Surgery – Endoscope – With control or monitoring of endoscope functions
Reexamination Certificate
2007-10-09
2007-10-09
Leubecker, John P. (Department: 3739)
Surgery
Endoscope
With control or monitoring of endoscope functions
C600S112000, C600S133000, C335S205000
Reexamination Certificate
active
10789200
ABSTRACT:
An operating mechanism for a medical device comprises a photo-interrupter that can designate specified functional operations, an air-tight unit that can accommodate this photo-interrupter air-tightly, a moving member which is disposed inside the air-tight unit, and which moves between a position in which the photo-interrupter designates an operation and a position in which the photo-interrupter does not designate an operation, a coil spring which directly or indirectly biases the moving member to the position in which no operation is designated, an operating member which is disposed on the outside of the air-tight unit, and which can be operated by an operator, and a pair of magnets which transmit a magnetic force that moves the moving member into the position in which an operation is designated against the elastic force of the coil spring in accordance with the operation of the operating member.
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Leubecker John P.
Olympus Corporation
Ostrolenk Faber Gerb & Soffen, LLP
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