Endoscope with interlocking articulating deflection system

Details Endoscope with interlocking articulating deflection system Endoscope with interlocking articulating deflection system

1997-07-08

1999-01-12

Flanagan, Beverly M.

Surgery

Endoscope

Having flexible tube structure

600141, 600142, A61B 100

Patent

active

058579648

ABSTRACT:
An endoscope having a shaft with a deflectable section. The deflectable section has a plurality of rings movably connected in series to each other. The rings are connected to each other by first and second interlocking sections. The first interlocking sections have eyelet shaped sections. The second interlocking sections have tabs with sections larger than the windows in the eyelet shaped sections.

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Copy of photographs of links in Fiberscope Model No. 11274AA, Karl Storz Gmbh & Co., 1996.

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