US4834516A
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Noninverting photo-microscope with variable power lenses
Assignee: Olympus Corp
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Filing: 1987-12-01
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Granted: 1989-05-30
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Expires: 2007-12-01
Abstract
Abstract A microscope apparatus manufacturable at a low cost, and equipped with a photographing device assuring coincidence between an image to be observed and an image to be photographed, correctly photographing the up-down and right-left directions of a sample with no switching operation and permitting correct readout of characters, etc. written on a sample, a macro observation or drawing attachment permitting observation of the entire surface of a sample even of a large size without fail, not degrading operability of the microscope and having a composition to facilitate correction of image rotation, and a data imprinting device providing legible imprinted data images and capable of shifting data imprinting position on the film surface of the photographing device.
Inventors
- 👤 Kazuo Kajitani
- 👤 Chikara Nagano
- 👤 Makoto Shigehara
- 👤 Kazuhiko Osa
- 👤 Eisuke Arinobe
- 👤 Hideto Yamashita
Bibliographic Details
Application Number
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Jurisdiction
US
Data Source
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Last Synchronized
2026-10-28 14:25
CPC Classifications
G; G02; G02B; G02B21/00; G02B21/36; G02B21/361; G02B21/18
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 10
Claim 1
Independent Claim
183 words
A microscope apparatus comprising a first objective lens system including an objective lens, a variable power relay system for projecting the primary image plane of said objective lens system which is provided in the rear of at least two of a plurality of reflecting surfaces to the secondary image plane of said objective lens system which is provided in the rear of at least two of an even number of reflecting surfaces, said variable power relay system being arranged on a plane including the optical axis of said objective lens system, a beam splitter means, provided in the rear of said variable power relay system, for splitting light having passed through said variable power relay system into a photographing optical path and an observation optical path through an eyepiece, a photographing optical system for projecting one of the beams split by said beam splitter means to a film surface to form a secondary image, and an observation optical system for leading the other of the beams split by said beam splitter means to an eyepiece lens to permit observation of the secondary image.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim
183 words
A microscope apparatus comprising a first objective lens system including an objective lens, a variable power relay system for projecting the primary image plane of said objective lens system which is provided in the rear of at least two of a plurality of reflecting surfaces to the secondary image plane of said objective lens system which is provided in the rear of at least two of an even number of reflecting surfaces, said variable power relay system being arranged on a plane including the optical axis of said objective lens system, a beam splitter means, provided in the rear of said variable power relay system, for splitting light having passed through said variable power relay system into a photographing optical path and an observation optical path through an eyepiece, a photographing optical system for projecting one of the beams split by said beam splitter means to a film surface to form a secondary image, and an observation optical system for leading the other of the beams split by said beam splitter means to an eyepiece lens to permit observation of the secondary image.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
30 words
A microscope apparatus according to claim 1 wherein said photographing optical system comprises a variable power lens means for magnifying and projecting the secondary image to a photographic film surface.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
56 words
A microscope apparatus according to claim 2 wherein said variable power lens comprises a first variable power lens and a second variable power lens including a mirror replaceable with each other, and either one of a 35 mm film surface or a large size film surface is selectable as a surface for photographing the secondary image.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
39 words
A microscope apparatus according to claim 1 wherein said observation optical system comprises a relay optical system for projecting said secondary image plane to a ternary image plane to permit observation of the ternary image through the eyepiece lens.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim
60 words
A microscope apparatus according to claim 1 wherein a plural number of reflecting surfaces are comprised in said objective lens system, the photographing optical system and the observation optical system to reflect an image of a sample in an even number of times in the sections from said objective lens to said photographing film surface and to the eyepiece lens.
Claim 7
Dependent Claim
199 words
A microscope apparatus according to claim 1 further comprising a macro observation or drawing optical system capable of forming an image of a horizontally set object on said primary image plane, said macro observation or drawing optical attachment comprising a first deflection section for deflecting the perpendicular optical axis to a horizontal direction passing through a second objective lens system for forming the image of said object, a second deflection section for deflecting said horizontal optical axis to the perpendicular direction and a third deflection section for deflecting the perpendicular optical axis deflected by said second deflection section further to the horizontal direction and leading the light into a deflection section in said first objective lens system, said first and second deflection sections having an odd number of reflecting surfaces in total, said first through third deflection section having an odd number of reflecting surfaces as a total with the reflecting surfaces existing in the section from said deflection section in said first objective lens system to said eyepiece lens, and a tube comprising said second objective lens system, said first and second deflection sections being rotatable around the perpendicular optical axis between said second and third deflection sections.
Claim 8
Dependent Claim
35 words
A microscope apparatus according to claim 6 wherein the deflection sections in said first objective lens system consist of mirrors or prisms freely settable and removable into and out of said first objective lens system.
Claim 9
Dependent Claim
38 words
A microscope apparatus according to claim 6 wherein said deflection sections in said first objective lens system consist of half mirrors or half mirror prisms freely settable and removable into and out of said first objective lens system.
Claim 10
Dependent Claim
73 words
A microscope apparatus according to claim 1 further comprising a data imprinting device including a data light source, a deflection member for deflecting data image provided from said data light source, a projecting optical system and a data inserting prism, said data inserting prism being located in the vicinity of said primary image plane and said data imprinting device being arranged freely rotatably around the optical axis passing through said primary image plane.
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