Patent ID: 9717396
Date: 2017-08-01
CPC Classifications: A61B

Claim:
1. A video endoscope with a sideways viewing direction, the video endoscope comprising: an endoscope shaft having a jacket tube; an entry window joined hermetically to the jacket tube at a distal end of the jacket tube; a sideways viewing optical subassembly including a sensor module, the sensor module having an optical sensor, the sensor module being disposed on a distal side of a longitudinally extended sensor module carrier that is rotatably mounted with respect to the jacket tube; wherein the sideways viewing optical subassembly is configured as an attachment, which can be or is plugged distally onto the sensor module and/or the sensor module carrier and which is rotatably mounted with respect to the sensor module and/or the sensor module carrier; and the attachment includes at least one locking means which interacts with at least one corresponding locking means on the jacket tube such that the attachment is rotationally fixed with respect to the jacket tub, wherein the sensor module carrier is configured as one of a rigid signal line carrier or as an inner tube, and wherein at least one of the sensor module carrier and the sensor module is rotatably mounted with respect to the jacket tube via two slide bearings, one of which is arranged proximally relative to the other, wherein the proximally arranged slide bearing has at least one of a fluid seal or is configured in a water-tight manner.