Patents by Inventor Claude Lieb

Claude Lieb has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 4301371
    Abstract: A holding device for electron-microscope specimens comprises a guide bar which is connected to an apparatus for controlling its temperature by heating or cooling it as necessary. The guide bar is mounted on a supporting block and it may be pressed into pressure interengagement therewith to provide a thermal contact therebetween or released. The supporting block has a clamping device for clamping a specimen thereto, which for example, comprises a spring member having forked shaped arms which engage around a specimen and hold it tightly to the supporting block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 1980
    Date of Patent: November 17, 1981
    Assignee: Balzers Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Claude Lieb
  • Patent number: 4173365
    Abstract: A clamping device for transporting a specimen plate, particularly for an ctron microscope specimen comprising, a support plate, a carrier plate disposed in juxtaposed relationship with the support plate having at least two resilient arm poritions and at least a portion of the carrier plate contacting with the support plate, and a claw connected to each resilient arm portion of the carrier plate for engaging the specimen plate therebetween. A rod having a threaded end threaded into one of the support plate and the carrier plate is rotatable in a first direction for moving the carrier plate with respect to the support plate to move each claw away from each other and rotatable in an opposite second direction to move each claw toward each other for engagement of the specimen plate therebetween.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 1978
    Date of Patent: November 6, 1979
    Assignee: Balzers Aktiengesellschaft fur Hochvakuumtechnik und Dunne Schichten
    Inventor: Claude Lieb