Patents Assigned to WOLF GmbH
  • Patent number: 10405955
    Abstract: An injector for injecting pellets includes a main body, a delivery opening which is formed on the main body and to which a hollow-bore needle can be connected and a magazine guide formed in the main body for a magazine which, for accommodating the pellets, comprises several barrels. Each barrel includes a hollow cylindrical compartment with an open front end and an open rear end. The magazine guide brings the magazine, barrel by barrel, into an injection position, in which a plunger of the injector can be introduced into the barrel via the rear end of the barrel positioned in the injection position and moved in the direction of the delivery opening in order to deliver the pellet provided in the barrel via the delivery opening. A drawer is formed in the main body for accommodating a replacement hollow-bore needle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: Henke-Sass, Wolf GmbH
    Inventors: Melanie Eisele, Stefan Knefel
  • Patent number: 10368950
    Abstract: A drive arrangement for an endoscopic shaft instrument, preferably an instrument which is intended for use in connection with a surgical robot, has a drive arrangement that has an instrument housing (12) on a proximal shaft end. At least one housing shaft (22) is mounted in the instrument housing (12). The shaft is drivingly connected to a traction device which is provided for controlling an instrument head on a distal shaft end. Furthermore, the drive arrangement has a drive unit having at least one drive shaft. The housing shaft (22) can be drivingly connected to said drive shaft. The at least one housing shaft (22) is oriented at an angle to the drive shaft (30) and the drive shaft can be drivingly connected thereto.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignee: RICHARD WOLF GMBH
    Inventors: Frank Wehrheim, Alexander Schweigert, Stephan Prestel, Sören Münnig, Matthias Lambertz, Eberhard Körner
  • Patent number: 10353192
    Abstract: A rod lens system for an endoscope is provided, in which the rod lens system has at least one reversal stage, in order to image an intermediate image lying in a distal intermediate image plane into a proximal intermediate image plane, wherein each reversal stage has at least one rod lens and images an intermediate image into a next intermediate image plane, wherein the rod lens system is formed as an asymmetrical rod lens system and at least one of the reversal stages is formed as an asymmetrical reversal stage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: Henke-Sass, Wolf GmbH
    Inventor: Oliver Rehe
  • Patent number: 10285791
    Abstract: An injection device for administration of an injection to an animal can include a main body, which contains an injection instrument, a contact device, which has a contact area which is shaped in conformity with a body part of the animal to which the injection is to be administered. A support device which supports the contact device on the main body can be movable in a pressure application direction. A force measurement device including at least one force sensor can be designed to measure at last one force with which the contact device acts on the main body. A control device can activate the injection instrument if the force measured by the force measurement device lies in a specified range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2019
    Assignee: Henke-Sass, Wolf GmbH
    Inventors: Simon Raidt, Frank Altermann
  • Patent number: 10238802
    Abstract: A syringe includes a first syringe barrel and a second syringe barrel. Each barrel includes a delivery end to which an end piece with a channel is secured, a piston which is arranged movable in the syringe barrel and can be moved towards the delivery end in order to deliver a fluid located between the delivery end and the piston via the channel. The two syringe barrels are mechanically connected to each other such that the distance between them cannot be changed. At least one of the two end pieces can be secured to the allocated delivery end in different positions for adjustment of the distance between the two channels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: Henke-Sass, Wolf GmbH
    Inventors: Melanie Eisele, Frank Altermann
  • Patent number: 10208808
    Abstract: A releasable coupling for the transmission of a rotation movement. This coupling includes a first and a second coupling half which include engagement structures which correspond to one another and which can positively engage with one another. At least one permanent magnet is arranged on at least one coupling half in a manner such that with the approach of the coupling halves to one another, these with respect to a rotation axis are rotated into a defined angular position relative to one another, by way of the magnetic force which is produced by the permanent magnet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: Richard Wolf GmbH
    Inventor: Daniel Schwab
  • Patent number: 10111577
    Abstract: An endoscopic instrument is provided with an LED illumination module having at least one LED arranged at the distal end of the instrument and having an electrical connection lead attached to this LED. The connection lead is a coaxial cable, which extends from the distal end to the proximal end of the instrument, and is designed for leading away the waste heat produced by the LED. At least one electrical conductor of the coaxial cable is connected to the LED in a heat-conducting manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2018
    Assignee: Richard Wolf GmbH
    Inventors: Bernd Claus Weber, Rudolf Heimberger, Klaus Schrumpf, Adrian Mahlkow
  • Patent number: 10080553
    Abstract: A medical instrument includes instrument parts which can be releasably connected to one another. One part includes a hollow-cone-shaped receiving space and another part includes a cone-shaped coupling section which can be inserted into the receiving space to connect the parts. The coupling section includes a locking receiver for a locking element of the receiving space and which can be brought into and out of engagement with the locking receiver. A securing element moves between a position holding the locking element in a locking position, and a position releasing the locking element. An actuation element projects into the receiving space of the first instrument part, engages into the locking receiver in the locking position of the locking element and is movable in the direction of its middle axis. The middle axis of the actuation element is aligned in the proximal direction obliquely to a middle axis of the receiving space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2018
    Assignee: Richard Wolf GmbH
    Inventors: Frank Knodel, Eberhard Körner, Markus Lienhart
  • Patent number: 10064679
    Abstract: An endoscopic shank instrument has a tool carrier which is arranged at a distal shank end, is bendable relative to the shank and carries a tool. The tool includes at least one electrode which is conductively connectable to a voltage source via an electrical lead led through the shank. The lead is formed by a flexible circuit board in the region of the tool carrier and of the bending of the tool carrier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2018
    Assignee: Richard Wolf GmbH
    Inventors: Sören Münnig, Frank Wehrheim, Stephan Prestel, Philipp Eidner
  • Patent number: 10025088
    Abstract: A subassembly for a video endoscope with a picture-recording sensor (9) which is electrically conductively arranged on a flexible circuit board (8) which next to the sensor (9) is bent at least at one side and is conductively connected to at least one electrical cable proximally of the sensor (9).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2018
    Assignee: RICHARD WOLF GMBH
    Inventors: René Handte, Rudolf Heimberger
  • Patent number: 9888835
    Abstract: An endoscope is provided with a main part, an endoscope shaft and an imaging lens system. An imaging lens system includes a correction module, which comprises a splitter unit and a superimposition unit. Light is routed to the correction module via a first beam path, which is split into a first and a second partial beam path by the splitter unit. The splitter unit guides light from the visible spectrum into one of the two partial beam paths and light from the near infrared range into the other partial beam path. The superimposition unit superimposes the light from the two partial beam paths and guides it into a second beam path, coaxial with the first beam path. The optical path lengths of the two partial beam paths for the light from the visible spectrum and the light from the near infrared range are selected such that they are different.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Assignee: Henke-Sass, Wolf GmbH
    Inventor: Oliver Rehe
  • Patent number: 9888833
    Abstract: An endoscope is provided, with a main body and a rigid shaft, extending from the main body, which has a first section which extends in a rectilinear manner, a curved second section adjoining it and a third section, adjoining the second section, which forms a distal end of the shaft. The shaft includes, for receiving an instrument, a one-piece instrument tube which extends to the distal end of the shaft and has an open end there, and an optics module by means of which an image of an area in front of the distal end of the shaft can be recorded. A cladding tube extending from the main body to the distal end is provided, in which the instrument tube and the optics module are arranged, and which includes a rectilinear part for the first section and a curved part, connected to the rectilinear part, for the second section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Assignee: Henke-Sass, Wolf GmbH
    Inventors: Stefan Rapp, Norbert Haeckl
  • Patent number: 9802032
    Abstract: A connecting module is provided with a first connecting component, which has a first fluid channel and a first contact surface, a second connecting component, which has a second fluid channel and a second contact surface. One of the two contact surfaces is formed as an inner surface and the other of the two contact surfaces is formed as an outer surface which is complementary to the inner surface. The connecting module further includes a receiving sleeve with a first threaded section and a first connecting device for the first connecting component. The first connecting component has a second connecting device, which interacts with the first connecting device in such a way that the first connecting component is detachably connected to the receiving sleeve. The second connecting component has a second threaded section which is complementary to the first threaded section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignee: Henke-Sass, Wolf GmbH
    Inventors: Simon Raidt, Frank Altermann
  • Patent number: 9730574
    Abstract: An endoscope is provided with an endoscope shaft and a main body connected to the endoscope shaft. The endoscope includes a camera connection to which an optical recording device can be mechanically fixed. The main body is electrically conductive. The camera connection includes an electric insulating body that electrically insulates an optical recording device, mechanically fixed to the camera connection, from the main body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2017
    Assignees: Henke-Sass, Wolf GmbH, Stryker Corporation
    Inventors: Andreas Mattes, Norbert Haeckl, Stefan Rapp, Thomas Paul Weller, Hannah Lawrence, Candice Pack
  • Patent number: 9700289
    Abstract: A handle for a medical instrument includes an actuation element, which is arranged on the handle and which is displaceable into at least a first and a second functional position. The actuation element can be moved in a plane transverse to its displacement direction, in each of the first and second functional positions, for carrying out a function. A pivotable actuation lever is arranged in the handle, the actuation lever being coupled in movement to the actuation element for displacing the actuation element into the at least two functional positions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Assignee: Richard Wolf GmbH
    Inventors: Stephan Prestel, Ernst Falk, Eberhard Körner, Manfred Boebel
  • Patent number: 9662141
    Abstract: A colpotransilluminator is provided for arrangement on a uterus manipulator, wherein the colpotransilluminator is designed in a sleeve-shaped manner of an elastic material. The colpotransilluminator at a distal first axial end forms a portio receiver and at a proximal second end forms a vaginal seal. In a central region between the first and the second axial ends, the colpotransilluminator is designed in a waist-shaped manner and includes axially extending stretch folds in the region of the waist. A uterus manipulator is also provided with such a colpotransilluminator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: Richard Wolf GmbH
    Inventors: Manfred Boebel, Eberhard Körner, Reiner Klostermann
  • Patent number: D813384
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2018
    Assignee: Henke-Sass Wolf GmbH
    Inventor: Daniel Seeh
  • Patent number: D828918
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2018
    Assignee: HENKE-SASS, WOLF GMBH
    Inventor: Melanie Eisele
  • Patent number: D828919
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2018
    Assignee: HENKE-SASS, WOLF GMBH
    Inventor: Melanie Eisele
  • Patent number: D845468
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2019
    Assignee: Henke-Sass, Wolf GmbH
    Inventor: Melanie Eisele