservation mechanism, so that the heat preservation cover plate 19 can cover the slide, and the invasion of external cold air is effectively prevented, and the heat loss speed is greatly reduced.

[0039] 2、 the temperature of the end of the slide in the receiving groove 3 can be maintained by the temperature heating mechanism and the top heat preservation mechanism, so that the heat preservation cover plate 19 can cover the slide, and the invasion of external cold air is effectively prevented, and the heat loss speed is greatly reduced.

[0040] In the utility model, unless another definite provision and limitation, the terms "installation", "connection", "connection", "fixing" and the like terms should be broad sense understanding, for example, can be fixed connection, also can be detachable connection, or integral; can be mechanical connection, also can be electric connection or each other can communicate; can be directly connected, also can be indirectly connected through intermediate medium, can be two element inside connection or two element interaction relationship, unless another definite limitation. For ordinary skilled in the art, the specific meaning of the above terms in the utility model can be understood according to specific circumstances.

[0041] Obviously, the above-described embodiments are only a part of the embodiments of the present application, rather than all the embodiments, and the preferred embodiments of the present application are given in the drawings, but do not limit the patent scope of the present application. The present application can be realized in many different forms, and conversely, the purpose of providing these embodiments is to make the disclosure of the present application more thorough and comprehensive. Although the present application has been described in detail with reference to the foregoing embodiments, those skilled in the art can still modify the technical solutions recorded in the foregoing specific embodiments, or equivalently replace some of the technical features. Any equivalent structure made by using the content of the present application specification and drawings, directly or indirectly used in other related technical fields, is also within the patent protection scope of the present application.

Claims

1. An inverted microscope stage heating apparatus, characterized by, The utility model provides a kind of slide glass warming mechanism, including stage (1), and the light transmission port (2) opened in stage (1), the stage (1) is equipped with warming mechanism with light transmission port (2), the warming mechanism is used to warm slide glass, the warming mechanism includes receiving groove (3), electric heating wire (4) and heat preservation layer (5), the top of stage (1) and the position corresponding with light transmission port (2) are equipped with receiving groove (3), the receiving groove (3) is communicated with light transmission port (2), the side of receiving groove (3) is provided with heat preservation layer (5), the inside of stage (1) and the position around light transmission port (2) are fixed with electric heating wire (4), the stage (1) is equipped with top heat preservation mechanism between receiving groove (3), the top heat preservation mechanism is used to heat preservation the both ends of slide glass, the top heat preservation mechanism includes fixed cylinder (6), movable rod (7), barrel-shaped frame (8), adjusting rod (9) and heat preservation cover plate (19), both ends of stage (1) are fixed with fixed cylinder (6), one end of fixed cylinder (6) is slidably connected with movable rod (7), one end of movable rod (7) is fixed with barrel-shaped frame (8), the end away from movable rod (7) of barrel-shaped frame (8) is fixed with adjusting rod (9), one end of adjusting rod (9) is connected with heat preservation cover plate (19) corresponding with the position of receiving groove (3) by buckle.

2. The inverted microscope stage heating apparatus of claim 1, wherein, The adjusting mechanism is used for adjusting the position of adjusting rod (9) between fixed cylinder (6) and adjusting rod (9).

3. An inverted microscope stage heating apparatus according to claim 2, wherein, The adjusting mechanism includes pressure relief rod (10), limit disc (11), first connecting spring (12), first metal spring (13), metal bending piece (14), second metal spring (15), limit port (16), second connecting spring (17) and fixed sleeve (18), the inside of movable rod (7) is slidably connected with pressure relief rod (10), one end of pressure relief rod (10) is fixed with limit disc (11), one side of limit disc (11) is fixed with first connecting spring (12), one end of first connecting spring (12) is fixed with first metal spring (13), one side of the top of first metal spring (13) is integrally fixed with metal bending piece (14), one end of metal bending piece (14) is integrally fixed with second metal spring (15), the inside of second metal spring (15) is slidably connected with pressure relief rod (10), the connection of second metal spring (15) and metal bending piece (14) is provided with protrusion, the top of fixed cylinder (6) is equipped with limit port (16) corresponding with the position of protrusion, the limit port (16) is slidably connected with protrusion, the outside of barrel-shaped frame (8) is sleeved with second connecting spring (17), one end of second connecting spring (17) is fixed with barrel-shaped frame (8), the other end of second connecting spring (17) is fixed with fixed sleeve (18), the inside of fixed sleeve (18) is fixed with fixed cylinder (6), adjusting rod (9) is slidably connected with fixed sleeve (18).

4. The inverted microscope stage heating apparatus of claim 3, wherein, The bottom of one end of the pressure relief rod (10) is provided with a force guide inclined surface (20), the inner side of the second metal spring (15) is provided with a rectangular slot (21) corresponding to the position of the force guide inclined surface (20), and the force guide inclined surface (20) is in sliding connection with the bottom of the inner side of the rectangular slot (21).

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  • Constant-temperature heating device for objective table of optical microscope

    CN220933271U