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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:
Jan. 04, 2000
Filed:
Dec. 28, 1994
Applicant:
Inventor:
Otto Geschwentner, Balgach, CH;
Assignee:
Leica Mikroskopie Systeme AG, Heerbrugg, CH;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
359389 ; 359385 ; 351216 ;
Abstract
A switchable illumination system for a surgical microscope in eye surgery, which is provided with a light source, a collector lens system, a radiant field stop, optical deflecting elements, further lenses and a main objective. The radiant field stop is projected via the deflecting elements and the further lenses through the main objective onto the patient's eye to be viewed in the object plane. In the illumination beam there is provided a switching mechanism whereby the lamp filament of the light source is projected via the optical deflecting elements and the main objective onto the patient's eye to be viewed in the object planes.