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US 2006/0187516 A1Published application
Modifiable assembly of microscopic apertures
OwnerVincent Lauerinventor
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Abstract
The invention concerns a modifiable assembly of microscopic apertures comprising several plates (100, 110) that are opaque except on transparent parts (101, 114, 115), capable of moving relative to one another, to modify the size of resulting pinholes. The invention is applicable for microscopic apertures for confocal microscopy.
Claims17
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A modifiable array comprising a plurality of microscopic apertures and adapted to filter a light beam in a confocal microscope,
- comprising a plurality of plates each of which comprises a plurality of intermediate apertures,
- wherein each microscopic aperture results from the superimposition of intermediate apertures in each of said plates,
- wherein each of said intermediate apertures contributes to the formation of at most one microscopic aperture,
- at least one of said plates being adapted to move, to switch from a first configuration to a second configuration,
- wherein the size of the microscopic apertures in said second configuration differs from the size of the microscopic apertures in said first configuration, and
- wherein each microscopic aperture is made up of the superimposition of the same intermediate apertures in the second configuration as in the first configuration.
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A modifiable array comprising a plurality of microscopic apertures and adapted to filter a light beam in a confocal microscope,
- comprising a plurality of plates each of which comprises a plurality of intermediate apertures,
- wherein each microscopic aperture results from the superimposition of intermediate apertures in each of said plates,
- wherein each of said intermediate apertures contributes to the formation of at most one microscopic aperture,
- each of said plates being adapted to move, to switch from a first configuration in which each plate has an original position, to a second configuration in which each plate has a final position different from its original position,
- wherein the size of the microscopic apertures in said second configuration differs from the size of the microscopic apertures in said first configuration, and
- wherein each microscopic aperture is made up of the superimposition of the same intermediate apertures in the second configuration as in the first configuration.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.