Patent ID: 8231524

Claim:
An endoscope device which comprises: (a) a handgrip depending from a housing which encloses and mounts a pivotable lever having opposed first and second ends; (b) a trigger mounted on an outside of the housing and on a pivot on the housing so that the trigger can be pulled towards the handgrip, the trigger having a first end for controlled movement on one side of the pivot towards the handgrip and a second end on another side of the pivot connected to the first end of the pivotable lever; (c) a substantially tubular element attached to the handgrip at a proximal end, the tubular element further having an internal channel with a length extending from the proximal end to a distal end of the tubular element; (d) a curvable means disposed towards the distal end of the tubular element; and (e) a control wire having a first end and a second end, the control wire passing through the internal channel of the tubular element with the first end of the control wire attached to the curvable means and the second end of the control wire attached to the second end of the pivotable lever so as to enable curving of the curvable means by pivoting the trigger towards the handgrip; and wherein when the first end of the trigger is squeezed, the second end of the trigger pivots the pivotable lever and thereby translates the control wire at the second end of the pivotable lever so that the first end of the control wire curves the curvable means into a generally curved configuration in a controlled manner from a straight configuration.