TWM539904U - Endoscopic instrument and waterproof components thereof - Google Patents

Description

Endoscope instrument and its waterproof component

The present invention relates to an endoscope instrument and a waterproof member thereof, and more particularly to a waterproof member of an endoscope instrument capable of using the waterproof member to prevent a bodily fluid contamination of a patient when the patient performs endoscopic examination.

Press, when the patient wants to intubate, the medical staff will pass a tracheal tube through the throat of the patient through the throat and glottis to enter the deep part of the trachea, supplemented by a respirator to solve the patient's breathing difficulties, breathing Weak or respiratory failure and other issues. In order to enable the medical staff to accurately and quickly find the trachea, an endoscope instrument with a lens is generally used, so that the medical staff can obtain the position of the patient's trachea by observing the lens.

In detail, the endoscope instrument has a catheter with a lens at the front end of the catheter, and the medical staff slides the catheter through the patient's mouth to the throat, and uses the lens to find the position of the patient's trachea. In the above process, the patient's body fluid will come into contact with the catheter, causing contamination of the catheter. Although the medical staff will clean and disinfect the endoscope instrument afterwards, however, since the endoscope instrument is a high unit price instrument, the patient must still share the same endoscope instrument with others, thereby increasing the infection. risk.

For example, in order to reduce the risk of infection, the Taiwan Society for Infectious Control has revised the standard of cleaning and disinfection of endoscope instruments, mainly including manual cleaning and automatic machine sterilization. In addition, the minimum disinfection solution is monitored. Effective concentration, regular monitoring of disinfection quality by bacterial culture, regular disinfection procedures and auditing of the working environment and diligent testing Measures such as the integrity of the appearance of the sight glass instrument can greatly reduce the chance of infection of the endoscope instrument. In recent years, under the formulation of the standard of cleaning and disinfection of endoscope instruments, the factors of sharing endoscope instruments have become less common, and the problem of cross-infection between patients and others has occurred. However, the standard operating procedures for cleaning and disinfecting endoscope instruments are quite time consuming and costly.

In view of the above, it is necessary to provide a waterproof member of an endoscope instrument capable of preventing a body fluid of a patient from being contaminated by a waterproof member when performing endoscopy.

In order to solve the above problems, the purpose of the present invention is to provide an endoscope instrument and a waterproof component thereof, which can cover a catheter of an endoscope instrument to a closed by the waterproof component when the patient performs an endoscope inspection. In the space, the body fluid of the patient cannot be in contact with the catheter, and the effect of preventing the body fluid of the patient from contaminating the catheter is effective.

An endoscope instrument and a waterproof component thereof of the present invention comprise: a waterproof component formed by an opening recessed into a cavity, the periphery of the opening forming a first joint portion, the waterproof component being in the chamber The wall surface is provided with a transparent portion, the transparent portion is opposite to the opening in an axial direction; and an inspection module has a conduit through which the conduit penetrates into the chamber, and the two ends of the conduit are respectively provided with an image capturing component And a second bonding portion, the image capturing element faces the transparent portion, and the second bonding portion is coupled to the first bonding portion.

Wherein, the waterproof element is a tube body, the inside of the tube body forms the chamber, the tube body has opposite ends, one end of the tube body forms the opening, and the other end is closed to form the transparent portion, the opening is A telescopic portion is formed between the transparent portions. In this way, the patient's body fluid cannot be in contact with the catheter, and has the effect of preventing the patient's body fluid from contaminating the catheter.

Wherein, the tube body is combined with a light transmissive element at the transparent portion. In this way, the image capturing component can more clearly capture images in the throat of the patient, and has the effect of improving image sharpness.

The light transmitting component is a glass sheet, an acrylic sheet or a plastic sheet. In this way, the image capturing component can clearly capture images in the patient's throat and enhance image clarity. The effect.

Wherein, the expansion and contraction portion forms a bellows tube structure. In this way, by allowing the telescopic portion to expand and contract, the waterproof member can be applied to a catheter having a curvature, and has an effect of improving the range of use.

Wherein, the transparent portion is an elastic sleeve. In this way, by allowing the transparent portion to expand and contract, the waterproof member can be applied to a catheter having a curvature, and has an effect of improving the range of use.

Wherein, the waterproof component is an elastic sleeve. In this way, by flexing and deforming the elastic sleeve body, the elastic sleeve body can be applied to a catheter having a curvature, and has the effect of improving the use range.

Wherein, the transparent portion forms a light transmissive element. In this way, the image capturing component can clearly capture the image in the throat of the patient, and has the effect of improving the sharpness of the image.

Wherein, the light transmissive element is a transparent film. In this way, the image capturing component can clearly capture the image in the throat of the patient, and has the effect of improving the sharpness of the image.

The endoscope device further includes an endotracheal tube having a third joint portion at one end thereof, the inner portion of the inner tube of the trachea is for arranging the waterproof member, and the third joint portion of the inner tube of the trachea is combined The second joint of the inspection module. In this way, oxygen can be directly delivered to the patient's trachea, which has the effect of increasing the concentration of oxygen absorbed by the patient.

The inspection module further includes a grip portion, and the catheter is coupled to the grip portion. In this way, the catheter can be conveniently operated by the medical staff, and the utility model has the advantages of improving the convenience of operation.

The inspection module further includes a display coupled to the image capturing component. In this way, the medical staff can quickly find the position of the trachea by viewing the image taken by the imaging element, thereby improving the efficiency of use.

Accordingly, the endoscope instrument and the waterproof member thereof of the present invention can cover the catheter of the endoscope instrument in a closed space when the patient performs endoscopy. When intubating, Compared with the previous medical staff, the catheter of the endoscope instrument was directly inserted into the throat of the patient, and the body fluid of the patient was in contact with the catheter to cause contamination of the catheter. The present invention encapsulates the catheter with a waterproof member to make the catheter It is isolated from the body fluid of the patient to avoid contact between the catheter and the patient's body fluid. This creation has the effect of preventing the body fluid from contaminating the catheter.

1‧‧‧Waterproof components

11,11’‧‧‧ openings

111,111’‧‧‧ first joint

12,12’‧‧ ‧ room

13,13’,13”‧‧·Transparent Department

14‧‧‧Flexing Department

15,16,16’‧‧‧Lighting components

D‧‧‧Axial

2‧‧‧Inspection module

21‧‧‧ catheter

211‧‧‧Image taking components

212‧‧‧Second junction

22‧‧‧ grip

23‧‧‧ Display

3‧‧‧tracheal tube

31‧‧‧ Third Joint Department

Figure 1: An exploded view of the endoscope instrument of this creation.

Figure 2: The first embodiment of the water-repellent element of the present invention is incorporated into an exploded perspective view of the endoscope module.

Fig. 3 is a view showing the state of use of the first embodiment of the waterproof member of the present invention.

Fig. 4 is a view showing the state of use of the second embodiment of the waterproof member of the present invention.

Fig. 5: A third embodiment of the waterproof member of the present invention is incorporated into an exploded view of the endotracheal tube.

Fig. 6 is a cross-sectional view showing the mounting of the third embodiment of the waterproof member of the present invention.

Fig. 7 is a view showing the state of use of the third embodiment of the waterproof member of the present invention.

In order to make the above and other objects, features and advantages of the present invention more comprehensible, the preferred embodiments of the present invention are described in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings.

The "coupled connection" as used in the context of the present invention refers to the communication between two devices via wired or wireless communication technology, but not limited thereto, which can be understood by those having ordinary knowledge in the technical field to which the present invention belongs. .

Please refer to FIG. 1 , which is an exploded perspective view of the present endoscope instrument, comprising: a waterproof component 1 and an inspection module 2 , the waterproof component 1 being coupled to the inspection module 2 .

The waterproofing element 1 is recessed by an opening 11 to form a chamber 12, the periphery of the opening 11 forming a first joint portion 111, and the waterproof member 1 is provided on the wall surface of the chamber 12 The transparent portion 13 is opposite to the opening 11 in an axial direction D.

Referring to FIG. 1 , in the first embodiment of the present invention, the waterproof component 1 can be a waterproof body (such as a silicone tube or a plastic tube) having opposite ends. One end of the tubular body forms the opening 11, and the other end is closed to form the transparent portion 13. Moreover, a telescopic portion 14 is formed between the opening 11 and the transparent portion 13. The telescopic portion 14 can form a bellows structure, thereby allowing the waterproof member 1 to be adapted to be flexibly deformed by the expansion and contraction portion 14 On the catheter with curvature, it has the effect of improving the scope of use. In addition, the interior of the tube body forms the chamber 12, and the transparent portion 13 can be further combined with a light transmissive element 15 (such as a light transmissive sheet), which can make the inspection module 2 clearer. The image in the patient's throat is used to enhance the clarity of the image.

Please refer to FIG. 4, which is a second embodiment of the present invention, which is substantially the same as the first embodiment of the present invention, and the difference is only closed at the other end of the tube body to form a transparent portion 13'. 13' can be bonded to the telescopic portion 14 by injection molding or bonding, and the transparent portion 13' can be an elastic sleeve made of a silicone film material, but not limited thereto. In addition, the transparent portion 13 ′ can be combined with a transparent component 16 (eg, a transparent film), and the transparent component 16 abuts the imaging component 211 to enable the imaging component 211 to more clearly capture the throat of the patient. Image, which has the effect of improving image clarity.

The inspection module 2 includes a catheter 21, and the catheter 21 is inserted into the chamber 12 from the opening 11. The two ends of the catheter 21 are respectively provided with an image capturing component 211 and a second bonding portion 212. The image element 211 is opposite to the transparent portion 13 , 13 ′ , and the second joint portion 212 is coupled to the first joint portion 111 , and the joint manner can be combined by screwing, tight fitting, locking, etc., but is not limited thereto. . In addition, the inspection module 2 can further include a grip portion 22, which is combined with the catheter 21, so that the medical staff can conveniently operate the catheter 21, which has the effect of improving the convenience of operation. In addition, the inspection module 2 further has a display 23 coupled to the image capturing component 211 for displaying an image captured by the image capturing component 211, so that the medical staff can By looking at the image, the position of the trachea can be quickly found, which has the effect of improving the efficiency of use. In the present invention, the display 23 is a device having a display function, such as a liquid crystal screen, but is not limited thereto.

In addition, the present endoscope instrument may further comprise an endotracheal tube 3, one end of the endotracheal tube 3 has a third joint portion 31, and the endotracheal tube 3 is sleeved with the waterproof element 1 and coupled to The second joint portion 212 of the inspection module 2 is mainly used for directly feeding oxygen into the trachea of the patient, thereby providing high concentration of oxygen, and has the effect of increasing the concentration of oxygen absorbed by the patient. In addition, the construction of the endotracheal tube 3 is well understood by those of ordinary skill in the art and will not be further described herein.

Please refer to FIG. 2 , which is a setting of the first embodiment of the present invention. The waterproof component 1 is used to receive the conduit 21 in the chamber 12 and the image capturing component 211 of the inspection module 2 is attached. Connected to the transparent portion 13, the first joint portion 111 is coupled to the second joint portion 212. Thus, the conduit 21 is placed in a closed space, and the body fluid of the patient can be prevented from coming into contact with the catheter 21 to cause contamination. It has the effect of preventing the body fluid from contaminating the catheter.

Please refer to the figures 3 and 4, which are the use cases of the first and second embodiments of the present invention. When the medical staff wants to perform intubation treatment, firstly, the endotracheal tube 3 is along the mouth of the patient. Threading deep into the throat, and then, the inspection module 2 of the waterproof member 1 is sheathed, the catheter 21 is inserted into the endotracheal tube 3, and the third joint portion 31 of the endotracheal tube 3 is coupled to After the second joint portion 212 of the inspection module 2, the position of the trachea is searched for, the tracheal inner tube 3 is inserted into the trachea of the patient, and oxygen is directly sent to the trachea of the patient via the endotracheal tube 3. To provide enough oxygen for the patient.

Please refer to FIG. 5 , which is a third embodiment of the present invention. The waterproof component 1 is an elastic sleeve body, which can be made of a silicone film material, but is not limited thereto. The present invention can make the waterproof member 1 adaptable to the curved catheter by the elastic deformation of the elastic sleeve body, and has the effect of improving the use range. The waterproof member 1 is recessed by an opening 11' to form a chamber 12', the periphery of the opening 11' forms a first joint portion 111', and the waterproof member 1 is provided with a transparent portion 13" on the wall surface of the chamber 12', the transparent portion 13" and the opening 11' along the axis Relative to D. In addition, the transparent portion 13 ′′ can be combined with a transparent component 16 ′ (eg, a transparent film), and the transparent component 16 ′ abuts the imaging component 211 to enable the imaging component 211 to more clearly capture the patient's throat. The image in the image has the effect of improving the sharpness of the image.

Referring to FIG. 6 together, it is a setting of the third embodiment of the present invention. First, the waterproof member 1 is coupled to the third joint portion of the endotracheal tube 3 by the first joint portion 111'. 31. The bonding method is to fix the waterproof component 1 to the inner tube 3 by means of bonding, but not limited thereto. Then, the catheter 21 of the inspection module 2 is inserted into the chamber 12' of the waterproof member 1 from the opening 11', and the image capturing member 211 is abutted against the transparent portion 13", and the air tube is The inner tube 3 is coupled to the second joint portion 212 of the inspection module 2 such that the catheter 21 is placed in a closed space formed by the waterproof member 1 to prevent the body fluid of the patient from contaminating the catheter 21.

Please refer to FIG. 7 , which is a use case of the third embodiment of the present creation. When the medical staff is to perform intubation treatment, first, the endotracheal tube 3 equipped with the waterproof element 1 is along the patient's condition. The mouth is extended to the depth of the throat, and then the catheter 21 of the inspection module 2 is inserted into the chamber 12' of the waterproof member 1 from the opening 11', and the endotracheal tube 3 is coupled to the inspection module 2 After the second joint portion 212, the position of the trachea is searched for, the tracheal inner tube 3 is inserted into the trachea of the patient, and oxygen is directly sent to the trachea of the patient via the endotracheal tube 3, thereby providing sufficient condition for the patient. Oxygen.

In summary, the present endoscope instrument and its waterproof component can cover the catheter of the endoscope instrument in a closed space formed by the waterproof component when the patient performs endoscopy. When the intubation is performed, the catheter of the endoscopic instrument is directly inserted into the throat of the patient, and the body fluid of the patient is in contact with the catheter to cause contamination of the catheter. The present invention uses a waterproof component to guide the catheter. Cover it, so that the catheter is isolated from the patient's body fluid, avoiding the catheter and The patient's body fluid contact, this creation has the effect of preventing the body fluid contamination of the patient.

Although the present invention has been disclosed by the above-described preferred embodiments, it is not intended to limit the present invention, and it is still within the spirit and scope of the present invention to make various changes and modifications to the above embodiments. The technical scope of the protection is created, so the scope of protection of this creation is subject to the definition of the patent application scope attached.

1‧‧‧Waterproof components

11‧‧‧ openings

111‧‧‧ first joint

12‧‧ ‧ room

13‧‧‧Transparent Department

14‧‧‧Flexing Department

15‧‧‧Lighting components

D‧‧‧Axial

2‧‧‧Inspection module

21‧‧‧ catheter

211‧‧‧Image taking components

212‧‧‧Second junction

22‧‧‧ grip

23‧‧‧ Display

3‧‧‧tracheal tube

31‧‧‧ Third Joint Department

Claims (21)

A waterproof member is formed by recessing an opening to form a chamber, the periphery of the opening forming a first joint structure, the waterproof member is provided with a transparent portion on a wall surface of the chamber, the transparent portion and the opening along an axis To the opposite. The waterproof member according to claim 1, wherein the waterproof member is a tube body, the inside of the tube body forms the chamber, the tube body has opposite ends, and one end of the tube body forms the opening The other end is closed to form the transparent portion, and an expansion and contraction portion is formed between the opening and the transparent portion. The waterproof member according to claim 2, wherein the tube body is combined with a light transmitting member at the transparent portion. The waterproof component of claim 3, wherein the light transmissive component is a glass sheet, an acrylic sheet or a plastic sheet. The waterproof member according to claim 2, wherein the expansion and contraction portion forms a bellows tube structure. The waterproof member according to claim 1, wherein the transparent portion is an elastic sleeve. The waterproof member of claim 1, wherein the waterproof member is an elastic sleeve. The waterproof member according to claim 6 or 7, wherein the transparent portion forms a light transmitting member. The waterproof member according to claim 8, wherein the light transmitting member is a transparent film. An endoscope device comprising: a waterproof member formed by a recessed recess forming a chamber, the peripheral edge of the opening forming a first joint portion, the waterproof member being provided with a transparent portion on a wall surface of the chamber, the transparent And the opening along An axially opposite; and an inspection module having a conduit through which the conduit penetrates into the chamber, the two ends of the conduit being respectively provided with an image taking component and a second joint, the image capturing component facing the a transparent portion, the second joint portion being coupled to the first joint portion. The endoscope device according to claim 10, wherein the waterproof member is a tube body, the inside of the tube body forms the chamber, the tube body has opposite ends, and one end of the tube body is formed. The opening is closed at the other end to form the transparent portion, and a flexible portion is formed between the opening and the transparent portion. The endoscope instrument of claim 11, wherein the tube body incorporates a light transmissive element in the transparent portion. . The endoscope device according to claim 12, wherein the light transmissive element is a glass piece, an acrylic sheet or a plastic sheet. The endoscope instrument of claim 11, wherein the telescopic portion forms a bellows structure. The endoscope instrument of claim 10, wherein the transparent portion is an elastic sleeve. The endoscope instrument of claim 10, wherein the waterproof member is an elastic sleeve. The endoscope instrument of claim 15 or 16, wherein the transparent portion forms a light transmissive element. The endoscope instrument of claim 17, wherein the light transmissive element is a transparent film. The endoscope device according to claim 10, wherein the endoscope device further comprises an endotracheal tube, wherein one end of the endotracheal tube has a third joint portion, and the inner tube of the tracheal tube is used for a sleeve Providing the waterproof component, the third joint of the inner tube of the trachea is coupled to the inspection module Two joints. The endoscope instrument of claim 10, wherein the inspection module further comprises a grip portion, the conduit being coupled to the grip portion. The endoscope device of claim 10, wherein the inspection module further comprises a display coupled to the imaging element.