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US 4,362,355 AGranted
Operating microscope assembly
AssigneeOlympus Optical Co., Ltd.
InventorNaoyuki Takahashi
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Abstract
A movable microscope assembly includes a translational movement mechanism located between a microscope and tilting means associated with the microscope, for causing a translational movement of the microscope in a plane perpendicular to the observation optical axis of the microscope and in the directions of Y- and X-axes in such plane.
Claims7
A movable microscope assembly, comprising:
- a microscope having an optical axis;
- support means for supporting said microscope;
- tilting means for tilting said optical axis of said microscope;
- a translational movement mechanism for translationally moving said microscope in any desired direction in a plane perpendicular to said optical axis of said microscope;
- and
- a focussing mechanism for moving said microscope along said optical axis.
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A movable microscope assembly, comprising:
- support means for supporting a microscope;
- tilting means for tilting the optical axis of a microscope supported by said movable microscope assembly;
- a translational movement mechanism for translationally moving a microscope supported by said movable microscope assembly in any desired direction in a plane perpendicular to the optical axis of such microscope;
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- a focussing mechanism which comprises a dovetail member for carrying a microscope with the observation optical axis thereof in a predetermined orientation relative to said dovetail member and for allowing movement of such microscope along the observation optical axis thereof, a guiding dovetail groove member in which said dovetail member is slidably received, a lead screw extending through and threadably engaging said dovetail member, and a reversible motor for driving said lead screw for rotation, the focussing mechanism being disposed between such microscope and said transational movement mechanism.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.