Compact Microscope Vibration Isolation Segmentation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional microscope systems are large, expensive, and not portable due to their size, weight, and infrastructure requirements, making them unsuitable for stable, precise, and portable applications, especially in environments that require vibration isolation and precise alignment.
Innovation Solution
A compact microscope design featuring a primary optical support element with vibration isolating mounts, a sample stage, and a focus stability beam system, along with a separate illumination source module connected via optical fibers, allowing for precise control and portability while maintaining stability and sensitivity.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If conventional microscope systems are used, then stability and precision are improved, but device size and weight increase significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The microscope system is divided into separate functional modules: a compact microscope body and a separate illumination source module connected via optical fiber. This segmentation allows the main microscope to remain lightweight while distributing functionality across multiple components, resolving the contradiction between stability and weight.
Solution Approach 2:
An optical fiber serves as an intermediary to transmit illumination light from the separate source module to the microscope. This intermediary approach enables the microscope to maintain compact dimensions while achieving stable and precise operation through the separated but connected system architecture.
2Measurement precision
If conventional microscope systems are used, then measurement precision is improved, but device complexity and cost increase
Solution Approach 1:
The illumination source is extracted from the main microscope body and placed in a separate module. This extraction simplifies the microscope's internal structure and reduces complexity while maintaining measurement precision through the dedicated optical fiber connection that ensures stable light delivery.
Solution Approach 2:
The separate illumination source module can serve multiple functions and be potentially used with different microscope configurations. This universal approach reduces overall system complexity by using a standardized, multi-functional component rather than custom-integrated illumination for each microscope.
3Reliability
If vibration isolating mounts are added, then vibration stability is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The vibration isolating mounts are integrated directly into the primary optical support element structure. This merging of vibration isolation functionality with the existing support structure achieves vibration stability without adding separate, complex isolation systems, thereby resolving the contradiction between stability and complexity.
4Length of moving object
If compact design is implemented, then portability is improved, but vibration isolation performance deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The primary optical support element incorporates dynamic vibration isolation through integrated mounts that can adapt to vibrational disturbances. This dynamic approach allows the compact microscope to maintain vibration isolation performance despite its reduced size, resolving the contradiction between compactness and vibration protection.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
The compact microscope achieves high vibration stability, precise alignment, and sensitivity, enabling portable and cost-effective operation in various environments, including controlled settings like refrigerators or incubators, with efficient focus control and multi-color imaging capabilities.
Implementation Method 1
at least one vibration isolating mount between the support element and the primary optical support element
Implementation Method 2
The illumination optical system may be connected to an illumination source module by an optical fibre
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AI summary
A compact microscope including an enclosure, a support element, a primary optical support element located within the enclosure and supported by the support element, at least one vibration isolating mount between the support element and the primary optical support element, an illumination section, an objective lens system, a sample stage mounted on the primary optical support element, an illumination optical system to direct an illumination light beam from the illumination section to the sample stage, and a return optical system to receive returned light from sample stage and transmit returned light to a detection apparatus, wherein the illumination optical system and return optical system are mounted on the primary optical support element.