Patents Assigned to Carl Zeiss Meditec AG
  • Patent number: 10859804
    Abstract: A system combines an operating microscope and an endoscope. The operating microscope includes a light source with a first color temperature that illuminates a first portion of an operating field. The endoscope includes an LED light source with a second color temperature that illuminates a second portion of the operating field, wherein the two color temperatures are matched to one another in such a way that, in optical and/or digital imaging of the operating microscope and/or in optical and/or digital imaging of the endoscope, there are no perceivable color differences in portions of the operating field that are illuminated and observed jointly by the operating microscope and the endoscope.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss Meditec AG
    Inventors: Helge Jess, Martin Fanenbruck, Roland Guckler
  • Patent number: 10849739
    Abstract: An ophthalmosurgical injector system includes an injector, which has a handpiece, a plunger and a dispensing device; an intraocular lens, which has an optic body, a C-shaped first haptic arm protruding from the optic body and a C-shaped second haptic arm protruding from the optic body; a cartridge, in which the intraocular lens is received, wherein the cartridge is inserted in the injector; and an actuation element, which has a contact surface, and a locking element, with which a position of the plunger relative to the handpiece or to the cartridge can be locked. The plunger can be locked in a first position, in which the intraocular lens is held in the cartridge in a compressed and pretensioned state in which an outer distance from the first haptic arm to the second haptic arm is greater than 8 mm and less than 11 mm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss Meditec AG
    Inventors: Robert Glick, Vincent Sunio, Emma Meinke, Marco Müller
  • Patent number: 10842347
    Abstract: A medical apparatus includes a control device, a motion sensor, via which a motion value is determinable, a position sensor, via which an angular position in space is detectable, and a time measuring device, via which a time interval is determinable. The control device is embodied in such a way that a switch-off signal is producible if, during the entire time interval, the motion value remains below a threshold and, at the same time, the position sensor detects an inclination angle relative to a repository plane that lies in a defined repository angle range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss Meditec AG
    Inventors: Roland Guckler, Martin Fanenbruck, Helge Jess, Peter Nakaji
  • Patent number: 10846883
    Abstract: A method for calibrating an object includes determining a position and an alignment of the object in a reference coordinate system, determining the position of at least three measurement spots by at least one capture apparatus, determining a target spot having a fixed spatial relationship with the measurement spots, determining a spatial relationship between the target spot and a tracking spot located on the object by virtue of the tracking spot being positioned at a calibration spot, and determining the spatial location of the calibration spot by a sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss Meditec AG
    Inventors: Steffen Urban, Stefan Saur, Christian Voigt
  • Patent number: 10842374
    Abstract: An operating microscope (2, 48) for observing an eye (77) is provided. The operating microscope (2, 48) comprises a main objective (5) and a fundus imaging system (71) that is positionable in the beam path (7) between the eye (77) and the main objective (5), said fundus imaging system having an ophthalmoscopy magnifier (73). The main objective (5) of the operating microscope (2, 48) has a focal length in the range between 90 mm and 160 mm. The fundus imaging system (71) also can comprise an optics group (81), the dispersion properties of which are matched to the dispersion properties of the ophthalmoscopy magnifier (73) in such a way that the optics group (81) compensates a chromatic aberration of the ophthalmoscopy magnifier (73).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: CARL ZEISS MEDITEC AG
    Inventors: Artur Högele, Christian Beder, Joachim Steffen
  • Patent number: 10838189
    Abstract: An operating microscope produces an observation image of an object region for an observer. The operating microscope has an eyepiece for observing the observation image of the object region in an intermediate image plane and it contains an imaging optical unit for producing an optical image of the object region in the intermediate image plane by way of an optical object region imaging beam path that is guided from the object region into the intermediate image plane. In the operating microscope, there is a switchable optical assembly for selectively clearing and interrupting the optical object region imaging beam path and an image sensor for capturing an image of the object region by way of an optical image sensor beam path that is guided from the object region to the image sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss Meditec AG
    Inventors: Alois Regensburger, Christoph Hauger
  • Patent number: 10828197
    Abstract: A device for producing control data for a laser device for the surgical correction of defective vision. The device generates the control data to control the laser, the optics and the scanner to cut the cornea by focusing the laser radiation and by shifting the position of the focus within the cornea. The control data controls the scanner to shift the position of the focus within the cornea. The device generates the control data such that the laser, the optics and the scanner emit and focus the laser radiation such, that a volume in the cornea is isolated. The removal of which volume from the cornea effects a desired correction of the defective vision. To determine the control data, the device is configured to calculate a radius of curvature Rcv* of the cornea reduced by the volume wherein the radius of curvature Rcv* is locally varying.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss Meditec AG
    Inventors: Gregor Stobrawa, Mark Bischoff
  • Patent number: 10809050
    Abstract: Various optical systems equipped with diode laser light sources are discussed in the present application. One example system includes a diode laser light source for providing a beam of radiation. The diode laser has a spectral output bandwidth when driven under equilibrium conditions. The system further includes a driver circuit to apply a pulse of drive current to the diode laser. The pulse causes a variation in the output wavelength of the diode laser during the pulse such that the spectral output bandwidth is at least two times larger the spectral output bandwidth under the equilibrium conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignees: CARL ZEISS MEDITEC, INC., CARL ZEISS MEDITEC AG
    Inventors: Alexandre R. Tumlinson, Nathan Shemonski, Yuan Liu
  • Publication number: 20200323429
    Abstract: Measurement of intraocular lengths by dual-beam Fourier low-coherence interferometry on the basis of Fresnel-zone-type space-time domain interferograms of the Purkinje-Sanson reflexes. The eye is illuminated by parallel, monochromatic dual beams having wavelengths which differ in temporal sequence. Wavelength spectra of space-time domain interferograms are imaged onto a photodetector array and registered. Viewing direction and position of the eye are fixed by optical aids and are monitored by acoustic and optical aids. A zoom optical unit in the output beam of the ophthalmological interferometer makes it possible, by simple focusing, to image virtual Fresnel-zone-type space-time domain interferograms from contrast-optimized positions onto the photodetector array or onto an image intensifier that is arranged in front of the photodetector array such that the position-dependent size change of the space-time domain interferograms is compensated by the scale change of this imaging.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2017
    Publication date: October 15, 2020
    Applicant: Carl Zeiss Meditec AG
    Inventor: Adolf Friedrich FERCHER
  • Patent number: 10795143
    Abstract: A microscopy system and a microscopy method for recording a fluorescence image and a white-light image are disclosed. An exemplary microscopy system includes an illumination apparatus for illuminating an object region and for exciting at least one fluorescent dye, an optical unit for imaging the object region onto at least one fluorescence image detector and at least one white-light image detector. A beam splitter and a filter are arranged in the beam path provided by the optical unit and configured such that substantially only fluorescence emitted by the fluorescent dyes is incident on the fluorescence image detector and an image that is as color-neutral as possible is recorded by the white-light image detector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss Meditec AG
    Inventors: Christoph Hauger, Marco Wilzbach
  • Patent number: 10792148
    Abstract: An intraocular lens is provided. The intraocular lens includes an optical part and an adjoining haptic part. The optical part includes an optically imaging element and a telescope, the entire telescope being integrally formed and being integrated in the optical imaging element. The optically imaging element has a convexly-curved front side and a concavely-curved rear side. Further, the optically imaging element is arranged as a single lens system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss Meditec AG
    Inventors: Mario Gerlach, Werner Fiala
  • Patent number: 10788311
    Abstract: A microscope system is made available, said microscope system including: a microscope with an observer beam path with at least one camera for obtaining at least one electronic image of an observation object with a deep channel with a base, a motor-driven mount and/or a motor-driven stand, on which the microscope is mounted, a detection unit for detecting the focal depth set at the microscope, an image processing unit connected to the detection unit for the receiving focal depth and connected to the at least one camera for receiving the at least one electronic image, which image processing unit establishes the image portion in the at least one electronic image constituting the base of the deep channel in the electronic image, and a control unit connected to the image processing unit for receiving the established alignment for outputting control signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: CARL ZEISS MEDITEC AG
    Inventors: Christoph Hauger, Gerald Panitz, Marco Wilzbach, Stefan Saur
  • Publication number: 20200301123
    Abstract: A device for outcoupling a portion of the radiation of an observation beam path of a binocular eyepiece for documentation or co-observation that is freely selectable at any time. For the outcoupling, a rotatable supporting unit, the axis of rotation of which is parallel to the axes of the observation beam paths, is arranged in the housing having the binocular eyepiece. Three optical elements are arranged on this supporting unit such that an outer and the middle optical element and, after rotation of the supporting unit, the middle and the other outer optical element are each located in one of the observation beam paths. Here, the two outer optical elements have a beam-splitting effect and outcouple a portion of the observation radiation into a common documentation beam path.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2018
    Publication date: September 24, 2020
    Applicant: Carl Zeiss Meditec AG
    Inventors: Ingo KOSCHMIEDER, Dietrich MARTIN, Günter LINK, Lothar MÜLLER
  • Patent number: 10772764
    Abstract: An adapter for coupling a laser treatment device to an object for treatment. The adapter has an input side, which may be fixed relative to the laser treatment device, by a locking mechanism and which may be fixed to the object, for alignment of the object relative to the laser treatment device. A scanned laser beam is introduced on the input side, from the laser treatment device, along a beam path to the object with a reference structure. The reference structure lies on the beam path of the adapter and may be optically detected by means of the laser beam scanned over the region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss Meditec AG
    Inventors: Mark Bischoff, Elke Ebert, Karsten Festag, Carsten Lang, Markus Sticker
  • Patent number: 10768428
    Abstract: A screen (3) for an HMD (1) is provided, and may be designed as a display screen or as a projection screen. The screen (3) comprises a layer (19) of a material with a switchable degree of transparency and at least one further switchable layer (17, 21, 23) which, in dependence on the switching state, can assume at least two physical states, the physical states differently influencing at least one optical property of light passing through the switchable layer or reflected by it.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: CARL ZEISS MEDITEC AG
    Inventors: Stefan Saur, Marco Wilzbach, Christopher Käsbach
  • Publication number: 20200268555
    Abstract: A device for superimposing parameters and/or image data in the stereoscopic observation path of ophthalmological devices relates to an apparatus for reflecting relevant parameters and/or image data into the stereoscopic observation beam path of ophthalmic devices, for example for therapeutic laser treatments of an eye. The device includes an additional micro-display, which is connected to the control unit, and a beam deflection element for reflecting the parameters and/or image data shown on the micro-display into the stereoscopic observation beam path, which are for example arranged in the parallel beam path. Even though the apparatus is intended for ophthalmic devices for therapeutic laser treatment in the eye, it can also be used, in principle, for ophthalmic devices for examination, diagnosis and surgical interventions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2018
    Publication date: August 27, 2020
    Applicant: Carl Zeiss Meditec AG
    Inventors: Manfred DICK, Gerald KUNATH-FANDREI, René DENNER, Thomas WURLITZER, Rolf TEUSCHER
  • Patent number: 10750944
    Abstract: An eye surgery visualization system includes an image sensor and contains an imaging system for producing an image of an object region with an optical imaging beam path in an imaging plane on an image sensor. A computer unit has an image processing routine for an image of the object region, the image having been captured by the image sensor. An image display unit visualizes image data of an image processed in the computer unit. An ophthalmoscopy loupe of the system images a portion lying within a patient's eye in an intermediate image plane that is conjugate to the imaging plane on the image sensor. The image processing routine separates the first portions of the image of the object region from second portions of the image of the object region in the imaging plane on the image sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss Meditec AG
    Inventors: Joachim Steffen, Christoph Hauger
  • Patent number: 10744037
    Abstract: A polarization beam splitter selectively decouples detection light onto a detector such that it has a polarization direction that differs from the emitted illumination light. This enables the detection of the light scattered back in the eye lens at a high level of accuracy, since stray light from reflections at optical components of the light path is suppressed. In the generating of photo disruptions or other incisions, the ray exposure of the retina may be reduced in that the incisions being furthest away from the laser are induced first such that laminar gas inclusions with an existence duration time of at least 5 seconds result. In this manner the laser radiation propagated in the direction of the retina in further incisions are scattered and partially reflected such that the influence impinging upon the retina is reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss Meditec AG
    Inventors: Matthias Reich, Dieter Grebner, Andreas Koch, Juergen Ledermann, Manfred Dick, Marco Hanft
  • Publication number: 20200253781
    Abstract: A liquid-patient interface for fixing the relative geometric position and orientation of a patient's eye with respect to a laser applicator of an ophthalmological laser therapy system. The liquid-patient interface includes a lens element and a cone element, wherein the lens element is inserted into the cone element and permanently connected to the cone element such that the liquid-patient interface has an integral configuration. The invention furthermore relates to a corresponding production method for such a liquid-patient interface. The liquid-patient interface, the lens element of which is embodied in one piece and contains an optical zone, which has a lens function, and an envelope region, adjoining the optical zone, having a defined height not equal to zero and having an upper edge, wherein the upper edge of the lens element facilitates a direct connection to the laser applicator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2018
    Publication date: August 13, 2020
    Applicant: Carl Zeiss Meditec AG
    Inventors: Christian PÖSSEL, Thomas WOLLWEBER, Tobias DAMM, Michael Stefan RILL, Dirk PREUSS
  • Patent number: 10736503
    Abstract: A method of determining at least one selection parameter for selecting an intraocular lens to be inserted into an eye; the method comprises reading, by a data processing system, data indicative of an axial position of at least a portion of an anterior surface of an at least partially empty capsular bag of the eye, relative to an optical axis of the eye. The method further comprises determining an axial position parameter, which is representative of the axial position of the portion of the anterior surface, depending on the data. The method further comprises determining the at least one selection parameter for selecting the intraocular lens depending on the determined position parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: CARL ZEISS MEDITEC AG
    Inventors: Marco Wilzbach, Christoph Hauger, Markus Seesselberg, Xing Wei, Holger Matz, Anja Seiwert, Oliver Findl, Nino Hirnschall