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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 28, 1999
Filed:
Dec. 20, 1996
Applicant:
Inventors:
Asad M Madni, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Lawrence A Wan, Malibu, CA (US);
Robert K Hansen, Burbank, CA (US);
Assignee:
Other;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
600115 ; 600114 ; 600116 ; 600121 ;
Abstract
An endoscope which is both flexible and easily cleaned having a pair of telescoping sections at its distal end one of which carries a camera and which are alternately actuated to provide movement through a body passageway by a Bowden type of cable. Such cable has an outer helical casing with an inner steel wire. Respectively attached to the two cylindrical sections are inflatable bladders which provide for the movement above which also are an integral part of the flexible sterilized sheath being held to the respective sections by O-rings.