Patents by Inventor Timo PFANDER

Timo PFANDER 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).

  • Illumination device for fluorescence image guided surgery and surgical instrument
    Patent number: 11940642
    Abstract: An illumination device for fluorescence image guided surgery and a surgical instrument. The illumination device includes a glass rod, a mixing rod and a plurality of optical fibers surrounding a circumferential surface of the glass rod. A first mixing rod end face of the mixing rod abuts a second rod end face of the glass rod and end faces of the optical fibers, so that white light and excitation light are guided and homogenized in the mixing rod.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: OLYMPUS WINTER & IBE GMBH
    Inventors: Konrad Anders, Matthias Dissel, Jens Klinder, Sven Pabst, Timo Pfander
  • ILLUMINATION DEVICE FOR FLUORESCENCE IMAGE GUIDED SURGERY AND SURGICAL INSTRUMENT
    Publication number: 20240053526
    Abstract: An illumination device for fluorescence image guided surgery and a surgical instrument. The illumination device includes a glass rod, a mixing rod and a plurality of optical fibers surrounding a circumferential surface of the glass rod. A first mixing rod end face of the mixing rod abuts a second rod end face of the glass rod and end faces of the optical fibers, so that white light and excitation light are guided and homogenized in the mixing rod.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2023
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Applicant: OLYMPUS Winter & Ibe GmbH
    Inventors: Konrad ANDERS, Matthias DISSEL, Jens KLINDER, Sven PABST, Timo PFANDER
  • VIDEO ENDOSCOPE
    Publication number: 20220373781
    Abstract: A video endoscope including: an outer cladding tube, a fiber tube accommodated in the outer cladding tube, wherein the fiber tube has a housing bounding a closed space with a distal end and a proximal end, wherein a front-side window is provided at the distal end of the fiber tube, the fiber tube having an inner tube (for accommodating an imaging sensor , and a heating foil provided between the fiber tube and the inner tube. Where, the heating foil is adapted to heat the front-side window at the distal end of the fiber tube.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2022
    Publication date: November 24, 2022
    Applicant: OLYMPUS Winter & Ibe GmbH
    Inventors: Martin WIETERS, Sebastian JUNGBAUER, Timo PFANDER, Claudia STOETER, Mathias LASER