Surgery – Specula – Laryngoscope
Patent
1996-10-23
1998-09-01
Flanagan, Beverly M.
Surgery
Specula
Laryngoscope
600185, 600196, A61B 126
Patent
active
058003444
ABSTRACT:
The invention is a laryngoscope having an image sensor assembly mounted thereto for providing video imaging of a patient's airway passage. The laryngoscope includes a distal end having a tip adapted for contact with tissue of an airway passage and an image sensor assembly mounted to a convex surface of the laryngoscope body so that an image sensor of the assembly is angled away from a tissue contacted by the tip when the laryngoscope is in use. In one embodiment, the image sensor assembly is slidably mounted on a track formed on a curved section of a laryngoscope body so that sliding of the image sensor assembly along the track adjusts the distance of the assembly from a target, and further adjusting the orientation angle of the image sensor assembly.
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Lynch Michael
Walts Connie R.
Wood, Sr. Robert J.
Flanagan Beverly M.
Welch Allyn Inc.
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