Patents Assigned to Mel-Build Corporation
  • Specimen holder
    Patent number: 10768124
    Abstract: In at least one embodiment, a specimen holder includes a specimen holder shaft unit having a specimen and/or specimen mesh setting unit, an outer tubular unit capable of housing the specimen holder shaft unit, a thermal drift adjusting unit made of a material having a different thermal expansion coefficient from a thermal expansion coefficient of the specimen holder shaft unit and partially in contact with the specimen holder shaft unit, and a control mechanism which controls movement of the thermal drift adjusting unit toward a center direction of a specimen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: Mel-Build Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroya Miyazaki
  • Specimen holder
    Patent number: 10242841
    Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a specimen holder having a structure capable of maintaining a seal surface regardless of a change of environment. A specimen holder according to the present invention is characterized by comprising a specimen holder axis part having a specimen and/or a specimen mesh setting part, an external cylinder part capable of housing the specimen holder axis part, and a seal part for sealing the specimen and/or the specimen mesh setting part from atmosphere wherein the seal part is set to a step part which is set to a portion of the external cylinder part. Further, in a referred embodiment of a specimen holder according to the present invention, it is characterized in that the seal part set to the step part is as a first seal part, further the specimen holder has a second seal part which exists in a tip part of the specimen holder and exists in a direction of a central axis of an electron microscope comparing to the specimen and/or the specimen mesh setting part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: Mel-Build Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroya Miyazaki
  • Specimen holder tip part, specimen holder having said specimen holder tip part, gonio stage, and electron microscope having said gonio stage
    Patent number: 9240304
    Abstract: In at least one embodiment, a specimen holder tip part comprises a specimen setting seat, a specimen mesh for mounting a specimen, a specimen holding part for holding the specimen mesh and a clamping part that clamps the specimen holding part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2016
    Assignee: Mel-Build Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroya Miyazaki
  • SPECIMEN HOLDER TIP PART, SPECIMEN HOLDER HAVING SAID SPECIMEN HOLDER TIP PART, GONIO STAGE, AND ELECTRON MICROSCOPE HAVING SAID GONIO STAGE
    Publication number: 20150170873
    Abstract: In at least one embodiment, a specimen holder tip part comprises a specimen setting seat, a specimen mesh for mounting a specimen, a specimen holding part for holding the specimen mesh and a clamping part that clamps the specimen holding part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2013
    Publication date: June 18, 2015
    Applicant: Mel-Build Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroya Miyazaki