USRE47044E1 - Endoscope and method for assembling components of an optical system - Google Patents
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- A61B1/00—Instruments for performing medical examinations of the interior of cavities or tubes of the body by visual or photographical inspection, e.g. endoscopes; Illuminating arrangements therefor
- A61B1/00163—Optical arrangements
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- A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
- A61—MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE
- A61B—DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; IDENTIFICATION
- A61B1/00—Instruments for performing medical examinations of the interior of cavities or tubes of the body by visual or photographical inspection, e.g. endoscopes; Illuminating arrangements therefor
- A61B1/002—Instruments for performing medical examinations of the interior of cavities or tubes of the body by visual or photographical inspection, e.g. endoscopes; Illuminating arrangements therefor having rod-lens arrangements
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- G02B—OPTICAL ELEMENTS, SYSTEMS OR APPARATUS
- G02B23/00—Telescopes, e.g. binoculars; Periscopes; Instruments for viewing the inside of hollow bodies; Viewfinders; Optical aiming or sighting devices
- G02B23/24—Instruments or systems for viewing the inside of hollow bodies, e.g. fibrescopes
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- the invention relates to an endoscope, with a tubular shaft whose interior contains components, in particular lenses, spacers, diaphragms, prisms and filters of an optical system, said components being at least partially surrounded by a support piece made of shrunk material.
- the invention also relates to a method for assembling components, in particular lenses, spacers, diaphragms and filters of an optical system in the interior of a tubular shaft of an endoscope, said components being surrounded by a support piece made of shrunk material.
- the shrinkable material is used to fix the components of the optical system in the tubular shaft.
- the components are introduced into a support piece made of shrinkable material at least partially surrounding said components, and this unit is then pushed into the tubular shaft.
- the dimensions are such that a small gap remains between the outside face of the support piece and the inside face of the tubular shaft. As the material shrinks, it expands slightly in the radial direction and fills the gap, so that in this way the unit is fixed on the inside face of the tubular shaft.
- DE 39 12 720 C2 also discloses the use of a plastic shrinkable tube for positioning the elements of a relay lens system of an endoscope.
- the material is chosen such that it does not transmit light, i.e. is opaque. This is intended to ensure that light does not pass from the light guide into the area of the relay lens system or into the area of the objective lens and there cause reflections or glare.
- the lenses of the lens system can first be placed in a correct position.
- the shrinkable tube is then shrunk by application of heat so that it holds the lenses, without a lens fixture in the conventional sense being needed.
- This construction is intended to make it possible to produce endoscopes extremely inexpensively, and provision is therefore also made to produce the lenses from plastic.
- the aim is to fix the expensive components of the optical system to the inside face of a metal tubular shaft by using the shrink properties of the material surrounding these components.
- It is an object of the present invention is to further optimize an endoscope and a method for assembling components in such a way that, by using shrinkable materials, it is possible to fix the optical components relative to one another in a way which can also be checked.
- the object in respect of an endoscope is achieved by the fact that the components are surrounded by a transparent and tube-shaped shrunk material which has been shrunk before the components are introduced into the tubular shaft.
- the object in respect of a method is achieved by the following steps, namely introducing the components into a transparent and tube-shaped shrinkable material to form a unit, shrinking the material to fix the position of the components relative to one another, checking the position of the components relative to one another through the transparent shrunk material, and introducing the unit composed of shrunk tube-shaped material, and the components contained therein, into the tubular shaft.
- the optical system of an endoscope is made up of a succession of different optical components.
- a particularly good image quality can be obtained using what are referred to as rod lenses.
- rod lenses For this purpose, several rod lenses separated from one another by spacers are arranged in series, and other components such as diaphragms, filters or cover glasses or prisms can additionally be provided.
- the quality check of the optical system is normally made only after complete assembly of the endoscope. If optical errors are found, it is then very expensive to correct these, and in most cases the endoscope has to be completely dismantled.
- a transparent shrinkable material is used which in many respects affords advantages over the opaque materials known from the prior art.
- the position of the components relative to one another can be visually checked at the time the individual components are introduced into the material before it has been shrunk.
- all the components are surrounded by a single tube of transparent and shrunk material.
- This measure has the advantage that all the components are introduced into a single tube-shaped body and this unit can be handled as such after shrinking, for example can be simply inserted as a unit into the tubular shaft of the endoscope.
- This unit can be introduced into the endoscope shaft in the appropriate position of rotation or can be brought to the correct position of rotation after introduction. If, for example, a front closure forms a prism with a lateral angle of view, the position, that is to say lateral angle of view, can be chosen to the left, to the right, upward or downward.
- the components are fixed to the inside face of the tubular shaft via the tube-shaped shrunk material.
- the tube is fixed to the inside face of the tubular shaft by radial expansion of the shrunk material.
- the extent of the shrinking process can be controlled by the nature and duration of the shrink treatment.
- the shrink phenomenon is utilized so that the components introduced into the tube can be fixed relative to one another.
- a further shrinking process is carried out, its sole purpose being to fill the gap between the outside face of the unit, composed of pre-shrunk shrinkable tube and the components contained therein, and the inside face of the tubular shaft into which this unit is inserted, in order thereby to fix this unit on this inside face of the tubular shaft as it experiences a slight expansion in the radial direction during this further shrinking.
- certain preliminary treatments of the shrinkable tube can be envisaged, for example one or more beads in the form of rings or partial rings lying within the cross section.
- the unit composed of components and of transparent shrinkable material is inserted, before shrinkage, into a retaining device in which the unit lies in an oriented position.
- This measure has the advantage that the retaining device can provide additional measures for keeping the unit correctly aligned. It is also possible, after insertion in the retaining device, to check the unit for correct fit before the shrink process is instigated.
- the unit inserted in the retaining device can be additionally fixed by a partial vacuum.
- the unit is inserted into a groove of the retaining device.
- the unit inserted into the retaining device is weighed down by application of an object.
- This measure has the advantage that not only is a support provided in the direction of gravity by way of insertion, but bending in the sense of lifting up can be prevented by application of the object before shrinkage.
- the object is applied with a partial form fit onto the unit.
- This measure is of advantage if a great many small individual parts are assembled which have a tendency to change their position in the event of movements, for example during shrinkage.
- FIG. 1 shows a longitudinal section through a unit composed of a tube of transparent and shrinkable material and of optical components, namely rod lenses and spacers, before shrinkage,
- FIG. 2 shows a cross section of a retaining device in which the unit shown in FIG. 1 is inserted, specifically upon shrinkage,
- FIG. 3 shows a longitudinal section through an endoscope during assembly, into which endoscope the unit shown in FIG. 1 , after it has been shrunk in the retaining device 3 shown in FIG. 2 , is inserted into the tubular shaft, and
- FIG. 4 shows, on a greatly enlarged scale, a partial longitudinal section through a shaft of an endoscope in whose tubular shaft a unit according to the invention is inserted, the left-hand half showing the unit fixed on the inside face of the tubular shaft by adhesive contacts, and the right-hand side showing it being fixed by means of further shrinkage.
- a unit designated in its entirety by reference number 10 , comprises a tube 12 made of transparent and shrinkable material 14 .
- a plurality of components 16 of an optical system are introduced into the tube 12 , specifically, as viewed from left to right, a rod lens 18 , whose external diameter corresponds approximately to the clear internal diameter of the tube 12 , a tubular and stiff spacer 20 , a further rod lens 18 ′, a further spacer 21 , and a further rod lens 18 ′′.
- This unit 10 is shown only by way of example, and other components such as filters, diaphragms or the like can of course also be included. It is also possible to provide closure windows at the ends or, in the case of an angled side view, suitable prisms.
- the unit 10 is inserted into a retaining device 30 , as is shown in FIG. 2 .
- the retaining device 30 has an elongate body 32 whose length corresponds to least to the length of the unit 10 .
- a roughly plate-shaped object 36 is placed onto this protruding area and bears with an at least partial form fit on the top face of the unit 10 , as it were pressing said unit 10 into the groove 34 .
- the unit 10 is inserted and fixed in the retaining device 30 in such a way that a uniform shrinking of the material 14 of the tube 12 is possible, but with the unit still being fixed in position.
- the position can be fixed by use of a partial vacuum.
- at least one opening 35 is provided in the bottom of the groove 34 and can be connected via an attachment piece 39 to a partial vacuum source (not shown here).
- energy is supplied from an energy source 38 and causes the material 14 of the tube 12 to shrink.
- One energy source is, for example, heat, if the material is designed such that it shrinks when heated. It is of course also possible to heat the retaining device 30 itself or to cause heated fluid to flow onto the retaining device.
- the object 36 is taken off and the now shrunk unit 10 ′ is removed from the retaining device 30 .
- the shrunk unit 10 ′ is then inserted into a tubular shaft 42 of an endoscope 40 , as is shown in FIG. 3 .
- the endoscope 40 shown in FIG. 3 is represented highly schematically and, in addition to the tubular shaft 42 also referred to as inner tube, it also comprises an outer tube 44 of greater diameter which is mounted in a housing 50 .
- the tubular shaft 42 is received in the interior of the outer tube 44 .
- a light guide 46 is arranged in an approximately crescent-shaped space between tubular shaft 42 and outer tube 44 , said light guide 46 leading to a laterally angled light guide attachment 48 .
- the light guide 46 is composed of a bundle of light-conducting glass fibers.
- the state shown in FIG. 3 is a state of partial assembly in which the eyepiece cup is still to be applied to the right-hand end, and, if appropriate, closure components or the like to the left-hand end.
- FIG. 4 shows a cross section, on a greatly enlarged scale, through the shaft of an endoscope 40 , and, for the sake of clarity of the drawing, a slightly shorter spacer 20 ′ is shown here separating the two rod lenses 18 and 18 ′ from one another.
- the unit 10 ′ is inserted after shrinkage into the tubular shaft 42 received in the outer tube 44 .
- the external diameter is chosen in such a way that a small gap 52 is present between the outside face of the shrunk tube 12 and the inside face 56 of the tubular shaft 42 .
- this gap 52 is shown much larger than it really is.
- the width of the gap is chosen such that the shrunk unit 10 ′ can be pushed into the tubular shaft 42 easily, or at any rate with minimal resistance.
- FIG. 4 shows, on the left-hand side, that the unit 10 ′ is fixed on the inside face 56 of the tubular shaft 42 via an adhesive 54 .
- the adhesive 54 can either be introduced through openings (not shown here) from the outside or can be applied to the shrunk unit 10 ′ before the latter is inserted into the tubular shaft 42 .
- FIG. 4 shows that the unit 10 ′ is fixed to the inside face 56 of the tubular shaft 52 by further shrinkage of the tube and associated radial expansion, in which case, as has already been mentioned, the shrinkable tube can be geometrically designed in such a way that, for example by provision of beads, incisions or other configurations which promote expansion at predetermined locations, this expansion takes place in a specific manner during the further shrinking process.
- the material 14 of the tube 12 permits two shrinking processes, namely a first or preliminary shrinking process for fixing the components to one another, for example in the retaining device 30 shown in FIG. 2 , and then, after insertion into the tubular shaft 42 as shown in FIG. 4 , a further shrinking and radial expansion for filling the gap 52 .
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