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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 07, 1977
Filed:
Feb. 09, 1976
Applicant:
Inventor:
Nathan Gottlieb, Kenmore, NY (US);
Assignee:
American Optical Corporation, Southbridge, MA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
350 91 ; 240 / ; 350189 ;
Abstract
A vertical illuminator for imaging a light source at the back aperture of a microscope objective for use in fluorescent microscopy has a light source, an axially-movable positive meniscus lens which has an aspheric convex surface, a positive biconvex lens, and a negative meniscus lens all in sequence and aligned along an optical axis with a beam splitter for introducing light from the source into a microscope observation system. The movable meniscus lens is used to focus an image of the light source at the objective back aperture.