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Tube attachment for microscopes

US7706059B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

Carl Zeiss Micromanaging GmbH · DE

Inventors

Axel Freerk · Oettingen, DE
Cornelia Bendlin · Oebisfelde, DE
Anke Vogelgsang · Oettingen, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Oct 12, 2006
Grant date	Apr 27, 2010
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Jan 2, 2028

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG02B21/20
WIPO fieldOptics
WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

A tube attachment for microscopes which facilitates visual microscope work particularly over extended periods and which can be used universally for different types of microscopes and, at the same time, can be produced economically using simple manufacturing techniques, it is suggested that a tube attachment is constructed as a holder which can be adjusted with respect to height and, optionally, with respect to angle and can be fastened directly to a binocular tube of a microscope. The holder includes two carriers which are displaceable axially relative to one another and which have a forehead rest and a chin support or one carrier with the forehead rest for a user, and devices are provided at the carriers for clamping the adjusting movements of the carriers.

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