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US 5,335,154 AGranted
Optical axis adjustment mechanism for a light source
AssigneeOlympus Optical Co., Ltd.
InventorsMasanobu Koitabashi, Masato Toda, Keiji Handa
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Abstract
A light source comprises a lamp house including a source lamp for emitting illumination light in a certain direction and heat sinks for cooling the source lamp, a base member for holding the lamp house and moving the lamp house to adjust the optical axis of illumination light the source lamp emits, and an optical axis adjustment mechanism operation unit lying outside the lamp house to be manipulated from the side of the lamp house and driving the optical axis adjustment mechanism.
Claims6
A light source comprising:
- a lamp house including a source lamp for emitting illumination light in a certain direction and heat sinks for cooling the source lamp;
- a base member holding said lamp house and having an optical axis adjustment mechanism for non-pivotally moving said lamp house to adjust an optical axis of illumination light said source lamp emits;
- wherein the optical axis adjustment mechanism mounted on said base member includes a plurality of holders for holding the bottom of said lamp house, and a vertical axis drive means for driving said plurality of holders by the same quantity of drive and thus moving said lamp house along said vertical axis while keeping it in a horizontal attitude.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.