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US 7,922,329 B1Granted
Slit-lamp photo assembly
AssigneeOculoCAM, LLC
InventorJohn M. Graether
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Abstract
A slit-lamp assembly that has a pivoting arm that is removably connected to a vertical column associated with a frame. The pivoting arm supports a plate spindle assembly that supports a camera wherein the plate spindle assembly includes a bracket that secures a digital camera thereto and a light assembly thereto so that the lens of the camera is disposed through a circular opening of the light assembly.
Claims21
A slit-lamp photo assembly comprising:
- a pivoting arm removably connected to a vertical column associated with a frame;
- and
- wherein the pivoting arm supports a plate spindle assembly that supports a camera;
- wherein the plate spindle assembly comprises a support arm that is connected to a bracket that receives the camera;
- and wherein a light assembly having a light ring is secured to the bracket to position the light ring around the lens of the camera.
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A slit-lamp photo assembly comprising:
- a frame attached to a platform that has a head support for a patient;
- a carriage movably connected to the platform and having a vertical column;
- a first pivoting arm rotatably connected to the vertical column and supporting a binocular microscope;
- a second pivoting arm rotatably connected to the vertical column and supporting a vertically oriented light source that provides an adjustable slit beam;
- and
- a third pivoting arm secured to the vertical column and removably and rotatably connected to the vertical column and supporting a plate spindle assembly that supports a camera such that examination of a patient's eye is accomplished with the camera while the microscope is placed aside.
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A camera light assembly comprising:
- a bracket having a vertical portion and a horizontal portion,
- a camera having a lens adjustably secured to the horizontal portion of the bracket;
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- a light assembly having a ring light surrounding an opening adjustably secured to the bracket adjacent the camera such that the ring light surrounds the lens of the camera;
- and wherein the ring light forms a Purkinje image on the cornea of an eye of a patient.
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A slit-lamp photo assembly comprising:
- a vertical column associated with a frame;
- a first pivoting arm rotatably connected to the vertical column;
- a second pivoting arm rotatably connected to the vertical column;
- a third pivoting arm secured to the vertical column such that the third pivoting arm is removably and rotatably connected to the vertical column;
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- wherein the third pivoting arm supports a plate spindle assembly that supports a camera.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.