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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 09, 2003
Filed:
Dec. 19, 2001
Applicant:
Inventor:
Frank Lederer, Tuttlingen, DE;
Assignee:
Karl Storz GmbH & Co. KG, , DE;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 1/002 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 1/002 ;
Abstract
The present invention relates to an endoscope comprising a deflection system for a visual angle of up to 30 degrees which comprises reflective deflection elements. The inventive endoscope is characterized in that the beams which form the image are reflected more than twice. This enables visual angles of less than 30 degrees to be used, without any reduction in the image quality.