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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:
Oct. 07, 2003
Filed:
Mar. 05, 2001
Applicant:
Inventors:
Shinichirou Kawamura, Tokyo, JP;
Hideomi Negishi, Tokyo, JP;
Nobuhiro Tomosada, Tokyo, JP;
Shinya Ootsuki, Tokyo, JP;
Jafer Shelbee, Sunderland, GB;
Kenneth Bell, Sunderland, GB;
Assignee:
Other;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B 2/106 ; G02B 2/118 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B 2/106 ; G02B 2/118 ;
Abstract
An optical image separation system, connected to a confocal image output port of a Nipkow disk type confocal scanner, wherein light returned from a sample and emitted from the confocal image output port is separated into a plurality of different wavelen regions, respectively, so that a plurality of samples emitting different wavelenghts are concurrently detected.