Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Endoscope
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Application No.: US16798998Application Date: 2020-02-24
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Publication No.: US11337591B2Publication Date: 2022-05-24
- Inventor: Keisuke Hatano , Yudai Harada
- 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: JPJP2017-192782 20171002
- Main IPC: A61B1/00
- IPC: A61B1/00 ; A61B1/005 ; A61B1/018 ; A61B1/04 ; G02B23/24

Abstract:
An endoscope includes a bending operation member provided at an operation portion and configured to bend a bending portion of an insertion portion, a plurality of bending operation wires configured to be pulled or relaxed by the bending operation member, a plurality of tubular members provided inside the operation portion, into which the plurality of bending operation wires are inserted respectively, and disposed in a deflected state so as to avoid an internal component provided inside the operation portion, and a tubular member fixing member provided inside the operation portion and enabled to optimally adjust end portions of the plurality of tubular members at different positions along a longitudinal axis of the operation portion in a direction orthogonal to the longitudinal axis.
Public/Granted literature
- US20200205642A1 ENDOSCOPE Public/Granted day:2020-07-02
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