Patent ID: 7613528
Filing Date: 2009-11-03
Classification: G02B

Abstract:
1. A microscope-use component in a microscope apparatus comprising a plurality of said microscope-use components, wherein each said microscope-use component comprises: a communication interface which enables communication with a control device of the microscope apparatus by a prescribed communication system; a detection unit for detecting first other component information that is related to a first other component from the first other component which is a connectable first other microscope-use component; a detection interface for the detection unit; a first connector which comprises the communication interface and the detection interface and which is connectable to the first other component, wherein the first connector is connectable to a predetermined connector of the first other component, thereby enabling the communication interface to be connected to a communication interface of the first other component, and the detection interface to be connected to a predetermined interface in the first other component corresponding to the detection interface; and a control unit for transmitting, to the control device of the microscope apparatus by way of the communication interface, the first other component information obtained by the detection unit and present component information that is related to a present microscope-use component itself.