| US 7,566,131 B2 | ||
| Refraction measuring instrument | ||
| Toshifumi Mihashi, Tokyo (Japan) | ||
| Assigned to Kabushiki Kaisha Topcon, Itabashi-ku (Japan) | ||
| Appl. No. 10/549,854 PCT Filed Mar. 31, 2004, PCT No. PCT/JP2004/004702 § 371(c)(1), (2), (4) Date Sep. 23, 2005, PCT Pub. No. WO2004/086962, PCT Pub. Date Oct. 14, 2004. |
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| Claims priority of application No. 2003-096215 (JP), filed on Mar. 31, 2003. | ||
| Prior Publication US 2006/0215111 A1, Sep. 28, 2006 | ||
| Int. Cl. A61B 3/14 (2006.01); A61B 3/10 (2006.01) | ||
| U.S. Cl. 351—209 [351/205; 351/211; 351/221] | 3 Claims |

| 1. A refraction measuring instrument comprising:
measuring means that has a light source for emitting a measurement light beam to an eye to be examined and performs objective
measurement on refraction of the eye to be examined based on reflection light of the measurement light beam emitted from the
light source, which is reflected on the eye to be examined; and
an optical system, to which the light source and the measuring means are added, for simultaneously guiding the measurement
light beam emitted from the light source and visible light incident thereon from an outside to the eye to be examined,
wherein the optical system comprises a free-form-surface prism having a surface for combining the optical axis of the measurement
light beam with the optical axis of the visible light by reflection of the measurement light beam and transmission of the
visible light, and a deviation angle correcting prism for correcting a deviation angle of the visible light passing through
the free-form-surface prism,
wherein the light source emits the measurement light beam to be incident on the optical system from the direction different
from that of the visible light,
wherein the free-form-surface prism reflects the incident measurement light beam inside itself, so that the measurement light
beam is incident on the eye to be examined, and reflects the reflection light from the eye to be examined inside itself to
the direction different from that of the visible light, in order to output the reflection light to the measurement means,
and
wherein the measuring means measures the refraction of the eye to be examined while a subject is visually recognizing the
outside through the visible light based on the reflection light of the measurement light beam which is guided to the eye to
be examined through the optical system and reflected on the eye to be examined.
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