Patents Assigned to Winter & Ibe
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Publication number: 20250143773Abstract: Electrosurgical instrument having a HF energy cable and a memory including status information wireless communication means configured for communicating data signals between said memory and the electrosurgical generator. The electrosurgical instrument further includes a signal processing device configured for gathering and communicating gathered data of said electrosurgical instrument. The signal processing device is connected to the wireless communication means and includes at least one sensor and/or actuator and an energy harvesting circuit. Said energy harvesting circuit is configured for harvesting energy wirelessly from the HF energy supplied by the cable. Thereby energy for operating the signal processing device and/or the at least one sensor and/or the at least one actuator is provided wirelessly.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 8, 2024Publication date: May 8, 2025Applicant: OLYMPUS WINTER & IBE GMBHInventor: Jens KRÜGER
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Patent number: 12290244Abstract: A reconditioning apparatus for an endoscope including a controller configured to: supply an interior of the endoscope with a fluid at a predefined pressure; supply one or more channels of the endoscope and an exterior of the endoscope with a rinsing liquid to carry out a reconditioning process using the rinsing liquid; concurrently with the supplying of the rinsing liquid, determine a temperature and a pressure in the interior of the endoscope during the reconditioning process; and when the determined pressure decreases lower than a predetermined pressure: identify the endoscope as not defective, when the decrease in the determined pressure is preceded by a corresponding decrease in the determined temperature, and identify the endoscope as defective, when the decrease in the determined pressure is not preceded by a corresponding decrease in the determined temperature.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2023Date of Patent: May 6, 2025Assignee: Olympus Winter & Ibe GmbHInventor: Jan Batista Andrade
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Publication number: 20250134577Abstract: Electrosurgical generator provides a HF alternating voltage to electrosurgical instruments, including a first/second HF generation unit supplying a first/second HF alternating voltage having a first/second frequency to a first/second output which are configured for connection of a first/second electrosurgical instrument. Upon activation a first current flows to the first electrosurgical instrument and simultaneously a second current flows to the second electrosurgical instrument. That portion of these currents being actually delivered from the electrosurgical instruments to the tissue to be worked on are working currents. They are important for safe operation but cannot be measured directly. An observer unit is configured for indirect determination of said working currents based on measured values of the total currents. The so determined working currents are used as input signals for an inverter controller, achieving improved control of the electrosurgical generator.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 28, 2024Publication date: May 1, 2025Applicant: OLYMPUS WINTER & IBE GMBHInventors: Isabel Wange PINTO, Fabian JANICH, Daniel RAMIN, Thomas FÄHSING
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Publication number: 20250127379Abstract: A laparoscopic image manipulation method including: capturing a video stream of laparoscopic images of a patient using a laparoscope inserted into the patient during a laparoscopic procedure, feeding the captured laparoscopic images to a video processor configured to adding additional information as overlay over the captured laparoscopic images, producing a composite image by rendering a representation of a 3D model of a target organ or structure using a renderer and merging the rendered representation of the 3D model with the captured laparoscopic image, and displaying the composite image on a monitor.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 15, 2024Publication date: April 24, 2025Applicant: OLYMPUS Winter & Ibe GmbHInventors: Juri SVERDLOV, Mathias HUEBER, Borg ENDERS, Sascha JASKOLA, Per SUPPA, Llin le Clarinda KUAN, Jan NIEBUHR
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Patent number: 12279379Abstract: An autoclavable electronics unit for an endoscope, the autoclavable electronics unit including: a multi-layer printed circuit board having a rigid region and a flexible region, the rigid region being reinforced by stiffener material to have a greater rigidity than the flexible region and the flexible region is configured to be bendable. Where the multi-layer printed circuit board is formed from structured layers made of conductive and non-conductive materials adhered together, in which the conductive structures form conductor tracks and contact surfaces; the rigid region is provided with one or more electronic components; and the rigid region is covered by an epoxy resin.Type: GrantFiled: August 11, 2021Date of Patent: April 15, 2025Assignee: OLYMPUS WINTER & IBE & GMBHInventors: Sven Pabst, Sebastian Jungbauer
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Publication number: 20250116458Abstract: A cabinet for drying a surgical instrument including: a body defining an interior space; a mounting device in the interior space, the mounting device configured to hold the surgical instrument such that a control section is arranged at a holding position and in an orientation, and a nozzle corresponding to the mounting device. Wherein the nozzle connects to a gas source by a supply line. The gas source supplies a drying gas stream to the nozzle via the supply line. The nozzle guides the drying gas stream directly towards the specified holding position such that a direction that the drying gas stream runs is along and in between control knobs of the control section when the control section is arranged at the holding position and in the orientation.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 3, 2024Publication date: April 10, 2025Applicant: OLYMPUS Winter & Ibe GmbHInventor: Dennis AEHLIG
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Patent number: 12268434Abstract: Radiofrequency instruments such as the resectoscope described here are used in medicine for treating body tissue and in particular for removing or manipulating this tissue. A particular disadvantage of the known instruments is that an irrigation liquid is disturbed by an electrode instrument in such a way that the resulting turbulence limits the view of the operator. The invention makes available an electrode instrument by which this problem is solved. This is achieved by the fact that two electrode casing tubes run from an electrode to the proximal end region of the electrode instrument and each have a respective electrical contact, namely an active contact and a return contact.Type: GrantFiled: February 7, 2022Date of Patent: April 8, 2025Assignee: OLYMPUS WINTER & IBE GMBHInventors: Christian Brockmann, Christoph Knopf, Andreas Offt
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Patent number: 12268365Abstract: A flow control unit for use with an endoscope reprocessing device, the flow control unit including: a main fluid supply line coupled to an inlet, the inlet receives processing fluid from a fluid source, at least one supply channel supplying the processing fluid to an internal channel of an endoscope, the at least one supply channel is coupled to the main fluid supply line, a dedicated switchable valve in the supply channel for opening the supply channel to pass the processing fluid through the supply channel or closing the supply channel to block the flow, and a processor for operating the switchable valve according to a reprocessing routine, and upon termination of the reprocessing routine, set the switchable valve to a safe switching state in which a flow rate through the main supply line is lower than a maximum flow rate through the main supply line.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2023Date of Patent: April 8, 2025Assignee: Olympus Winter & Ibe GmbhInventor: Antonia Weis
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Publication number: 20250107696Abstract: The present disclosure is directed at an endoscope contamination prevention method and an endoscope storage and/or transportation device. The endoscope contamination prevention method comprises using blue light to prevent contamination of surfaces of a compartment of an endoscope storage and/or transportation device that can come into contact with an inserted endoscope, such blue light can have a wavelength between 400 nm and 470 nm, such as, 405 nm.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 22, 2024Publication date: April 3, 2025Applicant: OLYMPUS Winter & Ibe GmbHInventor: Dennis AEHLIG
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Publication number: 20250099198Abstract: A storage hook for storing a flexible endoscope. The storage hook including: a receptacle for storing the flexible endoscope, an endoscope presence sensor configured to detect a placement or removal of the flexible endoscope in the receptacle, and a controller including a processor comprising hardware. The processor being configured to receive an input signal from the sensor and to output an output signal based on the input signal from the sensor.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 20, 2024Publication date: March 27, 2025Applicant: OLYMPUS Winter & Ibe GmbHInventor: Stefan SCHROEDER
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Publication number: 20250098941Abstract: A handheld surgical instrument and a bridge for a handheld surgical instrument, through which bridge a plurality of working instruments can be inserted in an ideal manner into a shaft of the handheld surgical instrument. This is achieved by the fact that a bridge for a handheld surgical instrument has a channel-like guide bore for an optical unit. This bore extends through the entire bridge, specifically from a proximal end to a distal end. The guide bore is segmented from the proximal end to the distal end of the bridge and that the segments have longitudinal axes offset with respect to one another.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 10, 2024Publication date: March 27, 2025Applicant: OLYMPUS WINTER & IBE GMBHInventors: Irina SCHMUCK, Kevin Alexander SCHULZ, Bastian SCHRÖDER, Andreas RÜHS
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Patent number: 12251157Abstract: An electrode instrument for use in a resectoscope, the electrode instrument having an elongate shaft portion with two support arms through which a conductor extends that forms an electrode at the distal end of the electrode instrument that can be subjected to high-frequency current and is arranged between the distal ends of the support arms, wherein at least one of the support arms has in its distal end region a tissue contact part for holding tissue fragments that is arranged on the outer wall of the support arm and angled in relation to the longitudinal axis of the support arm; and to a corresponding resectoscope.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2020Date of Patent: March 18, 2025Assignee: OLYMPUS WINTER & IBE GMBHInventors: Christian Brockmann, Hannes Miersch
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Publication number: 20250082190Abstract: A method for pre-cleaning an endoscope. The method including: fluidly connecting channels for transporting fluids within an endoscope to each other at a distal end of the endoscope, the channels extending from a respective connection port to the distal end of the endoscope; connecting a suction pump, to at least one of the connection ports or to the distal end of the endoscope; connecting at least one vessel that holds liquid to the at least one of the connection ports; and flushing at least one of the channels with liquid by activating the suction pump so that liquid is drawn from the at least one vessel through the at least one channel towards the suction pump.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 12, 2024Publication date: March 13, 2025Applicant: Olympus Winter & Ibe GmbHInventor: Benjamin Ottens
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Publication number: 20250082188Abstract: A method for pre-cleaning an endoscope. The method including: fluidly connecting channels for transporting fluids within an endoscope to each other at a distal end of the endoscope by arranging a container onto the distal end of the endoscope such that the channels are fluidly connected to each other at the distal end of the endoscope, the channels extending from a respective connection port to the distal end of the endoscope; connecting a suction pump to at least one of the connection ports; connecting at least one liquid source to the at least one of the connection ports; and flushing at least one of the channels with a liquid by activating the suction pump so that the liquid is drawn from the liquid source through the at least one channel via the distal end towards the suction pump.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 12, 2024Publication date: March 13, 2025Applicant: Olympus Winter & Ibe GmbHInventor: Benjamin Ottens
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Publication number: 20250082191Abstract: A method for pre-cleaning an endoscope including: connecting a liquid source, a suction pump, and a sealing element each to first, second and third channel openings. The channel openings are connected to the liquid source, suction pump, or sealing element. The first channel opening is at an end of a first channel section and at a distal end of the endoscope. The second channel opening is at an end of a second channel section and is a connection port. The third channel opening is at an end of a third channel section and is a connection port. The liquid source provides a gas-tight seal, has a holding chamber with a volume for holding liquid, and the holding chamber volume is changeable. The suction pump is activated for drawing liquid from the liquid source, wherein the holding chamber volume reduces during drawing of liquid from the liquid source.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 12, 2024Publication date: March 13, 2025Applicant: Olympus Winter & Ibe GmbHInventor: Benjamin Ottens
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Publication number: 20250082189Abstract: A method for pre-cleaning an endoscope. The method including: drawing liquid into at least one channel of a plurality of channels of an endoscope for transporting fluids, wherein each of the plurality of channels extend from a respective connection port, for connection of a fluid hose, to a distal end of the endoscope; and determining an electrical parameter of fluid or fluids in at least one of the plurality of channels into which liquid has been drawn.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 12, 2024Publication date: March 13, 2025Applicant: Olympus Winter & Ibe GmbHInventor: Benjamin Ottens
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Patent number: 12245744Abstract: An endoscope including: an elongated shaft and an optical system disposed in the shaft. The optical system includes at least one prism. The prism is mounted in a prism holder. The prism holder having first and second stops for aligning the prism in at least first and second directions, respectively. Wherein the first stop forms a planar stop surface against which a first planar surface of the prism rests, and the second stop forms a linear stop contour against which a second planar surface of the prism rests.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2020Date of Patent: March 11, 2025Assignee: OLYMPUS WINTER & IBE GMBHInventors: Martin Wieters, Annika Goehring
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Publication number: 20250072956Abstract: An electrosurgical treatment can be carried out with an electrode reliably and safely even if metallic elements are present in the region to be treated. For this purpose, an electrode for an electrosurgical handheld instrument is made of an electrically conductive wire, the two ends of the wire being connectable to an electrode carrier of the handheld instrument. The wire has two portions R and L, which are adjacent to the two ends of the electrode carrier and can be aligned parallel to one another and rectilinearly. Next to these two portions R and L, there is a portion C that connects the two portions R and L to one another. The wire has a cross section of from 0.5 mm to 1.0 mm.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 13, 2024Publication date: March 6, 2025Applicant: OLYMPUS WINTER & IBE GMBHInventor: Harald Hanke
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Patent number: 12239295Abstract: A fluid distributor for use with a reprocessing device for reprocessing a surgical instrument having a plurality of channels, including: a routing body having a plurality of connections corresponding to the channels; and a switching body movably disposed in the routing body, the switching body having an interior supply line connected to a fluid reservoir for selectively providing a fluid to one or more of the connections. The switching body can be configured such that, in a first position of the switching body relative to the routing body, the connections of the routing body are each in fluid communication with the supply line of the switching body and in at least a second position of the switching body relative to the fluid routing body less than all of the connections of the routing body are in fluid communication with the supply line of the switching body.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2022Date of Patent: March 4, 2025Assignee: OLYMPUS WINTER & IBE GMBHInventor: Mathis Jonathan Hoermann
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ELECTROSURGICAL SYSTEM, ELECTROSURGICAL GENERATOR, AND METHOD OF OPERATING AN ELECTROSURGICAL SYSTEM
Publication number: 20250064503Abstract: An electrosurgical system includes: an electrosurgical generator, the electrosurgical generator having an instrument identification unit and an activation switch unit, and an electrosurgical instrument configured to connect to the electrosurgical generator through a three-pin connector; wherein the electrosurgical instrument includes an electrosurgical electrode connected to a first pin of the three-pin connector, and one or more of an activation switch circuit and an instrument identification circuit connected to a second pin and/or a third pin of the three-pin connector; wherein the electrosurgical generator is configured to detect, whether the electrosurgical instrument includes an instrument identification circuit, and: connect, or maintain a connection of, the second and third pin of the three-pin connector to the instrument identification unit, communicate data with the instrument identification circuit, and after communicating data with the instrument identification circuit, connect the second and thirType: ApplicationFiled: August 22, 2024Publication date: February 27, 2025Applicant: OLYMPUS WINTER & IBE GMBHInventor: Thomas FAEHSING