US Patent Issued to AMBU on Jan. 13 for "Braking mechanism for a rotary operating member of a medical device" (Danish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,520,996, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to AMBU A/S (Ballerup, Denmark).

"Braking mechanism for a rotary operating member of a medical device" was invented by Jesper Grondahl Lund (Vaerlose, Denmark) and Bjorn Bruhn Thomsen (Birkerod, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A braking mechanism for a rotary operating member (9) of a medical device such as an endoscope. The braking mechanism includes at least one elastic member (18) adapted for biasing a friction element (19) into a frictional engagement between a stationary shaft arranged on the endoscope handle and the rotary operating member (9). The friction element (19) includes a cur...