US 12,001,000 B2
Illumination unit for microscopes
Anna Maria Büchner, Munich (DE); Nils Egewardt, Jena (DE); Nico Presser, Jena (DE); and Peter Schacht, Erfurt (DE)
Assigned to Carl Zeiss Microscopy GmbH, Jena (DE)
Appl. No. 17/596,640
Filed by Carl Zeiss Microscopy GmbH, Jena (DE)
PCT Filed May 14, 2020, PCT No. PCT/EP2020/063461
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Dec. 15, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/254042, PCT Pub. Date Dec. 24, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 10 2019 208 858.9 (DE), filed on Jun. 18, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0299745 A1, Sep. 22, 2022
Int. Cl. G02B 21/08 (2006.01); G02B 7/00 (2021.01)
CPC G02B 21/08 (2013.01) [G02B 21/084 (2013.01); G02B 7/008 (2013.01)] 11 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An illumination unit for microscopes, comprising:
a molded interconnected device (MID) structure for freely spatially arranging different electronic and optical components, wherein the MID structure has a closed, ring-shaped main body with a ring-shaped free beam aperture and is in contact with an interior side surface of a housing of a microscope objective at a location between different lenses of the microscope objective,
wherein columns are arranged on the ring-shaped main body, wherein a plurality of light emitters are arranged on free ends of the columns and are contacted via conductor tracks provided on a surface of the MID structure, and
wherein a plug for supplying power and a circuit configured to control the plurality of light emitters are provided on the ring-shaped main body of the MID structure.