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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. 26, 2009
Filed:
Nov. 01, 2004
Applicant:
Franz Merz, Aalen, DE;
Inventor:
Franz Merz, Aalen, DE;
Assignee:
Carl Zeiss AG, Oberkochen, DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B 21/32 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
The invention concerns a tube () for a microscope (), in which at least two beam paths are provided, wherein a change-over device is provided in the tube (), by means of which device a first () or a second flat-field optical element can be rotated and/or moved selectively into the beam paths () of the beam paths () aligned by an objective (), for aligning the beam paths for an observer, wherein the second flat-field optical element has a function of exchanging the beam paths and inverting the image. Further, the invention concerns a microscope () with such a tube ().