Swift Instruments, Inc.

George Hayashi

Takashi Komatsuzaki

Microscope

An illuminator for a microscope contains a source of light and the microscope has a stage with an opening for upward passage of light from the light source to illuminate a specimen on the stage. The housing defines a window for passage of light from the source through the opening in the stage for illuminating the specimen. The housing also includes first and second support arms, and the housing is adjustable both horizontally and vertically, e.g. relative to the opening in the microscope stage.

Adjustable microscope illuminator

A microscope has a microscope stand with a specimen stage for viewing and a microscope tube mounted on the stand, the tube having an eyepiece at one end and an objective at the other end, adjacent the stage. The tube is constructed for axial adjustment to vary the position of the objective relative to a specimen on the stage, both by application of axially directed force for coarse focus adjustment and by application of rotational force for fine focus adjustment.

A illuminator base for illumination of a microscope specimen from below the specimen includes a fluorescent lamp bulb for generation of illuminating light on a viewing axis. The fluorescent lamp bulb has at least two arms, each having an active volume within a glass wall. The arms are disposed with each active volume generally tangent to the viewing axis. A line intersecting the viewing axis and the axes of lamp arms lies at an acute angle to the viewing axis. Preferably the lamp bulb is u-shape, the angle is about 40.degree. and 50.degree., and light transmitted by the lamp arms along the viewing axis is substantially without shadow.

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San Jose, CA, United States of America

George Hayashi