Endoscope with cleanable rotary drum
AssigneeKarl Storz GmbH & Co. KG
InventorPeter SCHWARZ
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Abstract
An endoscope with a rotation drum or a rotation module and an elongated rigid and/or flexible shaft tube which, at a distal end, by means of a bearing fork, rotatably bears the rotation drum about a first axis of rotation, and wherein an optical imaging system is disposed within the rotation drum. The bearing fork here has at least one first fluid conduit and at least one nozzle in order to clean and/or to cool the imaging system.
Claims11
An endoscope with a rotation drum or a rotation module and an elongated rigid and/or flexible shaft tube which, at a distal end, by means of a bearing fork, rotatably bears the rotation drum about a first axis of rotation, and wherein an optical imaging system is disposed within the rotation drum,
- wherein the bearing fork has at least one first fluid conduit and at least one nozzle in order to clean and/or to cool the imaging system.
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