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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 01, 2017
Filed:
Nov. 15, 2012
Applicant:
Karl Storz Gmbh & Co. KG, Tuttlingen, DE;
Inventor:
Jan Dahmen, Seitingen-Oberflacht, DE;
Assignee:
Karl Storz GmbH & Co. KG, Tuttlingen, DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 1/06 (2006.01); A61B 1/00 (2006.01); G02B 3/14 (2006.01); G02B 23/24 (2006.01); F21V 21/08 (2006.01); F21V 5/00 (2015.01); A61B 90/50 (2016.01); A61B 90/30 (2016.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 1/06 (2013.01); A61B 1/0019 (2013.01); A61B 1/00179 (2013.01); A61B 1/0623 (2013.01); A61B 1/0692 (2013.01); F21L 15/14 (2013.01); F21V 5/006 (2013.01); G02B 3/14 (2013.01); G02B 23/2461 (2013.01); A61B 2090/306 (2016.02); A61B 2090/309 (2016.02); A61B 2090/502 (2016.02);
Abstract
An illuminating lens for a medical headlamp, endoscope or exoscope, to generate an illuminating light bundle with variable light distribution includes a liquid lens with variable focal length to modify a focusing of the illuminating light bundle. The invention also relates to an observation device with an illuminating lens of this type as well as a method to generate an illuminating light bundle with variable light distribution.