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Tactile control device for a remote sensing device

  • US 4,469,091 A
  • Filed: 09/09/1982
  • Issued: 09/04/1984
  • Est. Priority Date: 08/28/1980
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. In combination with a fiberscope including an elongated flexible insertion tube, an illuminating and viewing system mounted at a distal end of said tube and a control unit for bending said tube at said distal end in two planes;

  • a tactile control device includinga flexible hood circumferentially surrounding said illuminating and viewing system at said distal end, said hood projecting forwardly of said distal end; and

    a plurality of sensing devices disposed circumferentially on said hood forward of said distal end, said sensing devices being responsive to an inward flexing of said hood to emit a signal indicative of the location of a flexed section of said hood.

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