Tissue Treatment Apparatus Sidewall Chemical Tank Integration
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional tissue piece treating apparatuses face challenges with downsizing, limited installation flexibility, and interruptions in treatment due to chemical insufficiency, leading to potential delays in producing microscopic specimens.
Innovation Solution
Integrating new chemical tanks with larger capacities to the apparatus' sidewall, equipped with reinforcing members to manage pressure, and a control system to automatically supply and refill chemicals, ensuring continuous treatment even when concentrations are insufficient.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If an external tank is provided outside the main body to store new chemicals, then the apparatus can perform treatment operations, but the apparatus size increases and installation flexibility is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The patent integrates the new chemical tank directly into the main body of the apparatus, merging what was previously a separate external component. This integration eliminates the need for separate external tank mounting space, thereby reducing overall apparatus footprint while maintaining the chemical storage and supply function.
2Reliability
If chemicals are transferred between tanks through the processing chamber, then the system can maintain concentration gradients, but treatment operations are interrupted when chemical amounts become insufficient
Solution Approach 1:
The new chemical tank is pre-filled with sufficient chemical volume and integrated into the main body, allowing it to serve as a preliminary reservoir. This ensures that when chemicals are consumed in the processing chamber, there is always adequate chemical supply available to maintain continuous treatment operations without interruption.
3Productivity
If the chemical tank capacity is increased to prevent chemical depletion, then treatment can continue without interruption, but the apparatus size increases
Solution Approach 1:
By integrating the new chemical tank into the main body structure, the patent achieves space-efficient design. The tank utilizes the internal volume of the main body, thereby increasing chemical storage capacity and ensuring treatment continuity without proportionally increasing the external dimensions of the apparatus.
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 solution allows for downsizing of the apparatus, improves installation flexibility, and ensures timely completion of tissue piece treatments by maintaining chemical concentration gradients and preventing chemical depletion, thus enabling the production of microscopic specimens within estimated times.
Implementation Method 1
inner pressure of the processing chamber 102 is increased and reduced by a pump 112
Implementation Method 2
have inner wall faces respectively reinforced by reinforcing members so as to prevent deformation of the new chemical tanks when inner pressure is reduced and increased
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AI summary
The present invention can solve such a problem that a conventional tissue piece treating apparatus has difficulty of reduction in size and restriction on installation and stopping subsequent treatment operations when the amount of chemical supplied to a processing chamber is insufficient. The tissue piece treating apparatus comprises: new chemical tanks 15, 17 being integrally attached to both sidewall faces of a main body of the apparatus respectively, having larger capacities than a plurality of chemical tanks 14, 16 in which chemicals with different concentrations are stored for performing immersion treatment of a tissue piece accommodated in a processing chamber 12, having inner wall faces respectively reinforced by reinforcing members, and storing unused new chemicals of the same types as the chemicals stored in the chemical tanks 14, 16; pipes being extended from the new chemical tanks 15, 17 and connected to a selection valve 30 so as to supply the new chemicals stored in the new chemical tanks 15, 17 to the processing chamber 12; and a control section 38 controlling the selection valve 30, an open/close valve 32 and a pump 34 so as to supply the new chemical of an amount corresponding to an insufficiency of the amount of the chemical supplied from the new chemical tanks 15, 17 to the processing chamber 12 when a detection sensor 36 detects that the amount of the chemical supplied to the processing chamber 12 is insufficient.