US 12,109,002 B2
Mounting adapter for securing a sterile cover on a microscope, microscope for use with an adapter of this type, and system having a microscope of this type and an adapter of this type
Thomas Scholten, Tuttlingen (DE); Klaus-Dieter Steinhilper, Tuttlingen (DE); and Marc Delle, Rottweil (DE)
Assigned to Digital Surgery Systems, Inc., Goleta, CA (US)
Appl. No. 17/041,031
Filed by Digital Surgery Systems, Inc., Goleta, CA (US)
PCT Filed Mar. 26, 2019, PCT No. PCT/EP2019/057611
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Sep. 24, 2020,
PCT Pub. No. WO2019/185640, PCT Pub. Date Oct. 3, 2019.
Claims priority of application No. 10 2018 107 357.7 (DE), filed on Mar. 28, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2021/0137626 A1, May 13, 2021
Int. Cl. A61B 46/10 (2016.01); A61B 90/25 (2016.01); G02B 21/02 (2006.01)
CPC A61B 46/10 (2016.02) [A61B 90/25 (2016.02); G02B 21/02 (2013.01)] 10 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A mounting adapter for detachably attaching a sterile cover to an objective of a microscope, the mounting adapter comprising:
a passage for the insertion of the objective therein, in which a drape-lens or light transparent disc is arranged such that the drape-lens or light transparent disc adopts an oblique angle to a longitudinal axis of the passage;
a latching device having a ring-shape for an axial holding of the mounting adapter on the objective inserted into the passage, the latching device including at least one retaining post that is placed through a middle of a biasing element, wherein the biasing element enables the latching device to be moved to an open position and return to a locking position to axially hold the mounting adapter on the objective; and
an alignment receptacle configured and arranged to cause a reproducible target angular positioning and/or target rotational alignment of the mounting adapter on the objective exclusively by its axial fitting and further to fulfil its positioning function independently and separately from the latching device.