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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 09, 2023
Filed:
Jul. 03, 2018
Fortimedix Assets Ii B.v., Geleen, NL;
Mattheus Hendrik Louis Thissen, Swalmen, NL;
Fortimedix Assets II B.V., Geleen, NL;
Abstract
A steerable instrument has an actuator at a proximal side and a bendable zone at a distal side. The actuator controls bending of the flexible zone by means of one or more longitudinal elements. The instrument has a first cylindrical element, a second cylindrical element and a third cylindrical element. The second cylindrical element has a zone with a longitudinal element portion with a first height in a radial direction of the instrument. Radial spacers are located at mutual sides of the longitudinal element portion, which have, at least locally, a second height in the radial direction larger than the first height.