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US 10,481,384 B2Granted
Endoscope
AssigneeOlympus Winter & Ibe GmbH
InventorsMartin Wieters, Regina Orzekowsky-Schroeder, Annika Goehring
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Abstract
An endoscope having a viewing direction aligned obliquely with respect to a longitudinal axis, the endoscope including: a shaft with a cladding tube and a fiber tube arranged therein; an object lens arranged in the shaft; and a prism module arranged in the shaft for deflecting the beam path, wherein the prism module is arranged eccentrically with respect to the object lens.
Claims11
An endoscope having a viewing direction aligned obliquely with respect to a longitudinal axis, the endoscope comprising:
- a shaft with a cladding tube and a fiber tube arranged therein;
- an object lens arranged in the fiber tube;
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- a prism module arranged in the fiber tube for deflecting a beam path, wherein the prism module is arranged eccentrically with respect to the object lens;
- wherein an outer cross-section of the prism module is smaller than an inner cross-section of the fiber tube, a cross-section of the prism module being less than the inner cross-section of the fiber tube such that a hollow space is provided in a region-between the prism module and an inner wall of the fiber tube;
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- at least one component is arranged between the prism module and the inner wall of the fiber tube or in the hollow space.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.