Patent GR-1005835-B (GR)
Title: Device for coating microscope slides under controlled temperature and humidity conditions fro chromosome study under a microscope.
Inventor: KALOUDE FLORENTS
IPC: G01N1/31
Filed: 2006-09-20
Abstract: The device for coating microscope slides under controlled humidity and temperature conditions is a device consisting of a rectangular parallelepiped-shaped chamber made of a transparent plastic material having a thickness of 5 mm, in which specific humidity and temperature conditions are created and maintained a mechanical system (4) -at the upper part of the chamber- on which a pipette (3) is fixed and moves left-right a cooling-heating system (12) allowing the temperature adjustment and fixedat the outer part, behind the chamber, communicating with that by a hole, providing cold or warm air depending on the desired temperature also, a system for humidity adjustment consisting of a water bath (16) producing water vapours and an 1,5V-electric motor (13), positioned above the water bath and communicating with the chamber, supplying the water vapours in that also, a laser (2), serving in targeting the point on the microscope slide on which a liquid droplet will fall, comprises a 10A-switch (14) for the protection of the circuit cables and two electric transformers, one of 1,5V (7) and one of 3V (18) furthermore, a control board (6) comprising switches and indication lamps for the control of the operation of the temperature and humidity adjustment systems and, finally, a microscope slide bench (9), which provides mounts for the mounting of the microscope slides (10) to be coated, the bench being positioned at the lower part, on the right of the chamber, and moves into/out of the chamber sliding on rails (like a drawer). The device for coating microscope slides under controlled humidity and temperature conditions is a device consisting of a rectangular parallelepiped-shaped chamber made of a transparent plastic material having a thickness of 5 mm, in which specific humidity and temperature conditions are created and maintained a mechanical system (4) -at the upper part of the chamber- on which a pipette (3) is fixed and moves left-right a cooling-heating system (12) allowing the temperature adjustment and fixed at the outer part, behind the chamber, communicating with that by a hole, providing cold or warm air depending on the desired temperature also, a system for humidity adjustment consisting of a water bath (16) producing water vapours and an 1,5V -electric motor (13), positioned above the water bath and communicatiing with the chamber, supplying the water vapours in that also, a laser (2), serving in targeting the point on the microscopeslide on which a liquid droplet will fall, comprises a 10A-switch (14) for the protection of the circuit cables and two electric transformers, one of 1,5V (7) and one of 3V (18) furthermore, a control board (6) comprising switches and indication lamps for the control of the operation of the temperature and humidity adjustment systems and, finally, a microscope slide bench (9), which provides mounts for the mounting of the microscope slides (10) to be coated, the bench being positioned at the lower part, on the right of the chamber, and moves into/out of the chamber, and moves into/out of the chamber slinding on rails (like a drawer).