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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. 04, 1996
Filed:
Oct. 26, 1990
Applicant:
Inventor:
Norihiko Aoki, Tokyo-to, JP;
Assignee:
Olympus Optical Co., Ltd., Tokyo-to, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B / ; G02B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
359654 ; 359434 ; 359652 ;
Abstract
An optical system comprising, in the order from the object side, an objective lens unit having a positive refractive power, a relay lens unit having a positive refractive power and an eyepiece lens unit having a positive refractive power, adapted in such a manner that an inverted image formed by the objective lens unit is inverted once again by the relay lens unit for forming an erect image, using at least one graded refractive index lens element in the relay lens unit, and having a small number of lens elements or a high magnification and favorably corrected aberrations.