Video endoscope with sideways viewing direction and method for mounting a video endoscope

US9717396B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• OLYMPUS WINTER & IBE GMBH · DE

Inventors

• Sebastian JUNGBAUER · Hamburg, DE
• Sebastian Stuehle · Hamburg, DE
• Patrick Scherr · Düsseldorf, DE
• Ronny Huebl · Ellerhoop, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jun 9, 2014
• Grant date: Aug 1, 2017
• Expiry date: May 11, 2035

Classification

• Technology area (CPC A): Human Necessities
• CPC primary: A61B1/053
• WIPO field: Medical technology
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A video endoscope with sideways viewing direction including an endoscope shaft having a jacket tube, an entry window joined hermetically to the jacket tube at the distal end of the jacket tube, a sideways viewing optical subassembly and a sensor module having an optical sensor, wherein the sensor module is disposed on a distal side of a longitudinally extended sensor module carrier that is rotatably mounted with respect to the jacket tube. In the video endoscope, the sideways viewing optical subassembly can be formed as an attachment which can be plugged distally onto the sensor module and/or the sensor module carrier and which is rotatably mounted with respect to the sensor module and/or the sensor module carrier, wherein the attachment has at least one lock which interacts with at least one corresponding lock on the jacket tube, such that the attachment is rotationally fixed with respect to the jacket tube.