Handle for fiber optic device

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 8968186
APP PUB NO 20120330104A1
SERIAL NO

13599995

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A laryngoscope handle for use with a fiber optic laryngoscope blade having fiber optics includes a laryngoscope handle body configured to be gripped by a handle of a user; one or more power sources carried by the handle body; a light source assembly carried by the handle body and powered by the one or more power sources; a connection section for mechanically connecting the fiber optic laryngoscope blade to the laryngoscope handle and optically coupling the light source assembly in the laryngoscope handle to the fiber optics of the fiber optic laryngoscope blade, wherein the light source assembly includes at least two different types of light sources and a light mixing chamber where light emitted from the two different types of light sources mix to create a combined, mixed light that is transmitted to the fiber optics of the fiber optic laryngoscope blade for emission there from.

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Hicks, John R Carlsbad, US 30 586
Tenger, James P Carlsbad, US 24 329

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