POSITIONING DEVICE AND MICROSCOPE DEVICE INCLUDING THE SAME

• Main Authors: OKAMOTO TAKUJI, MORIYA AKIRA, AIZU MASAYO, KOBAYASHI DAIKI
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; Japanese
• Published: 09.02.2017
• Subjects: OPTICAL ELEMENTS, SYSTEMS, OR APPARATUS; OPTICS; PHYSICS

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a positioning device that is advantageous to accuracy of a position coordinate management.SOLUTION: A positioning device to be fixed to a microscope device including a first focusing unit causing a stage having a sample loaded to move to a Z-direction is fixed to the microscope. The positioning device includes: a second focusing part (16, 17 and 23) that causes the stage to move to the Z-direction in response to an operation of a first operation unit, and is narrower in a movable range toward the Z-direction than the first focusing part; and a movement part (14, 41, 42 and 43) that is fixed to the second focusing part, and causes the stage to move to X and Y directions in response to an operation of a second operation unit. With respect to an optical axis of the microscope device, and a plane surface including a position where the first focusing part and the second focusing part are fixed, the first operation unit and the second operation unit are arranged at a mutually opposing position.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1 【課題】位置座標管理の精度に有利な位置決め装置を提供すること。【解決手段】試料を載置するステージをＺ方向に移動させる第一の焦準部を含む顕微鏡装置に対して固定される位置決め装置であって、前記顕微鏡装置に対して固定される、第一の操作部が操作されることに応じて前記ステージをＺ方向に移動させる、前記第一の焦準部よりもＺ方向への可動範囲が小さい第二の焦準部（１６，１７，２３）と、前記第二の焦準部に対して固定され、第二の操作部が操作されることに応じて前記ステージをＸＹ方向に移動させる移動部（１４，４１，４２，４３）と、を有し、前記顕微鏡装置の光軸と、前記第一の焦準部と前記第二の焦準部とが固定される位置とを含む平面に対して、前記第一の操作部と前記第二の操作部とが互いに対向する位置に配置されることを特徴とする。【選択図】図１