Illumination – Light fiber – rod – or pipe – With filter device
Patent
1998-08-31
1999-11-30
O'Shea, Sandra
Illumination
Light fiber, rod, or pipe
With filter device
362574, 362560, 362293, F21V 704
Patent
active
059930373
ABSTRACT:
A light source device for endoscopes includes a light source for emitting white light containing the components of light belonging to a visible region and wavelength bands other than the visible region; at least, a rotary color separating filter on a field sequential system; and an infrared cutoff filter for blocking light in an infrared region, of a wavelength band of the white light. When the rotary color separating filter is disposed in an optical path from the light source to a light guide, an interference filter in which an interference film is applied to a transparent base plate is placed in the optical path. This arrangement obviates the defect of burning the entrance end of the light guide or of breaking the infrared cutoff filter.
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Hasegawa Akira
Matsumoto Shinya
Suzuki Takayuki
Tomioka Makoto
Honeyman Marshall
O'shea Sandra
Olympus Optical Co,. Ltd.
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