Microscope and a controlling method thereof

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2006-04-05

2009-06-02

Fineman, Lee (Department: 2872)

Optical: systems and elements

Compound lens system

Microscope

C359S380000

Reexamination Certificate

active

07542202

ABSTRACT:
A microscope includes a switching mechanism which has a plurality of lens units, and which inserts a selected lens unit of the plurality of lens units into an observation light path and disposes the non-selected other lens units outside the observation light path. A control unit controls a movement speed of a stage, onto which a sample is placed, in an optical axis direction according to an observation power of the selected lens unit inserted into the observation light path. The plurality of lens units include: (i) a plurality of fixed-power lens units which are lens units including a combination of imaging lenses and objective lenses, and whose observation powers when observing the sample mutually differ, and (ii) a zoom lens unit which has a continuously changeable observation power.

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English machine translation of JP2004004856A.

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