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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. 11, 2003
Filed:
Nov. 13, 2001
Applicant:
Inventor:
Pieter Brommersma, Bargteheide, DE;
Assignee:
Olympus Winter & Ibe GmbH, Hamburg, DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 1/00 ; A61B 1/12 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 1/00 ; A61B 1/12 ;
Abstract
A continuously rinsing double-sheath endoscope, which includes an inner sheath and an outer sheath. The inner sheath includes a feed duct and receives an optics. The outer sheath surrounds the inner sheath and cooperates with the inner sheath to subtend a return flow duct. The outer sheath is fitted at its distal end zone with at least one aperture to establish fluid communication between the return duct and the ambience of the outer sheath. Cross-sectional geometric centers of gravity of the inner and outer sheaths are mutually shifted along most of the length of the return-flow duct subtended between them.