DEVICE FOR CONTROLLING ADJUSTMENT OF ERGONOMICALLY ARRANGED OBSERVATION SAMPLE

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To resolve the problem that operations are made difficult because control mechanisms of x-y directions of a microscope stage are placed in inconvenient locations conventionally. SOLUTION: A microscope has a moveable sample holder forming a part of a stage assembly. The stage assembly includes at least one x-y control for moving the stage assembly or a portion thereof, for example, a sample holder in a horizontal x direction (the x direction is parallel to shoulders of an operating microscopist sitting square to the microscope) and for moving the stage assembly or a portion thereof in a horizontal y direction perpendicular to the x direction. The microscope has dual controls for moving the stage or a portion thereof in a z direction which is perpendicular to the x-y directions and is parallel to an optical path into an objective lens of the microscope. The x-y control and z controls are located so as to permit single hand operation of both controls with minimal hand movement or so as to permit comfortable ergonomic dual hand operation while permitting the shoulders of the operating microscopist to remain aligned in parallel to the x direction. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI