Microscope Stage Fixation with Projection and Pressing Blocks
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing stage systems for microscopes face difficulties in accurately fixing slide glasses when sealing mediums and cover glasses protrude, as the L-shaped members and clips can lift or ride onto the slide glass, making precise positioning challenging.
Innovation Solution
A stage system with projection blocks and pressing blocks thicker than the slide glass, which are designed to press the slide glass between themselves and the projection blocks, reducing the risk of lifting or riding and enhancing the accuracy of fixation, even when sealing mediums and cover glasses are protruding.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Device complexity
If an L-shaped member and a clip are used to press the slide glass, then the structure is simple, but the fixation accuracy deteriorates when sealing medium and cover glass protrude
Solution Approach 1:
The invention changes the thickness parameter of the pressing block, making it greater than the slide glass thickness. This parameter modification ensures that the pressing block can press the slide glass effectively without being lifted by protruding sealing medium or cover glass, thereby resolving the contradiction between simple structure and accurate fixation.
2Length of moving object
If the clip thickness is set equal to or slightly smaller than slide glass thickness, then the clip can fit the slide glass, but the clip may be lifted by protruding sealing medium
Solution Approach 1:
The invention modifies the thickness parameter of the pressing block to be greater than the slide glass thickness. This ensures that the pressing block maintains contact with the slide glass surface and cannot be lifted by protruding sealing medium or cover glass, thereby improving fixation reliability while keeping the structure simple.
3Length of moving object
If the pressing block is thinner than the slide glass, then it can fit the slide glass, but it may ride onto the slide glass making fixation difficult
Solution Approach 1:
The invention changes the thickness parameter of the pressing block to be greater than the slide glass thickness. This prevents the pressing block from riding onto the slide glass surface, ensuring stable and accurate fixation of the slide glass on the stage.
Data Source
AI summary
Disclosed herein is a stage system, including: a stage on which to mount a slide glass; a projection block projected more than the thickness of the slide glass to the side of that surface of the stage on which to dispose the slide glass; and a pressing block which is provided on that surface of the stage on which to dispose the slide glass, is thicker than the slide glass, and presses toward the projection block the slide glass disposed between itself and the projection block.