Spherical lens imaging device

• US 3,166,623 A
• Filed: 12/29/1960
• Issued: 01/19/1965
• Est. Priority Date: 12/29/1960
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: John A. Waidelich Jr
• Original Assignee: John A. Waidelich Jr
• Inventors: Waidelich, John A. Jr.
• Application Number:
  US04/079,236
• Time in Patent Office: 1,482 Days
• US Class Current: 385/119
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 13/04 Reversed telephoto objectives
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 23/2423 of the distal end

Claims

1. AN IMAGING DEVICE COMPRISING:

A SPHERICAL CORE ELEMENT, AT LEAST ONE SPHERICAL SHELL ELEMENT CONCENTRIC WITH SAID CORE ELEMENT;

LIGHT OBSTRUENT MEANS HAVING AN APERTURE LOCATED SUBSTANTIALLY ABOUT THE COMMON CENTER OF SAID ELEMENTS SAID APERTURE HAVING A DIAMETER EQUAL TO THE DIAMETER OF SAID SPHERICAL CORE ELEMENT;

TOTAL REFLECTIVE MEANS POSITIONED IN SAID APERTURE, A FIBER IMAGE CONDUIT MEANS OPERATIVELY ASSOCIATED WITH SAID IMAGINING DEVICE, SAID FIBER IMAGE CONDUIT MEANS BEING RIGIDLY AFFIXED TO THE SURFACE OF THE EXIT HEMISPHERE OF SAID IMAGING DEVICE;

AND THE RADIUS OF THE EXIT HEMISPHERE OF SAID IMGAGING DEVICE BEING EQUAL TO THE FOCAL LENGTH OF THE ENTRANCE HEMISPHERE OF SAID IMAGING DEVICE.