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Apparatus for the automatic performance of diagnostic and/or therapeutic actions in body cavites

US6650920B2 · kind B2 · utility

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27Claims

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Assignee

Biotronik Mess -und Therapiegeraede GmbH & Co. Ingenieurbuero Berlin · DE

Inventors

Max Schaldach · Erlangen, DE
Curt Kranz · Berlin, DE
Jens Gobrecht · Wustrow, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Jul 18, 2001
Grant date	Nov 18, 2003
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Jul 18, 2021

Classification

Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
CPC primaryY10S977/84
WIPO fieldMedical technology
WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

An apparatus for the automatic performance of diagnostic and/or therapeutic actions in body cavities is provided with a base control unit, which is to be arranged extracorporally, and with a catheter-type actuator, which is coupled therewith and which is insertable in the corresponding body cavity and which, in the vicinity of its distal end, is provided with a diagnostically active detection equipment and/or a therapeutically active treatment equipment, and which, at least in the vicinity of its distal end, is provided with an actuation mechanism, which is triggered by the base control unit, for advance and/or twist and turn control of the actuator.

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