Surgery – Endoscope – With camera or solid state imager
Patent
1996-04-18
1997-09-02
Cohen, Lee S.
Surgery
Endoscope
With camera or solid state imager
600130, 600163, 348 66, 433 29, A61B 104
Patent
active
056625863
ABSTRACT:
A hand-held diagnostic instrument includes a casing having a hand-holdable body portion and a neck portion that extends from the body portion to a head portion that is formed of a back cover and a front cover. A circuit board assembly in the body portion contains video processing circuitry, and a flexible neck board extends forward from the body portion through the neck portion of the casing to a head board located in the head portion of the casing. A solid state imager and a miniature lamp are disposed on the head board. The front cover contains an adjustable focus lens cell for focusing on the imager an image of a target in the lens cell's field of view. The instrument provides a monitor-ready standard format full color video signal.
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Huntley Robert R.
Monroe Richard A.
Pasik Gregory E.
Wood Robert J.
Cohen Lee S.
Welch Allyn Inc.
Winakur Eric F.
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