Surgery – Specula – Laryngoscope
Patent
1995-11-30
1998-06-09
Apley, Richard J.
Surgery
Specula
Laryngoscope
600131, 600112, A61B 104, A61B 1227
Patent
active
057626057
ABSTRACT:
An optical diagnostic system for use within a convention physician-patient examining distance, not exceeding the manual reach of the doctor, including an ergonomic, hand-held, non-surgical, optical diagnostic medical instrument having a light image input-to-output pathway corresponding to an axis of examination, the instrument including an integral gripping assembly for gripping by the physician, and the instrument also including a light source from the pathway and power supply, a light-tight optical coupling for re-directing light received from the light pathway along the axis of examination to a pathway substantially normal thereto, that pathway defining an axis of manipulation and, in optical communication with the coupling, a micro-video camera for generating an electronic signal corresponding to the re-directed light image from the coupling, the micro-video camera including an exterior housing defining, in combination with the gripping assembly of the medical instrument, an axis of manipulation substantially co-linear with the pathway of re-directed light from the optical coupling. Therein the examining physician may grip both the instrument handle and the micro-video camera housing within the same hand to define the axis of manipulation, and, thereby to establish the axis of examination in a manner which is ergonomically advantageous to both the physician and patient.
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Byard Wayne R.
Cane Richard M.
Apley Richard J.
Leubecker John
Silverman Melvin K.
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