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US 11,375,880 B2Granted
Rigid endoscope
AssigneeOlympus Winter & Ibe GmbH
InventorGregor Kiedrowski
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Abstract
A rigid endoscope including: a shaft; a body disposed at a proximal end of the shaft, a fiber image guide mounted to move longitudinally within the shaft and body; a securing section for securing the fiber image guide, the securing section being positioned within the body; a sliding element mounted to move longitudinally within the body; and a protective sheath encasing the fiber image guide; wherein the fiber image guide is twisted, for image rotation, in a longitudinal portion corresponding to the protective sheath.
Claims6
A rigid endoscope comprising:
- a shaft;
- a body disposed at a proximal end of the shaft,
- a fiber image guide movably mounted in a longitudinal direction within the shaft and body;
- a sliding element disposed in the body such that the sliding element is movably mounted in the longitudinal direction within the body, the sliding element being disposed over an outer surface of the fiber image guide in a longitudinal region of the fiber image guide;
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- a protective sheath encasing the fiber image guide, the protective sheath being disposed in the body to be movable with the sliding element, the protective sheath being located in the longitudinal region of the fiber image guide to correspond to the sliding element such that the protective sheath is disposed between the fiber image guide and the sliding element;
- wherein the fiber image guide is twisted, for image rotation, in the longitudinal region corresponding to the sliding element and to the protective sheath.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.