Karl Storz-gmbh & Co. Kg

Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research

Karl Storz Se Co. & Kg

Karl Storz Gmgh & Co. Kg

Kevin Pilz

Andreas Efinger

Peter Eisenkolb

Hermann-Josef Frings

Gunter Moik

Markus Kupferschmid

Andreas Heni

Daniel Ulmschneider

Michael Sauer

Sebastian Wagner

Rainer Hermle

Peter Schwarz

Mathias Stengele

Christian Graf

Raimund Halder

Martin Oberländer

Jean Destandau

Michael Hinni

An endoscope or exoscope having a shaft and at least one objective and at least one electronic image recorder for recording an image of an object field, wherein the objective and image recorder are arranged in a distal end region of the endoscope or exoscope, and includes at least one cable, routed within the endoscope or exoscope, for supply of and/or image transmission from the electronic image recorder, wherein the electronic image recorder includes an optical unit, which is rotatable about a first axis of rotation identical or approximately parallel to a direction of view of the scope, and on which the cable is connected and can be wound on a circumferential surface of the optical unit, and wherein the distal end region includes a cavity, in which storage for holding a section of the cable is held.

Endoscope (or exoscope) with a rotatably arranged electronic image recorder

Borescopes

An optical medical instrument, in particular an endoscope or exoscope, has an elongate tubular shaft, a heat source generating lost heat, and a heat pipe which extends inside the shaft, in the longitudinal direction of the shaft, and has a distal heat pipe end and a proximal heat pipe end, wherein the heat pipe is thermally coupled to the heat source in order to collect heat from the latter and remove the heat from the heat source. Between the distal heat pipe end and the proximal heat pipe end, the heat pipe is coupled thermally conductively and two-dimensionally to the shaft over at least a partial length of the heat pipe and over at least a partial circumference of the heat pipe, in order to remove heat from the heat pipe, over at least a partial length and over at least a partial circumference of the shaft, to the environment.

Optical medical instrument

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A seal () is used for closing-off a proximal-side access port of an access instrument into a body. It has a cap () having a wall () covering the access port and a circumferential collar (), which can be put over an edge of the access port. At least two approximately circular-segment-shaped openings are present in the wall (), wherein a flexible dome sits on each opening and, on the proximal side, has, compared to the circular-segment-shaped openings, a smaller entry port ().

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