Patent ID: 9291532
Filing Date: 2016-03-22
CPC Classification: G01N

Claim Text:
1. An automatic thin section sample preparation device that prepares a thin section by thinly cutting an embedding block which includes an embedded biological sample and is held by a cassette to which ID data is attached in advance, fixes the thin section to a substrate, and prepares a thin section sample, the device comprising: a reading portion configured to read the ID data; a first imaging portion configured to image a surface image of the embedding block; a sample preparation mechanism configured to prepare the thin section by thinly cutting the embedding block, fix the thin section to the substrate, and prepare the thin section sample; a second imaging portion configured to image a thin section image of the thin section in the thin section sample; a recording portion configured to record individual data on the substrate in the thin section sample; and a control portion which is configured to control an operation of the sample preparation mechanism, and to which the ID data read by the reading portion, the surface image imaged by the first imaging portion, and the thin section image imaged by the second imaging portion are input, wherein the control portion includes a determination portion configured to determine whether or not the thin section is prepared from an original embedding block by collating the surface image and the thin section image, and a storage portion configured to store the determination result from the determination portion in association with the ID data, as the individual data.