Patent ID: 9625478
Date: 2017-04-18
CPC Classifications: G01N

Claim:
1. An integrated automated slide processing apparatus to process, especially to stain, cover and digitize, one or more microscope slides ( 49 ) with bottom and top surfaces, said top surface carrying a biological sample, the apparatus comprising at least one incubation drawer ( 48 ), an incubation drawer carrier ( 1 ), a manipulation tray ( 2 ), a manipulation arm ( 3 ), a reagent changing unit ( 4 ), a washing and rinsing unit, a drop removal unit, a staining/pipetting unit ( 13 ), a coverslipping unit ( 14 ), a preview image recording unit ( 15 ), a digitizing unit ( 16 ) and a control computer ( 18 ) electrically connected with and providing control over said units, wherein the at least one incubation drawer comprises converging sidewalls defining a slide receiving space, said converging sidewalls are obliquely arranged such that even when the bottom of the microscope slide contacts the sidewall, the top surface of the microscope slide and said sidewall are apart from one another, and the above listed subunits together form a treating path within the apparatus, said treating path being configured to convert each of said microscope slides (