533 results about "Flat mirror" patented technology

An ultraviolet sterilizer for use during surgery is mounted in a base cabinet. The UV light source can be a laser, or an LED. An optical frequency multiplier can be used that outputs UV of less than 280 nm, or greater than 320 nm, to avoid burning the patient. A visible LED aiming light directs the UV light toward the surgery. A crosshair image can be projected to position the light.

One lamp has a housing, a cavity, a handle, and an ocular plate to pass the UV and the aiming light. An articulated arm allows selective positioning of the lamp. Another lamp has a stylus, a handle, and a tip small enough for easy insertion into a small incision for arthroscopy. A fiber optic cable connects the UV and the aiming light to the lamp. Lenses or filters can be used with the fiber optic cable.

An electronic power supply and a CPU connect to the UV and the aiming light sources. A keyboard inputs commands to the CPU. A sensor provides feedback.

Another UV sterilizer is mounted on a ceiling of the operating room. A lamp has a housing with a cavity. Either a curved or a flat substrate is mounted in the cavity. Solid state UV elements are arrayed on the substrate, along with visible LEDs for aiming. Either a curved or a flat mirror is disposed behind the substrate. An ocular plate passes the UV and the aiming light, and protects the elements from damage. The ocular plate is a diffuser, a filter, or a fresnel lens.

A binocular endoscope operation visual system mainly comprises a binocular endoscope, an image server and an endoscope stereo display unit. Two ways of clear abdominal cavity image video signals are obtained by the binocular endoscope, two ways of video streams enter a memory of an image processing server or a video memory by a two-way image capture card, and a left-way image and a right-way image which are processed are respectively displayed in a left displayer and a right displayer. By a flat mirror, the contents of the left displayer and the right displayer respectively enter the left eye and the right eye of an observer, thereby the stereo effect is realized. The binocular endoscope operation visual system is suitable for the circumstance of a medical surgical endoscope operation, can completely satisfy the stereoscopic vision requirement of a laparoscope operation of a minimally invasive operation robot, realizes the binocular stereoscopic vision real-time display in the laparoscope operation, has reliable performance, simple structure and high commercialization level, and adapts the germfree circumstances of the operation.

A mirror system for a tractor with an articulated trailer includes a mirror housing. The mirror housing is attached to the front end of the tractor on the passenger side. The mirror housing has a planar mirror. The planar mirror is adapted to move. The planar mirror moves allowing continuous observation of the passenger side rear corner of the trailer by a driver.

A polishing is used for polishing a substrate such as a semiconductor wafer to a flat mirror finish. The polishing apparatus includes a polishing table having a polishing surface, a substrate holding apparatus configured to hold the substrate and to press the substrate against the polishing surface, and a controller. The substrate holding apparatus includes an elastic membrane configured to form a substrate holding surface which is brought into contact with the substrate, a carrier provided above the elastic membrane, at least one pressure chamber formed between the elastic membrane and the carrier, and an infrared light detector configured to measure thermal energy from the elastic membrane. The controller calculates an estimate value of a temperature of the elastic membrane using a measured value of the infrared light detector.

A polishing method is used for polishing a substrate such as a semiconductor wafer to a flat mirror finish. A method of polishing a substrate by a polishing apparatus includes a polishing table (100) having a polishing surface, a top ring (1) for holding a substrate and pressing the substrate against the polishing surface, and a vertically movable mechanism (24) for moving the top ring (1) in a vertical direction. The top ring (1) is moved to a first height before the substrate is pressed against the polishing surface, and then the top ring (1) is moved to a second height after the substrate is pressed against the polishing surface.

Provided is a head-up display (HUD) device capable of effectively preventing damage to a liquid-crystal display device due to entry of exterior light. A HUD device has a liquid-crystal panel, and is provided with a liquid-crystal display device for realizing a transparent display using light from a backlight, a control means for controlling the liquid-crystal display device, and an optical system for reflecting the display light outputted by the liquid-crystal display device onto a windshield. A flat mirror constituting the optical system allows infrared rays of incident light to pass behind the mirror and reflects the visible light. The HUD device is provided with an infrared-ray sensor positioned behind the flat mirror, and the control means reduces the brightness of the light of the backlight or extinguishes the backlight when the strength detected by the infrared-ray sensor exceeds a predetermined threshold.

The invention provides a secondary reflection light gathering and heat collecting device with a compound curved surface, which relates to a solar slot type light gathering and heat collecting device and comprises a heat collecting tube (1), a plane primary reflector (2), a refracting plane secondary reflector (3), a compound circular arc primary reflector (4), a compound paraboloid secondary reflector (5) and a supporting frame (6), wherein the heat collecting tube (1) comprises two parallel heat collecting tubes and is positioned in the compound paraboloid secondary reflector (5), and the supporting frame (6) is positioned below the compound circular arc primary reflector (4) and used for fixing the compound circular arc primary reflector (4). By adopting the design of combination of onesupporting frame and two heat collecting tubes, the cost and the height of the heat collecting device can be remarkably reduced; by adopting the compound paraboloid secondary reflector, the requirement on the tracking accuracy is reduced; by adopting the compound circular arc primary reflector, the degree of freedom of the design is increased; and by adopting the design of combination of the planereflector and the refracting plane, the utilization ratio of the light energy is improved.

A projection type display apparatus including an oblique projection optical system having a plurality of lenses is disclosed. A lens nearest to a projection screen has a vertical effective image area through which a light flux passes. The lens is arranged at a position not including an optical axis shared by the largest number of lenses among the plurality of lenses. A flat mirror for returning the optical path is arranged between the particular lens and the projection screen at a predetermined angle to the optical axis. An enlarged image obtained by the light flux returned by the flat mirror is formed toward a display screen.

The present invention relates to an optical element for VEC-SELs or VECSEL arrays. The optical element is formed of a substrate (200) which is transparent at least in a wavelength region of optical radiation. A first interface of the- substrate (200) comprises one or several curved regions forming part of an optical lens or of an array of optical lenses (220) integrated in the substrate (200). The substrate (200) further comprises one or several optical mirrors (210) formed on a second interface of the substrate (200) opposing the first interface or embedded in the substrate (200). The optical mirrors (210) are arranged and designed to back reflect a fraction of optical radiation incident on the first or second interface. The optical mirrors (210) are flat mirrors or curved mirrors having a radius of curvature different from the radius of curvature of the curved region (220). The optical element allows the fabrication of a VECSEL or VECSEL array having a high brightness without the requirement of additional adjustments during fabrication. The VECSEL are arranged at a distance (L) to the optical mirrors (210) and this equals the length of the external cavity. The ROC of the optical lens may be chosen to ROC=L/2 and for the optical mirror ROC>L. The cavity length may be adjusted by a monolithic spacer (120)

The invention discloses an adaptive non-zero digit interference detecting system for an optical free curved surface. The system comprises a free curved surface non-zero digit interference detecting system and an adaptive data processing and controlling system, wherein the free curved surface non-zero digit interference detecting system comprises a frequency stabilized laser, a collimating system, a beam splitter, a reference flat mirror, an imaging lens, a detector, a deformable reflector DM, a reflector and an aplanat. The adaptive data processing and controlling system comprises a system laser tracing module, a theoretical surface decomposition module, a DM deformation control module, an interferogram coupling processing module, a detected wavefront fitting module and a hysteresis error correction module. The adaptive non-zero digit interference detecting system can realize compensation for different Zernike low-order aberration by means of the continuous deformable reflector DM. Deformation of the deformable reflector is guided through the system laser tracing module, so that high-precision universal detection for a large-curvature changing free curved surface is realized.

The invention provides a method and apparatus for directing a radiation beam (504, 606) in a desired direction. There is provided a movable member (10) supported for movement by a fixed member (40) and the movable member has an optical element, e.g a flat mirror (30) fixedly attached thereto. In one embodiment the mirror scans a radiation beam incident thereon in one plane. In a second embodiment, the radiation beam is scanned in two mutually perpendicular planes. A magnetic element (50) having a north and a south magnetic pole is fixedly attached to the movable member (10). A magnetically permeable stator element (70) that is stationary with respect to the movable member (10) and the magnetic element (50) is placed in the field of the magnetic element such that the stator element and said magnetic element mutually generate a magnetic traction force between them. A current coil (60) is wound around a portion of the stator element (70) and a current driver (400) is provided for driving a current in the current coil (60). The current induces an electromagnetic force in the stator element (70) and the electromagnetic force acts on the magnetic element (50) for controlling movement of the optical element (30) with respect to the fixed element (40). A radiation beam source (502) may be directed onto the movable mirror surface (30) and scanned by the movement of the mirror to direct the radiation beam in a desired propagation direction. Alternately, a radiation source (604) may be attached to the movable member (10) and pointed in a desired direction.

A short throw projection system and method for displaying a corrected optical image on a projection screen based on input image data that includes an electronic correction unit, an image projector and a reflection assembly. The electronic correction unit receives the input image data and generates pre-distorted image data. The image projector receives the pre-distorted image data from the electronic correction unit and projects a pre-distorted optical image that corresponds to the pre-distorted image data or a pre-distorted image compensated by the projection optic distortion. The optical reflection assembly is positioned in the optical path of the pre-distorted optical image to project an optical image on the projection screen. The reflection assembly can consist of various combinations of curved and planar mirrors as desired. The electronic correction unit is encoded to pre-distort the geometry of the image represented by the image data such that when the pre-distorted optical image is projected through the image projector and reflected within the reflection assembly, the optical and geometric distortions associated with the image projector and the mirrors within the reflection assembly are eliminated in the displayed optical image.

The invention discloses a real-person shoe type copying device based on single-eye multi-angle-of-view robot vision. The device comprises a single-eye multi-angle-of-view 3D (Three-dimensional) vision box and a computer, wherein the single-eye multi-angle-of-view 3D vision box is used for shooting images of a foot of a real person at five different angles of view; the computer is used for achieving the 3D reconstruction of the foot of the real person and automatically generating a 3D printing file; a plane mirror rectangular bucket-type cavity is formed inside the single-eye multi-angle-of-view 3D vision box and consists of four trapezoidal mirror planes; the upper part of a mirror body is large, and the lower part of the mirror body is small; the mirror planes face the inner side of a cavity body; a light source used for providing uniform soft lighting for the foot of the real person is arranged at the lower part of the plane mirror rectangular bucket-type cavity; cameras used for obtaining the images of the foot of the real person at multiple angles of view according to the refraction and reflection principle of the mirror planes are further arranged in the single-eye multi-angle-of-view 3D vision box; the computer comprises a single-eye multi-angle-of-view 3D vision calibrating unit, an image division, conversion and correction unit, a real person foot surface shape measurement unit and an automatic STL (Standard Template Library) file generation unit. The invention further discloses a shoe tree manufacturing method based on the single-eye multi-angle-of-view robot vision.

A laser beam in the ultraviolet region is generated at high power for along period. A green laser beam generated by a laser oscillator comes incident into a resonator from behind a first curved mirror, and circulates there, reflected by each mirror. By passing a barium borate crystal, it causes a secondary harmonic (a laser beam in the ultraviolet region) to be generated, which is taken out of the resonator via a second curved mirror. The beam waist of the laser beam passing the barium borate crystal is set to 46 mum, about double the conventional thickness, by adjusting the distance between the first curved mirror and a second flat mirror. As a result, the power density of the laser beam in the barium borate crystal is reduced to ¼ of the value according to the related art, and it is made possible to avoid rapid degradation of the barium borate crystal by excessive squeezing of the laser beam.

An aligned multiple flat mirror reflector array for concentrating sunlight onto a solar cell is disclosed. The reflector array includes a concentrating dish and a plurality of flat mirrors disposed on an inside surface of the concentrating dish, the plurality of flat mirrors being disposed and aligned on the inside surface of the concentrating dish such that sunlight impinging upon each of the plurality of flat mirrors is reflected upon the solar cell.

The present invention illustrates various methods of attaching a pair of eyeglass lenses or a lens shield to an eyeglass frame using magnets or magnetically attractive material. The magnetic attachment methods are beneficial because they allow the user to have interchangeable lenses or shields for indoor and outdoor use, enhancing their visual acuity during work or play. The lenses may be tinted, prescription, protective eyewear, or plano. The magnetic lenses are convenient and user friendly, allowing intuitive, tool-less interchangeability with no need to twist or stress the frame. These methods of attachment require no specific instructions or tools when the user replaces lenses.

The invention relates to a surveymeter for parallelism of optical axis of visible and infrared light wave, comprising an infrared light part and a visible light part. Firstly, aiming is operated by employing visible light, the visible light emitted by a visible light source lightens up a cross wire by a cross-linegraticule, an emergent visible cross wire image is formed on a visible light CCD, after being reflexed by an infrared beam splitter, a secondary mirror, a primary mirror and a standard flat mirror, the emergent visible light returns to the visible light CCD by the optical devices and forms a return cross wire image, and a system is adjusted to superpose the emergent visible cross wire image and the return cross wire image, thereby completing instrument aiming. Then infrared light is employed for detecting, iraser emitted by an infrared laser passes through a series of optical elements of the infrared light part, and an emergent infrared spot and a return infrared spot on an infrared CCD are extracted by measurement software. Error value of the parallelism can be obtained by formula computing. The surveymeter of the invention adopts the visible light to aim and the infrared light to detect the parallelism error, thereby reducing experiment risk while improving measurement precision.