Patent ID: 7052155
Filing Date: 2006-05-30
Classification: F21V,H01F

Abstract:
1. An illuminated magnetic retrieval apparatus, comprising: an illumination module which includes a handle portion which houses a battery power supply and which houses illumination circuit means powered by said battery power supply, which includes a flexible optical fiber light conveyance connected to said handle portion for receiving light from said illumination circuit means, wherein said illumination circuit means include an illumination actuation switch and a light source operated by said illumination actuation switch, and wherein said handle portion further includes a housing-mounted electrical connector and an electromagnet actuation switch electrically connected to said housing-mounted electrical connector, an electromagnetic retrieval module connected to said illumination module, wherein said electromagnetic retrieval module includes handle connection means for connecting to said handle portion, includes a flexible tube connected to said handle connection means for jacketing said flexible optical fiber light conveyance, includes electrical conductors extending through said flexible tube and electrically connected to a connector-means-mounted electrical connector, wherein said connector-means-mounted electrical connector is electrically connected to said housing-mounted electrical connector, and includes an electromagnet electrically connected to said electrical conductors, wherein said electromagnet includes a light-conveyance-reception channel and is located at a distal end of said flexible tube, said apparatus further including: a light beam adjustment module, and light-adjustment-module connecting means for connecting said light beam adjustment module to a distal end of said electromagnetic retrieval module, wherein said light-adjustment-module connecting means include: a lock pin projecting upward from said distal end of said electromagnetic retrieval module, and an attachment sleeve formed in said light beam adjustment module, wherein said attachment sleeve includes a lock-pin-reception slot for receiving said lock pin for locking said light beam adjustment module to said distal end of said electromagnetic retrieval module, and wherein said light beam adjustment module includes: a first reflector located along a longitudinal axis which is in registration with a distal end of said flexible optical fiber light conveyance, a lens which supports said first reflector, a lens-support member which supports said lens, and a second reflector which receives said lens-support member, wherein said second reflector is supported by said attachment sleeve.