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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 29, 2001
Filed:
Feb. 05, 1999
John C. Gord, Venice, CA (US);
Eric M. Jones, Southbridge, MA (US);
Jürgen Kraft-Kivikoski, Radofzell, DE;
Storz Endoscope GmbH, , CH;
Abstract
Disclosed is a device for insufflating gas into a corporal cavity of a human or animal body having a connection for a gas source, a measuring unit provided with sensors for the fill gas pressure and the fill gas flow, which are disposed outside said corporal cavity, and a control unit, to which the output signal of the sensors are applied, and which triggers a pressure regulator which reduces or regulates the fill pressure of the gas source to an insufflation pressure (desired gas pressure), which can be set, and a flow regulator which regulates the fill gas flow to a value (desired gas flow), which can be set.