Video endoscope
AssigneeOlympus Winter & Ibe GmbH
InventorsMartin WIETERS, Annika GOEHRING
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Abstract
A video endoscope including: an elongated shaft having an inner shaft tube and an outer shaft tube; and an electrical connecting element extending in a longitudinal direction of the shaft between the inner shaft tube and the outer shaft tube. Wherein the electrical connecting element is configured as a flexible printed circuit board with at least one conducting path which is routed substantially parallel to a longitudinal axis of the shaft, and the electrical connecting element is routed at an angle with respect to the longitudinal axis of the shaft at at least one location of the shaft.
Claims12
A video endoscope comprising:
- an elongated shaft having an inner shaft tube and an outer shaft tube;
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- an electrical connecting element extending in a longitudinal direction of the shaft between the inner shaft tube and the outer shaft tube;
- wherein the electrical connecting element is configured as a flexible printed circuit board with at least one conducting path which is routed substantially parallel to a longitudinal axis of the shaft, and
- the electrical connecting element is routed at an angle with respect to the longitudinal axis of the shaft at at least one location of the shaft.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.