Patent ID: 7966091

Claim:
An automatic thin-section slide sample manufacturing system for manufacturing thin-section slide samples respectively from a plurality of embedded blocks containing a biological sample embedded therein with an embedding medium and held in an embedded cassette having imprinted thereon individual data including at least an identification number, the automatic thin-section slides manufacturing system comprising: a first transportation unit that transports an arbitrarily selected embedded cassette from the plurality of embedded cassettes to a cutting position; a cutting unit that, after the embedded cassette is transported to the cutting position, cuts the embedded block to provide sheet-like thin sections with a predetermined thickness; a readout unit that reads out the individual data when the embedded cassette is transported to the cutting position; a flattening unit that flattens each of the thin sections, the flattening unit comprising a storage tank containing a liquid stored therein; a second transportation unit that transports the thin sections cut out by the cutting unit to the storage tank and sets them afloat on a surface of the liquid stored in the storage tank; a transfer unit that prepares the thin section slide samples by transferring onto a substrate the thin sections flattened by the flattening unit; a control unit comprising a memory part that stores the individual data read out by the readout unit, and a condition table into which is input manufacturing conditions for manufacturing the thin section for each of the plurality of embedded cassettes; an evaluation unit that observes and evaluates whether or not the thin sections are prepared in accordance with the manufacturing conditions input in the condition table; and a recording unit that records on the substrate the individual data stored in the memory part in accordance with an instruction from the control unit.