Patents Assigned to Ambu A/S
  • Patent number: 11826019
    Abstract: A tip part for a medical insertion vision device, a method of making the tip part, and a visualization system including the medical insertion vision device. The tip part includes an exterior housing having a distal front wall and a circumferential wall, the distal front wall and the circumferential wall enclosing an interior spacing having a camera compartment at a distal end and a potting compartment proximal of the camera compartment; a camera assembly positioned in the camera compartment, the camera assembly comprising an image sensor and a lens stack positioned distally of the image sensor, the image sensor having a proximal end; a sealing material that forms a seal that seals the camera compartment from the potting compartment; and a potting material in the potting compartment, the sealing material preventing the potting material from extending father distally than the proximal end of the image sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: AMBU A/S
    Inventors: Morten Sørensen, Hans Jochumsen
  • Patent number: 11826513
    Abstract: A filler device includes a distal housing comprising a distal inner port and a distal outer port; a proximal housing comprising a proximal inner port and a proximal outer port, the proximal housing being sealingly affixed to the distal housing to form an inspiratory pathway between the distal inner port and the proximal inner port and to form an expiratory pathway between the distal outer port and the proximal outer port that is fluidly sealed from the inspiratory pathway, the inspiratory pathway being laterally adjacent the expiratory pathway; and a first filter in the inspiratory pathway or in the expiratory pathway to filter gases flowing through the inspiratory pathway or the expiratory pathway.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: AMBU A/S
    Inventors: Kevin Winkler, Yun Siung Tony Yeh, Patrick Coleman, Charles Rosebrook, Thomas W. McGrail, Natasha Reynolds, Brian Gerster, Kleve Heavin, Jakob Koch
  • Publication number: 20230372649
    Abstract: The resuscitator (1) includes a self-inflating squeeze bag (2) having an inlet opening accommodating an inlet valve arrangement (6) adapted to allow inflow of air into the squeeze bag and to prevent outflow of air from the squeeze bag through the inlet opening and an outlet opening accommodating a patient valve arrangement (8) adapted to allow outflow of air from the squeeze bag into the patient valve housing and adapted to prevent inflow of air into the squeeze bag through the outlet opening. The patient valve housing includes a patient connection port (9) for ventilation of a patient and a patient expiration outlet port (10) for outlet of exhaled gas from the patient valve housing to the surroundings. The resuscitator includes a filter arrangement (11) located upstream the outlet opening of the squeeze bag in order to filter air before reaching the patient valve arrangement from the squeeze bag.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2021
    Publication date: November 23, 2023
    Applicant: AMBU A/S
    Inventors: Birgitte Lidegaard FREDERIKSEN, Jakob Bønnelykke KRISTENSEN, Alex ETWIL
  • Publication number: 20230355085
    Abstract: The tube has a first lumen with a proximal end and an open distal end to be placed inside a body cavity. An outer wall encloses the first lumen and a camera lumen. A camera module (10) is arranged in the camera lumen at a distal end thereof so that the camera module is positioned adjacent the distal end of the first lumen. An image transmission cable (13) attached to the camera module extends through the camera lumen to connect to an image display device. The camera module is fixed in the camera lumen by means of a camera housing (14) including a tubular housing part (17) surrounding the camera module and a distal end wall (18). The tubular housing part and the distal end wall are integrally moulded and form one single housing element (19). The tubular housing part fits tightly into the camera lumen of the tube.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2021
    Publication date: November 9, 2023
    Applicant: AMBU A/S
    Inventors: Jesper Domino RASK, Morten SØRENSEN, Martin Lund STØRUP, Lars Ulrik NIELSEN
  • Patent number: 11806904
    Abstract: A method of manufacture of a tip part assembly for an endoscope, including: providing a bending section; providing a camera assembly including a camera module and a circuit board positioned at the proximal end of the assembly; providing a cup-shaped housing defining a distal end of the manufactured tip part assembly and including a circumferential wall extending between proximal and distal ends of the housing and a distal end wall positioned at the distal end of the housing, the circumferential wall and the distal end wall enclosing a spacing; inserting the camera assembly through the open proximal end of the housing so that the camera assembly is at least partly positioned within the spacing; and filling a liquid adhesive into the spacing through the open proximal end of the housing so that the camera assembly is at least partly embedded in the adhesive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: AMBU A/S
    Inventor: Morten Sørensen
  • Publication number: 20230346208
    Abstract: An endoscope including a handle and an insertion tube having a tip part (1) at the distal end and a working channel tube connected to a working channel passage (4) in the tip part (1). The working channel passage (4) is circumferentially delimited by a working passage inner wall surface (7) and the working channel passage (4) has a proximal end including a proximal end surface (15) and a distal end. The tip part (1) includes a housing (3) with a housing centre axis (C). The working channel passage inner wall surface (7) includes at least one inner surface wall section having rotational symmetry about a working channel centre axis (c) and extending at least partially between the proximal end and the distal end of the working channel passage (4). The working channel centre axis (c) is arranged at an angle to the housing centre axis (C).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2021
    Publication date: November 2, 2023
    Applicant: AMBU A/S
    Inventor: Morten SØRENSEN
  • Publication number: 20230346201
    Abstract: A medical visualisation system including a first medical visualisation device having a first device colour identifier, a second medical visualisation device having a second device colour identifier, a third medical visualisation device having a third device colour identifier, and a monitor device, the first device colour identifier being a first colour, the second device colour identifier being a second colour, and the third device colour identifier being a third colour. The first colour has a first hue angle, the second colour has a second hue angle, and the third colour has a third hue angle, wherein the first hue angle and the second hue angle differ by more than 40 degrees, the second hue angle and the third hue angle differ by more than 40 degrees, and the third hue angle and the first hue angle differ by more than 40 degrees.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2023
    Publication date: November 2, 2023
    Applicant: AMBU A/S
    Inventors: Line Sandahl UBBESEN, Brian NIELSEN, Henrik FRENGLER, Christina HAHNEMANN
  • Patent number: 11794389
    Abstract: A method of manufacture of a tip part assembly for an endoscope having a proximal end and a distal end opposite from the proximal end, the method including: providing a bending section having a proximal end and a distal end, providing a camera assembly including a camera module, providing a substantially tubular circumferential wall having a proximal end and a distal end opposite from the proximal end, providing a distal end wall, arranging the camera module to be held by or attached to the distal end wall, manufacturing a housing by adjoining the distal end wall to the distal end of the circumferential wall, the housing including the circumferential wall and the distal end wall and enclosing a spacing that houses at least a portion of the camera module, and adjoining the distal end of the bending section and the proximal end of the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: AMBU A/S
    Inventor: Morten Sørensen
  • Patent number: 11786112
    Abstract: An endoscope control system for performing a bending operation in a disposable insertion endoscope, the endoscope control system including a control wheel connected to a wire drum for connection to a steering wire of the endoscope, whereby rotation of the control wheel controls the bending operation, and a multi-disc brake including a stack of at least three brake discs, wherein activation of the multi-disc brake changes the multi-disc brake from a released state to a braking state, a brake torque generated by the multi-disc brake in the braking state braking rotation of the control wheel, the brake torque in the released state being at least partially released.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: AMBU A/S
    Inventors: Martin Refslund Nielsen, Martin Johst Christensen, Günter Wilhelm Schütz
  • Patent number: 11786108
    Abstract: A disposable endoscope with a tip part including a vision sensor, an exterior housing having a front wall and a circumferential wall, an interior spacing of the exterior housing accommodating the vision sensor, and a camera window positioned at least partly in front of the vision sensor, the housing further comprising a nozzle provided at the distal end of the tip part and configured to flush an exterior surface of the window, wherein the front wall and the nozzle are integrally formed in one piece from one polymer material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: AMBU A/S
    Inventors: Morten Sørensen, Lasse Markworth Johnsen
  • Publication number: 20230320708
    Abstract: A set of medical sampling parts for use with an endoscope, including: a sampling device; a sample container including a separator part located at a top of the sample container, a base located at a bottom of the sample container opposite of said top, and a container part at least partly enclosing a sample volume located at the bottom of the sample container, so that a container axis extends between said separator part and said base; and a connector for connecting the sampling device with the sample container, wherein the sample container can be detached from the sampling device by a translational movement along a detachment axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2023
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Applicant: AMBU A/S
    Inventors: Lasse Markworth JOHNSEN, Jonas HJORTLUND, Martin Refslund NIELSEN
  • Patent number: 11779197
    Abstract: A tip part for an insertable vision device, and an insertable vision device including the tip part. The tip part includes a housing accommodating an electronic vision receptor and adapted to extend from a distal end of an insertable elongate portion of the insertable vision device, and a light guide positioned within the housing, the light guide having a predetermined length in a longitudinal direction between a light reception end and a light emission end, the light reception end configured to receive light emanated from a light source and the light emission end configured to emit the light. The light guide includes, along at least a portion of the predetermined length, an expanding sector or a narrowing sector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: AMBU A/S
    Inventors: Morten Sørensen, Thomas Bachgaard Jensen, Morten Jacobsen
  • Publication number: 20230309801
    Abstract: An endoscope and a method of assembling the endoscope, the endoscope including a handle including a wire receiving unit rotatably connected to an operating unit; a distal tip unit configured to be inserted into a patient’s body cavity; -an endoscope shaft connecting the endoscope handle and the distal tip unit; and at least one steering wire, a proximal end portion of which being held by or fixed to the wire receiving unit, the steering wire being configured to be pulled by rotating the operating unit, thereby tilting the distal tip unit in at least a defined first direction, wherein the proximal end portion of the at least one steering wire is wound around/on the wire receiving unit for at least one full turn.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2021
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Applicant: AMBU A/S
    Inventors: Martin Johst CHRISTENSEN, Dylan ILG
  • Publication number: 20230309792
    Abstract: A video processing apparatus includes a housing defining an interior space, the housing having first, second, third, and fourth sides and a back side extending between the first, second, third and fourth sides, the back side including a back wall having a main portion laying on a back plane, a recessed portion recessed from the back plane and defining a video connection recess, and a recessed wall extending from the main portion to the recessed portion, the recessed wall having a video connector opening, and the recessed portion having an angled surface lying at an angle of at least 5 degrees relative to the back plane; and a video output socket in the interior space and aligned with the video connector opening of the recessed wall, whereby the angled surface facilitates insertion of a video connector into the video output socket.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2023
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Applicant: AMBU A/S
    Inventors: Line Sandahl UBBESEN, Brian NIELSEN, Henrik FRENGLER, Kasper Rieland JAKOBSEN, Nai-Hua CHEN
  • Patent number: 11766163
    Abstract: A tip part (2) for an endoscope (1) having at least one transparent part and at least one opaque part providing an outer surface. The outer surface comprises a transparent outer surface part (6, 7) and an opaque outer surface part (9, 10), respectively. The transparent outer surface part is smooth (6, 7) and at least a part of the opaque outer surface part (9, 10) is provided with a hydrophobic structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: AMBU A/S
    Inventors: Morten Sørensen, Jan Guldberg Hansen
  • Publication number: 20230277047
    Abstract: An endoscope including: a handle; and an insertion cord; the handle including: a working channel access port providing access to a working channel extending from the handle to a distal tip unit of the insertion cord; and a biopsy valve attached or attachable to the working channel access port; the biopsy valve including: a valve body attached or attachable to the working channel access port; and a valve lid configured to be detachably attached to the valve body; wherein the valve lid includes a slit which is formed or configured so as to close and seal the working channel access port and which provides a passageway for insertion of the tool or instrument; and wherein the slit includes at least one slit end arranged in a weakened portion determining a defined crack-growth direction starting from the at least one slit end.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2023
    Publication date: September 7, 2023
    Applicant: AMBU A/S
    Inventors: Victor SILBERMANN, Alistair David MORTON
  • Publication number: 20230263375
    Abstract: An endoscope including a handle and an insertion cord having a bending section body, a first steering wire portion, and a second steering wire portion. The bending section body includes segments and hinges keeping together, and formed integrally with, the segments, a center axis and a center plane traversing the center axis, the center plane dividing the bending section into a first bending section side and a second bending section side, and the segments including passages that together form a working channel lumen having a non-circular cross-section. Steering wire lumens are displaced with respect to the center plane towards the first side and configured to accommodate the first and second steering wire portions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2023
    Publication date: August 24, 2023
    Applicant: AMBU A/S
    Inventors: Troels Nicolaj QVIST, Frederik Clausager Vemb HANSEN, Martin Refslund NIELSEN
  • Patent number: 11730341
    Abstract: A medical visualisation system including a first medical visualisation device having a first device colour identifier, a second medical visualisation device having a second device colour identifier, a third medical visualisation device having a third device colour identifier, and a monitor device, the first device colour identifier being a first colour, the second device colour identifier being a second colour, and the third device colour identifier being a third colour. The first colour has a first hue angle, the second colour has a second hue angle, and the third colour has a third hue angle, wherein the first hue angle and the second hue angle differ by more than 40 degrees, the second hue angle and the third hue angle differ by more than 40 degrees, and the third hue angle and the first hue angle differ by more than 40 degrees.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: AMBU A/S
    Inventors: Line Sandahl Ubbesen, Brian Nielsen, Henrik Frengler, Christina Hahnemann
  • Patent number: D1001280
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: AMBU A/S
    Inventors: Anne-Sofie Gyldenvang Jørgensen, Peer Hoffmann
  • Patent number: D1005496
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: AMBU A/S
    Inventors: Line Sandahl Ubbesen, Brian Nielsen, Henrik Frengler, Nai-Hua Chen