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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8077386 | Movable objective lens assembly for an optical microscope and optical microscopes having such an assembly A movable objective lens assembly that includes an infinity-corrected objective lens providing the microscope with an optical field of view. The assembly permits the imaging of a specimen under investigation over an area of the specimen much larger than the field of... | 12/13/2011 |
| RE42948 | Optical microscope apparatus, optical element arranging method, and storage medium An optical microscope apparatus selectively arranges a plurality of optical elements in an optical path, and includes: a manual switch unit capable of manually switching any of the plurality of optical elements; a detection unit detecting an arrangement status of ma... | 11/22/2011 |
| 7903331 | Flexible positioner and ophthalmic microscope incorporating the same In accordance with one embodiment of the present invention, a microscope is provided comprising a microscope assembly and a lens positioner. The lens positioner comprises a tension control assembly, an adjustable lens extension assembly, and a tensile cord coupling ... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7835075 | Replacement device for microscopes A changing device for receiving optical elements, particularly for microscopes, has a stand comprising a side wall, front wall and rear wall. This changing device is arranged at a holder in the telecentric part of the microscope beam path and is outfitted with a qua... | 11/16/2010 |
| 7791795 | Microscope with a focusing assist apparatus A microscope for focusing by inserting a split prism at a focusing support time. The image of an iris stop is branched into such two images by the angle deflecting action of the split prism as are individually shifted and focused at symmetric positions across the op... | 09/07/2010 |
| 7715078 | Optical scan device, optical scan type microscope, observation method, control device, and control program It is an object to realize smooth switching between free scanning and high speed scanning in a light scanning apparatus and a light scanning microscope. To attain the object, a light scanning apparatus includes at least three mirror scanners disposed at predetermine... | 05/11/2010 |
| 7646534 | Box-type motor-operated microscope A box-type motor-operated microscope has a motor-operated microscope section having a transmitting illumination optical system, an electric stage, and an image forming optical system; and a housing. The housing includes a fixed housing and a moving housing. The movi... | 01/12/2010 |
| 7643209 | Microscope optical system, microscope apparatus, and microscope observation method The present invention enables switching between wide-field observation and high-magnification observation during in vivo examination of a small laboratory animal or the like using a narrow-diameter objective lens, without changing the objective lens. There is provid... | 01/05/2010 |
| 7570421 | Automated microscope An automated microscope includes a stand and a front control panel. The front control panel is disposed on the stand and including a first and a second button. Third and a fourth buttons are associated with the microscope. ... | 08/04/2009 |
| 7564620 | Optical arrangement and method for the imaging of depth-structured objects The invention is directed to an arrangement and a method for imaging depth-structured objects and for calibrating the imaging in connection therewith, preferably for generating stereoscopic images from different observation planes at different depth levels of an obj... | 07/21/2009 |
| 7542202 | Microscope and a controlling method thereof A microscope includes a switching mechanism which has a plurality of lens units, and which inserts a selected lens unit of the plurality of lens units into an observation light path and disposes the non-selected other lens units outside the observation light path. A... | 06/02/2009 |
| 7538940 | Tube for a microscope as well as microscope The invention concerns a tube (3) for a microscope (1), in which at least two beam paths are provided, wherein a change-over device is provided in the tube (3), by means of which device a first (5) or a second flat-field optical element c... | 05/26/2009 |
| 7538939 | Stereomicroscope or additional element for a stereomicroscope A stereomicroscope having a carrier (12) bearing a microscope body (4) displaceable obliquely relative to a displacement direction of a focus-adjusting mechanism (9). A binocular beam splitter (2a) is used to combine two stereoscop... | 05/26/2009 |
| 7480094 | Arrangement for switching the operating modes of a microscope tube An arrangement for switching the operating modes of a microscope tube between the observation position, photo position and simultaneous observation/photo position. A prism is used having surfaces of different transparency which can be moved selectively into the beam... | 01/20/2009 |
| 7440183 | Indexable microscope An indexable microscope is described, that comprises a microscope stand and an optical beam path, having a plurality of optical components that are switchable into and out of the beam path, which are arranged on at least two independent mechanical assemblies to be i... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7440184 | Microscope A microscope according to the present invention includes an illumination element changer capable of selectively inserting any of a bright field illumination element, a dark field illumination element, and a fluorescence illumination element into an optical axis of a... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7436591 | EPI illumination optical system for microscopes The invention related to an epi illumination optical system for microscopes wherein both a simple yet bright Köhler illumination system and a collective lens array using a collective lens less susceptible of illumination fluctuations are easily interchangeable in s... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7430075 | Condenser 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 b... | 09/30/2008 |
| 7423807 | Ophthalmoscopic stereomicroscope with correction component Microscope, especially stereoscopic microscope, with a main objective (2), a magnification system (8, 7) disposed thereafter, and a supplementary optical system (30, 32a) for carrying out intraocular surgery, wherein the supplementary opt... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7417210 | Multi-spectral sensor system and methods A multi-spectral sensor system and methods are disclosed. One aspect of the invention comprises a multi-spectral sensor system mountable to a mobile platform. The system may comprise an image capturing system, a first translation stage affixed to the image capturing... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7408705 | Microscope for operation A microscope for operation having an illuminating optical system with an illuminating field diaphragm, for directing an illuminating light toward an eye to be operated upon, an objective body tube with an objective positioned in the body tube to be opposite to the e... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7405874 | Microscope for epi fluorescence and total internal reflection microscopy The invention relates to a microscope for conventional fluorescence microscopy (Epi fluorescence) and for total internal reflection microscopy, including at least one light source (1) for the conventional fluorescence illumination and at least one light sourc... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7391566 | Microscope having eyepiece reticle slider A viewing tube of a microscope is provided with a circumferential slot, and a slider carrying an optical element, such as a reticle, is removably received through the slot to position the optical element on an optical axis of the viewing tube proximate to an inserti... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7379238 | Reflected-light microscope The invention relates to a reflected-light microscope comprising a light source for generating an illumination light beam, which can be directed through a lens along an illumination beam path onto a sample. Said microscope is provided with imaging optics, which gene... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7372625 | Device for retaining optical components A device for retaining optical components includes a number of open orifices disposed next to one another in an arrangement. A raceway corresponding to the arrangement is provided, the raceway including a number of detents. A ball bearing follows the raceway and coo... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7369306 | Image reversion system, ancillary ophthalmoscopy module and surgical microscope The invention relates to an image reversion system (500) which enables an image reversion and beam transposition of a plurality of observation beam paths (503a, 503b, 504a and 504b) to be carried out sim... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7359116 | Microscope turret mounted laser EPI-illumination port An optical injection system for use in conjunction with a microscope having a turret supporting an objective having an optical path is provided. The optical injection system includes a dichroic mirror disposed between the turret and the objective, along the optical ... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7347466 | Multipurpose contact lens accessory The multipurpose contact lens accessory comprises a casing having a contact end and a viewing end, the viewing end having a lens therein, wherein the contact end engages a contact thereon for viewing and/or insertion of same and the viewing end allows for viewing of... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7330307 | Stage apparatus Stage apparatus for improving the accuracy of microscope stage positioning, including a stage having a fixed portion, a platform movable relative to the fixed portion, and an integral memory device for storing data relating to the positioning of the platform. ... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7327514 | Microscope system comprising actuator element for moving the objective lens for focussing A microscope system having a plurality of exchangeable objective lenses (10); an objective lens changeover element (18) for supporting each of the objective lenses which is operable for placing a selected one of said objective lenses into an optical ax... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7324271 | Laser-scanning microscope with collimator and/or pinhole optics Laser-scanning microscope with at least one detection radiation input, in which an aperture plate is installed in front of the detector, whereby optics with variable transmission lengths and a fixed focal distance is provided for focusing varying wavelengths of the ... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7324272 | Spectroscopic microscope with multi-mode illumination A spectroscopic microscope allowing both molecular spectrometry and visible microscopy of a sample has a light source for its spectrometer which provides Koehler illumination of the sample, i.e., light from points on the light source is projected across an area of t... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7324270 | Microscope with adjustable optical element A microscope (1) with manual and external adjustability of an optical element (41) is disclosed. The optical element (41) is displaceable into an optical axis (20) determined by the microscope (1). The microscope (1) further... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7321108 | Dynamic focusing method and apparatus A method and apparatus for dynamically focusing an imaging mechanism on a moving target surface having a variable geometry is herein disclosed. Apparatus for focusing an imaging mechanism may include an objective, a prism, or another optical device that forms part o... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7321462 | Fluorescence microscope An inverted fluorescence microscope is described which irradiates an excitation light onto a sample for observation of a fluorescent image of the sample. The fluorescence microscope includes (a) a transmissive illumination light source, which is arranged above a sta... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7310187 | Projection objective, especially for microlithography, and method for adjusting a projection objective A method of adjusting a projection objective permits the projection objective to be adjusted between an immersion configuration and a dry configuration with few interventions in the system, and therefore to be used optionally as an immersion objective or as a dry ob... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7304281 | Confocal laser scanning microscope A confocal laser scanning microscope acquires confocal images of a sample. The microscope is provided with an optical-microscope optical system which acquires non-confocal images of the sample by detecting measurement light coming from the sample. The optical-micros... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7298549 | Microscope A confocal microscope has a specimen holding device for holding a specimen (18). The specimen (18) is illuminated by an illuminating unit (10). An optics unit (12) serves to direct radiation produced by the illuminating unit (10) t... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7289265 | Microscope illumination intensity measuring device A microscope illumination intensity measuring device has a light-receiving unit that outputs a signal representing an intensity of received light, a moving mechanism that places the light-receiving unit on an observation optical axis of the microscope as needed, a c... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7271899 | Millimetre-wave detection device for discriminating between different materials A detection device that can be used for detecting objects behind clothing etc including a dielectric lens and a receive element sensitive to millimetre wave radiation. Prior art systems produce an image of a scene usually using scanning optics. This can be large and... | 09/18/2007 |
