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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 02, 1999
Filed:
Aug. 04, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Olympus Winter & Ibe GmbH, Hamburg, DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
600182 ; 600164 ; 600154 ; 600107 ; 600160 ; 385117 ; 385119 ;
Abstract
A surgical endoscopic instrument for surgery in a region directly underneath a layer of tissue covering a body cavity and traversed by the instrument which has a tubular sleeve with an operating duct and an optical system. The optical system image guide exits through a lateral outlet, the operating duct is mounted in a cross-sectional zone adjacent to the outlet and the optical system is mounted in a cross-sectional zone of the sleeve substantially opposite the outlet. The image guide of the operating duct extends laterally around the sleeve.