Light-emitting diode arrangement

• US 4,329,737 A
• Filed: 07/28/1980
• Issued: 05/11/1982
• Est. Priority Date: 07/26/1979
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Optische Werke G. Rodenstock
• Original Assignee: Optische Werke G. Rodenstock
• Inventors: Triller, Adolf, Gassenhuber, Helmut
• Primary Examiner(s): Lechert, Jr., Stephen J.
• Application Number:
  US06/172,951
• Time in Patent Office: 652 Days
• Field of Search: 362/32, 362/231, 362/235, 362/249, 362/293, 362/311, 362/800, 362/804
• US Class Current: 362/555
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 3/024 for determining the visual field, e.g. perimeter types
• CPC Class Codes: F21Y 2113/00 Combination of light sources
• CPC Class Codes: F21Y 2115/10 Light-emitting diodes [LED]
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 6/0005 the light guides being of the fibre type G02B6/0003 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 6/4298 coupling with non-coherent light sources and/or radiation detectors, e.g. lamps, incandescent bulbs, scintillation chambers
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 362/80 Light emitting diode
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 362/804 Surgical or dental spotlight

Abstract

A light-emitting diode arrangement with a light-emitting diode that is light-transmissive in an axial direction of the type used in examining instruments for opthalmic optics. The light-emitting diode serves as a constant light source in conjunction with a diffusion disk, such as for fixation point stimuli, while the disk also serves as a stimulus that is lit by an additional, switchable light source, such as an incandescent lamp, whose light is transmitted through a light guide, such as an optical fiber, through the light-emitting diode to the disk. In a preferred embodiment, a color filter is arranged between the additional light source and the light-emitting diode and both the additional light source and light-emitting diode are axially displaceable relative to the diffusion disk so as to enable adjustment of their respective luminous densities.

Claims

1. Light-emitting diode arrangement with a light-emitting diode that is light-transmissive in an axial direction, for use in examining instruments for ophthalmic optics, characterized in that the light-emitting diode is combined with an additional, switchable light source, the light of which penetrates the light-emitting diode from its rear face toward its light-emitting side.

2. Arrangement according to claim 1, characterized in that the additional light source is an incandescent lamp.

3. Arrangement according to claim 1, characterized in that a color filter is arranged between the additional light source and the light-emitting diode.

4. Arrangement according to claim 1, characterized in that a lightguide is disposed between the additional light source and the light-emitting diode.

5. Arrangement according to claim 1, characterized in that the light-emitting diode is disposed to be longitudinally displaceable in a sleeve that is sealed at the light-emitting side of the diode with a light diffusion disk.

6. Arrangement according to claim 1, characterized in that the additional light source is disposed to be displaceable in its socket in the axial direction relative to the light-emitting diode.

7. Arrangement according to claim 1, characterized in that the additional light source is disposed to be displaceable in its socket in the axial direction relative to entrance end of the lightguide.