Box Microscope Movable Housing and Specimen Vessel Positioning
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing box-type microscopes face challenges in efficiently replacing specimens without enlarging the operation range of the stage, which can lead to oversizing of the apparatus and reduced operation accuracy, while also requiring complex positional adjustments and securement methods.
Innovation Solution
The design incorporates a movable housing that aligns optical axes and includes a specimen vessel positioning and release mechanism with bumping parts and a clamp lever system, allowing for easy specimen placement and removal without the need for precise positional adjustments, ensuring the specimen is fixed at a constant position during observation.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If the operation range of the stage is enlarged to facilitate specimen replacement, then the apparatus size increases, but the operation accuracy of the stage decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The housing is divided into a fixed housing and a moving housing that can be opened and closed. The moving housing contains the specimen replacement area, allowing operators to access specimens without moving the stage beyond its accurate operation range. This segmentation enables easy specimen replacement while maintaining stage positioning precision.
Solution Approach 2:
The moving housing acts as an intermediary mechanism between the operator and the specimen. By opening the moving housing, operators can easily replace specimens without directly manipulating the stage, thus avoiding stage movement errors while facilitating convenient specimen access.
2Manufacturing precision
If complex positional adjustments and securement methods are used to fix specimens, then specimen placement accuracy is maintained, but the specimen replacement process becomes complicated
Solution Approach 1:
The moving housing is pre-configured with bumping parts and guide structures that automatically align and position specimen vessels when placed inside. This preliminary positioning action eliminates the need for complex manual adjustments during specimen replacement, maintaining accuracy while simplifying the process.
Solution Approach 2:
The specimen vessel positioning mechanism uses bumping parts and guide structures that enable specimen vessels to self-align and self-position when placed in the moving housing. This self-service mechanism maintains precise specimen placement without requiring complex manual adjustment procedures.
3Object-affected harmful factors
If the housing is made completely fixed to block light effectively, then light blocking performance is improved, but the specimen replacement operation becomes difficult
Solution Approach 1:
The housing is designed with a moving housing that can be opened and closed dynamically. When closed, it provides effective light blocking for observation. When opened, it allows easy specimen replacement. This dynamic design resolves the contradiction between light blocking performance and operational ease.
Solution Approach 2:
The housing operates in periodic cycles: closed during observation to block light effectively, and opened during specimen replacement to facilitate access. This periodic action between two states resolves the contradiction by providing both light blocking performance and ease of operation at appropriate times.
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AI summary
A box-type microscope apparatus includes a stage, a microscope, and a housing, which has a fixed housing and a moving housing provided to be openable, closable, and movable with respect to the fixed housing. The box-type microscope apparatus further includes a specimen vessel positioning device for fixing the specimen vessel placed on the stage at a constant position. of the stage and a positioning release device for actuating the specimen vessel positioning means when the moving housing is moved toward a position of a closed state to release a positioning of the specimen vessel performed by the specimen vessel positioning device with respect to the stage when the moving housing is opened.