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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 09, 2017
Filed:
Jul. 09, 2013
Eppendorf Ag, Hamburg, DE;
Christian Flucke, Hamburg, DE;
EPPENDORF AG, Hamburg, DE;
Abstract
The invention relates to a holding device () for holding an object () extending along an axis, in particular for holding the capillary holder () of a micromanipulator, with a main body () having a bearing element () which runs parallel to a bearing axis and on which the object () can be mounted in an axis-parallel position in which the axis of the object and the bearing axis (A) of the bearing element run parallel, a fastening mechanism () which is designed in such a way and can be optionally set by the user in at least a first or a second arrangement in such a way that, in the first arrangement of the fastening mechanism, the object () is secured with a force fit on the bearing element () in the axis-parallel position (A) by a first force, such that it is movable by a hand of a user in the axis-parallel position, and in such a way that, in the second arrangement of the fastening mechanism, the object () is fixed on the bearing element in the axis-parallel position (A), wherein the holding device () is designed such that the object (), at least in a third arrangement of the fastening mechanism, can be inserted into and removed from the holding device () by a movement directed perpendicularly with respect to the bearing axis (A).