Patents by Inventor Thomas Hinding
Thomas Hinding 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: 11954906Abstract: The invention relates to an endoscopic device, in particular medical or industrial endoscopic device, wherein the endoscopic device comprises, as components, a light source, an optical fiber, a camera, and an endoscope comprising an optical element or a plurality of optical elements, and at least one optical element comprises an optical marking for verifying an identity of the optical element and/or of the endoscope such that the optical marking can be detected by the camera for verifying the identity and/or a configuration of the endoscopic device. The invention furthermore relates to a method for verifying an identity of a component of an endoscopic device, and a computer program product for evaluating an image acquisition of an optical marking of an optical element and for identifying an endoscope of an endoscopic device.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2021Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: KARL STORZ SE & Co. KGInventor: Thomas Hinding
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Publication number: 20240050112Abstract: The disclosure relates to a lithotripsy device comprising an elongate probe, which can be inserted into a body interior of a human or animal body, and a drive arrangement for deflecting the probe, which is arranged at a proximal portion of the probe, the drive arrangement comprising an ultrasonic converter unit for exciting ultrasonic vibrations in the direction of a longitudinal extension of the probe, and the drive arrangement having a deflection device for exerting a time-varying force onto the probe in a direction transversely to the longitudinal extension of the probe. The disclosure also relates to a lithotripsy system and to a method for operating a lithotripsy device.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2021Publication date: February 15, 2024Applicant: KARL STORZ SE & CO. KGInventors: Marius Funder, Bernhard Glöggler, Thomas Hinding, Florian Huber, Beat Krattiger
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Publication number: 20230293194Abstract: The invention relates to a method for determining an optimal frequency of an oscillating movement of a force-accelerated projectile of an intracorporeal pneumatic lithotripsy apparatus, including the following steps: repeatedly accelerating the projectile from a first proximal stop of an acceleration path to a second distal stop, and from the second stop to the first stop, wherein a piezo element is arranged between a proximally arranged counter bearing and a distally arranged horn and is mechanically coupled to the counter bearing and to the horn, and the horn has a distally arranged sonotrode, wherein the acceleration path is arranged in the interior of the counter bearing and of the horn and the first stop is arranged at a distal end of the counter bearing and the second stop is arranged at a distal end of the horn, detecting an electrical signal from the piezo element caused by a tremor at the first stop and/or the second stop as a result of the projectile; and using the detected electrical signal to contType: ApplicationFiled: June 29, 2021Publication date: September 21, 2023Inventors: Thomas Hinding, Bernhard Glöggler
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Publication number: 20220180096Abstract: The invention relates to an endoscopic device, in particular medical or industrial endoscopic device, wherein the endoscopic device comprises, as components, a light source, an optical fiber, a camera, and an endoscope comprising an optical element or a plurality of optical elements, and at least one optical element comprises an optical marking for verifying an identity of the optical element and/or of the endoscope such that the optical marking can be detected by the camera for verifying the identity and/or a configuration of the endoscopic device. The invention furthermore relates to a method for verifying an identity of a component of an endoscopic device, and a computer program product for evaluating an image acquisition of an optical marking of an optical element and for identifying an endoscope of an endoscopic device.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 27, 2021Publication date: June 9, 2022Inventor: Thomas HINDING
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Publication number: 20220061638Abstract: The invention relates to an illumination device (10) for an endoscope (20), the device comprising illumination means (1) for coupling light into a light guide (2) connectable to the device, the illumination means comprising an LED matrix array (3) comprising a plurality of LED pixels (4a, . . . , 4n) forming an emission area (4), and the device comprising a light guide port (5) associated with the illumination means (1) for positioning a light-guiding transmission area (2a), which is disposed at an end of the light guide, essentially orthogonally to a main emission direction (L) of the emission area (4) of the LED matrix array (3), wherein the device comprises detection means which are configured to detect LED pixels of the emission area (4) that are directed at non-light-guiding portions (7a, , . . . , 7n) of the light guide (2) in the main emission direction (L), and wherein the device (10) has a control unit (8) which is configured to selectively operate the LED pixels (4a, . . .Type: ApplicationFiled: July 29, 2021Publication date: March 3, 2022Inventors: Thomas HINDING, Bernhard GLOEGGLER, Werner GOEBEL, Teresa PFAU
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Publication number: 20200305963Abstract: A bipolar electrosurgical tool (20) for a bipolar electrosurgical instrument (10) includes a first jaw part (30) with a first gripping face (31), a second jaw part (40) with a second gripping face (41) facing the first gripping face (31), a joint (50) that enables the second jaw part (40) to move pivotally in relation to the first jaw part (30), a first electrode (63) on the first jaw part (30) and a second electrode (64) on the first jaw part (30). The second electrode (64) is electrically insulated from the first electrode (63). There is no electrode arranged on the second jaw part (40).Type: ApplicationFiled: March 27, 2020Publication date: October 1, 2020Inventors: Sebastian WAGNER, Sebastian WENZLER, Klaus IRION, Axel STICKEL, Thomas HINDING, Emma HAAF
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Patent number: 9072454Abstract: A light source device for endoscopic or exoscopic applications includes a flat first light source, a second light source, an illuminating beam path that is configured to provide a first light beam emanating from the first light source for an endoscopic or exoscopic application, and a coupling device to couple a second light beam from the second light source into the illuminating beam path, whereby the coupling device is configured in such a way that at the coupling site the cross-section surface of the second light beam is smaller than the cross-section surface of the first light beam.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2011Date of Patent: July 7, 2015Assignee: KARL STORZ GMBH & CO. KGInventors: Klaus-Martin Irion, Thomas Hinding, Werner Goebel
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Publication number: 20150105668Abstract: An endoscopic, exoscopic or microscopic apparatus for fluorescence diagnosis comprises a light source designed to emit light in a first spectral range and light in a second spectral range in a fluorescence mode The second spectral range is at least partly separate from the first spectral range. The light source has at least one first semiconductor illuminant which emits the light in the first spectral range in the fluorescence mode. The light source has at least one second semiconductor illuminant which emits the light in the second spectral range in the fluorescence mode. The apparatus comprises an open-loop or closed-loop control device, which keeps constant a preset ratio of a first intensity of the light in the first spectral range and a second intensity of the light in the second spectral range.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 15, 2014Publication date: April 16, 2015Inventors: Andre Ehrhardt, Gerd Beck, Bernhard Gloeggler, Klaus-Martin Irion, Thomas Hinding, Uwe Martin
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Patent number: 8858233Abstract: A simulation system for training in endoscopic procedures includes an endoscope apparatus, which includes an operating part with at least one valve, a control device to generate a virtual image of an endoscopic operating scene depending on an actuation of the valve and a display device to display the virtual image, the endoscope apparatus includes for example a siphoning line, an insufflation line and/or a flushing line upon which the valve acts. The simulation system includes pressure-generating means to impact the siphoning line, the insufflation line and/or the flushing line with reduced or excess pressure, sensor means to measure pressure and/or flow in the siphoning line, the insufflation line and/or the flushing line and transmission means to transmit the measured values provided by the sensor means to the control device to be used in generating the virtual image.Type: GrantFiled: October 4, 2010Date of Patent: October 14, 2014Assignee: Karl Storz GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Bjoern Speiser, Bernhard Gloeggler, Thomas Hinding
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Patent number: 8834171Abstract: A simulation system for training in endoscopic operations includes an endoscope apparatus, including at least one input for inserting an endoscopic working instrument, a sensor arrangement to detect a movement of the endoscopic working instrument, a control device to generate a virtual image of an endoscopic operation scene depending on a movement of the endoscopic working instrument, transmission means to transmit measured values supplied by the sensor arrangement to the control device for use in generating the virtual image and a display device to display the virtual image, where the sensor arrangement includes at least one optic sensor that interacts with a surface of a shaft of the endoscopic working instrument to detect the movement of the endoscopic working instrument. A flexible endoscope, an endoscopic working instrument and a method for recording a movement of an endoscopic working instrument as well as a method for training in endoscopic operations.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 2010Date of Patent: September 16, 2014Assignee: Karl Storz GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Bernhard Gloeggler, Bjoern Speiser, Thomas Hinding
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Publication number: 20110235324Abstract: A light source device for endoscopic or exoscopic applications includes a flat first light source, a second light source, an illuminating beam path that is configured to provide a first light beam emanating from the first light source for an endoscopic or exoscopic application, and a coupling device to couple a second light beam from the second light source into the illuminating beam path, whereby the coupling device is configured in such a way that at the coupling site the cross-section surface of the second light beam is smaller than the cross-section surface of the first light beam.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 29, 2011Publication date: September 29, 2011Inventors: Klaus-Martin Irion, Thomas Hinding, Werner Goebel
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Publication number: 20110212426Abstract: A simulation system for training in endoscopic operations includes an endoscope apparatus, including at least one input for inserting an endoscopic working instrument, a sensor arrangement to detect a movement of the endoscopic working instrument, a control device to generate a virtual image of an endoscopic operation scene depending on a movement of the endoscopic working instrument, transmission means to transmit measured values supplied by the sensor arrangement to the control device for use in generating the virtual image and a display device to display the virtual image, where the sensor arrangement includes at least one optic sensor that interacts with a surface of a shaft of the endoscopic working instrument to detect the movement of the endoscopic working instrument. A flexible endoscope, an endoscopic working instrument and a method for recording a movement of an endoscopic working instrument as well as a method for training in endoscopic operations.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 8, 2010Publication date: September 1, 2011Inventors: Bernhard Gloeggler, Bjoern Speiser, Thomas Hinding
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Publication number: 20110086332Abstract: A simulation system for training in endoscopic procedures includes an endoscope apparatus, which includes an operating part with at least one valve, a control device to generate a virtual image of an endoscopic operating scene depending on an actuation of the valve and a display device to display the virtual image, the endoscope apparatus includes for example a siphoning line, an insufflation line and/or a flushing line upon which the valve acts. The simulation system includes pressure-generating means to impact the siphoning line, the insufflation line and/or the flushing line with reduced or excess pressure, sensor means to measure pressure and/or flow in the siphoning line, the insufflation line and/or the flushing line and transmission means to transmit the measured values provided by the sensor means to the control device to be used in generating the virtual image.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 4, 2010Publication date: April 14, 2011Inventors: Bjoern Speiser, Bernhard Gloeggler, Thomas Hinding