Patent · US Expired

Microscope eyepiece with 10.times. magnification

US6330115A · kind A · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateApr 7, 2000
Grant dateDec 11, 2001
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Expiry dateApr 7, 2020

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG02B25/001
  • WIPO fieldOptics
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

The invention relates to a microscope eyepiece with theoretically reduced astigmatism in a compensating optical system. The inventive eyepiece has 10.times. magnification, a sight field (SFZ).ltoreq.25 and a Petzval sum (SP) of 0.014.ltoreq.SP.ltoreq.0.021. Said eyepiece comprises a special field lens placed in front of a field stop and a negative lens in the eye lens section placed behind said field stop. The inventive field lens is embodied in the form of a simple, thick, positively diffracting meniscus which is convex in relation to the field stop and provided with the following field lens factor: 0.95.ltoreq.beta'.ltoreq.1.05. The eye lens section can be displaced in relation to the field stop to enable diotropic adjustment. Special, advantageous embodiments of the field lens and examples of embodiments of the microscope eyepiece, complete with structural data, are described.

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