Patent ID: 8963103
Filing Date: 2015-02-24
Classification: A61L,C12M,G01N

Abstract:
1. A device for sterilizing a sample chamber in an automated live cell microscope, the microscope having a sample holding frame contained in a housing of the microscope and fastening, operating, and control elements for immobilizing and introducing movement in into the sample holding frame, the device comprising a UVC sterilizing unit that emits an ultraviolet light with a wavelength of 280 nm to 100 nm, the unit being arranged to travel through the sample chamber, wherein the UVC sterilizing unit is a swappable element, the housing of the live cell microscope being providing with a swapping region for selectively accommodating the sample holding frame or the UVC sterilizing unit such that the sample holding frame or the UVC sterilizing unit are alternatively arranged on an XY table located inside the housing, the sample holding frame or the UVC sterilizing unit is introduced into the swapping region traveling through the sample chamber and detached from the XY table in the swapping region, and wherein the XY table has structure for alternatively receiving the sample holding frame and the UVC sterilizing unit.