US 12,292,561 B2
Compact, hand-held, portable, stable monocular
Brian Reynolds, Torrance, CA (US)
Filed by Brian Reynolds, Torrance, CA (US)
Filed on Mar. 4, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/686,655.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/159,561, filed on Mar. 11, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0291498 A1, Sep. 15, 2022
Int. Cl. G02B 23/02 (2006.01); G02B 23/16 (2006.01)
CPC G02B 23/02 (2013.01) [G02B 23/16 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A portable monocular device, comprising:
a main body including an objective optical element located on a front end of the main body that gathers light from an object, the main body having a length between the objective optical element and a rear end of the main body;
a viewing arm having first, body end and a second, eyepiece end opposite the first end that includes an eyepiece, wherein the viewing arm is rotatably connected to the front end of the main body, wherein the viewing arm first end rotates about an axis parallel to a viewing axis of the objective optical element; and
wherein the main body includes a pair of light-directing tubes disposed substantially parallel to each other and the viewing axis, wherein a lower tube of the light-directing tubes is connected at a front end thereof to the viewing arm first end.