Microscope that displays superimposed data

US5557453A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Leica Mikroskopie und Systeme GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Karl-Josef Schalz · Weilburg, DE
• Norbert Gaul · Solms, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Nov 17, 1995
• Grant date: Sep 17, 1996
• Expiry date: Nov 17, 2015

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G02B27/34
• WIPO field: Optics
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A microscope includes a mount 18 secured to an eyepiece tube 10 to superimpose image data upon the microscope image. The image data is projected and reflected into the intermediate image plane using a receiving unit 27 to hold the image data on a slide 29 and an optical part 12. The receiving unit 27 includes a magnetic wall surface 31 and is freely movable and arbitrarily positionable together with slide 29 on a slide surface 32. Permanent magnets 33 are provided behind the slide surface 32 within the mount 18 to keep receiving unit 27 in place.