Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Endoscopic bendable tube, endoscope, and method of manufacturing endoscopic bendable tube
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Application No.: US17864528Application Date: 2022-07-14
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Publication No.: US11945172B2Publication Date: 2024-04-02
- Inventor: Takanori Sekido
- 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.
- Main IPC: A61B1/00
- IPC: A61B1/00 ; A61B1/005 ; B29C65/00 ; B29C65/16

Abstract:
An endoscopic bendable tube includes: an integrally formed resin tube; at least two wires embedded in a tube wall of the resin tube from a proximal end side to a distal end side of the resin tube, the at least two wires being parallel to a tube axis direction of the resin tube and being at positions facing each other; and a plurality of pairs of through slits formed in the tube wall of the resin tube in the tube axis direction, each pair of through slits being formed facing each other in the tube wall of the resin tube.
Public/Granted literature
- US20220347936A1 ENDOSCOPIC BENDABLE TUBE, ENDOSCOPE, AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING ENDOSCOPIC BENDABLE TUBE Public/Granted day:2022-11-03
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