Abstract: A tip for a single use endoscope, the endoscope and a method of producing the tip. The tip includes a housing encapsulating a light emitting device and an imaging device in a fluid tight manner, where the light emitting device is arranged on a planar printed circuit board provided within the housing, and the housing at least in part is made from a transparent material and comprises at least one transparent light guiding part or light guiding section for guiding light emitted by the light emitting device to an outside of the tip.

Abstract: An endoscope including an insertion cord which has a bending section and a distal tip having a camera window and a camera. The distal tip has a light emitter where light emitted from the light emitter passes a diffractive structure shaping the light from the light emitter. The light emitter may be a distal end of a light guide connected to a light source.

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.

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 device including a main tube having an outer wall, a first lumen, and a camera lumen; a tip housing separately manufactured from the main tube and including a tubular housing part extending from a proximal end to a distal end, a first lumen extension, a camera lumen extension, the tubular housing part enclosing the first lumen extension and the camera lumen extension, and the proximal end of the tip housing mounted at the distal end of the main tube; a camera module; a camera housing positioned in the camera lumen extension and affixing the camera module to the tip housing, the camera housing having a tubular housing part having an inner face; and a support structure including a tubular end part having an outer face adhesively bonded to the inner face of the tubular housing part to secure the camera module to the camera housing.

Abstract: An endoscope including a handle, an insertion cord, a working channel, and a suction valve in the handle including a valve body and a stem. The valve body has a valve cylinder, an inlet connected to the working channel, and an outlet configured to be connected to a suction device. The stem is movable axially in the valve cylinder between a first position, in which the suction valve is in a valve closed state, and a second position, in which the suction valve is in a valve open state. The inlet and the outlet are connected to and extend away from the valve cylinder. The stem includes a curved flow guide. The inlet, the outlet and the curved flow guide are configured to each other to provide a curved sideways flow path through the suction valve in the valve open state.

Abstract: A working channel tube and a method for producing the working channel tube, the method including providing a tube reinforced with a wire coiled and embedded between an inner and outer surface of the tube, a non-embedded wire portion of the wire extending from an exit point; bending the non-embedded wire portion at a rotation location forming a bend, a first non-embedded wire sub portion and a second non-embedded wire sub portion; extending the second non-embedded wire sub portion back across the tube to a clamping location; clamping the second non-embedded wire sub portion at the clamping location in a clamp; and rotating the non-embedded wire sub portions at the rotation location such that the first and second non-embedded wire sub portions twist around each other until the wire breaks. Moreover, a working channel tube produced by said method, and an endoscope comprising said working channel tube are disclosed.

Abstract: Provided herein are devices, systems, and methods for treating kidney stones. In particular, provided herein are endoscopic (e.g., ureteroscope) devices with improved properties, as well as systems, and related methods for use in treating kidney stones and other applications.

Abstract: An endoscope includes a distal tip unit, a handle, a shaft including a bending section made of a first material, and a steering wire for controlling a bending movement of the bending section. The bending section has segments, an inner lumen accommodating a working channel, and steering wire lumens adapted for accommodating the steering wire. The endoscope further includes a disc made of a second material which is different from the first material. The disc is arranged at a distal end of the bending section adjacent a lumen end of the steering wire lumens and has a plurality of openings including steering wire lumen openings configured for guiding the steering wire coming from the steering wire lumens therethrough, and locking openings configured for threading or twisting the steering wire therethrough. The steering wire is locked to the disc by the threading or twisting of the steering wire through the openings.

Abstract: An endoscope, a method to make the endoscope, and a system including the endoscope and a monitor. The endoscope includes a distal tip; a handle; an insertion tube and a bending section, the insertion tube and the bending section connecting the handle and the distal tip; a working channel provided in the insertion tube and the bending section and extending from the handle towards the distal tip; a first part and a second part, the first part attachable to the second part to form a connector having a first channel with a first inlet opening, a second channel with a second inlet opening, the first channel joining with the second channel form a joint channel having an outlet opening to connect the first inlet opening and the second inlet opening with the outlet opening, the outlet opening in connection with the working channel.

Abstract: An endoscope including steering and braking mechanisms. The braking mechanism includes a manually operable braking control element, a friction element which is axially translatable along a control axis to engage or disengage with the steering mechanism, and a cam pairing transmitting force between the braking control element and the friction element and transforming the braking input into an axial translation of the friction element. The cam pairing has a cam surface and a cam axially contacting the cam surface. The cam surface forms a first ramp section for translating the friction element from a first braking position to an intermediate braking position, a second ramp section for translating it from the intermediate braking position to a second braking position, and an intermediate section forming a tactile structure arranged between the first ramp section and the second ramp section and defining the intermediate braking position.

Abstract: A medical sampler (2) attachable to a suction connector (3) of an endoscope (4), to a sample container (6) and to a suction source (13) and operable in a sampling-mode and a bypass-mode. The medical sampler (2) includes a pinch valve (8) having a compressible tubing unit (10) and a pinching unit (12) configured to pinch the compressible tubing unit (10) in a first pinching state providing the sampling-mode and a second pinching state providing the bypass-mode.

Abstract: 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.

Abstract: An endoscope handle for an endoscope for visually inspecting inaccessible places, such as human body cavities, the endoscope handle including: a frame (70) having a first wall portion (101) formed as an integral portion of the frame, the frame being formed as a single component; a liquid-tight chamber (100) accommodating a circuit (25), preferably a printed circuit board, of the endoscope handle, wherein the liquid-tight chamber is at least partly defined by the first wall portion of the frame; and a first shell part (60) and a second shell part (60?) together enclosing a cavity (63), the shell parts accommodating and securing the frame within the cavity, the shell parts forming an exterior surface (68) shaped to form an ergonomic grip for an operator, wherein the shell parts and the frame each are formed as separate components.

Abstract: An endoscope including: a handle or interface and an insertion cord including a bending section. The endoscope handle or interface includes a first operation unit having a first manually operable element, which when rotated by an operator causes bending of the bending section in a first bending plane; a second operation unit having a second manually operable element, which when rotated by the operator causes bending of the bending section in a second bending plane; and a manually operable brake activator which is configured to activate braking or locking both a rotation of the first manually operable element via an engagement of a first brake part with the first operation unit and a rotation of the second manually operable element via an engagement of a second brake part with the second operation unit.

Abstract: An endoscope including a handle and an insertion cord. The handle includes a first handle housing part and a valve and suction connector assembly. The valve and connector assembly including a suction connector part (11), a valve housing main body (100), a plunger (101) and a valve housing lid (102). The valve housing lid (102) includes an entry pipe (107) connected to a suction channel tube in fluid communication with a suction port at the distal end of the insertion cord. The valve housing main body (100) includes an exit pipe (104) connected to said suction connector part (11). The suction connector part (11) is accommodated in the wall of the handle housing part and includes an oblong engagement flange in frictional engagement with said wall.

Abstract: An endoscope (1) including a handle (2), an insertion cord (3), and a steering mechanism, the insertion cord (3) including an insertion tube (4), a bending section (5) and a distal tip unit (6), the steering mechanism including a manually operable steering input element (7) to receive a rotational input by a user and being connected to a control shaft, which is rotatably supported at the endoscope handle (2) and a steering switch mechanism (13) configured to switch a coupling state of the steering input element (7) at least between a first mode of operation, in which the steering mechanism bends the bending section (5) in a first bending plane, and a second mode of operation, in which the steering mechanism bends the bending section (5) in a second bending plane.

Abstract: A endoscope including a handle, a shaft and a distal tip unit. The shaft includes a bending section, a working channel and a steering wire for controlling a bending movement of the bending section. The bending section includes segments, flexible hinge members provided between adjacent segments, an inner lumen adapted for accommodating the working channel, and steering wire lumens adapted for accommodating the steering wire. The working channel is gradually/continuously/linearly guided away from a position close to a centerline of the endoscope shaft in the bending section.

Abstract: An endoscope comprising a tip part having an ultrasound transceiver, a camera module, and a working channel. The tip part comprises an outer housing receiving the ultrasound transceiver and the camera module.