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US 5,331,357 AGranted
Illumination assembly
AssigneeLuxtec Corporation
InventorsDenton A. Cooley, Bernard Clark, Frederick Morris, Lawrence E. Delaney, Peter Vari, William L. Chesterson
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Abstract
An illumination assembly includes a lens housing having a first end and a second end, a first lens having first and second opposing surfaces with the first lens being disposed in a first end of the lens housing. A cane having a first a second surfaces is disposed in the lens housing with the first surface of the cane being spaced a predetermined distance from a first surface of the lens and wherein the second surface of the cane is polished and disposed against a first polished surface of a fiber optic bundle.
Claims15
An illumination assembly comprising:
- a lens housing having a first end and a second end;
- a first lens having first and second opposing surfaces said first lens being disposed in the first end of said lens housing;
- a cane having a first surface and a second surface with said cane being disposed in said lens housing with the first surface of said cane being spaced a predetermined distance from a first surface of said first lens and wherein the second surface of said cane is polished;
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- a fiber optic bundle having a first end and a second end with the first end of said bundle being polished and disposed against the second surface of said cane.
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A telescopic spectacle comprising:
- a spectacle frame having a top bar with a bore therein;
- a housing having a first end with a first aperture therein and a second end with a second aperture therein, wherein the first end of said housing is disposed in the bore of said top bar;
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- a first lens disposed in the first aperture of said housing, wherein a beam of light travels from the second aperture of said toward the first aperture of said housing and said first lens directs the beam of light from the first aperture of said housing to a predetermined viewing area.
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A telescopic spectacle comprising:
- a spectacle frame having a top bar with a bore therein;
- an illumination housing having a first end with a first aperture therein and a second end with a second aperture therein, wherein the first end of said illumination housing is disposed in the bore of said top bar and said illumination housing further comprises:
- a cane having a first end and a second end, with the first end of said cane disposed in the second end of said illumination housing adjacent the second aperture;
- a first lens having a first and second surface with the first surface of said first lens disposed a predetermined distance from the first end of said cane;
- a second lens having a first and a second surface with the first surface of said second lens disposed adjacent the second surface of said first lens;
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- wherein said first lens and second lens are disposed to direct a beam of light fed from the second aperture toward the first aperture of said illumination housing and to a predetermined viewing area.
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A telescopic spectacle comprising:
- a spectacle frame having a top bar having a bore therein and a bottom rim coupled to said top bar to provide an aperture;
- a lens disposed in the aperture of said frame, said lens having a bore therein;
- a telescope assembly disposed through the bore of the lens;
- an illumination assembly having a first end with a first aperture therein and a second end with a second aperture therein, wherein the first end of said illumination assembly is disposed in the bore of said top bar and said illumination assembly further comprises:
- a cane having a first end and a second end, with the first end of said cane disposed in the second end of said illumination assembly adjacent said second aperture;
- a first lens having a first surface and a second surface with the first surface of said first lens disposed adjacent the second end of said cane;
- a second lens having a first surface and a second surface with the first surface of said second lens disposed adjacent the second surface of said first lens;
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- wherein said first lens and second lens are disposed to direct a beam of light from the cane to the first aperture of said illumination assembly and toward a predetermined viewing area.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.