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Class 359/387 - With annular lighting structure


Subclass of Class 359 - Optical: systems and elements
Definition: Subject mattter including means for providing an annulus
No. of applications: 23
Last issue date: 12/15/2011


Application No.Application TitleIssue Date
20110304723BESSEL BEAM PLANE ILLUMINATION MICROSCOPE
A microscope has a light source for generating a light beam having a wavelength, λ, and beam-forming optics configured for receiving the light beam and generating a Bessel-like beam that is directed into a sample. The beam-forming optics include an excitation objective...
12/15/2011
20110194176Systems, devices, and methods including a dark-field reflected-illumination apparatus
Systems, devices, and methods are described for providing a monitor or treatment device configured to, for example, detect hemozoin, as well as to monitor or treat a malarial infection....
08/11/2011
20110164314MICROSCOPE SYSTEM, STORAGE MEDIUM STORING CONTROL PROGRAM, AND CONTROL METHOD
A microscope system improves the operability of a user in performing a microscope observation. The microscope system attains the improvement by including: a microscope apparatus including a plurality of drive units; a display unit for displaying an operation screen for ...
07/07/2011
20110157692OBJECTIVE-TYPE DARK-FIELD ILLUMINATION DEVICE FOR MICROFLUIDIC CHANNEL
An objective-type dark-field illumination device for a microfluidic channel is provided and includes an optical stop having a pair of symmetric curved slits used to adjust the optical path and inner numerical aperture of a dark-field light source generated by the device...
06/30/2011
20110026113Illumination Device For A Microscope
The present invention relates to an illumination device (400) for a microscope (600), including at least one light source (120, 130) and a reflector (410) for providing diffuse illumination, said reflector at least partially surrounding the o...
02/03/2011
20100328766MODULAR MICROSCOPE CONSTRUCTION
A system, apparatus and method for using modular microscopes is disclosed. Connecting the housings of the individual microscope modules provide the structural framework of the modular microscope. Furthermore, the modular microscope can include specialized software, the ...
12/30/2010
20100321689SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CORRELATING PHOTORECEPTOR PIGMENTED FILM LAYER TO ELECTRICAL PERFORMANCE
The presently disclosed embodiments are directed to a system and method for obtaining spectra of highly scattering pigmented layers and providing a spectral reflection ratio, which can be correlated to photoreceptor electrical performance. The present embodiments employ...
12/23/2010
20100202044DARK FIELD MICROSCOPE AND ITS ADJUSTING METHOD
[Summary]
[Object]

To provide a dark field microscope capable of providing illumination even with a long focal distance condenser lens having a low numerical aperture without the need for a diaphragm for an objective lens, and a meth...

08/12/2010
20100182682Annulus Illuminator of microscope
An annulus illuminator of microscope is provided. The collimated light pipe produced by a pair of convex and concave cone mirrors of this illuminator provides illumination of darkfield microscopy. Sliding the convex cone mirror along the coaxial track of the cone mirror...
07/22/2010
20100085635Reflected dark field method and apparatus
A reflected dark field structure includes a bottom plate, a support tube, a light unit, a diffuser structure, and a reflector unit that provides reflected dark field illumination, such that a gem held by the support tube and surrounded by the diffuser structure is illum...
04/08/2010
20090310213Microscope
The invention is based on a microscope (2), in particular a fluorescence analysis microscope, comprising an illumination carrier (20) and illumination units (22a, 22b) arranged thereon for a reflected-light illumination of a sam...
12/17/2009
20090273831LIGHT MODULE, OPTICAL TWEEZERS GENERATOR AND DARK FIELD MICROSCOPE
A light module is provided. The light module applied to a dark field microscope is used for illuminating an object. The light module includes a light beam, a reflection component and a condensing component. The light beam has several lights. The reflection component is ...
11/05/2009
20090225414Dark Field Objective for a Microscope
The invention relates to an objective for a microscope for dark field microscopy having alternating illumination with grazing incidence. A dark field objective is shown having a front lens for receiving light from a sample and having a dark field illumination device for...
09/10/2009
20090168159Optical System for Illumination of an Evanescent Field
A system of optics used to provide illumination through an objective at a precise inclination angle and with uniform intensity across an illuminated field. The system provides annular illumination with a continuously variable diameter at the back aperture of an objectiv...
07/02/2009
20090034063Microscopic illumination apparatus
An illumination optical system includes a light source section for emitting a beam of substantially parallel rays, a field lens for collecting the beam of substantially parallel rays, a condenser lens for introducing the beam of rays collected by the field lens onto an ...
02/05/2009
20080266659Lens for evanescent wave illumination and corresponding microscope
The invention relates to a lens (1) for total internal reflection microscopy. The lens (1) is characterized in that a light source (5, 7) and/or at least one deviating means (31, 3) which deviates the light from a light source (5, 7) i...
10/30/2008
20080192340Object Lens and Condenser
To provide an object lens and a condenser that allow an observation to be performed more microscopically than dark field observation.

A plurality of shield plates 8 are rotatably disposed at a fit portion 3a of an objec...

08/14/2008
20080049313ILLUMINATION OPTICS FOR AN OPTICAL OBSERVATION DEVICE
The invention is directed to illumination optics for an optical device for observing a sample, particularly for TIRF microscopy (Total Internal Reflection Fluorescence Microscopy), wherein the sample is positioned on the side of a carrier glass remote of the illuminatio...
02/28/2008
20070014002Microscope illumination device and adapter
The present invention is a dark field illumination system including a light source which is fixed on an entrance slit of a condenser and an objective aligned with the condenser such that the objective and the condenser are adjusted to find a focus spot on a sample. The ...
01/18/2007
20060023301Condenser arrangement for brightfield illumination and/or darkfield illumination for optical microscopes
A condenser arrangement for brightfield illumination and/or darkfield illumination for optical microscopes comprises in a housing basic optics having at least one lens, at least one front optics which can be inserted into the illumination beam path in front of the basic...
02/02/2006
20060007535Phase filter
An optical device exhibits a focusing optic that focuses a light beam in a focal plane. A means is envisaged to form the focus of the light beam, whereby the means to form the focus brings about a phase shift between a first part of the light beam and a second part of t...
01/12/2006
20050264878System for print imaging with prism illumination optics
A directionally-oriented reflective device is optically coupled to a prism surface in a skin ridge pattern imaging system to reflect illumination light at relatively small angles, along an optical path to an imaging device, so that minimal light is lost from the optical...
12/01/2005
20050243414Imaging apparatus, illuminating light control method, and illuminating light control program
An imaging apparatus of the present invention is an imaging apparatus for capturing an observed image by a microscope apparatus, includes: an imaging device for detecting observation light formed by an optical system for image forming; a display unit for displaying an i...
11/03/2005
 
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