Abstract: The operating microscope comprises at least one suction port formed in a microscope body or an arm for supporting the microscope body which is to be enveloped in a drape, and an exhaust fan or exhaust pump connected to the suction port. An exhaust port to be connected to an exhaust pump may be formed in the drape. Since air is exhausted out of the drape, and the drape is brought into close contact with the microscope body and the arm by operating the exhaust fan or the exhaust pump, the drape does not constitute a hindrance in the visual field of a surgeon or dgrade operability of the microscope.

Abstract: A surgical microscope arranging, so as to be insertable into and removable from an illuminating optical path for observation, a semi-transparent mirror capable of introducing illuminating light for photographing in a coaxial relation into illuminating light for observation or a totally reflecting mirror having such size as not to entirely interrupt the illuminating light for observation, in order to make it possible that compact size and low cost are attained, the amounts of illuminating light for observation and photographing are sufficiently secured, both the illuminating light are conducted along a common optical axis, and the illuminating light for observation is not interrupted even for a moment in photographing.

Abstract: A tilting device for surgical microscopes comprising: a supporting apparatus composed of a parallelogram link mounted to be movable three-dimensionally on a frame through a mounting member; and a spring connected between another end portion distant from one end portion of a supporting member to support a microscope and the mounting member, in which rotation moment caused by the weight of the microscope with rotation of the center of gravity of the microscope attached to one end portion of the supporting apparatus is adapted to be offset by reverse rotation moment relying on the elasticity of the spring, in order to make it possible to secure a wide working space for operations in spite of a small size, simplify the structure, reduce the cost of manufacture, and perform smooth operation in the best balance.

Abstract: A surgical microscope comprises an illuminating light source for observation and/or photographing, an observation optical system, an index projecting optical system and a cornea configuration measuring optical system. The index projecting optical system includes an index which is removably inserted in the illuminating light beam emitted from the illuminating light source and transmitted through an objective of the observation optical system, thereby dispensing with any particular light source for measuring a cornea configuration, and a cornea configuration measuring mode and a photographing mode being automatically changeable by automatically detecting the presence or absence of the index within the optical path of the microscope.

Abstract: In order to allow the surgical operator and his assistant to make stereoscopic viewing of the region of surgery with a same magnification and in coaxial relationship, the surgical microscope comprises: a common objective lens; a pair of variable magnification optical systems disposed on the image side of the objective lens; and a pair of light beam splitting members disposed on the image side of the pair of variable magnification optical systems, respectively, wherein arrangement is provided so that paired observational optical paths are to be directed to extend respectively in a plurality of directions each having a predetermined angle relative to a plane containing the optical axes of the pair of variable magnification optical systems, within a plane crossing these optical axes at right angles, respectively. The pair of light beam splitting members are constituted as an optical path splitting unit, and the barrel section and the optical path splitting unit are removably coupled to each other.

Abstract: In order to allow the assistant also to make an observation of the same region of the object as by the surgical operator in the form of a normal and clear stereoscopic image, and to enable the size of the barrel as well as the price to be about the same as that of an ordinary surgical microscope having two optical axes, the surgical microscope of the invention is arranged so that by the employment of two pairs of prisms each having a polarized light beam splitter section and a total reflection surface, a pair of operator's observational optical systems and a pair of assistant's observational optical systems are used partly in common, and one of the polarized beams so split by the polarized beam splitter section is utilized as the operator's observational light, and the other is utilized as the assistant's observational light.