Patent ID: 9028399
Filing Date: 2015-05-12
Classification: A61B

Abstract:
1. An intracorporeal probe, for example preferably for examining hollow organs or natural or artificially created body cavities in the human or animal body, comprising: a capsule-shaped housing that can be introduced into the body without external connecting elements, the housing being of elongated shape having a longitudinal axis; an image pickup unit inside the housing that is designed for optically recording a pickup region outside the probe and is held in a fashion capable of swiveling about a swiveling axis that runs perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the probe and capable of rotating about the longitudinal axis inside the housing in order to vary the pickup region by means of swiveling about the swiveling axis and rotating about the longitudinal axis; and a wobble motor coupled to the image pickup unit that swivels the image pickup unit about the swiveling axis, a mounting frame provided in the housing and carrying the image pickup unit and the wobble motor, wherein the mounting frame is coupled to a second motor for rotation about the longitudinal axis.