Abstract: A monitor device and a method of using the monitor device in a medical visualisation system including a visualisation device having an image sensor configured to generate image data indicative of a view, the monitor device configured to operate in a first interface orientation mode and a second interface orientation mode, wherein in the first interface orientation mode, a second portion is between a fourth housing side and a first portion, and wherein in the second interface orientation mode, the second portion is between a third housing side and the first portion.

Abstract: A method of enhancing the visibility of blood vessels in a colour image captured by an image capturing device of a medical device, including, for at least some of the pixels of the image, the steps of: (a) processing data obtained from a first colour channel together with data obtained from a second colour channel to determine a value of a first parameter indicative of the intensity in the red spectrum relative to the total intensity of said pixel; (b) using said value of said first parameter and a first value of a user parameter to alter said pixel, the first value of the user parameter being based on user input, and wherein the strength of the alteration is dependent on both the value of said first parameter and the first value of said user parameter.

Abstract: An endoscope having a tip part including an exterior housing including a circumferentially extending side wall with a proximal opening, the circumferentially extending side wall defining an interior space with an air volume; a camera assembly positioned in the interior space so that the air volume envelops at least the distal portion of the camera assembly; and an interior housing part including a circumferentially extending closure surface and a circumferentially extending attachment surface, the interior housing part being positioned in the proximal opening; wherein the exterior housing and interior housing part are formed as separate prefabricated components, wherein the closure surface is configured for closing the proximal opening of the exterior housing so as to liquid-seal the air volume in the tip part, and wherein the attachment surface extends proximally from the proximal opening and is configured for attaching the interior housing part to another element of the tip part.

Abstract: A method implemented by an image recording unit having a normal state and an error state of operation. The method includes: receiving metadata specifying information about a patient and/or an endoscopic procedure; receiving images generated by an image sensor of an endoscope, the images corresponding to optical images received by the image sensor and comprising single images and/or a stream of images; controlling a display to show the images; in response to a first user input in the normal state, storing the images and the metadata in a memory of the image recording unit, and in the error state, overwriting with new data at least some of the metadata.

Abstract: A medical visualisation device includes a main device part and the auxiliary component couplable to the main device part. The main device part includes an image sensor adapted to generate image data indicative of a view from the main device part, a light emitter adapted to provide illumination of the view, and a main coupling part having one or more main terminals electrically connected to the light emitter and the image sensor. The auxiliary component includes a device wireless communication module adapted to communicate with a monitor wireless communication module of a monitor device, the device wireless communication module being adapted to transmit encoded image data using a downstream data channel to the monitor wireless communication module.

Abstract: A medical visualisation system including a medical visualisation device having: an image sensor configured to generate image data, a light emitter, a device processing unit configured to receive the image data from the image sensor and encode the image data to provide encoded image data based on the image data, and a device wireless transceiver configured to communicate with a monitor wireless transceiver of a monitor device, the device wireless transceiver being configured to receive the encoded image data from the device processing unit and transmit the encoded image data using a downstream data channel from the device wireless transceiver to the monitor wireless transceiver and to receive settings data using an upstream data channel from the monitor wireless transceiver to the device wireless transceiver.

Abstract: A medical visualisation system including a medical visualisation device for performing a medical visualisation procedure and a monitor device. The medical visualisation system includes an auxiliary component including an auxiliary memory and an auxiliary communication interface. The auxiliary memory storing initial data and the auxiliary component being configured to transmit the initial data to the monitor device using the auxiliary communication interface, and wherein a monitor processing unit of the monitor device is configured to receive the initial data and adjust one or more parameters of the medical visualisation system based on the initial data.

Abstract: A system and method for handling auxiliary components, including a first auxiliary component and a second auxiliary component, of a medical system, wherein each auxiliary component is configured to be coupled to a respective main device part and includes a rechargeable battery configured to power electronic components of the auxiliary component and of the respective main device part, each auxiliary component further including an auxiliary memory and an auxiliary communication interface.

Abstract: A method for providing an insertion cord of an endoscope with graduated flexibility along a length of the insertion cord, the method including providing a main tube having a longitudinal axis, the main tube comprising a coiled core and a polymer layer; raising a temperature of the polymer layer in a portion of the main tube from a first temperature to above a second temperature that is less than a melting point of the polymer layer; bending the portion of the main tube to impose a first meander bend while the temperature is above the second temperature, wherein said bending comprises bending the portion of the main tube at at least two angles relative to a line parallel to the longitudinal axis.

Abstract: A tip part assembly for an endoscope, a method for assembling the tip part assembly, and an endoscope including the tip part assembly. The tip part assembly includes a flexible printed circuit having connection points, a camera module including a connection surface comprising connection points arranged in a first connection point pattern for electrical communication with the connection points of the flexible printed circuit, and a converter circuit board including a first surface including connection points arranged substantially in the first connection point pattern and a second surface including connection points arranged in a second connection point pattern being different than the first connection point pattern, wherein the first surface connection points are connected to the connection surface connection points, and wherein the second surface connection points are connected to the connection points of the flexible printed circuit.

Abstract: An endoscope tip part including a tip housing at least partially enclosing an interior cavity and including a window, and a vision assembly accommodated in the interior cavity and including an imaging subassembly including an image sensor viewing in an optical direction through the window of the tip housing, a light source comprising an illumination surface for emitting light, a separate frame component including a light shielding wall made of an opaque material and extending between the image sensor and the light source so as to at least partially shield the image sensor from light emitted from the light source.

Abstract: A light module for an endoscopic system and including: a coupling element; at least one light guiding element connected to the coupling element and configured to guide light towards a distal tip unit of an endoscope included in the endoscopic system; a plurality of light emitting devices connected to the coupling element and configured to emit light; a plurality of collimator elements or portions configured to collimate the light emitted by the plurality of light emitting devices; a plurality of mirror elements or portions configured to reflect the light emitted by the plurality of light emitting devices and collimated by the plurality of collimator elements or portions towards and into the at least one light guiding element.

Abstract: An endoscope including a handle, an insertion tube, a first flexible cable and an ultrasound transducer for receiving and transmitting ultrasound, the ultrasound transducer including an ultrasound transducer array attached to a distal end of the insertion tube, the handle being attached to a proximal end of the insertion tube, the first flexible cable is extending from the handle and being electrically connected to the ultrasound transducer array. The ultrasound transducer includes an electrical circuit for receiving and providing electrical signals to the ultrasound transducer array. The electrical circuit includes a flexible base section, a plurality of first flexible electrical conductors, and a contact section comprising a plurality of second electrical contacts. The flexible base section and the plurality of first flexible electrical conductors is a single flexible printed circuit and the first flexible electrical conductors extend from the flexible base section and into the first flexible cable.

Abstract: A curvilinear ultrasound transducer and a method of manufacturing the same. The method includes providing a piezoelectric block having an upper side and a lower side opposite to the upper side; cutting the piezoelectric block at a plurality of positions forming a plurality of ultrasound transducer elements, the plurality of ultrasound transducer elements separated by a plurality of gaps; allowing the plurality of gaps to be filled with a first gas resulting in a plurality of gas-filled gaps; arranging an acoustic matching layer facing the upper side of the piezoelectric block; arranging the piezoelectric block and the first acoustic matching layer between a curvilinear upper surface of a support structure and a pressure element; and pressing the piezoelectric block and the first acoustic matching layer with the support structure and the pressure element to curvilinearly shape the piezoelectric block and first acoustic matching layer.

Abstract: An ultrasound transducer including a convex ultrasound transducer array including a plurality of ultrasound transducer elements, an electrical circuit for receiving and providing electrical signals to the plurality of ultrasound transducer elements, and a support structure having a convex upper surface facing the plurality of ultrasound transducer elements and extending in a direction parallel to a first axis. The electric circuit includes a plurality of first flexible conductors bend around the support structure at a first curve section and at a second curve section, the first curve section being separate from the second curve section.

Abstract: An endoscope including an elongate insertion tube; and a working channel extending through the insertion tube to allow for insertion of a retractable instrument into a body and/or for suction of fluids from the body through the working channel; wherein the working channel including an at least partly extruded or at least partly coextruded working channel tube, the working channel tube comprising an extruded inner layer of an inner layer material and an extruded outer layer of an outer layer material.

Abstract: A method of making a working channel tube and an endoscope that includes a handle or interface including a housing and a working channel access port, an insertion cord extending distally from the handle or interface and including at least an insertion tube and a distal tip unit and a working channel extending from the working channel access port to the distal tip unit. The working channel is at least in part formed by a working channel tube arranged at least in sections inside the insertion cord, wherein the working channel tube has an inner friction-reducing textured or structured surface and an outer surface.

Abstract: An endoscope including: a handle, a distal tip unit, an endoscope shaft connecting the handle and the distal tip unit, a working channel provided in the endoscope shaft, and a suction valve configured to control a suction through the working channel and having a valve closed state and a valve open state. The suction valve includes a housing having an inlet opening connected to the working channel and an outlet opening; and a piston unit inserted in the housing. The piston unit comprises a movable piston, a button attached to the piston, a fixation ring arranged stationary in the housing and a spring arranged and acting between the fixation ring and the button or piston. The button is a one-piece or integral part having an integrated sealing portion contacting the housing and providing a sealing between the button and the housing in the valve open state.

Abstract: An articulated bending section body has a number of segments including a proximal end segment, a distal end segment and a number of intermediate segments. Each intermediate segment has a central passage adapted in cross-sectional shape to receive and support the exterior surface of a bendable tubular member providing a working channel of the endoscope. The cross-sectional shape includes a number of sectors of a circular periphery having a shared center and the same radius, the total length of the sectors being longer than half of the circular periphery. The cross-sectional shape comprises at least one outwardly extending lobe. The exterior surface of the bendable tubular member providing the working channel of the endoscope forms a closed lumen adjacent but separated from the working channel of the endoscope.