Olympus Optical Company, Ltd.

Toshiyuki Tsunoda

Takashi Fukaya

Hiroshi Fujiwara

Takashi Nagano

Tomonori Ishikawa

Masahiko Kinukawa

Takayoshi Togino

Hiroshi Nakano

Kosaku Tsuboshima

Shigeo Tokunaga

Toyoaki Takeuchi

Masami Hamada

Masanori Kaneda

Yutaka Takabayashi

Kazuyuki Minami

Kazyuki Minami

The surgical microscope comprises a stand, an arm movably attached to said stand for sustaining a microscope body, an electric control equipment divided into a plural number of units removably piled up on said stand and a foot switch unit to be used for executing various types of functions. Accommodated in each unit are a function control means having a single specific function or plural specific functions different from those of the other units and an independent power source means connected to said function control means in a relation of 1:1 or in a different combination. The surgical microscope can be designed compact as a whole, has high operability and assures high security during operation. Should a function be lost due to troubles during operation, the surgical microscope prevents the other functions from being influenced by the troubles and allows to speedily restore the lost function.

Surgical miscroscope with a modular stand

A surgical microscope apparatus provided with a failure detecting device for conducting an initial examination and an ordinary examination of an illumination device and a failure detecting device for conducting the ordinary examination of an electric magnification and focusing device, in order to make it possible to self-examine what is defective and indicate the result when failure is caused. The failure of the illumination device is immediately indicated by the self examination of the failure detecting device when a power source is turned on for use.

Surgical microscope apparatus

A surgical microscope arranging, so as to be insertable into and removable from an illuminating optical path for observation, a semi-transparent mirror capable of introducing illuminating light for photographing in a coaxial relation into illuminating light for observation or a totally reflecting mirror having such size as not to entirely interrupt the illuminating light for observation, in order to make it possible that compact size and low cost are attained, the amounts of illuminating light for observation and photographing are sufficiently secured, both the illuminating light are conducted along a common optical axis, and the illuminating light for observation is not interrupted even for a moment in photographing.

Surgical microscope

A surgical microscope comprises an illuminating light source for observation and/or photographing, an observation optical system, an index projecting optical system and a cornea configuration measuring optical system. The index projecting optical system includes an index which is removably inserted in the illuminating light beam emitted from the illuminating light source and transmitted through an objective of the observation optical system, thereby dispensing with any particular light source for measuring a cornea configuration, and a cornea configuration measuring mode and a photographing mode being automatically changeable by automatically detecting the presence or absence of the index within the optical path of the microscope.

Surgical microscope system

In order to allow the surgical operator and his assistant to make stereoscopic viewing of the region of surgery with a same magnification and in coaxial relationship, the surgical microscope comprises: a common objective lens; a pair of variable magnification optical systems disposed on the image side of the objective lens; and a pair of light beam splitting members disposed on the image side of the pair of variable magnification optical systems, respectively, wherein arrangement is provided so that paired observational optical paths are to be directed to extend respectively in a plurality of directions each having a predetermined angle relative to a plane containing the optical axes of the pair of variable magnification optical systems, within a plane crossing these optical axes at right angles, respectively. The pair of light beam splitting members are constituted as an optical path splitting unit, and the barrel section and the optical path splitting unit are removably coupled to each other.

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Sagamihara, Japan

Toshiyuki Tsunoda