Optical instrument configured to switch between an integrated and external light source
AssigneeKarl Storz GmbH & Co. KG
InventorsJonas Forster, Andreas Heni, Pascal Heni, Marcus Kupferschmid, Daniel Ulmschneider
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Abstract
Disclosed is an optical instrument having a housing, wherein situated in the housing is a light source which is designed to generate a first light flux which exits at a first interface inside the housing, and a light supply which is designed to guide a second light flux from outside the housing into an interior of the housing and to allow said light flux to exit at a second interface inside the housing; wherein situated in the housing is a light guide which is designed to receive, either from the first interface or from the second interface, light at a first end via a third interface.
Claims12
An optical instrument comprising:
- a housing;
- a light source disposed within the housing and designed to create a first light flux that emerges at a first interface within the housing;
- a light supply from outside of the housing is guided through a housing wall of the housing and designed to guide a second light flux from outside of the housing into an interior of the housing and allow said light flux to emerge at a second interface within the housing;
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- a light guide disposed within the housing and designed to receive light at a first end via a third interface and allow said light to emerge at a second end via a fourth interface at a distal end of the optical instrument, with the third interface being displaceably arranged relative to the first and the second interface such that the third interface can receive light from the first interface in a first position and receive light from the second interface in a second position.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.