Patents by Inventor Renhu Shi

Renhu Shi has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 11681134
    Abstract: A tube system for a microscope includes two lenses and a glass element. The tube system can have a compact build and chromatic aberrations that lie within a specified range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss Microscopy GmbH
    Inventors: Renhu Shi, Marco Hanft, Thomas Nobis, Peter Schnuell, Johannes Knoblich
  • Publication number: 20210033839
    Abstract: A tube system for a microscope includes two lenses and a glass element. The tube system can have a compact build and chromatic aberrations that lie within a specified range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2020
    Publication date: February 4, 2021
    Inventors: Renhu Shi, Marco Hanft, Thomas Nobis, Peter Schnuell, Johannes Knoblich
  • Patent number: 10345569
    Abstract: The invention relates to a zoom objective lens with continuously adjustable magnification, comprising five lens groups, where the first lens group, the second lens group and the fifth lens group are fixed in relation to an object. The third lens group and the fourth lens group are axially displaceable. The following conditions apply to the lens: the variable air gap between the second lens group and the third lens group decreases or has a turning point with a transition from a low to a high magnification ?, the refractive power of the second, third and fifth lens groups is positive and the refractive power of the fourth lens group is negative.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss Microscopy GMBH
    Inventors: Renhu Shi, Ingo Fahlbusch, Matthias Gonschor, Michael Gögler, Holger Richter, Harald Schadwinkel, Jörg Schaffer, Robin zur Nieden
  • Patent number: 9857579
    Abstract: A system for microscopic applications, including a rotating structural element that acts as a beam splitter and has reflecting and transmitting structures, and which is disposed in an intermediate image plane of the beam path conjugated with the object field, and by which the structure is imaged onto an object in the object plane. The fluorescent light reflected by the object, or caused by the illumination, strikes the structural element as well as an image processing module. The beam reflected and transmitted by the structural element is guided through the image processing module. The structural element is set at an angle to the vertical of the beam path. An optical adapter, which tilts the microscopic intermediate image onto the plane of the structural element acting as beam splitter, is disposed at the interface between the microscope and the image processing module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss Microscopy GmbH
    Inventors: Matthias Wald, Renhu Shi, Alexander Scheps, Harald Schadwinkel, Jörg Schaffer
  • Publication number: 20170176731
    Abstract: The invention relates to a zoom objective lens with continuously adjustable magnification, comprising five lens groups, where the first lens group, the second lens group and the fifth lens group are fixed in relation to an object. The third lens group and the fourth lens group are axially displaceable. The following conditions apply to the lens: the variable air gap between the second lens group and the third lens group decreases or has a turning point with a transition from a low to a high magnification ?, the refractive power of the second, third and fifth lens groups is positive and the refractive power of the fourth lens group is negative.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2016
    Publication date: June 22, 2017
    Inventors: Renhu SHI, Ingo FAHLBUSCH, Matthias GONSCHOR, Michael GÖGLER, Holger RICHTER, Harald SCHADWINKEL, Jörg SCHAFFER, Robin zur NIEDEN
  • Patent number: 9488817
    Abstract: An immersion objective for a light microscope with a first lens group including a first and second lenses, with a third lens arranged behind the first lens group, a first air gap between the first lens group and the third lens, with a second lens group behind the third lens and including fourth, fifth and sixth lenses, a second air gap formed the third lens and the second lens group, and a third lens group behind the second lens group including seventh, eighth and ninth lenses. Tenth, eleventh and twelfth lens are provided behind the third lens group. For correction of aberrations a fourth air gap is formed between the third lens group and the tenth lens, a fifth air gap is formed between the tenth lens and the eleventh lens and a sixth air gap is formed between the eleventh lens and the twelfth lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2016
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss Microscopy GmbH
    Inventors: Renhu Shi, Werner Kleinschmidt, Georg Herbst, Holger Richter, Carsten Hoyer
  • Patent number: 9383565
    Abstract: A tube lens unit for microscopes with achromatically corrective effect for the use with objectives that image an object to infinity and that have achromatic residual errors. The tube lens unit includes of at least two lenses with the properties: nP<1.50 and vP<71 nN<1.66 and vN<37, wherein nP and nN signify the refractive index (ne) at a wavelength of 546 nm for a positive and negative lens respectively, and vP and vN signify the Abbe number (ve) at a wavelength of 546 nm for a positive and negative lens respectively, and the beam paths are characterized by the conditions: |?A|<0.60 and |?B|<0.30, wherein ?A signifies the variation of the aperture ray and ?B signifies the variation of the main ray while passing through the surfaces of the lenses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2016
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss Microscopy GmbH
    Inventors: Renhu Shi, Matthias Gonschor
  • Publication number: 20150293338
    Abstract: A system for microscopic applications, including a rotating structural element that acts as a beam splitter and has reflecting and transmitting structures, and which is disposed in an intermediate image plane of the beam path conjugated with the object field, and by which the structure is imaged onto an object in the object plane. The fluorescent light reflected by the object, or caused by the illumination, strikes the structural element as well as an image processing module. The beam reflected and transmitted by the structural element is guided through the image processing module. The structural element is set at an angle to the vertical of the beam path. An optical adapter, which tilts the microscopic intermediate image onto the plane of the structural element acting as beam splitter, is disposed at the interface between the microscope and the image processing module.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2015
    Publication date: October 15, 2015
    Inventors: Matthias Wald, Renhu Shi, Alexander Scheps, Harald Schadwinkel, Jörg Schaffer
  • Publication number: 20150043064
    Abstract: A tube lens unit for microscopes with achromatically corrective effect for the use with objectives with infinite image distance and achromatic residual errors. The tube lens unit includes of at least two lenses with the properties: nP<1.50 and vP<71 nN<1.66 and vN<37, wherein nP and nN signify the refractive index (ne) at a wavelength of 546 nm for a positive and negative lens each, and vP and vN signify the Abbe number (ve) at a wavelength of 546 nm for a positive and negative lens each, and the beam paths are characterized by the conditions: |?A|<0.60 and |?B|<0.30, wherein ?A signifies the variation of the aperture beam and ?B signifies the variation of the main beam while passing through the surfaces of the lenses.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2014
    Publication date: February 12, 2015
    Applicant: CARL ZEISS MICROSCOPY GMBH
    Inventors: Renhu Shi, Matthias Gonschor
  • Publication number: 20130271847
    Abstract: An immersion objective for a light microscope with a first lens group including a first and second lenses, with a third lens arranged behind the first lens group, a first air gap between the first lens group and the third lens, with a second lens group behind the third lens and including fourth, fifth and sixth lenses, a second air gap formed the third lens and the second lens group, and a third lens group behind the second lens group including seventh, eighth and ninth lenses. Tenth, eleventh and twelfth lens are provided behind the third lens group. For correction of aberrations a fourth air gap is formed between the third lens group and the tenth lens, a fifth air gap is formed between the tenth lens and the eleventh lens and a sixth air gap is formed between the eleventh lens and the twelfth lens.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2013
    Publication date: October 17, 2013
    Applicant: Carl Zeiss Microscopy GmbH
    Inventors: Renhu Shi, Werner Kleinschmidt, Georg Herbst, Holger Richter, Carsten Hoyer
  • Patent number: 7907348
    Abstract: The invention relates to a microscope objective with preferably anti-symmetric lenses or lens groups with an optical magnification of ?100 and a visual field factor of 20. According to the invention the microscope objective consists of 9 lenses with 3 cemented elements, starting from the object side (left), a lens which is almost a hemisphere L1 with positive refractive power, a meniscus lens L2 with positive refractive power, a two-part cemented element G1 with positive refractive power, another two-art cemented element G2 with positive refractive power, a two-part cemented element G3 with negative refractive power, and finally a meniscus lens L9 with negative refractive power. By using cemented elements and lens pairings of the same construction, production costs can be reduced compared with methods of the prior art while image contrast is improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2011
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss MicroImaging GmbH
    Inventors: Renhu Shi, Werner Kleinschmidt, Thomas Bocher
  • Patent number: 7782539
    Abstract: An immersion microscope objective includes a system of several optical lenses or lens groups between which air spaces are provided and an adjusting device for adapting the immersion microscope objective to different immersion mediums for correcting imaging errors when utilizing the immersion microscope objective in connection with a cover glass, which closes off a specimen holder, and/or for correcting longitudinal chromatic aberrations. The adjusting device is configured to change two air spaces and especially the air spaces (A1, A2) are linearly changeable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2010
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss MicroImaging GmbH
    Inventors: Renhu Shi, Ingo Fahlbusch, Werner Kleinschmidt
  • Patent number: 7672057
    Abstract: A microscope objective having at least four lenses or groups of lenses and which can be used to improve image contrast. According to the invention, a phase plate, aligned concentrically to the optical axis, can be integrated into and taken out of the air space between the first lens and the second lens, as viewed from the object side. The defined arrangement of the phase plate and the associated shift of the real pupil into the air space between the first two lenses or groups of lenses, respectively, of the microscope objective allows a microscope objective, initially designed as a bright-field variant, to be redesigned as a phase contrast variant with relative ease.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2010
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss MicroImaging GmbH
    Inventors: Renhu Shi, Anke Vogelgsang, Thomas Bocher, Werner Kleinschmidt
  • Patent number: 7643216
    Abstract: The invention is directed to an objective, particularly for telescope-type stereomicroscopes. The objective comprises two lens groups, a first lens group and a second lens group. The first lens group, which faces the object plane, has a positive refractive power and comprises a plurality of lenses of which at least two form a cemented component. The second lens group, which is on the image side, has a negative refractive power and comprises a collecting cemented component and a diverging lens. The objective is characterized in that the following conditions B1 and B2 are met: where DAP represents the diameter of the exit pupil of the objective and ?1 represents the maximum field angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2010
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss Microimaging GmbH
    Inventors: Johannes Winterot, Dirk Jahn, Renhu Shi, Ingo Fahlbusch
  • Publication number: 20090284841
    Abstract: The invention relates to a microscope objective with preferably anti-symmetric lenses or lens groups with an optical magnification of ?100 and a visual field factor of 20. According to the invention the microscope objective consists of 9 lenses with 3 cemented elements, starting from the object side (left), a lens which is almost a hemisphere L1 with positive refractive power, a meniscus lens L2 with positive refractive power, a two-part cemented element G1 with positive refractive power, another two-art cemented element G2 with positive refractive power, a two-part cemented element G3 with negative refractive power, and finally a meniscus lens L9 with negative refractive power. By using cemented elements and lens pairings of the same construction, production costs can be reduced compared with methods of the prior art while image contrast is improved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2007
    Publication date: November 19, 2009
    Applicant: CARL ZEISS MICROIMAGING GMBH
    Inventors: Renhu Shi, Werner Kleinschmidt, Thomas Bocher
  • Publication number: 20080310030
    Abstract: The invention is directed to an objective, particularly for telescope-type stereomicroscopes. The objective comprises two lens groups, a first lens group and a second lens group. The first lens group, which faces the object plane, has a positive refractive power and comprises a plurality of lenses of which at least two form a cemented component. The second lens group, which is on the image side, has a negative refractive power and comprises a collecting cemented component and a diverging lens. The objective is characterized in that the following conditions B1 and B2 are met: 46.5<DAP?60 and??B1 0.16?tan ?1,??B2 where DAP represents the diameter of the exit pupil of the objective and ?1 represents the maximum field angle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2005
    Publication date: December 18, 2008
    Inventors: Johannes Winterot, Dirk Jahn, Renhu Shi, Ingo Fahlbusch
  • Publication number: 20080247050
    Abstract: The invention relates to a microscope objective which consists of at least four lenses or groups of lenses and can preferably be used to improve image contrast. According to the invention, a phase plate, aligned concentrically to the optical axis, can be integrated into and taken out of the air space between the first lens and the second lens, as viewed from the object side. The defined arrangement of the phase plate and the associated shift of the real pupil into the air space between the first two lenses or groups of lenses, respectively, of the microscope objective allows a microscope objective, initially designed as a bright-field variant, to be redesigned as a phase contrast variant with relative ease.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2008
    Publication date: October 9, 2008
    Applicant: CARL ZEISS MICROIMAGING GMBH
    Inventors: Renhu Shi, Anke Vogelgsang, Thomas Bocher, Werner Kleinschmidt
  • Publication number: 20080106795
    Abstract: An immersion microscope objective includes a system of several optical lenses or lens groups between which air spaces are provided and an adjusting device for adapting the immersion microscope objective to different immersion mediums for correcting imaging errors when utilizing the immersion microscope objective in connection with a cover glass, which closes off a specimen holder, and/or for correcting longitudinal chromatic aberrations. The adjusting device is configured to change two air spaces and especially the air spaces (A1, A2) are linearly changeable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2007
    Publication date: May 8, 2008
    Inventors: Renhu Shi, Ingo Fahlbusch, Werner Kleinschmidt
  • Patent number: 7349162
    Abstract: The invention is directed to an immersion microscope objective. An objective of this kind has an adjusting element, for example, a correction ring, by which it can be adjusted to different immersion media. In an advantageous manner, the objective can also be adjusted to different temperatures of the solutions and different coverslip thicknesses of object vessels by the correction ring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2008
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss Jena GmbH
    Inventors: Ingo Fahlbusch, Renhu Shi
  • Patent number: 7259924
    Abstract: A microscope objective has axially adjustable correction mounts for adapting to different parameters influencing the imaging quality. The axial adjustment of the correction mounts relative to a stationary barrel is realized by an adjusting ring arranged on the outer side of the barrel by means of a bolt or screw which is arranged in the respective correction mount, is directed radial to the optical axis of the objective and engages in through-openings of threaded rings. The objective has at least three correction mounts which are adjustable in direction of the optical axis of the objective by at least one adjusting ring without additional rotation around the optical axis of the objective.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2007
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss Jena GmbH
    Inventors: Hubert Wahl, Georg Herbst, Ingo Fahlbusch, Renhu Shi, Gerhard Mollenhauer, Thomas Guenther, Andreas Busse, Marion Dambeck, Adolph Willhelm, Wolfgang Hartje, Wolfgang Sebode, Detmar Nolte