Ophthalmic apparatus

• US 5,871,455 A
• Filed: 04/23/1997
• Issued: 02/16/1999
• Est. Priority Date: 04/30/1996
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Nikon Corporation
• Original Assignee: Nikon Corporation
• Inventors: Ueno, Yasunori
• Primary Examiner(s): Hindenburg, Max
• Assistant Examiner(s): Wingood, Pamela L.
• Application Number:
  US08/838,998
• Time in Patent Office: 664 Days
• Field of Search: 351/211, 351/212, 600/558
• US Class Current: 600/587
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 3/103 for determining refraction, e.g. refractometers, skiascopes
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 3/107 for determining the shape or measuring the curvature of the cornea

Abstract

An ophthalmic apparatus having a smaller size while guaranteeing a required optical performance from each optical system component is provided. The ophthalmic apparatus includes a fogging optical system for removing an accommodation power of an eye being examined so that the eye is properly relaxed. A detecting optical system is used for detecting information relating to the eye being examined. The fogging optical system and the detecting optical system share a common lens group containing at least one cemented lens. Positive and negative lenses are included in the cemented lens. The common lens group, as a whole, has a positive refractive power.

Claims

1. An ophthalmic apparatus, comprising:

a fogging optical system for eliminating an accommodation power of an eye being examined so as to realize relaxation;

a detecting optical system for detecting information relating to the eye being examined; and

at least one cemented lens, including a positive lens and a negative lens, which, as a whole, has a positive refractive power, said at least one cemented lens forming at least part of a common lens group shared by said fogging optical system and said detecting optical system,

satisfying the following conditions;

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(r2+r1)/(r2-r1)<

0.2;

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1n1-n2<

0.25;

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σ

1-σ

2<

30

wherein r1 is a radius of curvature of a surface of said positive lens other than the cemented surface, r2 is a radius of curvature of a surface of said negative lens, other than the cemented surface, n1 is a refractive index of said positive lens with respect to the d-line, n2 is a refractive index of said negative lens with respect to the d-line, σ

1 is Abbe number if said positive lens, and σ

2 is Abbe number of said negative lens.

2. The ophthalmic apparatus defined in claim 1, wherein the detecting optical system is a telecentric optical system.

3. The ophthalmic apparatus defined in claim 2, wherein the detecting optical system detects corneal information of the eye being examined.

4. The ophthalmic apparatus defined in claim 1, wherein the detecting optical system detects a refractive power of the eye being examined.

5. The ophthalmic apparatus defined in claim 1, wherein the detecting optical system acts as an image pickup optical system for observing the eye being examined.