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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:
Apr. 09, 2002
Filed:
Mar. 29, 2000
Applicant:
Inventor:
Eric M. Jones, Southbridge, MA (US);
Assignee:
Karl Storz Endovision, Charlton, MA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F21V 7/04 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
F21V 7/04 ;
Abstract
An endoscopic device includes a dimming assembly having an array of segments which is successively insertable into a path of a light beam. The segments have outlines of different geometric shapes defining a configuration of a transmission region depending upon an angular position of the shaft.