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Video camera housing for an endoscope

US10085625B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

OLYMPUS WINTER & IBE GMBH · DE

Inventors

Sebastian Stuehle · Hamburg, DE
Patrick Scherr · Düsseldorf, DE
Sebastian JUNGBAUER · Hamburg, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Jul 17, 2013
Grant date	Oct 2, 2018
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Dec 12, 2033

Classification

Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
CPC primaryH04N23/555
WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A housing for accommodating optical and electronic components of a video camera of a medical video endoscope. The housing including: a first housing part, a second housing part, the housing parts assembled together to form inner chambers for mounting the optical and electronic components and an axial passage for optically connecting the inner chambers; a window disposed in an end opening in the assembled housing parts, electrical connectors disposed in a wall in the assembled housing parts, wherein, in an unassembled configuration, the inner chambers are accessible from a surface substantially transversely to a longitudinal axis of the housing parts, and the first and second housing parts are configured to mate with each other in such a way that the inner chambers are hermetically sealed from an exterior of the assembled first and second housing parts.

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