Patent ID: 8307665

Claim:
A sample cooling apparatus comprising: a sample holder arranged in and fixed on a vacuum vessel supported by a thermal insulator, said vacuum vessel being mounted and fixed on a table forming a measurement reference surface, with the table being disposed on a housing; a frame disposed within said housing, said frame being supported by a first deformable buffer member arranged between said housing and said frame; and a refrigerating machine disposed within said frame, said refrigerating machine being supported by a second deformable buffer member arranged between said frame and said refrigerating machine and having a head of said refrigerating machine directed to and disposed in said vacuum vessel; said head of said refrigerating machine being connected to said sample holder by way of a flexible thermal conduction member arranged between said sample holder and said head of said refrigerating machine; said vacuum vessel being mounted on said refrigerating machine through a flexible vacuum bellows arranged between said vacuum vessel and said refrigerating machine, wherein said first and second deformable buffer members each exhibit a buffering function by deformation of said deformable buffer members; said frame is disposed between said housing and said refrigerating machine, and is suspended in the air via said first deformable buffer member and second deformable buffer member; and said frame vibrates or moves independently between said housing and said refrigerating machine, by virtue of said deformation of said first and second deformable buffer members.