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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:
Sep. 26, 2017
Filed:
Aug. 12, 2011
Applicant:
Bastian Blase, Berlin, DE;
Inventor:
Bastian Blase, Berlin, DE;
Assignee:
Karl Storz GmbH & Co. KG, , DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 1/00 (2006.01); A61B 1/008 (2006.01); A61B 1/12 (2006.01); A61B 5/06 (2006.01); A61B 1/06 (2006.01); A61B 1/005 (2006.01); A61B 1/055 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 1/008 (2013.01); A61B 1/0057 (2013.01); A61B 1/00078 (2013.01); A61B 1/06 (2013.01); A61B 1/126 (2013.01); A61B 1/127 (2013.01); A61B 1/128 (2013.01); A61B 5/065 (2013.01); A61B 1/055 (2013.01);
Abstract
An endoscopic instrument, in particular an endoscope, with a jointed portion of a shaft for connecting a distal part of the shaft with a proximal part of the shaft in a way to be angulated. For this purpose, the distal shaft part is connected with the proximal shaft part by two rigid jointed bars of different lengths, wherein each of the rigid jointed bars attaches with a joint on the distal shaft part and a joint on the proximal shaft part.