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Confocal microscope

US7312922B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateJun 29, 2004
Grant dateDec 25, 2007
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Expiry dateMay 21, 2025

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG02B21/0032
  • WIPO fieldOptics
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

A disk unit for a confocal microscope has a rotary disk having many confocal openings, a rotary drive portion, which rotates the rotary disk, a holding member, which holds the rotary disk and the rotary drive portion, a drive portion, which is allowed to insert into and remove from an optical axis the rotary disk, and a disk replacement mechanism, which allows the rotary disk to be attached to and detached from the rotary drive portion.

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