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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. 20, 2008
Filed:
Apr. 14, 2005
Katsushige Nakamura, Tokyo, JP;
Katsushige Nakamura, Tokyo, JP;
Mitaka Kohki Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A mouth switch is provided for a multifunction operation microscope (). Signals to be outputted to the operation microscope can be switched from one provided when only a long main lever () is held with a mouth (lips, teeth, and the like) to another provided when a sub-lever () is held together with the main lever. Even if the number of functions to control increases, the mouth switch can cope with them. The mouth switch can change signals through the simple operation of holding the levers with a mouth, and therefore, possibility of an operation error can be reduced. As a changeover switch () is OFF, the mouth switch provides four kinds of signals including focus-up, focus-down, zoom-in, and zoom-out signals, and as for ON state, other four kinds of signals relating to X(+) direction, X(−) direction, Y(+) direction, and Y(−) direction for shifting field of view are provided.
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