Endoscope and heating device
AssigneeOlympus Winter & Ibe GmbH
InventorsMartin WIETERS, Sebastian JUNGBAUER, Sven PABST
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Abstract
An endoscope including: an elongated shaft comprising at least a first shaft tube with a window inserted in its distal end, and an electrical heating device arranged proximate to the window at or in the first shaft tube; wherein the heating device includes a flexible printed circuit board on which a resistive heating element configured as a conductor loop and a temperature sensor are arranged, and a heat-conducting structure connected in a thermally conductive manner to the temperature sensor is applied to the printed circuit board.
Claims15
An endoscope comprising:
- an elongated shaft comprising at least a first shaft tube with a window inserted in its distal end, and
- an electrical heating device arranged proximate to the window at or in the first shaft tube;
- wherein the heating device comprises a flexible printed circuit board on which a resistive heating element configured as a conductor loop and a temperature sensor are arranged, and
- a heat-conducting structure connected in a thermally conductive manner to the temperature sensor is applied to the printed circuit board.
A heating device of an endoscope comprising:
- a flexible printed circuit board on which a resistive heating element configured as a conductor loop and a temperature sensor are arranged, and
- a heat-conducting structure connected in a thermally conductive manner to the temperature sensor is applied to the printed circuit board.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.