Tip for a single use endoscope, in particular for a single use duodenoscope
AssigneeAmbu A/S
InventorsGünter Wilhelm SCHÜTZ, Anja DILLINGER, Kaspar Mat MATTHISON-HANSEN, Felix-Johannes ABICHT, Jonas HJORTLUND
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Abstract
A tip for a single use endoscope, the endoscope and a method of producing the tip. The tip includes a housing encapsulating a light emitting device and an imaging device in a fluid tight manner, where the light emitting device is arranged on a planar printed circuit board provided within the housing, and the housing at least in part is made from a transparent material and comprises at least one transparent light guiding part or light guiding section for guiding light emitted by the light emitting device to an outside of the tip.
Claims22
1-15. (canceled)
A tip for an endoscope, the tip comprising:
- a planar printed circuit board;
- a light emitting device arranged on the planar printed circuit board;
- an imaging device;
- a housing encapsulating the planar printed circuit board, the light emitting device and the imaging device in a fluid tight manner, the housing, at least in part, made from a transparent material and comprising a transparent light guiding part or light guiding section configured to guide light emitted by the light emitting device to an outside of the tip.
A method for manufacturing a tip for an endoscope, the method comprising:
- inserting a planar printed circuit board within an at least in part transparent housing, the planar printed circuit having a light emitting device arranged thereon and an imaging device arranged thereon and/or connected thereto;
- connecting and/or attaching the light emitting device to a light guiding section of the housing with a transparent adhesive;
- and
- encapsulating the planar printed circuit board, the light emitting device and the imaging device in a fluid tight manner in the housing.
The method of claim 34, wherein the housing comprises a first housing part and a second housing part, and wherein said encapsulating comprises fluid tightly connecting the first housing part to the second housing part.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.