Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Optical fiber scanner
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Application No.: US14676128Application Date: 2015-04-01
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Publication No.: US09835851B2Publication Date: 2017-12-05
- Inventor: Tomoki Funakubo , Hiroshi Tsuruta , Morimichi Shimizu , Yasuaki Kasai
- 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: JP2012-219640 20121001; JP2013-007550 20130118
- Main IPC: G02B6/00
- IPC: G02B6/00 ; A61B1/06 ; A61B5/00 ; A61B6/00 ; G02B26/10 ; H01L41/083 ; H01L41/09 ; A61B1/00

Abstract:
The force of a piezoelectric element is efficiently transferred to an optical fiber without attenuation, so that the vibration of the optical fiber becomes large. Provided is an optical fiber scanner including an optical fiber which has an elongated cylindrical shape in which illumination light emitted from a light source is guided and can emerge from a distal end thereof and whose distal end can be vibrated in a direction intersecting the longitudinal direction thereof; and at least one piezoelectric element which have a plate shape polarized in a thickness direction thereof and which are separately bonded to an outer circumferential surface of the optical fiber closer to a base side than to a distal end thereof.
Public/Granted literature
- US20150205050A1 OPTICAL FIBER SCANNER Public/Granted day:2015-07-23
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