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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 22, 2002
Filed:
Apr. 02, 1999
Horst Dittrich, Immendingen, DE;
Uwe Bacher, Tuttlingen, DE;
Jürgen Rudischhauser, Tuttlingen, DE;
Klaus M. Irion, Tuttlingen, DE;
Karl Storz GmbH & Co. KG, , DE;
Abstract
A medical instrument has several components and being disassemblable into said several components, one of said components being rotatable with respect to another of said several components by means of a rotary element arranged on said another of said several components. A coupling for a detachable rotationally engaged connection of said one component or to said rotary element is provided, said coupling having two coupling halves engaging into one another along a coupling axis. On each of said coupling halves at least one tooth is arranged, each tooth is disposed at a radial spacing from said coupling axis. Adjacent to each tooth in a circumferential direction at least one gap is provided, into which gap of one coupling half a tooth of the other coupling half enters and fits, and each tooth is equipped in the circumferential direction with a bevel.