Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Image pickup apparatus and endoscope
- Patent Title (中): 摄像设备和内窥镜
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Application No.: US12797046Application Date: 2010-06-09
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Publication No.: US08172409B2Publication Date: 2012-05-08
- Inventor: Hiroyuki Nagamizu
- Applicant: Hiroyuki Nagamizu
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Olympus Medical Systems Corp.
- Current Assignee: Olympus Medical Systems Corp.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, P.C.
- Priority: JP2008-289071 20081111
- Main IPC: G02B7/18
- IPC: G02B7/18 ; A61B1/06

Abstract:
An image pickup apparatus has a heater device including a heater and a temperature sensor. The heater device is arranged outside the effective light beam range of an objective optical system, with a predetermined air gap between the heater device and an inner circumferential surface of a rigid member that holds a cover glass. The heater device is pressed to the cover glass by an elastic member disposed at an outer circumferential portion of a protruding frame that holds a lens at a distal end. An electrical connection portion of the heater and an electrical connection portion of the temperature sensor of the image pickup apparatus are disposed facing each other with respect to an optical axis, on a proximal end side that is further to the rear than a distal end face of a lens on a distal end side of a front group lens unit that is a side on which a height of an effective light beam of the objective optical system is relatively low.
Public/Granted literature
- US20100309553A1 IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS AND ENDOSCOPE Public/Granted day:2010-12-09
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