Endoscopic Instrument
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Feb 10, 2011
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Aug 3, 2010
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Aug 6, 2009
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An endoscopic instrument has a shaft designed in a flexible manner along its longitudinal axis in at least one section. The flexible section of the shaft has a tube-shaped wall made of an electroactive polymer with a plurality of control electrodes and reference electrodes respectively embedded therein. As seen in the axial direction, the control electrodes and reference electrodes are respectively arranged alternately and separated from one another. The control electrodes and reference electrodes alternating in the axial direction respectively have a rigid design and are respectively interconnected in an electrically conducting manner in the axial direction by elastic webs arranged on the outer or inner circumference. A method is also provided for producing a flexible section of such an endoscopic instrument.
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