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公开(公告)号：US11957303B2
公开(公告)日：2024-04-16
申请号：US18102934
申请日：2023-01-30
Applicant: KARL STORZ SE & Co. KG
Inventor： Andreas Heni , Markus Kupferschmid , Daniel Ulmschneider , Jonas Forster
CPC classification number: A61B1/0008 , A61B1/012 , A61B1/05 , A61B1/128 , F28F13/00 , H05K7/2039 , F28F2013/008 , F28F2280/10
Abstract: An apparatus configured for heat dissipation that includes a heat source, a heat sink and a heat conducting element. The heat conducting element conducts heat energy from the heat source to the heat sink along a heat conducting path, and the heat conducting element is arranged in such a way on the heat source and the heat sink and is configured to physically change in such a way with increasing temperature of the heat conducting element that: a) a first cross-sectional area between the heat source and the heat conducting element and/or a second cross-sectional area between the heat conducting element of the heat sink increases, and/or b) a length of the heat conducting path shortens. Further, a video endoscope having such an apparatus and a use of such an apparatus is provided.
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公开(公告)号：US11490792B2
公开(公告)日：2022-11-08
申请号：US16890278
申请日：2020-06-02
Applicant: KARL STORZ SE & Co KG
Inventor： Lawrence Geafer , Andreas Heni , Markus Kupferschmid , Daniel Ulmschneider
Abstract: A video endoscope, in particular a video mediastinoscope, comprises an elongate rigid shaft and a handle detachably attached to a proximal end section of the shaft, wherein the shaft comprises an optics shaft comprising an imaging optics and an electronic image sensor, wherein the optics shaft and a plug connector housing arranged at a proximal end of the optics shaft form a hermetically sealed unit enclosing the imaging optics and the image sensor, and wherein the handle comprises a handle housing in which an electronics unit is accommodated, wherein the electronics unit is hermetically sealed. The invention also relates to a method for configuring a video endoscope.
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公开(公告)号：US20200375437A1
公开(公告)日：2020-12-03
申请号：US16890278
申请日：2020-06-02
Applicant: KARL STORZ SE & Co KG
Inventor： Lawrence Geafer , Andreas Heni , Markus Kupferschmid , Daniel Ulmschneider
Abstract: A video endoscope, in particular a video mediastinoscope, comprises an elongate rigid shaft and a handle detachably attached to a proximal end section of the shaft, wherein the shaft comprises an optics shaft comprising an imaging optics and an electronic image sensor, wherein the optics shaft and a plug connector housing arranged at a proximal end of the optics shaft form a hermetically sealed unit enclosing the imaging optics and the image sensor, and wherein the handle comprises a handle housing in which an electronics unit is accommodated, wherein the electronics unit is hermetically sealed. The invention also relates to a method for configuring a video endoscope.
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公开(公告)号：US10791322B2
公开(公告)日：2020-09-29
申请号：US15903827
申请日：2018-02-23
Applicant: Karl Storz SE & Co. KG
Inventor： Andreas Heni , Markus Kupferschmid , Lawrence Natusch , Daniel Ulmschneider
IPC: H04N13/282 , A61B1/00 , G02B23/24 , H04N5/232
Abstract: An apparatus for capturing a stereo image includes a first objective for producing a first image, a second eye objective for producing a second eye image, a first viewing direction device rotatable about a first axis assigned the first objective, and a second viewing direction device rotatable about a second axis assigned the second objective. The viewing direction of the apparatus is rotatable by simultaneous rotation of the first and second viewing direction devices. The first objective or part is movable in a translational fashion. A cam mechanism is provided and embodied to couple a rotation of the first viewing direction device to a translational movement of the first objective or part.
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公开(公告)号：US10477190B2
公开(公告)日：2019-11-12
申请号：US15458199
申请日：2017-03-14
Applicant: Karl Storz SE & Co. KG , Karl Storz Imaging, Inc.
Inventor： Andreas Heni , Markus Kupferschmid , Daniel Ulmschneider , Lawrence Natusch , George E. Duckett, III
IPC: H04N13/296 , G02B23/24 , H04N13/189 , H04N13/243 , A61B1/00 , H04N13/239
Abstract: An imaging system includes an imaging scope, a controller, a camera, and a processor. The imaging scope is selectively rotatable about a longitudinal axis relative to a horizon plane. The imaging scope has at least three optical channels, each including a respective objective that captures light. The objectives are positioned such that respective viewing direction axes of the optical channels extend at least substantially parallel to one another. The controller activates a pair of optical channels that is at least as parallel relative to the horizon plane as any other pair of optical channels. The camera generates a first image representative of light captured by a first optical channel of the activated pair of optical channels, and a second image representative of light captured by a second optical channel of the activated pair of optical channels. The processor generates a 3D image using the first and second images.
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公开(公告)号：US12167830B2
公开(公告)日：2024-12-17
申请号：US18077195
申请日：2022-12-07
Applicant: KARL STORZ SE & Co KG
Inventor： Daniel Ulmschneider , Andreas Heni , Markus Kupferschmid , Lawrence Natusch
Abstract: A video endoscope that includes a handle with a housing and an interface portion rotatably mounted relative to the housing, and an elongate shaft with one or more electronic image sensors, wherein a proximal end section of the shaft is detachably connected to the interface portion of the handle, where the interface portion includes a first connector element electrically connected to an electric transmission element of the interface portion and the shaft includes a second connector element electrically connected to the one or more electronic image sensors, the first and second connector elements co-operating to form a detachable electrical connection, and where the handle includes an electrical connection assembly arranged at an exterior of the interface portion forming an electrical connection to at least one stationary electric and/or electronic component of the handle in a multiplicity of rotational positions of the interface portion relative to the housing.
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公开(公告)号：US12016532B2
公开(公告)日：2024-06-25
申请号：US17315796
申请日：2021-05-10
Applicant: KARL STORZ SE & Co. KG
Inventor： Markus Kupferschmid , Daniel Ulmschneider , Andreas Heni , Jonas Forster
CPC classification number: A61B1/05 , A61B1/00096 , A61B1/00183 , A61B1/00193
Abstract: The present application relates to an endoscope apparatus including a shaft component with a proximal end and a distal end. The shaft component is arranged in an outer shaft. The endoscopy apparatus includes an image capture device having an objective lens for generating a real image and an image sensor for capturing the image and generating an image signal. The endoscopy apparatus includes a pivot joint device which couples the image capture device to the shaft component in a manner pivotable about two orthogonal axes but rigid in respect of a rotation about the longitudinal axis of the shaft component. The endoscopy apparatus includes a pivot control device to set a pivot position of the image capture device relative to the shaft component which depends on the rotational position of the image capture device and the shaft component relative to the outer shaft.
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公开(公告)号：US11950761B2
公开(公告)日：2024-04-09
申请号：US18062798
申请日：2022-12-07
Applicant: KARL STORZ SE & Co. KG
Inventor： Pascal Heni , Daniel Ulmschneider , Markus Kupferschmid
CPC classification number: A61B1/00042 , A61B1/00039 , A61B1/00066 , G06F3/0219
Abstract: A keypad includes a support, a snap disk on a first side of the support transformable from a released state to a loaded state, a cover forming a seal over the first side, a pocket in the cover, a magnet and a plunger disposed in the pocket, the plunger adapted to engage and transform the snap disk to the loaded state, a magnetic field sensor on a second side of the support, the second side opposite the first side and logic circuitry adapted to obtain a value of a strength of a magnetic field from the sensor, compare the value against a predetermined threshold value that corresponds at least approximately to the strength of a magnetic field, and when the plunger has transformed the snap disk to the loaded state and the value reaches or exceeds the threshold value, output a signal indicating that a key press occurred.
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公开(公告)号：US11737649B2
公开(公告)日：2023-08-29
申请号：US17010958
申请日：2020-09-03
Applicant: KARL STORZ SE & Co. KG
Inventor： Andreas Heni , Markus Kupferschmid , Daniel Ulmschneider , Jonas Forster
CPC classification number: A61B1/0008 , A61B1/012 , A61B1/05 , A61B1/128 , F28F13/00 , H05K7/2039 , F28F2013/008 , F28F2280/10
Abstract: An apparatus configured for heat dissipation that includes a heat source, a heat sink and a heat conducting element. The heat conducting element conducts heat energy from the heat source to the heat sink along a heat conducting path, and the heat conducting element is arranged in such a way on the heat source and the heat sink and is configured to physically change in such a way with increasing temperature of the heat conducting element that: a) a first cross-sectional area between the heat source and the heat conducting element and/or a second cross-sectional area between the heat conducting element of the heat sink increases, and/or b) a length of the heat conducting path shortens. Further, a video endoscope having such an apparatus and a use of such an apparatus is provided.
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公开(公告)号：US11185216B2
公开(公告)日：2021-11-30
申请号：US16906947
申请日：2020-06-19
Applicant: KARL STORZ SE & Co KG
Inventor： Pascal Heni , Markus Kupferschmid , Andreas Heni
Abstract: The invention concerns a handle for a video endoscope for medical or industrial applications, comprising a housing and an interface portion, where the interface portion includes a first connector element at its distal end connected to an electric transmission element that is connectable to a connector element of an associated elongate shaft to form a detachable electrical and/or mechanical connection between the handle and the associated shaft. The includes an electrical connection assembly arranged at an exterior of the interface portion forming an electrical connection between the electric transmission element and a stationary electric and/or electronic component of the handle. The handle also includes at least a first bearing for rotatably supporting the interface portion in and/or at the housing, such that when the shaft and handle are connected the shaft is rotatable via the rotatably supported interface portion relative to the housing of the handle.
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