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Document | Title | Date |
20080204864 | Microscope Device With Position Sensing - The present invention relates to a microscope device ( | 08-28-2008 |
20080218849 | DEVICE FOR CONFOCAL ILLUMINATION OF A SPECIMEN - There is provided a device for confocal observation of a specimen, comprising an objective, a mask, which is located in the illumination beam path and the image beam path and which is rotatable around a central axis, the mask being imaged onto the specimen by means of the objective and being provided with openings for generating an illumination pattern moving on the specimen, an arrangement of a plurality of focussing microoptics which is adjusted to the geometric arrangement of the openings of the mask and to the rotation of the mask in order to concentrate the illumination light by each of the microoptics into a respective one of the openings of the mask, and a beam splitter for separating light from the specimen which has been collected by the objective and which has passed through the openings of the mask from illumination light, wherein the beam splitter is arranged in the beam path between the mask and the arrangement of the microoptics, and wherein an optical arrangement is provided in the beam path between the mask and the arrangement of the microoptics for generating an infinity space in which the beam splitter is located. | 09-11-2008 |
20080239473 | OPERATION MICROSCOPE - An operation microscope includes a microscope body having an illumination optical system which illuminates a subject, a lens barrel, and a main observation optical system which observes the subject, a microscope unit for an assistant attached to the microscope body, and a guide rail which is disposed in the lens barrel of the microscope body, and extends in a circumferential direction about a center of an optical axis of an objective lens of the microscope body. The microscope unit for an assistant is disposed in the guide rail to be movable between a usage position and a non-usage position in a circumferential direction of the lens barrel. | 10-02-2008 |
20080266653 | Apparatus for Imaging Cells - An apparatus for imaging cells including a culture chamber, in which a cultivation sub-structure is placed, imaging optics, and actuators for providing the relative movement of the cultivation substructure and the imaging optics in such a way that the imaging optics is used to image different sites in the substructure. The cultivation substructure is isolated as a subchamber of its own that is separate from the culture chamber, and imaging is carried out by moving the imaging optics and the subchamber in relation to each other. | 10-30-2008 |
20080266654 | Extreme ultraviolet microscope - An extreme ultraviolet (EUV) microscope configured to analyze a sample. The microscope includes a source of EUV radiation constructed and arranged to generate the EUV radiation with a wavelength at least in a range of about 2-6 nm, and an optical system constructed and arranged to illuminate the sample with the EUV radiation and to collect a radiation emanating from the sample. The optical system is arranged with at least one mirror that includes a multilayer structure for in-phase reflection of at least a portion of the radiation in the range of about 2-6 nm. | 10-30-2008 |
20080266655 | Microscopy Arrangements and Approaches - Light-field microscopy is facilitated using an approach to image computation. In connection with an example embodiment, a subject (e.g., | 10-30-2008 |
20080285122 | Accessory for Attenuated Total Internal Reflectance (Atr) Spectroscopy - An accessory for use with a microscope arranged to carry out ATR measurements has a support ( | 11-20-2008 |
20080304142 | Movement Platform for Carrier With 5 Degrees of Freedom - A movement platform provided with a carrier ( | 12-11-2008 |
20080310015 | MICROSCOPE AND PINCHING PREVENTION APPARATUS FOR A MICROSCOPE - The present invention relates to a microscope ( | 12-18-2008 |
20090021826 | MICROSCOPE WITH AN EXTERNAL POWER SUPPLY UNIT - The invention is directed to a light microscope with an external power supply unit. The microscope according to the invention has a receptacle for the external power supply unit in which it can be fastened in a removable manner. This receptacle is advantageously formed as a cutout in the microscope stand so that the power supply unit adapts to the outer shape of the microscope when seated in the receptacle. | 01-22-2009 |
20090034062 | CONFOCAL MICROSCOPE - A confocal microscope apparatus is capable of obtaining a high confocal effect while detecting an image of a specimen line by line. The confocal microscope apparatus may include an illuminating optical system which illuminates a line-shaped area on a specimen plane in a specimen by collected light, an image-forming optical system which forms an image of light emitted from the specimen plane, a two-dimensional light detector which is placed at a conjugate plane of the specimen plane, a scanning unit which moves the line-shaped area on the specimen plane, and a correcting unit which corrects a pixel signal of a specific line on the two-dimensional light detector having a confocal relation with the line-shaped area based on a pixel signal of a peripheral line of the specific line. | 02-05-2009 |
20090059359 | SECONDARY LIGHT SOURCE - A secondary light source is provided comprising a narrowband light source ( | 03-05-2009 |
20090073551 | ELECTRICALLY-OPERATED MICROSCOPE - The present invention provides an electrically-operated microscope including an arrangement switching unit, a driving unit, an operation inputting unit, and a control unit. The arrangement switching unit holds a plurality of optical elements and switches an arrangement of the plurality of optical elements. The driving unit drives the arrangement switching unit. The operation inputting unit inputs a predetermined single operation. The control unit controls the driving unit to control the arrangement of the plurality of optical elements, and performs a control of stopping a driving of the driving unit and enabling a manual revolution of the arrangement switching unit when the predetermined single operation is input by the operation inputting unit. | 03-19-2009 |
20090103173 | Microscopic-Measurement Apparatus - A microscopic-measurement apparatus capable of conducting measurement successively in several set areas regardless of the type of stage driving system or the precision of the stage driving system. The microscopic-measurement apparatus for acquiring optical information from desired portions of a sample by moving a measuring optical axis on a surface of the sample includes an observation-image display section for displaying a sample surface image as an observation image, in a range of visual field which is observable at a present sample position; an optical-axis display section for displaying areas to be measured and a present position of the measuring optical axis in an overlapped state with the observation image; an area setting section capable of setting measuring areas by expanding, reducing, changing in shape and moving the areas to be measured; and an optical-information acquisition section for measuring one set measuring area or several set measuring areas successively with an instruction of starting measurement. | 04-23-2009 |
20090147354 | PROJECTION DEVICE FOR PATTERNED ILLUMINATION AND MICROSCOPY - A projection and detector device that attaches externally to the photo-port of a conventional widefield microscope. The device includes a light source interface for receiving of illumination from a light source, the illumination defining an illumination path. A pattern mask is located within the illumination path for projecting one or a plurality of objects, structures or patterns onto the object plane of the optical microscope. The pattern mask may be used with structured illumination microscopy (SIM) wherein the device projects a moving striped optical grid pattern or Ronchi Ruling onto the object plane in either fluorescence or reflected brightfield imaging. The pattern mask may also be used with a mechanical or digital diaphragm, or a DLP, in specialized techniques such as Fluorescence Recovery After Photobleaching (FRAP), fluorescence photoactivation and targeted illumination. The device without an inserted pattern mask may also be used in deconvolution microscopy. A computer linked with a charged coupled device (CCD) camera may be used to capture images for storage and further post-processing. | 06-11-2009 |
20090161203 | Method and Configuration for the Optical Detection of an Illuminated Specimen - A method and a configuration for the depth-resolved optical detection of a specimen, wherein a specimen or a part of the specimen is scanned by means of preferably linear illumination, the illumination of the specimen is periodically structured in the focus in at least one spatial direction, light coming from the specimen is detected and images of the specimen are generated, and at least one optical sectional image and/or one image with enhanced resolution is calculated through the specimen is calculated [sic], images are repeatedly acquired and sectional images are repeatedly blended while changing the orientation of the linear illumination relative to the specimen and/or spatial intervals between from lines exposed to detection light from the illuminated specimen region are generated for the line-by-line non-descanned detection on an area detector or a camera and/or, during a scan, light is further deflected upstream of the detector through the line in the direction of the scan of the specimen. | 06-25-2009 |
20090168155 | MICROSCOPE APPARATUS - Providing a microscope apparatus capable of observing phase variation of a phase object with sufficient contrast with a white light source having an area such as a halogen lamp and a mercury lamp commonly used in a microscope. A microscope apparatus | 07-02-2009 |
20090174935 | SCANNING MICROSCOPE HAVING COMPLEMENTARY, SERIAL SCANNERS - Described is a scanning microscope that includes at least two scanners disposed in series within an excitation beam, wherein one of the scanners is a two-axis galvanometer-controlled scanner, and the other of the scanners is a single-axis resonant scanner. The device may also include a spatial detection system disposed within the excitation beam at a point downstream of the at least two scanners, wherein the spatial detection system is configured to detect a sum of deflections generated by the at least two scanners, or to detect angular differences in the excitation beam when two or more illumination sources are used. | 07-09-2009 |
20090201580 | Methods for implement microscopy and microscopic measurement as well as microscope and apparatus for implementing them - The invention relates to a microscope that enables a phase object or surface pits and projections to be observed at a relatively low image-formation magnification of | 08-13-2009 |
20090219611 | DEVICE AND METHOD - An article includes an optical device. The optical device includes a first lens and a second lens. The first lens includes an optically active material that responds to an external stimulus that affects a refractive index of at least a portion of the first lens. A method for making a method of use of the article is also provided. | 09-03-2009 |
20090244698 | MICROSCOPE COMPRISING AT LEAST TWO COMPONENTS - A microscope comprising at least two components is suggested, wherein each of the at least two components comprises at least one trigger interface, and each of the at least one interfaces is configurable at least as an input and an output. Further, a microscopy method using such a microscope is suggested comprising the appropriate configuring of trigger interfaces of the various components and then continuously moving a microscope stage and continuously moving a focusing drive from a first focus position to a second focus position while simultaneously acquiring images by means of an apparatus for image acquisition. | 10-01-2009 |
20090316257 | MICROSCOPE SYSTEM AND CONTROL METHOD FOR SAME - The microscope system comprises: an imaging apparatus used for picking up an image of a specimen; an electric unit; a control apparatus for controlling turning On and Off of the power supply to the electric unit; a storage apparatus storing the initialization requirement time of the electric unit; and a drive management arithmetic operation apparatus for calculating, on the basis of an image pickup interval and initialization requirement time, a clock time for controlling turning On/Off of the power supply to the electric unit. | 12-24-2009 |
20100027108 | CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPE - A confocal laser microscope has at least one laser whose illumination light is transmitted in direction of the microscope objective by at least one light-conducting fiber. The light-conducting fiber can be plugged in at a housing which preferably comprises the scanning head of the microscope, and a holder is provided which can be plugged into the housing and into which the light-conducting fiber projects and which is provided at its end remote of the fiber with first optics for transmitting the laser light exiting divergently from the fiber in direction of at least partially displaceable collimating optics in the housing. At least second optics are advantageously arranged between the first optics and the collimating optics. | 02-04-2010 |
20100033811 | AUTOFOCUS DEVICE FOR MICROSCOPY - A microscope including an objective which images a sample along a microscope beam path, and an autofocus device, which is coupled into the microscope beam path via a beam splitter at a location behind the objective direction, a A light modulator for generating a two-dimensional, intensity-modulated modulation object, is located in the autofocus beam path in a plane conjugated to the focal plane of the objective or intersects the latter and is imaged into the focal plane of the objective. A camera records a two-dimensional image onto which the modulation object's image is imaged. The image plane of the camera intersects a plane that is conjugated to the modulation object or is located in the plane and the camera detecting the contrast of the modulation object's image located in the sample. | 02-11-2010 |
20100046068 | AUTOMATED MICROSCOPE SLIDE READ SYSTEM - A method and apparatus for automating microscopic analysis of a plurality of data-encoded microscope slides. In embodiments, the data written to or read from the slides may comprise images, analysis protocols, analytic results and other pertinent data. Embodiments also encompass a magazine that contains a plurality of data encoded slides. | 02-25-2010 |
20100123950 | OBJECTIVE OPTICAL SYSTEM - An objective optical system includes a first group having positive refractive power and a piano-convex lens with the convex surface facing the image side; a second group having positive refractive power and a lens whose extreme-object-side lens surface is a convex surface facing the object side; a third group having negative refractive power and a lens whose extreme-image-side lens surface is a concave surface facing the image side; a fourth group having positive refractive power and a lens disposed on the extreme object side, whose image-side lens surface is a convex surface facing the image side and a lens disposed on the extreme image side, whose object-side lens surface is a convex surface facing the object side; and a fifth group having positive refractive power and a combined lens formed by joining a convex lens and a concave lens, the joined surface having negative refractive power. | 05-20-2010 |
20100202041 | OBSERVING DEVICE AND METHOD - When a semiconductor device | 08-12-2010 |
20100265573 | Safety System For A Laser Radiation Device - A laser radiation-guiding device including: a laser including a control unit; ports for connection of one module each, it being possible that laser radiation may exit at the ports. The device further can include joining part sensors respectively assigned to a port and whose electrical condition depends on whether a predetermined joining part is spaced apart from the respective port by less than a maximum distance in a predetermined orientation relative to the respective port, and an evaluating unit connected to the joining part sensors via a signal link that detects the electrical conditions of the joining part sensors and, depending on the detected conditions, emits a control signal to the control unit of the laser or to a laser radiation-blocking unit, by which emission of eye-damaging laser radiation to the ports of the device can be prevented inhibited. | 10-21-2010 |
20100315705 | IMMERSION OBJECTIVE LENS, RETENTION MECHANISM FOR IMMERSION MEDIUM, AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF - There is provided a retention mechanism for an immersion medium, for use in a device which observes/measures a sample by use of an immersion objective lens, includes a member which retains the immersion medium near a tip portion of the objective lens, wherein the member is configured to include at least first and second materials. | 12-16-2010 |
20100315706 | TUBE UNIT FOR MICROSCOPES - A tube unit for microscopes which has a tube lens, including two components with an intermediate, large air separation and an overall positive refractive power. The air separation is at least half the size of the focal length f of the tube lens. A roof edge mirror or another suitable deflection element is arranged between the two components of the tube lens. The roof edge mirror includes two mirrors which can be tilted with respect to one another, and which is able to be tilted around its roof edge. The tilting movement or the tilting angle of the tiltable mirror or deflection element corresponds to half the tilt or half the tilting angle of the tube or eyepiece viewing system. | 12-16-2010 |
20110019271 | MICROSCOPE HAVING A MICROSCOPE BODY AND A STAND FORMED BY A PLURALITY OF COMPONENTS TO PROVIDE A SUPPORTING FUNCTION OR TO ENABLE POSITIONING OF THE MICROSCOPE IN THE ROOM - The present invention relates to a microscope ( | 01-27-2011 |
20110043903 | Optical module for increasing magnification of microscope - An optical module for increasing magnification of a microscope includes an objective and an eyepiece between which is an optical path for light to travel. The optical includes light diverging elements for dividing the optical path into two parallel light paths after leaving the objective; and several orthonormally-arranged reflective elements including at least a first and a last reflective element, each reflective element having a reflective surface diagonal relative to the orthonormal arrangement of the elements, and also arranged to successively reflect the parallel light paths, from element to element, from the objective when the module is inserted in the optical microscope, beneath the eyepiece. Also included are light converging elements for converging the parallel paths into a single path before producing an image at the eyepiece. | 02-24-2011 |
20110058252 | BOTTOMLESS MICRO-MIRROR WELL FOR 3D IMAGING FOR AN OBJECT OF INTEREST - A bottomless micro-mirror well. In one embodiment, the bottomless micro-mirror well includes a substrate having a first surface and an opposite, second surface defining a body portion between the first surface and the opposite, second surface, where the body portion defines an inverted pyramidal well having at least three side surfaces extending to each other and defining an opening between a first sidewall and a second sidewall of the body portion, and where each of the at least three side surfaces is configured to reflect light emitting from an object of interest. | 03-10-2011 |
20110069379 | Microscope Configuration Determination - The invention relates to a lens or lens attachment component, which is designed to be mounted in a microscope and to which an electronic memory module ( | 03-24-2011 |
20110149387 | MICROSCOPE CONTROLLER AND MICROSCOPE SYSTEM PROVIDED WITH MICROSCOPE CONTROLLER - A microscope controller includes a touch panel and a CPU having first and second recognition units. The CPU sets a plurality of operation areas including at least first and second operation areas in the display area of the touch panel. The second recognition unit recognizes a difference between the start-of-input position in which input is first detected and the end-of-input position in which the input is last detected only when the first recognition unit recognizes continuous input to the first operation area, and when input is continuously performed to the second operation area. When the difference is recognized, the CPU generates a control directive signal for control of the driving of a corresponding electric drive mechanism based on the difference. | 06-23-2011 |
20110235168 | STERILE CONTROL UNIT WITH A SENSOR SCREEN - The present invention relates to a control unit for an item of medical equipment, particularly a surgical microscope, for controlling equipment functions, comprising a sensor-screen having a sensor-screen surface for displaying image material, the sensor-screen being configured to be operated in contactless manner via a recognition device and to accommodate a sterile transparent control surface in front of the sensor-screen surface. | 09-29-2011 |
20120075693 | OPTICAL SYSTEM FOR THERMAL IMAGE MICROSCOPE - Provided is an optical system for a thermal image microscope. The optical system includes an image forming unit and a relay unit. The image forming unit forms a focus. The relay unit elongates an optical path. Here, the image forming unit includes six lenses. The relay unit includes two lenses. Aspherical surfaces of the lenses are all convex surfaces. | 03-29-2012 |
20120147459 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR THE ADJUSTED MOUNTING OF A MICROSCOPE STAGE TO A MICROSCOPE STAND - A device and method for adjusting mounting of a microscope stage ( | 06-14-2012 |
20120182609 | MEMBRANE-INTEGRATED MICROFLUIDIC DEVICE FOR IMAGING CELLS - The invention provides microfluidic devices, methods for imaging cells, and methods for preparing such microfluidic devices. The microfluidic devices are contemplated to provide advantages for use in imaging of cells and subcellular compartments in an environment that mimics in vivo conditions. The microfluidic devices can used with a microscope equipped with an oil emersion objective lens. | 07-19-2012 |
20120236398 | Phase Filters for a Scanning Microscope - The aim of the invention is an optical device for a scanning microscope, said device enabling the focusing of a light beam largely independent of wavelengths; and thus high-resolution microscopy, in particular STED microscopy, in a wider wavelength spectrum is facilitated. At least two phase filters lie on a support. Advantageously, the support is a filter wheel or a filter slider which can be introduced into the beam path of the light beam, said beam path preferably being the beam path of the stimulating light beam in an STED microscope. Several phase filters preferablylie on the support in the shape of a matrix. The support is designed as a glass substrate on which each phase filter is applied. To achieve said aim, another position is additionally found on the support for adjustment purposes, wherein the wavefront of the light is not influenced when it passes through said position, that is, the position is an empty position on which no phase filter is found. | 09-20-2012 |
20120243078 | MICROSCOPE OPTICAL SYSTEM - Observation over a superwide field of view is possible with a short, lightweight, and inexpensive eyepiece optical system and a binocular barrel. | 09-27-2012 |
20120243079 | DEVICE FOR HOLDING FILTERS FOR MICROSCOPES - A device for holding filters for a microscope includes a filter wheel ( | 09-27-2012 |
20120287500 | OPTICAL LENS AND OPTICAL MICROSCOPE SYSTEM USING THE SAME - An optical lens is provided in the present invention. The optical lens includes a first curved surface and an annular mask component on and in direct contact with the first curved surface, wherein the annular mask component shields a peripheral annular region of the optical lens from entry of light. The present invention further provides an optical microscope system using the same. | 11-15-2012 |
20130003170 | POSITIONING UNIT AND MONITORING DEVICE - A positioning unit for positioning an optical unit ( | 01-03-2013 |
20130027768 | ATTACHMENT OF OPTICAL MICROSCOPE COMPONENTS - A device for attaching a first optical microscope component part to a second part includes an annular receptacle attached to the second part and an annual insertion part. The annular insertion part includes outside-conical retaining projections. The receptacle includes a base ring having a retaining collar with an inside cone tapering away from the base ring and in which a lateral opening is formed, through which the insertion part can be inserted in the receptacle such that it is located on a pre-locking position in which the annular openings overlap. The insertion part and the receptacle can be moved by reciprocal rotation from the pre-locking position into a locking position in which the outside-conical retaining projections of the insertion part are seated against the inside cone of the retaining collar and press the insertion part on the base ring, whereby the insertion part is locked to the receptacle. | 01-31-2013 |
20130088775 | COMPOUND MICROSCOPE DEVICE - A compound microscope device allowing simultaneous observation of one specimen by a transmission electron microscope and an optical microscope, is provided. A compound microscope device | 04-11-2013 |
20130141782 | TUNABLE ACOUSTIC GRADIENT INDEX OF REFRACTION LENS AND SYSTEM - A microscope, comprising a stage onto which is placed an item, a lens having a tunable acoustic gradient index of refraction (TAG lens) sufficiently proximate to said stage to magnify an image of the item, a viewing point for providing for viewing of the magnified image, and a pulsed illuminator capable of illuminating the stage and synchronously pulsed with an operating frequency of the TAG lens. | 06-06-2013 |
20130170021 | MICROSCOPE OPTICAL SYSTEM AND MICROSCOPE SYSTEM - Provided is a microscope optical system in which the occurrence of flare due to unnecessary-order diffracted light exited from a diffractive optical element is suppressed. A microscope objective lens MS is configured by including an objective lens OL which has a diffractive optical element GD and converts light from an object into a substantially parallel light flux, and a second objective lens IL which forms an image of the object by focusing the substantially parallel light flux from the objective lens OL, and is configured such that, in case where an m-th order of diffracted light from the diffractive optical element GD is used for the image formation, the following expression is satisfied: |θ|>tan | 07-04-2013 |
20130194660 | Microscope Objective Lens - A microscope objective lens has an aspheric-surface lens, and a first lens nearest to an object side is a negative lens. It is desirable that at least any one surface of the first lens nearest to the object side is an aspheric surface. Moreover, it is desirable that the microscope objective lens satisfies the following conditional expression (1) | 08-01-2013 |
20130229706 | POSITIONING UNIT AND MONITORING DEVICE - A positioning unit for positioning an optical unit ( | 09-05-2013 |
20130258457 | INVERTED MICROSCOPE - An inverted microscope includes an imaging lens configured to form an image of light which passes through an objective lens from a specimen, and a microscope main body in which a plurality of optical devices are configured to be arranged between the objective lens and the imaging lens in a direction of an optical axis of the objective lens and which includes therein a plurality of installation units that allow the plurality of optical devices to be fixed independently of one another. Each of the plurality of installation units includes an abutting reference surface on which any one of the plurality of optical devices is configured to be abutted. A plurality of abutting reference surfaces of the plurality of the installation units are shifted from one another in a direction perpendicular to the optical axis of the objective lens. | 10-03-2013 |
20130286473 | INVERTED MICROSCOPE - An inverted microscope that allows observation of a specimen from underneath includes an objective lens holding unit that holds an objective lens configured to collect at least observation light from the specimen, a tube lens configured to focus the observation light collected by the objective lens, a branching unit configured to branch an optical path of the observation light from the tube lens, and an observation image switching device that is removably provided in a microscope main body between the objective lens and the tube lens and is configured to switch between wavelengths of an observation image or between magnifications of the observation image. | 10-31-2013 |
20130301120 | MICROSCOPE SYSTEM - Provided is a microscope system that including: a plurality of image-capturing sections that are provided in a microscope to capture a plurality of lights from a specimen; a capture-condition setting section that allows a user to set an image-capturing order of the plurality of groups into which the lights are classified, and the image-capturing sections for image-capturing of the lights; and a control section that causes the microscope to perform image capturing of the lights according to contents set in the capture-condition setting section. The capture-condition setting section has a table in which an first axis indicates the groups and a second axis indicates the image-capturing sections, and a plurality of cells that are each associated with one of the groups and one of the image-capturing sections are arrayed in a matrix; and captured items that indicate image-capturing of the lights are set in the cells. | 11-14-2013 |
20140036357 | MICROSCOPE TUBE HAVING ROTARY JOINTS - The present disclosure relates to a microscope tube comprising at least three tube parts ( | 02-06-2014 |
20140063598 | ADAPTIVE DEVICE FOR INSPECTING ENDFACES OF FIBER-OPTIC CONNECTOR HAVING MULTIPLE ROWS OF FIBERS - A device for shifting the imaging axis of a microscope for inspecting endfaces of a fiber-optic connector having multiple rows of endfaces has a supporting body for receiving a microscope; a first swinging lever mounted on top of the supporting body and rotatable about a first swinging axis perpendicular to the imaging axis of the microscope; a first connecting piece extending from the first swinging lever towards the imaging axis; a second swinging lever pivoted on the first connecting piece and rotatable about a second swinging axis perpendicular to the first swinging axis; and a fitting tip connected to the second swinging lever for interfacing with the fiber-optic connector. Using two sets of biasing means and adjustment drivers, the imaging axis passing through the supporting body and the fitting tip can be shifted in two mutually perpendicular directions to selectively align with any endface of the fiber-optic connector. | 03-06-2014 |
20140085713 | Phase Derivative Microscopy - Methods and a module for use with a microscope for enhancing image contrast in an image of a phase object. A transmission image of a specimen is formed in an image plane, of which a Fourier transform is generated in a Fourier plane. An amplitude filter is applied to the Fourier transform field, which is then transformed back to an image at a focal plane of a detector array. An image signal from the detector array is processed to generate a contrast-enhanced image of the specimen. | 03-27-2014 |
20140085714 | APPARATUS FOR SELECTIVELY CONNECTING ITEMS - An apparatus for selectively connecting an accessory item to a surgical microscope includes a center pivot. An adapter arm includes an adapter support having a substantially planar support body which extends laterally in an outboard direction from the center pivot and has laterally spaced inboard and outboard support regions separated by a laterally oriented centerline. The adapter arm is configured to accept at least a portion of the accessory item in a supporting relationship. An undermount adapter includes a substantially planar undermount body having laterally spaced inboard and outboard body regions separated by a laterally oriented centerline. A plurality of microscope attachment throughholes each throughhole extend through the undermount body. Each throughhole is configured to accept a fastener for securement of the undermount adapter to the surgical microscope. An arm receiver is configured to accept the adapter tongue of the adapter arm in a supporting relationship. | 03-27-2014 |
20140153087 | Optical Device - An optical device with a first sub-assembly and a second sub-assembly. The first sub-assembly has: an input lens for collimating illuminating light, the input lens having an optical axis, an output lens for focusing collimated light received from a sample, the output lens having an optical axis which is offset and substantially parallel with the optical axis of the input lens, and a first support piece which houses and supports the input lens and the output lens. The second sub-assembly has: an input filter for filtering the collimated illuminating light, an output filter for filtering the collimated light received from the sample, and a second support piece which houses and supports the input filter and the output filter. The first and second support pieces are joined together by a liquid-tight joint. | 06-05-2014 |
20140192404 | OPTICAL QUICKMOUNT - A filter wheel assembly includes a filter wheel and an optical assembly. The filter wheel includes a plurality of viewing openings. The optical assembly includes an optical element secured within an aperture of a housing. The optical assembly is securable to the filter wheel at a viewing opening by a magnetic force. An optical apparatus includes an optical assembly receiver and first and second optical assemblies. The first optical assembly is securable to the optical assembly receiver and the second optical assembly is securable to the first optical assembly by a magnetic force to align the optical assembly receiver and the optical assemblies. Methods of aligning apertures of optical assemblies with viewing openings of a filter wheel or an optical assembly receiver and securing the optical assemblies to the filter wheel or the optical assembly receiver using a magnetic force. | 07-10-2014 |
20140233094 | MICROSCOPE SYSTEM AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A microscope system includes: an objective; a correction apparatus which corrects a spherical aberration; a controller which obtains a plurality of combinations of a relative position of the objective to a sample and an optimum value, which is a set value of the correction apparatus in a state in which a spherical aberration caused in accordance with the relative position has been corrected, calculates a function expressing the relationship between the relative position and the optimum value on the basis of the obtained plurality of combinations by interpolation, and calculates the optimum value according to an observation target surface of the sample, on the basis of the function and the relative position which is determined from the observation target surface; and a correction apparatus driving apparatus which drives the correction apparatus in accordance with the optimum value, which is calculated by the controller. | 08-21-2014 |
20140268319 | COMPACT LENS SYSTEM AND ARRAY - A compact lens system for imaging a sample comprising a substrate having a well formed therein. Index matching material is disposed in the well and a lens member is further disposed in the well in optical contact with the index matching material disposed in the well. A spacer member extends from at least one of the substrate and the lower transparent member to define a spacing from a focal point of the lens member, wherein the lens member and index matching material cooperate to image a sample disposed below the lower transparent member. | 09-18-2014 |
20140293407 | INVERTED MICROSCOPE SYSTEM - An inverted microscope system includes an objective lens holding unit that holds an objective lens configured to collect at least observation light from a specimen, a tube lens configured to form an image using the observation light collected by the objective lens, a total internal reflection fluorescence microscopy optical system provided between the objective lens and the tube lens and configured to observe the observation light from the specimen using a total reflection illumination, and a disk scanning confocal optical system including a rotary disk on which a confocal opening is formed, the confocal opening being placed at a position substantially conjugate to a focus position of the objective lens. A relative distance between the focus position of the objective lens and the substantially conjugate position is changeable along an optical path of the observation light. | 10-02-2014 |
20140355108 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR SUPER-RESOLUTION OPTICAL IMAGING USING HIGH-INDEX OF REFRACTION MICROSPHERES AND MICROCYLINDERS - The present invention provides super-resolution optical imaging methods and systems, including: providing a sample to be optically imaged; providing a plurality of microstructures disposed substantially adjacent to a surface of the sample to be optically imaged; and providing a material disposed about the plurality of microstructures; wherein the plurality of microstructures have a first index of refraction; and wherein the material disposed about the plurality of microstructures has a second index of refraction that is substantially less than the first index of refraction of the plurality of microstructures. The plurality of microstructures include one of a plurality of microspheres and a plurality of microcylinders. | 12-04-2014 |
20140355109 | IMMERSION FLUID FOR MICROSCOPY - An immersion liquid for microscopy is provided, comprising (a) an organic compound which contains a saturated polycyclic hydrocarbon residue, (b) an oligomeric or polymeric saturated acyclic hydrocarbon and (c) an alkyl aromatic compound, selected from the group consisting of alkyl naphthalene and alkyl biphenyl. | 12-04-2014 |
20150043064 | TUBE SHIELD LENS UNIT - A tube lens unit for microscopes with achromatically corrective effect for the use with objectives with infinite image distance and achromatic residual errors. The tube lens unit includes of at least two lenses with the properties: | 02-12-2015 |
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