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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:
May. 06, 1997
Filed:
Jun. 17, 1994
Applicant:
Inventor:
Paul N Robb, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Assignee:
Lockheed Missiles & Space Company, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B / ; G02B / ; G02B / ; G02B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
359355 ; 359665 ;
Abstract
Lens systems (8, 18, 28, 38, 48, 58) with first and second rigid lens elements and a liquid lens element therebetween are provided. The first and second rigid lens elements (10, 11; 20, 21; 30, 31; 40, 41; 50, 51; 60, 61) and the liquid lens elements (16, 26, 36, 46, 56, 66) co-act with each other to cause the lens system to have substantially diffraction limited performance over a continuous ultraviolet wavelength band, wherein the first and second rigid lens elements and the liquid lens element are configured and positioned with respect to each other according to a selection of particular designs and design forms.