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US 5,969,846 AGranted
Confocal microscope
AssigneeOlympus Optical Co., Ltd.
InventorYosuke Kishi
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Abstract
A confocal microscope of the present invention comprises a pinhole disk having a plurality of pinholes, a wavelength selection section for switching a wavelength or wavelength range of at least one of illumination light and observation light in synchronism with rotation of the pinhole disk, and an irradiating section for rotating the pinhole disk and irradiating the irradiation light, which has passed through each of the pinholes, toward a specimen.
Claims17
A confocal microscope comprising:
- a pinhole disk having a plurality of pinholes;
- wavelength selection means for switching a wavelength or wavelength range of at least one of illumination light and observation light in synchronism with rotation of said pinhole disk;
- means for rotating said pinhole disks and means for irradiating the illumination light, which has passed through each of said pinholes, toward a specimen.
A microscope comprising:
- a pinhole disk having a plurality of pinholes;
- a microlens disk having a plurality of opening portions, each of said plurality of opening portions being provided with a microlens;
- wavelength selection means for switching a wavelength or wavelength range of at least one of illumination light and observation light in synchronism with rotation of said pinhole disk;
- means for rotating said pinhole disk and said microlens disk in a phase-locked manner;
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- means for irradiating the illumination light, which has been focused on each of said pinholes by said microlens and passed through each of said pinholes, toward a specimen.
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A confocal microscope comprising:
- a random pinhole disk in which a plurality of pinholes are arbitrarily formed;
- wavelength selection means for switching a wavelength or wavelength range of at least one of illumination light and observation light in synchronism with rotation of said random pinhole disk;
- means for rotating said random pinhole disk;
- and
- means for irradiating illumination light, which has passed through each of said pinholes, toward a specimen.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.