Rapid connector between an endoscope and a camera

US4863304A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• RICHARD WOLF GMBH · DE

Inventors

• Siegfried Bauer · Bruchsal, DE
• Helmut Lehmann · Bad Nauheim, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Aug 22, 1988
• Grant date: Sep 5, 1989
• Expiry date: Aug 22, 2008

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G03B17/48
• WIPO field: Medical technology
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A rapid connector for use between an endoscope and a camera in which a base ring is connectible to a lens mount of the camera and to an ocular cone of the endoscope and comprises a delimiting glass pane with there being an enclosed space between the delimiting glass pane and a glass pane of the endoscope, and in which the enclosed space is placed in communication with a compressed air source via a radial bore in the base ring and a connector tube therein, and with the ambient atmosphere via an oppositely situated radial bore as well as a hole of the base ring.