Rigid endoscope optics with a compound housing
AssigneeOlympus Winter & Ibe GmbH
InventorsThomas Forster, Mathias Kraas, Gilbert Spahn
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Abstract
A rigid endoscope optics (1) including a housing consisting of several housing parts (5, 8, 9, 6, 16) which hermetically encloses optic elements (3, 2, 4) and which is fitted with a hermetic connection (13, 14; 7, 15) between two housing parts (9,8; 9, 16) is characterized in that one (9) of the connected housing parts is made of PPS (polyphenylenesulfide) plastic or of PPSU (polyphenylsulfone) plastic, and the other (8, 16) connected housing part is made of PPS, PPSU or glass, the housing parts (8, 9, 16) being fitted with a metal coating (7, 13, 14, 15) at the connection site (13, 14; 7, 15) and are soldered to one another.
Claims1
A rigid endoscope optics (1) comprising a housing which consists of several housing parts (5, 8, 9, 6, 16) and which hermetically encloses the optic elements (3, 2, 4) and which is fitted with hermetic connections (13, 14;
- 7, 15) between two housing parts (9, 8;
- 9, 16), wherein one (9) of the two housing parts joined to each other is made of the plastic PPS (polyphenylsulfide) or PPSU (polyphenylsulfone) and the other connected housing part (8, 16) is made of PPS or PPSU or glass, and wherein the housing parts (8, 9, 16) are fitted with a metal coating (7, 13, 14, 15) at the connection site (13, 14;
- 7, 15) and are soldered to each other.
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