Laryngoscope blade and method for producing a laryngoscope blade
AssigneeKarl Storz GmbH & Co. KG
InventorBernd Krause
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Abstract
A method for producing a laryngoscope blade and a laryngoscope blade including a base blade and a tube which is arranged at least in part on an outer face of the base blade, extends approximately in a longitudinal direction of the base blade and is firmly connected to the base blade, wherein the tube, at its side facing toward the base blade, has at least in part a longitudinally extending corrugation which, with the outer face of the base blade, forms a longitudinally extending cavity, wherein the tube is connected to the base blade by a respective soldering seam in the lateral edge regions of the corrugation.
Claims18
A method for producing a laryngoscope blade, comprising:
- providing a base blade having a first longitudinally extending groove formed on an outer surface of the base blade;
- providing a tube which at least in part has a second longitudinally extending groove formed on an outer surface of the tube, the second longitudinally extending groove having a pair of opposing lateral edge regions;
- placing the pair of opposing lateral edge regions onto the base blade wherein the first longitudinally extending groove and the second longitudinally extending groove face each other so as to form a longitudinally extending cavity;
- applying a solder paste to one of a proximal end and a distal end of the longitudinally extending cavity;
- heating the solder paste to a soldering temperature wherein the solder paste liquefies and flows into the longitudinally extending cavity;
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- cooling the liquefied solder paste so as to firmly connect the tube to the base blade at one of the corresponding proximal end and distal end of the longitudinally extending cavity.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.