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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To efficiently clean an objective in spite of simple constitution. SOLUTION: A cleaning part 23 is provided at a position corresponding to the base of a well 24 on a base 18 inside the frame 25 of the microplate 12. By arranging the cleaning part 23 on an immersion objective 11 or making the cleaning part 23 pass through the lens 11, the lens 11 is cleaned when it comes into contact with the cleaning part 23. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an illumination apparatus for the cellular analysis apparatus in which the loss of light is kept to a minimum, the amount of light of the LED light sources is automatically maintained constant, and changes of the location, shape, and intensity of fluorescent light of a substance for its object can be quantitatively obtained. SOLUTION: The illumination apparatus for the cellular analysis apparatus includes: a plurality of LEDs 11R, 11G, 11B of different center emission wavelengths; a photodetector 12; a path sharing means for introducing light emitted from the plurality of LEDs into the common optical path; a light-introducing device located on the common optical path to introduce part of the light emitted from the plurality of LEDs passing through the common optical path into the photodetector; a feedback controller 15 controlling turning-on states of the LEDs over preset states in accordance with the amount of light emitted from the plurality of LEDs detected by the photodetector; and an illumination light supplying device 16 which is located on the common optical path and supplies light which is emitted from the plurality of LEDs to pass through the common optical path and is not introduced into the photodetector through the light-introducing device, as illumination light for a cellular analysis. COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a box type motor-driven microscope which achieves miniaturization of an entire device by suppressing the operation range of an opening/closing member for changing a sample container to the utmost, which accurately maintains observing and measuring accuracy by suppressing wear in opening/closing operation, which excels in operability and safety, and additionally, for which observing and measuring conditions are easily changed, and further which achieves instantaneous observation and measurement of the change of the sample by manual injection of a reagent and confirmation of the operation circumstances inside the microscope. SOLUTION: The box type motor-driven microscope includes: a motor-driven microscope part 10 having a transmissive illumination optical system 11, a motor-driven stage 12 and an image-formation optical system 14; and a housing 20. The housing has a fixed housing 21 and a movable housing 22, and the movable housing can parallel displace in an oblique direction relative to the fixed housing while holding an optical element above the motor-driven stage, so as to change the sample container 40 placed on the motor-driven stage, hermetically seal the motor-driven microscope part and shield it from light in cooperation with the fixed housing, and also nearly match the optical axis of the transmissive illumination optical system and the optical axis of the image-formation optical system. COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a corrector ring driving device of a microscopic objective lens provided with a corrector ring in which the exchange of a corrector ring mounting objective lens and the introduction of the objective lens into the observation optical path can be facilitated even in a state where the corrector ring mounting objective lens is mounted to a revolver, the working load of a viewer is lessened, and the corrector ring can be automatically driven. SOLUTION: A device driving the corrector ring 4a of the corrector ring mounting objective lens 4 mounted to an objective mounting and dismounting section 3a of the revolver 3 includes a rotation driving mechanism 1 having a motor 1a and a torque transmitting section 1b which transmits a torque of the motor 1a to the corrector ring 4a of the corrector ring mounting objective lens 4 mounted to the revolver 3 to drive the corrector ring 4a; and a connection means 2 for connecting the torque transmitting section 1b to the corrector ring 4a of the corrector ring mounting objective lens 4 introduced into an observation optical path in association with a switching operation performed by the revolver 3 and disconnecting the torque transmitting section 1b from the corrector ring 4a of the corrector ring mounting objective lens 4 removed from the observation optical path. COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an objective lens, a microscope and an optical analyzer which can surely prevent the objective lens, an object to be measured, a plate on which the object is placed, or a container in which the object is stored, from being damaged. SOLUTION: An elastic member 33 supports a top end lens 31 and a lens frame 32 supporting the top end lens 31, by applying biased force in a central axis direction of the lens frame 32. The top end of the lens frame 32 is located outside a top end surface 31a of the top end lens 31 in the center axis direction of the top end lens 31. An immersion objective lens 11 is moved by an objective lens moving device 23 in the central axis direction and is brought into contact with a bottom surface 18 of a microplate 12. A stage 13 supports the microplate 12 and is moved only within a plane vertical to the central axis direction, while its movement in the center axis direction is being regulated. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a maceration medium supply apparatus, a fluorescent analytic inspecting device, and an incubation microscope which can stably perform temperature control over a sample and have simple constitution, and are reduced in cost. SOLUTION: The maceration medium 13 charged between an observation sample and a maceration objective 12, a temperature controller 26 which controls the maceration medium 13 at specified temperature, and a maceration medium supply part (22 to 25) which supplies the maceration medium 13 whose temperature is controlled by the temperature controller 26 to the maceration objective 12, are included. COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a retention mechanism for an immersion objective lens or an immersion medium, which is configured such that when a specimen is observed and measured, the immersion medium supplied to the tip of an objective lens is hindered from dripping from the tip of the objective lens even if the measurement involves a large amount of movement and takes a long time, and also to provide a method of manufacturing the same. SOLUTION: The retention mechanism for the immersion medium includes: an immersion objective lens 10; a bottom plate 41 with an opening for engaging with the immersion objective lens; a wall 42 disposed around the bottom plate 41; an immersion medium supply section 34 for supplying an immersion medium to the tip of the objective lens; and a droplet discharge part 35 which is disposed near the wall of the bottom plate and discharges a droplet of the immersion medium from the tip of the objective lens. The bottom plate has a first ring member (α portion ) made of a first material for holding the immersion medium, which is disposed so as to surround the opening. The bottom plate inclines so that the opening side is higher than the wall side. The affinity of the first ring member with the immersion medium is lower than that of an inside member of the first ring member with it. COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an optical measuring device which promptly and efficiently carries out a dynamic optical analysis method of a sample.SOLUTION: An optical measuring device includes a laser light source 1, an object lens 10, an optical detector 2, a sample container 22, an optical element, a beam scanning mechanism 9 composed of an eccentric rotation mirror 40 and a motor 41 for rotating the eccentric rotation mirror 40, and a beam scanning mechanism control portion for generating a control signal and carrying out the drive control of the beam scanning mechanism 9; and carries out measurement corresponding to plural kinds of measuring items about physical properties of a biological sample in a solution held in the sample container. When carrying out FIDA measurement, the eccentric rotation mirror 40 is rotated to optically scan a condensing spot of a laser beam in a generally elliptical shape at a focus position in the solution held in the sample container. When carrying out FCS measurement, a mirror surface of the eccentric rotation mirror is fixed in an orientation in which light passing through an optical axis passes through the object lens along the optical axis, and confocal illumination is carried out in the solution by the light passing through the optical axis.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To solve a problem on phase difference observation due to deviation of phase difference ring illumination in observation by an inverted type phase contrast microscope. SOLUTION: The phase contrast microscope includes a light source 1, an illumination optical system 3 guiding light from the light source to an object to be observed 2, and an imaging optical system 4 for enlarging an image of the object to be observed, wherein a pupil image detector 48 is arranged between the imaging lens 42 and an imaging position 432 in the imaging optical system, and an optical element 32, shaping phase difference ring illumination shape by controlling a ring-like aperture 33, is arranged at a position conjugate to an objective lens pupil position in transmission illumination of the illumination optical system. Thus, phase film shape at the objective lens pupil position and the phase difference ring illumination shape are detected by the pupil image detector, and operation is performed based on coordinate data of the phase film shape and the phase difference ring illumination shape detected by the pupil image detector, and then the ring-like aperture of the optical element is controlled to shape the phase difference ring illumination shape. COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a microscope device that enables an observer to manually operate an optical adjustment correction ring for objective lenses, while confirming it from outside a shielding object, separated from an optical axis and that completely blocks a microscope portion, at observation. SOLUTION: In the microscope of box type in which a microscope portion 1 covered with the shielding object 3 has a conversion section mounted with the plurality of objective lenses, there is provided a remote drive mechanism 2 for operating the optical adjustment correction ring for the objective lenses on the optical axis, from outside the shielding object separated from the optical axis. COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT