Illumination assembly for dental and medical applications
AssigneeSurgical Acuity, Inc.
InventorsCharles H. Caplan, Frederick N. Bushroe
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Abstract
A small, lightweight, high intensity illumination assembly for use in dental and medical applications. The illumination assembly includes attachment means for removable attachment to headgear such as eyeglasses, face shields, or headbands, and lenses, loupes, and binoculars associated with such headgear. The illumination assembly is able to achieve extremely light weight by using only a single optical element therein, e.g., an aspheric condensing lens, binary optical element, or holographic optical means, and by piping illumination to the optical element from a remote light source by use of a flexible light guide, e.g., a fiberoptic bundle.
Claims20
An illumination assembly comprising:
- a. a light guide having an output end and an input end, the input end being adapted for connection to a remote illumination source;
- b. a housing having a light guide opening and an illumination opening, the output end of the light guide extending within the housing and being aligned to illuminate the illumination opening;
- c. an aspheric lens mounted within the illumination opening;
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- d. attachment means for removably attaching the homing to headgear.
An illumination assembly comprising:
- a. a housing having a light guide opening and an opposing illumination opening;
- b. a housing base adjustably engaged to the housing, the housing base being adapted to support a light guide to illuminate the illumination opening;
- c. a positive lens mounted in the illumination opening, the positive lens including an aspheric face adjacent the housing base and an opposing generally planar face;
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- d. attachment means, pivotably attached to the housing base, for removably attaching the housing base to headgear.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.