	US 11,698,379 B2
	Cover slip sticking device
Tomonori Kawai, Nagano (JP); and Yamato Miyairi, Nagano (JP)
Assigned to SAKURA SEIKI CO., LTD., Nagano (JP); and SAKURA FINETEK JAPAN CO., LTD., Tokyo (JP)
Appl. No. 16/324,904
Filed by SAKURA SEIKI CO., LTD., Nagano (JP); and SAKURA FINETEK JAPAN CO., LTD., Tokyo (JP)
PCT Filed May 30, 2017, PCT No. PCT/JP2017/019997 § 371(c)(1), (2) Date Feb. 11, 2019, PCT Pub. No. WO2018/029943, PCT Pub. Date Feb. 15, 2018.
Claims priority of application No. JP2016-158785 (JP), filed on Aug. 12, 2016.
Prior Publication US 2021/0278428 A1, Sep. 9, 2021
Int. Cl. G01N 35/00 (2006.01); G01N 1/31 (2006.01); G02B 21/34 (2006.01)

CPC G01N 35/00732 (2013.01) [G01N 1/312 (2013.01); G01N 35/00029 (2013.01); G01N 35/00663 (2013.01); G01N 35/00871 (2013.01); G02B 21/34 (2013.01); G01N 2035/00138 (2013.01); G01N 2035/00752 (2013.01); G01N 2035/00782 (2013.01); G01N 2035/00801 (2013.01); G01N 2035/00891 (2013.01)]

3 Claims

1. A cover slip sticking device comprising:

a dipping bath in which a clearing agent is contained and slide glasses on which specimens are attached are housed to be dipped in the clearing agent;

a holder holding a cover slip as a cover film or a cover glass, wherein cover slip information is printed on a surface of the holder or stored in a cover slip storage unit provided to the holder, wherein the cover slip information comprises at least:

1) a type of the cover slip held therein;

2) whether a sealing agent is applied to the cover slip; and

3) if a sealing agent is applied to the cover slip, a type of the sealing agent;

a mounting part on which the holder is mounted;

a sticking part operable to stick the cover slip taken out from the holder mounted on the mounting part on the slide glass;

a reading unit operable to read the cover slip information;

a memory storage unit operable to store clearing agent information, the clearing agent information comprising:

1) a type of the clearing agent currently contained in the dipping bath; and

2) information matching types of clearing agents and types of sealing agents applied to cover slips; and

a controller programmed to:

(A) determine, based on the cover slip information read by the reading unit and the clearing agent information stored in the memory storage unit;

1) whether a sealing agent is applied to the cover slip and, if it is determined that a sealing agent is applied, the type of the sealing agent; and

2) the type of the clearing agent currently contained in the dipping bath, and

wherein the controller is programmed to:

(B) take no action when it is determined that a sealing agent is not applied to the cover slip or when it is determined that a sealing agent applied to the cover slip matches with a clearing agent currently contained in the dipping bath, and

(C) notify through a notification unit when it is determined that a sealing agent applied to the cover slip does not match with a clearing agent currently contained in the dipping bath.