Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Bending operation apparatus of endoscope, and endoscope
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Application No.: US15260503Application Date: 2016-09-09
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Publication No.: US10085623B2Publication Date: 2018-10-02
- Inventor: Itaru Osaki
- Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
- Current Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, P.C.
- Priority: JP2014-169441 20140822
- Main IPC: A61B1/00
- IPC: A61B1/00 ; A61B1/005 ; G02B23/24

Abstract:
A brake adjustment body is disposed in a direction orthogonal to turning shafts between a bending drive shaft and a lock operation shaft. The brake adjustment body is configured by including an intermediate member that abuts a cam portion of the lock operation shaft, and a brake member that applies to the bending drive shaft a pressure according to displacement of the intermediate member. The intermediate member has a shaft body portion and a cylindrical sliding portion screwed together, and by rotating the sliding portion in a state where the shaft body portion and the sliding portion are screwed together, the distance between a proximal end portion and a distal end portion of the intermediate member may be adjusted, and when fixing force on the bending drive shaft is reduced, the distance may be re-adjusted to restore the fixing force.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160374536A1 BENDING OPERATION APPARATUS OF ENDOSCOPE, AND ENDOSCOPE Public/Granted day:2016-12-29
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