Optics: eye examining – vision testing and correcting – Eye examining or testing instrument – Eye exercising or training type
Patent
1989-06-23
1990-07-24
Bovernick, Rodney B.
Optics: eye examining, vision testing and correcting
Eye examining or testing instrument
Eye exercising or training type
351232, 351243, 351237, 351211, A61B 310, A61B 302
Patent
active
049431510
ABSTRACT:
In a preferred embodiment, the optometer apparatus includes: a pinhole apure plate having first and second horizontally positioned apertures disposed on opposite sides of a first optical axis; first and second orthogonally-oriented polarizing filters respectively covering the first and second horizontally positioned apertures; a positive lens having an optical axis on the first optical axis and being positioned at a distance of approximately one focal length from the pinhole aperture plate; a lens system having an optical axis on the first optical axis; a slit aperture plate having a vertical slit and being disposed on the first optical axis and between the positive lens and the lens system; third and fourth vertically positioned polarizing filters selectively disposed adjacent to the slit aperture plate to divide the slit vertically, the third and fourth polarizing filters being respectively oriented parallel to the first and second polarizing filters; a monochromatic light source for propagating light along the first optical axis through the lens system, through portions of the third and fourth polarizing filters covering the slit, through the positive lens and through the first and second apertures to form first and second images on the retina of a person's eye; and movable means attached to the slit aperture plate, the lens system and the monochromatic light source for moving the slit aperture plate, the lens system and the monochromatic light source together in a fixed relationship along the first optical axis to enable the person to align the first and second images.
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Bovernick Rodney B.
Jameson George
McDonnell Thomas E.
The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of
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