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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7088487 | Modifiable assembly of microscopic apertures The invention concerns a modifiable assembly of microscopic apertures comprising several plates (100, 110) coated with an opaque deposition except on transparent parts, for example (101, 114, 115), capable of sliding relative to one another, separated ... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7088504 | Surgical microscope Binocular luminous fluxes are formed by an objective lens and a pair of relay lenses and go through a splitting optical system, which allows an assistant to observe the same stereoscopic view as the surgeon by using an assistant's binocular eyepiece optical system a... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7085044 | Braced microscope A microscope having a pair of braces connecting a head portion, carrying an objective, to the base, to which a stage is attached. The braces, which preferably have resonant frequency that is not a harmonic or sub-harmonic of the fundamental frequency of vibration of... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7085045 | Stereoscopic microscope A stereoscopic microscope is disclosed that includes an objective lens which substantially collimates light from an object of interest, left and right afocal zooming systems, left and right afocal relay systems, and an ocular tube optical system which forms magnifie... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7084986 | System for measuring the optical image quality of an eye in a contactless manner A system is used for contactless measurement of the optical imaging quality of an eye with an interferometer by which at least one light pulse with a short coherence length is coupled into the eye from a light source. The optical path length of at least one arm of t... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7085046 | Microscope for operation Disclosed is a microscope for operation. This microscope for operation comprises a front lens 15 disposed between an eye 8 to be operated and an objective 14. The front lens collects an illuminating light P to guide the collected light within th... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7081954 | Microarray detector and synthesizer The present invention relates to novel systems, devices, and methods comprising spatial light modulators for use in the reading and synthesis of microarrays. For example, the present invention provides micromirror systems for synthesizing and acquiring data from nuc... | 07/25/2006 |
| 7081994 | Microscope for reflected-light and transmitted-light microscopy A microscope is disclosed in which a specimen is arranged between two objectives and can be observed with reflected light as well as with transmitted light. In a microscope with field transmission, two objectives have substantially identical optical characteristics ... | 07/25/2006 |
| 7079316 | Microscope and microscopy method for producing overlay images A microscope includes an interference contrast transmitted-light device having an analyzer disposed in the microscope imaging beam path, the analyzer causing a beam deflection. A fluorescence device is provided, the fluorescence device and the interference contrast ... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7079315 | Thermal lens microscope device A small and portable microscope for ultramicroanalysis has an excellent spatial resolution and fixed position analyzing ability. The microscope has at least a part of an excitation light source, a part of a probe light source and a part of a thermal lens microscope ... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7078663 | Scanning laser microscope and external signal recording method A scanning laser microscope is configured to include: a scanner unit for performing two-dimensional scanning on a specimen using a light beam; a photodetector unit for detecting a light from the specimen; an A/D converter for converting an output signal from the pho... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7075714 | Anti-reflection film and microscope having optical element with the same anti-reflection film applied thereto A microscope includes an optical element provided with an anti-reflection film applied thereto. The anti-reflection film has the following layered structure: having first to sixth layers of films, in order from the surface of the o... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7075716 | Arrangement for spectrally sensitive reflected-light and transmitted-light microscopy The arrangement for spectrally sensitive reflected-light and transmitted-light microscopy comprises an illuminating device which illuminates a sample under study in two dimensions. A scanning device is provided which respectively directs the light emanating from a d... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7075046 | Objective lens reference system and method A system and method for referencing an objective lens to a desired plane of focus. In one embodiment, a dichroic element is utilized to reflect energy of one or more wavelengths that has passed through an objective lens to a detector for determining a position of th... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7075640 | Consumable for laser capture microdissection Systems and methods for acquiring laser capture microdissection samples are disclosed. An integral portion of a biological reaction vessel includes a transfer film carrier having a substrate surface; and a laser capture microdissection transfer film coupled to the s... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7075715 | Mouth switch arrangement and microscope with mouth switch arrangement A mouth switch arrangement comprises a mouth switch operable by a mouth of an operator and attachable by a holding device to a base part. The holding device comprises a mouth switch support having a locking member shiftable in a longitudinal direction of a rod of th... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7072106 | Device for marking microscopic preparations The invention is directed to a device for marking microscopic preparations. It is characterized in that arc-shaped marks can be applied to a preparation in a simple, ergonomic manner by means of writing tips. For this purpose, the writing tips are lowered onto the p... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7072103 | Microscope with objective lens position control apparatus The invention enables construction of a microscope that has one or more advantageous characteristics as compared to previous microscopes. The microscope can be small and lightweight and, in particular, sufficiently small and light weight to be portable (e.g., smalle... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7071451 | Autofocus system and microscope An autofocus system according to the present invention comprises: a light source; a focusing illumination optical system that forms an optical image generated with light from the light source on a target object through an objective lens; a focusing image forming opt... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7069569 | Near-field optical head system with integrated slider and laser A near-field optical system having one or more solid state lasers and an aerodynamically shaped slider which comprise a single integrated, monolithic device fabricated from the same base semiconductor material. The monolithic optical head can be quickly and easily a... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7064893 | Optical microscope with modifiable lighting and operating process of such a microscope An optical microscope is adapted for observation of several spots of an object by a modifiable optical transmission screen placed on the path of the optical beam and able to generate in the object plane a screen image coinciding substantially with the spots of the o... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7061672 | Fluorescence microscope A system that permits biological samples to be viewed in three optical ways, including in three dimension (stereoscopic), two dimension (compound optic), and macro with reflected light fluorescence. Each of three optical views can be carried out on one system. The s... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7060986 | Automated method of correcting aberrations in electron beam, method of visualizing aberrations, and automated aberration corrector There is disclosed a method and apparatus for automatically correcting aberrations in an electron beam by the use of a computer. An axis deviation-correcting means for correcting deviation of the axis of the beam, a focusing means for correcting defocus of the beam,... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7061673 | Confocal probe A confocal probe is provided with an optical fiber introducing light having wavelengths within a predetermined wavelength range in the confocal probe, a collimating lens that collimates light emerged from an end surface of the optical fiber, a dispersing prism that ... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7060431 | Method of making and decoding of array sensors with microspheres The invention relates to compositions and methods for decoding microsphere array sensors. ... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7056746 | Array cytometry A method and apparatus for the manipulation of colloidal particulates and biomolecules at the interface between an insulating electrode such as silicon oxide and an electrolyte solution. Light-controlled electrokinetic assembly of particles near surfaces relies on t... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7057807 | Microscope Microscope, particularly a stereomicroscope, for simultaneous observation of an object by a first and a second observer, comprising a main objective (2) having an optical axis (2a); an optical viewing path; a plurality of deflector elements (... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7057162 | Apparatus and method for positioning an optical component An apparatus and a method of the present invention positions an optical component among several optical components, which are arranged in a receiving device. The receiving device is rotatable about an axis or movable along a direction in such a way that an optical c... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7057704 | System and method for programmable illumination pattern generation An apparatus providing programmable illumination pattern generation for the manipulation of colloidal particulates and biomolecules in suspension between electrodes, is disclosed. The apparatus implements LEAPS (Light-controlled electrokinetic assembly of particles ... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7057806 | Scanning laser microscope with wavefront sensor An enhanced resolution scanned image of an object is produced by a scanning laser microscope which includes an illumination arm for scanning an object with a focused probe beam and a detection arm for receiving light from the object. The detection arm includes a det... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7053395 | Wafer defect detection system with traveling lens multi-beam scanner A system for inspecting a specimen, such as a semiconductor wafer that uses a laser light source for providing a beam of light. The beam is applied to a traveling lens acousto-optic device having an active region and responsive to an RF input signal to selectively g... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7054071 | Mireau interference objective lens A Mireau interference microscope is corrected for spherical and other aberrations induced by the beamsplitter and mirror support windows by incorporating a cover glass correcting-objective lens. The support windows for the beamsplitter and mirror have a combined thi... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7054062 | Double confocal scanning microscope The present invention concerns a double confocal scanning microscope (1) having an illuminating beam path (2) of at least one light source (3), and a detected beam path (4) of at least one detector (5), and in order to achieve almo... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7050225 | Superimposing microscope having image pickup A first image-forming optical system that receives a beam of light from an objective forms a first image forming point. The first image-forming optical system forms the beam of light into a first optical image at the first image-forming point and relays the first op... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7050224 | Fluorescence observing apparatus A fluorescence observing apparatus has an excitation filter unit for transmitting only exciting light with particular wavelengths, of illuminating light, and an absorption filter unit for transmitting only fluorescent light produced from a specimen by irradiating th... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7047064 | Microscopic imaging apparatus and method An imaging apparatus is provided for imaging tissue samples substantially beneath the surface of the tissue sample. The apparatus includes an objective lens and a window defining a tissue contacting surface in pressure contacting relationship with the surface of the... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7046450 | Liquid-immersion objective optical system The invention provides a liquid-immersion objective optical system including a first lens group and a second lens group. The first lens group includes a first lens component having positive refractive power, an object side thereof being a flat surface and a convex s... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7045772 | Device and method for controlling the optical power in a microscope An apparatus for controlling optical power in a microscope includes a measuring device for measuring the optical power, and a control unit for controlling a high-frequency source as a function of the measured optical power so as to achieve a selectable level of the ... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7046449 | Solid immersion lens and sample observation method using it Using a solid immersion lens (SIL) having a spherical lens surface with a radius of curvature RL from a material having a refractive index nL, an image of a sample is observed. A geometric aberration characteristic caused by the SIL is evaluate... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7046437 | Microscope provided with an objective lens focusing apparatus and an objective lens switching apparatus A microscope is provided which includes a frame main body having a base portion, an objective lens switching mechanism, a stage, and an ocular lens for observing a specimen image obtained with one of the objective lenses. A rough/fine motion focusing mechanism is di... | 05/16/2006 |
