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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 01, 2018
Filed:
Aug. 12, 2014
Olympus Winter & Ibe Gmbh, Hamburg, DE;
Martin Wieters, Hamburg, DE;
Sebastian Jungbauer, Hamburg, DE;
Alrun Thuemen, Hamburg, DE;
Nils Torkuhl, Gross Vollstedt, DE;
Enno Ehlers, Hamburg, DE;
OLYMPUS WINTER & IBE GMBH, Hamburg, DE;
Abstract
The invention relates to an electrical connection piece for a video endoscope having a hermetically closed video unit in a shaft of the endoscope, a video endoscope, and a method for producing an electrical connection in a video endoscope. The electrical connection piece according to the invention includes an at least partially flexible printed circuit board having conductive tracks, wherein the printed circuit board has a base surface with openings for contact pins of a hermetic feedthrough, and a flexible first arm and a flexible second arm that branch off in different, in particular opposite, directions from the base surface, wherein the first arm and the second arm each have a flat end surface at the respective ends facing away from the base surface, wherein the conductive tracks extend between the openings on the base surface and electrical contacting surfaces in the end surfaces.