Patent ID: 7229406

Claim:
A device for positioning at least one optical component inside an endoscopic system, comprising: a housing having an inside wall and a longitudinal axis, an optical axis of said endoscopic system extending through said housing and defining a light beam path, at least one carrier carrying said at least one component, said carrier being pivotable about a pivot axis extending substantially parallel to said longitudinal axis of said housing so that said at least one component can be pivoted into said light beam path and back out of said light beam path about said pivot axis, said pivot axis being arranged such that a smallest distance of said inside wall of said housing from said pivot axis is smaller than a greatest distance of said pivot axis to an outer edge of said at least one component, wherein a dimension of an interior of said housing from said longitudinal axis to said inside wall of said housing in a pivot plane of said at least one component is about 1½ to 2 times as great as a greatest dimension of said at least one component in said pivot plane.