Video laryngoscope with detachable light and image guides

US7044909B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Karl Storz GmbH & Co. KG · DE

Inventors

• George Berci · Los Angeles, US
• Marshal Kaplan · Beverly Hills, US
• James P. Barry · Charlton, US
• David Chatenever · Lompoc, US
• Klaus Irion · Liptingen, DE
• Andre Ehrhardt · Tuttlingen, DE
• Jurgen Rudischhauser · Tuttlingen, DE
• Daniel Mattsson-Boze · Goleta, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Feb 28, 2005
• Grant date: May 16, 2006
• Expiry date: Feb 28, 2025

Classification

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

Abstract

A combination laryngoscope and video display for providing images of the area ahead of the laryngoscope to facilitate insertion without damaging the surrounding tissue; the laryngoscope having a detachable blade and a rigid, detachable light and image guide attachment device for providing illuminating light ahead of the blade and for detecting the reflected light.