Optical observation apparatus

US7869004B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Carl Zeiss Sports Optics GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Stefan Gerth · Sinn, DE
• Volker Tautz · Wetzlar, DE
• Armin Schlierbach · Leun, DE
• Gerd Schreiter · Wattenberg, AT
• Kurt Becker · Bad Eilsen, DE
• Gerd Polzer · Aßlar, DE
• Christof Heintz · Oberursel, DE
• Norbert Muller · Tamm, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Feb 12, 2008
• Grant date: Jan 11, 2011
• Expiry date: May 6, 2028

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G02B23/18
• WIPO field: Measurement
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

An optical observation apparatus with at least one observation beam path and with means for laser range-finding, which have at least one transmitting device and at least one receiving device and are arranged outside the at least one observation beam path. The transmitting device and the receiving device are arranged in each case in separate housing parts of the optical observation apparatus and/or, if a folding bridge of the optical observation apparatus is present, along a mid-axis of the folding bridge. At least one diffractive optical element is provided for shaping at least the receiving beam for the at least one receiving device.