Microtome blade guard with integrated blade alignment device

    公开(公告)号:US11898945B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-02-13

    申请号:US17025937

    申请日:2020-09-18

    发明人: Lawrence H. Dirks

    IPC分类号: G01N1/06 B26D5/08 A61B10/02

    摘要: A microtome blade guard including a first arm operable to be coupled to a first side of a cutting mechanism of a microtome; a second arm operable to be coupled to a second side of a cutting mechanism; a lateral support member disposed between the first arm and the second arm; and a staff coupled to the lateral support member and operable to extend therefrom to engage a blade positioned in the blade slot. A microtome including a blade guard and a method including placing a blade in a blade slot of a blade block of a microtome; engaging the blade with a staff coupled to a blade guard that is coupled to the blade block; and moving the blade with the staff.

    Sectionable cassette and embedding frame with connectors, and methods for preparing biopsy tissue samples

    公开(公告)号:US11872565B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-01-16

    申请号:US17970042

    申请日:2022-10-20

    摘要: A method for preparing one or more biopsy tissue samples for histological examination includes positioning a tissue sample in a tissue cassette, closing a peripheral portion of a frame including a cassette lid, and moving the lid and the tissue cassette from a first position to a second position. The tissue cassette is coupled to a frame by a frame-cassette connector and moving the lid and the tissue cassette from the first position to the second position includes breaking the frame-cassette connector. The tissue cassette has a recess including at least one side wall and a bottom wall and is formed of a first material that can be successfully sectioned in a microtome. In the second position, the bottom wall and at least a portion of the side wall extend downwardly beyond a bottom edge of the frame for sectioning in the microtome.

    MICROTOME
    6.
    发明公开
    MICROTOME 审中-公开

    公开(公告)号:US20230324259A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-10-12

    申请号:US18022289

    申请日:2020-09-03

    IPC分类号: G01N1/06 B26D7/26

    摘要: A microtome includes a blade; and a knife holder. The blade has a cutting edge configured to section a specimen block. The knife holder includes a base, a pressure plate and a frame. The pressure plate is connected to the base, and the pressure plate is adjustable relative to the base to clamp the blade between base and the pressure plate. The frame includes at least one limb and a bridge extending from the at least one limb parallel to the cutting edge. The bridge is proximate the cutting edge, the bridge and the blade cooperatively define a first gap therebetween, and the bridge and the pressure plate cooperatively define a second gap therebetween.

    Tissue slice selection method, and embedded block preparing cassette

    公开(公告)号:US11733131B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-08-22

    申请号:US16609074

    申请日:2018-04-27

    摘要: The present invention is to provide a tissue slice selection method and an embedded block-preparing cassette which are capable of suppressing occurrence of errors in inspection results. The present invention makes it possible to suppress the occurrence of errors in inspection results by including: an embedded block-preparing process of preparing an embedded block by embedding both a biological tissue fragment and a standard substance in the same embedding agent; an embedded tissue slice preparing step of slicing the embedded block to prepare a sheet-like embedded tissue slice having a tissue slice and standard substance slices appearing on a surface thereof; and a tissue slice selecting step of selecting the tissue slice to be inspected, based on a light signal from the standard substance slice.

    BLADE ROLLER DEVICE, BLADE EXCHANGE APPARATUS HAVING THE SAME, AND MICROTOME HAVING SAME

    公开(公告)号:US20230243722A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-08-03

    申请号:US17773160

    申请日:2019-10-30

    IPC分类号: G01N1/06

    CPC分类号: G01N1/06 G01N2001/061

    摘要: A blade roller device (100) includes a first blade roll unit (110), a second blade roll unit (120) spaced apart from the first blade roll unit (110), and a first rotate lever (130). The first blade roll unit (110) includes a first slewing mechanism (111) and a first blade roll (112) wound upon the first slewing mechanism (111). The second blade roll unit (120) includes a second slewing mechanism (121) coupled to the first rotate lever (130) and a second blade roll (122) formed by pulling a segment of the first blade roll (112) to the second slewing mechanism (121) and winding the segment of the first blade roll (112) upon the second slewing mechanism (121). A rotation of the first rotate lever (130) in a first direction is capable of pulling the segment of first blade roll (112) to the second slewing mechanism (121).

    AUTOMATED TISSUE SECTION SYSTEM WITH THICKNESS CONSISTENCY CONTROLS

    公开(公告)号:US20230221222A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-07-13

    申请号:US17992894

    申请日:2022-11-22

    申请人: Clarapath, Inc.

    IPC分类号: G01N1/31 G01N1/06

    摘要: A microtomy system includes a tissue chuck configured to accept a tissue block and a microtome blade configured to remove one or more tissue sections from the tissue block, the microtome blade being axially offset from the tissue chuck along a horizontal axis, where the microtome blade and the tissue chuck are axially displaceable relative to one another along the horizontal axis. The system also includes a control system configured to receive information indicative of a relative axial location of the microtome blade to the tissue chuck along the horizontal axis, and to use a control loop to control the relative axial location of the microtome blade to the tissue chuck such that the one or more tissue sections have a desired thickness.