Microscope
AssigneeOlympus Corporation
InventorHiroshi Watanabe
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Abstract
A microscope comprising at least one or more motorized drive units, an operation unit with at least one or more operation switches for operating the motorized drive units, a control unit for controlling the motorized drive units and a setting unit in which the control unit can externally switch the setting of a function to control the motorized drive units can be provided. According to the present invention, even if an observer pushes the operation unit by mistake in a microscope using at least one or more motorized units without using an expensive PC system and a LC display unit, neither motorized unit will be driven nor there will be any observation error.
Claims15
A microscope, comprising:
- at least one or more motorized drive units;
- an operation unit with at least one or more operation switches for operating the motorized drive units;
- a control unit for controlling the motorized drive units;
- and
- a setting unit in which the control unit can switch the setting of a function to control the motorized drive units.
A microscope, comprising:
- at least one or more motorized drive units;
- an operation unit with at least one or more operation switches for operating the motorized drive units;
- and
- a control unit for controlling the motorized drive units, wherein
- the function set by the setting unit is a function to validate or invalidate the operation of the operation unit.
A control method for controlling a microscope comprising at least one motorized drive unit and an operation unit with at least one operation switch for operating the motorized drive unit, comprising
- switching between a function to validate the operation of the operation unit and a function to invalidate the operation.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.