Patent ID: 8568300

Claim:
A windowed closure for an objective head for an endoscope, the windowed closure comprising: a metal material having at least a receiver for receiving at least one pane for an imaging system and at least one pane for an illumination system comprising a plurality of fiber optic light bundles; and a plurality of panes including the at least one pane for the imaging system and the at least one pane for the illumination system disposed in the receiver and joined to the receiver by a melted-metal seal; wherein the closure is adapted to connected to an endoscope shaft with the at least one pane for the imaging system in optical alignment with the imaging system and the at least one pane for the illumination system in optical alignment with the illumination system, wherein the receiver includes the plurality of panes arranged as a cocentric compound window, the at least one pane for the imaging system is configured to align optically with the imaging system and the at least one pabe for the illumination system is configured to align optically with the illumination system.