1. An adhesive retainer for fixing to a structure with at least one adhesive foot which has a supporting base region formed on the adhesive foot and is provided with receiving openings which extend like capillaries through the supporting base region into the interior of the adhesive foot.
2. The adhesive retainer according to claim 1, wherein the receiving openings are configured to form an integral bond with the structure, such that when the adhesive foot is placed on the structure, which is covered for this purpose with a liquid, solidifiable bonding substance, the receiving openings receive bonding substance due to capillary ascension.
3. The adhesive retainer according to claim 2, wherein the receiving openings are configured to receive lacquer andor paint andor adhesive andor synthetic resin as the liquid bonding substance.
4. The adhesive retainer according to claim 1, wherein the supporting base region is substantially planar.
5. The adhesive retainer according to claim 1, wherein the receiving openings extend substantially vertically from the supporting base region into the interior of the adhesive foot.
6. The adhesive retainer according to claim 1, wherein the adhesive retainer comprises plastics material.
7. The adhesive retainer according to claim 1, wherein the adhesive retainer is formed in one piece.
8. The adhesive retainer according to claim 1, wherein the supporting base region of the at least one adhesive foot is formed with three or more projecting spacer pins.
9. The adhesive retainer according to claim 1, wherein the supporting base region of the at least one adhesive foot is formed with at least one projecting fixing pin.
10. The adhesive retainer according to claim 1, wherein two adhesive feet are formed which can be coupled together by a connection element.
11. The adhesive retainer according to claim 1, wherein at least some of the receiving openings extend through the at least one adhesive foot.
12. The adhesive retainer according to claim 1, furthermore with a retaining device which is attached to the at least one adhesive foot and is configured to join the adhesive retainer to a component.
13. The adhesive retainer according to claim 12, wherein the retaining device is attached to a side of the adhesive foot opposite the supporting base region.
14. A method for fixing an adhesive retainer to a structure, comprising:
placing a supporting base region of an adhesive foot of an adhesive retainer on the structure covered with a liquid, solidifiable bonding substance;
wetting the supporting base region of the adhesive foot with the liquid bonding substance and receiving the liquid bonding substance in receiving openings extending like capillaries through the supporting base region into the interior of the adhesive foot; and
solidifying the liquid bonding substance at least in the region of the applied adhesive foot.
15. The method according to claim 14, wherein the liquid, solidifiable bonding substance comprises lacquer andor paint andor adhesive andor synthetic resin.
16. The method according to claim 15, wherein the liquid, solidifiable bonding substance is a synthetic resin and the solidification step comprises curing using an autoclave.
17. The method according to claim 16, further comprising fixing the adhesive foot on the structure by at least one fixing needle.
18. The method according to claim 16, further comprising covering the structure with a film and evacuating the covered structure through at least some of the receiving openings in the adhesive foot.
The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.
1. A calibration system comprising, in combination:
a non-contact tonometer operable to measure intraocular pressure of an eye by discharging an air pulse at the eye to applanate a cornea of the eye, the non-contact tonometer including a nosepiece including a fluid discharge passage for discharging the air pulse along a test axis at the cornea, wherein the nosepiece is movable relative to the cornea to align the test axis with the cornea; and
a tonometer calibration tool removably mounted on the nosepiece, the calibration tool including (i) a pressure sensor arranged to receive the air pulse to provide a pressure signal in response to the air pulse and (ii) a radiation emitter, wherein the radiation emitter provides a pseudo-applanation event when the pressure signal reaches a predetermined level, the pseudo-applanation event being detectable by the non-contact tonometer as though an actual corneal applanation had taken place;
wherein the tonometer calibration tool further includes a mounting orifice receiving a portion of the nosepiece to removably mount the tonometer calibration tool on the nosepiece.
2. The calibration system according to claim 1, wherein the pressure sensor is arranged in alignment with test axis.
3. The calibration system according to claim 2, wherein the calibration tool includes a noise reduction surface separating the pressure sensor from the mounting orifice, the noise reduction surface having a plurality of ridges extending in a direction non-parallel to the test axis.
4. The calibration system according to claim 3, wherein the calibration tool is open across the noise reduction surface.