Wild Leitz Gmbh

Horst Schmidt

Andreas Knipp

Reinhold Schmidt

The panoramic periscope has a panoramic head and a tube. In the panoramic head is mounted a viewing mirror movable in elevation and azimuth, upstream of which is arranged an at least bispectral front window. Various measuring or observation devices, for example a daylight and night vision device and a laser range-finder, are provided in the tube. Panoramic head and tube are connected to one another by an optically transmitting component such as a transparent cylinder or by webs. As a result, the visual beam path can be reflected out laterally by means of a spectrum divider, so that the latter can be arranged in the observation beam path immediately downstream of the viewing mirror in the upper tube portion. In addition to a compact design, this also makes possible a separate, better optimization of the optical systems for the daylight and night vision range.

Panoramic periscope for two spectrum ranges

The automatic adjusting device for a sighting system of a device which can be directed to a target, the automatic adjusting device having an autocollimator, comprising a light source, a splitter cube and an objective. The autocollimator generates an illuminated spot on a detector associated with the splitter cube. A tilting of a mirror secured to the device which can be directed to a target leads to a displacement of the illuminated spot, which displacement is convertible into electrical signals for the automatic adjustment of the sighting system. A prism which is invariant with respect to tiltings is disposed in the beam path of the autocollimator. This prism deflects the autocollimation beam path into a sighting system objective in such a manner that a virtual is generated in an intermediate image= illuminated area image plane of the sighting system objective outside its beam path. As a result of the elimination of partially-mirror-coated surfaces in the sighting beam path, a disturbing influence due to superposition with the autocollimation beam path is avoided and, moreover, the transmission is improved.

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Wetzlar-Nauborn, Germany

Horst Schmidt