Endoscope for medical and non-medical purposes
AssigneeKarl Storz GmbH & Co. KG
InventorsKlaus Renner, Werner Schuele
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Abstract
The invention relates to an endoscope for medical and non-medical purposes having a housing and a shaping element positioned in the housing containing a hygroscopic substance. To design a medical instrument of the aforementioned type in such a manner than the hygroscopic substance can be integrated into the housing simply and securely with the greatest possible drying effect, it is proposed in keeping with the invention that the binding agent is also a hygroscopically active substance.
Claims12
An endoscope for medical and non-medicinal purposes, having a housing and a shaping element positioned in the housing and containing a hygroscopic substance, where the shaping element consists exclusively of the hygroscopic substance combined with a binding agent, characterized in that the binding agent is also a hygroscopically active substance.
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