Tube for a microscope

US7710641B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• LEICA MICROSYSTEMS CMS GMBH · DE

Inventors

• Andreas Hund · Rosdorf, DE
• Klaus Hermanns · Aßlar, DE
• Peter Euteneuer · Biebertal, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jan 6, 2004
• Grant date: May 4, 2010
• Expiry date: Jan 6, 2024

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G02B21/361
• WIPO field: Optics
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A tube for a microscope includes an adaptation interface, a rotatable operator interface, a beam deflecting device, and a rotatable beam deflecting unit. The beam deflecting device includes a beam-splitting device. A rotation of the operator interface is constrainedly coupled to a rotation of the beam deflecting unit. The beam deflecting device deflects, in the direction of the beam deflecting unit, a light beam coming from the adaptation interface.