Patents Assigned to Karl Storz SE & Co. KG
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Patent number: 11981035Abstract: A medical handling device comprises an instrument holder for holding an observation instrument that is equipped with an image capturing unit for capturing an image section. The handling device further comprises a robotic handling unit that supports the instrument holder and a control device that comprises a handling control unit for controlling the robotic handling unit and an instrument control unit for controlling the observation instrument. An input device is coupled to the control device for selecting an image section to be reproduced. The control device is adapted to control the robotic handling unit in response to user inputs at the input device to change the captured image section. The control device is adapted to convert operating commands at the input device into movement instructions, depending on a present orientation of the image capturing unit.Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 2020Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: KARL STORZ SE & Co. KGInventors: Stephan Schrader, Benedikt Koehler, Chang-Hae Kim, Marco Schulze
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Patent number: 11963830Abstract: A medical handling device comprises an instrument holder for holding an observation instrument that is equipped with an image capturing unit for capturing an image section of an object plane. The handling device further comprises a robotic handling unit that supports the instrument holder and a control device that comprises a handling control unit for controlling the robotic handling unit and an instrument control unit for controlling the observation instrument. An input device is coupled to the control device for selecting an image section to be reproduced. The control device is adapted to detect a present orientation of the observation instrument and to control the robotic handling unit, while taking into account the present orientation of the observation instrument, in response to user inputs at the input device. The observation instrument is movable with respect to a pivot point in the object plane at a defined object distance along a curved path.Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 2020Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: KARL STORZ SE & Co. KGInventors: Stephan Schrader, Benedikt Koehler, Chang-Hae Kim, Marco Schulze
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Patent number: 11963728Abstract: A medical handling device which includes an instrument holder that supports and instrument and a robotic handling unit that supports the instrument hold, and a control device. The control device has a handling control unit that controls the robotic handling unit and an instrument control unit that controls the instrument. The control device has an interface for at least one input device. An input device is coupled to the interface. The input device is operable in a first operating mode to control the instrument and in a second operating mode to control the robotic handling unit. An enabling switch activates the second operating mode, in which the robotic handling unit is movable in response to input commands at the input device.Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 2020Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: KARL STORZ SE & Co. KGInventors: Stephan Schrader, Benedikt Koehler, Chang-Hae Kim, Marco Schulze
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Publication number: 20240122458Abstract: A shaft according to the invention for a flexible endoscope or for a flexible endoscopic instrument includes a first shaft section and a second shaft section arranged on the distal side of the first shaft section, wherein the second shaft section is able to be angled by means of at least one pull element extending inside the second shaft section, wherein the second shaft section has a support structure, and wherein an adapter is arranged between a distal end region of the first shaft section and a proximal end region of the support structure. The invention also relates to a method for assembling a shaft for a flexible endoscope or for a flexible endoscopic instrument, and also to a flexible endoscope and a flexible endoscopic instrument.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 11, 2022Publication date: April 18, 2024Applicant: Karl Storz SE & Co. KGInventors: Alexander FUCHS, Tobias LOTTES
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Publication number: 20240122447Abstract: An intubation system includes an intubation instrument for capturing an image. The intubation instrument has a first interface for providing an image signal representing the captured image, a display device with a second interface for receiving the image signal, wherein the display device is provided and designed to display the image captured by the intubation instrument, and a cable with a third interface at a first end of the cable and with a fourth interface at a second end of the cable. The interfaces are designed such that the first interface at the intubation instrument is connectable directly to the second interface at the display device and is alternatively connectable directly to the third interface at the cable, and such that the second interface at the display device is connectable directly to the first interface at the intubation instrument and alternatively connectable directly to the fourth interface at the cable.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 26, 2023Publication date: April 18, 2024Applicant: KARL STORZ SE & Co. KGInventors: Ulrich Merz, Eugenia Fuhr, Toralf Popp, Urs Vogel
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Patent number: 11957303Abstract: An apparatus configured for heat dissipation that includes a heat source, a heat sink and a heat conducting element. The heat conducting element conducts heat energy from the heat source to the heat sink along a heat conducting path, and the heat conducting element is arranged in such a way on the heat source and the heat sink and is configured to physically change in such a way with increasing temperature of the heat conducting element that: a) a first cross-sectional area between the heat source and the heat conducting element and/or a second cross-sectional area between the heat conducting element of the heat sink increases, and/or b) a length of the heat conducting path shortens. Further, a video endoscope having such an apparatus and a use of such an apparatus is provided.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 2023Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: KARL STORZ SE & Co. KGInventors: Andreas Heni, Markus Kupferschmid, Daniel Ulmschneider, Jonas Forster
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Patent number: 11950761Abstract: A keypad includes a support, a snap disk on a first side of the support transformable from a released state to a loaded state, a cover forming a seal over the first side, a pocket in the cover, a magnet and a plunger disposed in the pocket, the plunger adapted to engage and transform the snap disk to the loaded state, a magnetic field sensor on a second side of the support, the second side opposite the first side and logic circuitry adapted to obtain a value of a strength of a magnetic field from the sensor, compare the value against a predetermined threshold value that corresponds at least approximately to the strength of a magnetic field, and when the plunger has transformed the snap disk to the loaded state and the value reaches or exceeds the threshold value, output a signal indicating that a key press occurred.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2022Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: KARL STORZ SE & Co. KGInventors: Pascal Heni, Daniel Ulmschneider, Markus Kupferschmid
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Patent number: 11954906Abstract: The invention relates to an endoscopic device, in particular medical or industrial endoscopic device, wherein the endoscopic device comprises, as components, a light source, an optical fiber, a camera, and an endoscope comprising an optical element or a plurality of optical elements, and at least one optical element comprises an optical marking for verifying an identity of the optical element and/or of the endoscope such that the optical marking can be detected by the camera for verifying the identity and/or a configuration of the endoscopic device. The invention furthermore relates to a method for verifying an identity of a component of an endoscopic device, and a computer program product for evaluating an image acquisition of an optical marking of an optical element and for identifying an endoscope of an endoscopic device.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2021Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: KARL STORZ SE & Co. KGInventor: Thomas Hinding
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Patent number: 11953669Abstract: An optical observation instrument according to the invention, in particular a surgical microscope or exoscope, comprises an optics unit with an objective arrangement and at least one electronic image recorder, wherein the optics unit has a first stereo channel with a first beam path and a second stereo channel with a second beam path for recording a stereo image of an object field with the at least one electronic image recorder and wherein the first and the second beam path extend through the objective arrangement.Type: GrantFiled: January 11, 2021Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: KARL STORZ SE & Co. KGInventors: Jonas Forster, Sebastian Barth, Andreas Heni, Benedikt Köhler, Walter Vogel
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Patent number: 11944344Abstract: A guidance system, a method and a device for dynamically guiding a surgical needle catheter onto an organ to be surgically operated of a patient. In particular, the disclosure relates to a guidance system, a method and a device to aid in the percutaneous kidney puncture.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 2020Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: KARL STORZ SE & Co. KGInventors: Pedro Rodrigues, João Luis Araújo Martins Vilaça, Jorge Correia Pinto, Jaime Francisco Cruz Fonseca, Estevão Lima
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Patent number: 11925375Abstract: The invention relates to a medical instrument having an elongated shaft, a movable tool at a distal end of the shaft, a handle with a movable grip part at a proximal end of the shaft, and a force transmission element which can be moved in the longitudinal direction of the instrument and is operatively connected to the movable grip part and to the tool such that an actuation of the movable grip part is converted into a movement of the tool. The instrument has a spring assembly that is arranged on the handle and has at least one leg spring, which has at least one winding and two legs, and a pin, wherein the at least one winding extends about the pin. When the movable grip part is actuated, a force is applied to at least one of the legs of the leg spring, said force reducing the friction between the winding and the pin such that the leg spring can be rotated about the pin and the force transmission element and the tool can be moved.Type: GrantFiled: July 5, 2021Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: KARL STORZ SE & Co. KGInventors: Janosz Schneider, Jochen Stefan, Daniel Kärcher, Robin Merz, Sven Axel Grüner, Martin Blocher, Sven Schneider, Tobias Unger, Dominik Längle, Judith Holzer, Sebastian Wagner
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Publication number: 20240050112Abstract: The disclosure relates to a lithotripsy device comprising an elongate probe, which can be inserted into a body interior of a human or animal body, and a drive arrangement for deflecting the probe, which is arranged at a proximal portion of the probe, the drive arrangement comprising an ultrasonic converter unit for exciting ultrasonic vibrations in the direction of a longitudinal extension of the probe, and the drive arrangement having a deflection device for exerting a time-varying force onto the probe in a direction transversely to the longitudinal extension of the probe. The disclosure also relates to a lithotripsy system and to a method for operating a lithotripsy device.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2021Publication date: February 15, 2024Applicant: KARL STORZ SE & CO. KGInventors: Marius Funder, Bernhard Glöggler, Thomas Hinding, Florian Huber, Beat Krattiger
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Publication number: 20240041304Abstract: The disclosure relates to an endoscopic device for a particularly flexible endoscope and/or an endoscopic instrument having at least one deflectable shaft segment that has a least one distal end element and at least one proximal end element, and between the two at least one first intermediate element and at least one second intermediate element that are directly adjacent and can be deflected with respect to each other. Accordingly to the disclosure, the first intermediate element and the second intermediate element are different from each other and are integrally interconnected.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2021Publication date: February 8, 2024Applicant: Karl Storz SE & Co. KGInventors: Alexander Fuchs, Tobias Lottes, Jochen Macht, Uwe Renger, Daniel Ulmschneider
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Patent number: D1014748Type: GrantFiled: June 19, 2019Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: KARL STORZ SE & Co. KGInventors: Marian Pfeffer, Frank Doll, Daniel Kaercher, Yann Thouément, Régis Besse
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Patent number: D1016288Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2020Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: KARL STORZ SE & CO. KGInventors: Michael Koch, Kurt Eva, Swen Löffler, Robin Kielack
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Patent number: D1017801Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 2022Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: KARL STORZ SE & Co. KGInventors: Michael Dienst, Felix Michael Teufel
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Patent number: D1017802Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 2021Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: KARL STORZ SE & Co. KGInventors: Kay Behrendt, Judith Holzer, Daniel Muellenmeister, Ruediger Schoenleber, Rainer Schmitz
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Patent number: D1017803Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 2021Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: KARL STORZ SE & Co. KGInventors: Kay Behrendt, Judith Holzer, Daniel Muellenmeister, Ruediger Schoenleber, Rainer Schmitz
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Patent number: D1018843Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 2021Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: KARL STORZ SE & Co. KGInventors: Kay Behrendt, Judith Holzer, Daniel Muellenmeister, Ruediger Schoenleber, Rainer Schmitz
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Patent number: D1019944Type: GrantFiled: September 7, 2021Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: KARL STORZ SE & Co. KGInventors: Katharina Endress, Daniel Ulmschneider