Patents by Inventor Christian Czupalla
Christian Czupalla has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 11766168Abstract: An endoscope, especially a mediastinoscope, includes an elongated shaft and a head piece situated at a proximal end section of the shaft, wherein a heat source is arranged in the head piece. At least one heat pipe extends inside the shaft, wherein a proximal end section of the at least one heat pipe is thermally coupled to the heat source and the endoscope includes an optical system which is closed by a cover glass arranged in a distal end section of the shaft. The heat source is a light source for generating an illumination radiation. The at least one heat pipe extends in the distal direction as far as the distal end section of the shaft, and at least one distal end section of the heat pipe is thermally coupled to the distal end section of the shaft.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2020Date of Patent: September 26, 2023Assignee: KARL STORZ SE & CO. KGInventors: Daniel Ulmschneider, Christian Czupalla
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Patent number: 11659982Abstract: A medical instrument for providing access to the interior of the body comprises a shaft having an elongated base body and a handle. The base body extends between a distal end and a proximal end of the shaft. The handle is coupled to the base body of the shaft at the proximal end. The shaft defines at least a first channel and a second channel that extend through the shaft. The first channel provides a passage for surgical instruments through the shaft. The second channel is adapted to accommodate an observation optics. The second channel is adjacent to at least one secondary channel that is connected to the second channel.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 2020Date of Patent: May 30, 2023Assignee: KARL STORZ SE & Co. KGInventors: Daniel Ulmschneider, Andreas Limberger, Christian Czupalla, Kamilla König-Urban
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Patent number: 11278196Abstract: An imaging medical instrument such as an endoscope, an exoscope or microscope having a shaft, in which an optical fiber bundle extends from the proximal to the distal end for illuminating field and in which a lens system is arranged for transmitting an image of the field. A light source inputs coupling light into the one proximal end of the optical fiber bundle with a multiplicity of selectively actuatable individual light sources arranged in an array-like manner, with a camera for capturing the transmitted image of the field of view and with a control unit for selectively actuating the individual light sources of the light source for adapting the illumination field. Here, the illumination field has a different form to the field of view.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 2020Date of Patent: March 22, 2022Assignee: Karl Storz SE & Co. KGInventor: Christian Czupalla
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Patent number: 11278191Abstract: An optical instrument for capturing stereo images includes two optical devices for producing a real image in each case, two carriages, which are each movable along a predetermined path relative to one of the optical devices, two image sensors, each with a light-sensitive surface for capturing the respective real image, with one of the image sensors in each case being fastened to the carriage, and one reflecting surface in the beam path between the optical device and the image sensor in each case.Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 2016Date of Patent: March 22, 2022Assignee: Karl Storz SE & Co. KGInventors: Christian Czupalla, Peter Eisenkolb, Andreas Heni, Markus Kupferschmid
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Publication number: 20200397237Abstract: A medical instrument for providing access to the interior of the body comprises a shaft having an elongated base body and a handle. The base body extends between a distal end and a proximal end of the shaft. The handle is coupled to the base body of the shaft at the proximal end. The shaft defines at least a first channel and a second channel that extend through the shaft. The first channel provides a passage for surgical instruments through the shaft. The second channel is adapted to accommodate an observation optics. The second channel is adjacent to at least one secondary channel that is connected to the second channel.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 16, 2020Publication date: December 24, 2020Inventors: Daniel ULMSCHNEIDER, Andreas LIMBERGER, Christian CZUPALLA, Kamilla KÖNIG-URBAN
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Publication number: 20200375445Abstract: An endoscope according to the technology, especially a mediastinoscope, comprises an elongated shaft and a head piece situated at a proximal end section of the shaft, wherein a heat source is arranged in the head piece, wherein at least one heat pipe extends inside the shaft, wherein a proximal end section of the at least one heat pipe is thermally coupled to the heat source and wherein the endoscope comprises an optical system which is closed by a cover glass arranged in a distal end section of the shaft. The heat source is a light source for generating an illumination radiation. The at least one heat pipe extends in the distal direction as far as the distal end section of the shaft, and at least one distal end section of the heat pipe is thermally coupled to the distal end section of the shaft. The technology also relates to a method for operating an endoscope and a method for producing an endoscope.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 28, 2020Publication date: December 3, 2020Inventors: Daniel ULMSCHNEIDER, Christian CZUPALLA
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Publication number: 20200367738Abstract: An imaging medical instrument such as an endoscope, an exoscope or microscope having a shaft, in which an optical fiber bundle extends from the proximal to the distal end for illuminating field and in which a lens system is arranged for transmitting an image of the field. A light source inputs coupling light into the one proximal end of the optical fiber bundle with a multiplicity of selectively actuatable individual light sources arranged in an array-like manner, with a camera for capturing the transmitted image of the field of view and with a control unit for selectively actuating the individual light sources of the light source for adapting the illumination field. Here, the illumination field has a different form to the field of view.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 20, 2020Publication date: November 26, 2020Inventor: Christian Czupalla
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Patent number: 10383507Abstract: A sterile sleeve for a medical viewing instrument, in particular for an endoscope, exoscope or surgical microscope, designed to enclose at least one heat-emitting component of the medical viewing instrument, has an air inlet, an air outlet, and means for conveying and/or guiding an air stream from the air inlet through the sterile sleeve to the air outlet in order to carry off the heat emitted by the at least one heat-emitting component. The invention also relates to a method for operating a medical viewing instrument, in particular an endoscope, exoscope or surgical microscope.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2015Date of Patent: August 20, 2019Assignee: Karl Storz SE & Co. KGInventors: Christian Czupalla, Markus Kupferschmid, Benedikt Köhler
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Patent number: 10350024Abstract: An RFID transponder for a medical instrument and/or for an endoscope includes at least one printed circuit board carrying an antenna embodied as at least one conductor track of the printed circuit board and an RFID circuit coupled to the antenna, wherein the at least one printed circuit board has a substantially ring-shaped embodiment and the at least one conductor track is embodied on a radially extending surface of the printed circuit board. A medical instrument and/or endoscope including an RFID transponder, and to an assembly method for a medical instrument and/or endoscope including an RFID transponder.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2016Date of Patent: July 16, 2019Assignee: Karl Storz SE & Co. KGInventors: Raik Kube, Christian Czupalla
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Patent number: 10285577Abstract: A medical instrument includes a hermetically tight sheath, a heat source, a surface area thermally coupled to the heat source, a rotor arranged outside the hermetically tight sheath and serving to generate a flow of fluid at the surface, a magnet at the rotor, and means for generating a variable magnetic field in order to move the rotor. The means for generating a variable magnetic field is arranged inside the hermetically tight sheath.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2014Date of Patent: May 14, 2019Assignee: Karl Storz SE & Co. KGInventors: Christian Czupalla, Markus Kupferschmid, Andreas Heni
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Publication number: 20190014979Abstract: An imaging medical instrument such as an endoscope, an exoscope or microscope having a shaft, in which an optical fiber bundle extends from the proximal to the distal end for illuminating field and in which a lens system is arranged for transmitting an image of the field. A light source inputs coupling light into the one proximal end of the optical fiber bundle with a multiplicity of selectively actuatable individual light sources arranged in an array-like manner, with a camera for capturing the transmitted image of the field of view and with a control unit for selectively actuating the individual light sources of the light source for adapting the illumination field. Here, the illumination field has a different form to the field of view.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 12, 2018Publication date: January 17, 2019Inventor: Christian Czupalla
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Publication number: 20170172701Abstract: An RFID transponder for a medical instrument and/or for an endoscope includes at least one printed circuit board carrying an antenna embodied as at least one conductor track of the printed circuit board and an RFID circuit coupled to the antenna, wherein the at least one printed circuit board has a substantially ring-shaped embodiment and the at least one conductor track is embodied on a radially extending surface of the printed circuit board. A medical instrument and/or endoscope including an RFID transponder, and to an assembly method for a medical instrument and/or endoscope including an RFID transponder.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 16, 2016Publication date: June 22, 2017Inventors: Raik Kube, Christian Czupalla
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Publication number: 20170112369Abstract: An optical instrument for capturing stereo images includes two optical devices for producing a real image in each case, two carriages, which are each movable along a predetermined path relative to one of the optical devices, two image sensors, each with a light-sensitive surface for capturing the respective real image, with one of the image sensors in each case being fastened to the carriage, and one reflecting surface in the beam path between the optical device and the image sensor in each case.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 24, 2016Publication date: April 27, 2017Inventors: Christian Czupalla, Peter Eisenkolb, Andreas Heni, Markus Kupferschmid
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Publication number: 20160038013Abstract: A sterile sleeve for a medical viewing instrument, in particular for an endoscope, exoscope or surgical microscope, designed to enclose at least one heat-emitting component of the medical viewing instrument, has an air inlet, an air outlet, and means for conveying and/or guiding an air stream from the air inlet through the sterile sleeve to the air outlet in order to carry off the heat emitted by the at least one heat-emitting component. The invention also relates to a method for operating a medical viewing instrument, in particular an endoscope, exoscope or surgical microscope.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 30, 2015Publication date: February 11, 2016Inventors: Christian Czupalla, Markus Kupferschmid, Benedikt Köhler
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Publication number: 20150087998Abstract: A medical instrument includes a hermetically tight sheath, a heat source, a surface area thermally coupled to the heat source, a rotor arranged outside the hermetically tight sheath and serving to generate a flow of fluid at the surface, a magnet at the rotor, and means for generating a variable magnetic field in order to move the rotor. The means for generating a variable magnetic field is arranged inside the hermetically tight sheath.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 24, 2014Publication date: March 26, 2015Inventors: Christian Czupalla, Markus Kupferschmid, Andreas Heni
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Patent number: D667545Type: GrantFiled: September 6, 2011Date of Patent: September 18, 2012Assignee: Karl Storz GmbH & Co. KGInventor: Christian Czupalla
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Patent number: D667547Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2011Date of Patent: September 18, 2012Assignee: Karl Storz GmbH & Co. KGInventor: Christian Czupalla
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Patent number: D709192Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2012Date of Patent: July 15, 2014Assignee: KARL STORZ GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Christian Czupalla, Stefan Weiss
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Patent number: D745670Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 2014Date of Patent: December 15, 2015Assignee: KARL STORZ GmbH & Co. KGInventor: Christian Czupalla
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Patent number: D798445Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2015Date of Patent: September 26, 2017Assignee: KARL STORZ GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Andreas Heni, Christian Czupalla