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US 10,478,046 B2Granted
Endoscope
AssigneeOlympus Corporation
InventorYoshiyuki Ogi
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Abstract
An endoscope includes: a conduit that is provided inside an insertion section and into which a guide wire is inserted in a direction opposite to an insertion direction of the insertion section; a bent conduit that is bent to make the conduit communicate with a pipe sleeve of a treatment instrument insertion port provided in an operation section; and a forceps plug that is detachable from the pipe sleeve. An opening is deviated from a center of the pipe sleeve toward an outer circumferential side of a bending direction of the bent conduit.
Claims10
An endoscope, comprising:
- an insertion section;
- a conduit provided inside the insertion section;
- a tubular pipe sleeve of a treatment instrument insertion port that is provided in an operation section, the operation section being provided on a proximal end side of the insertion section;
- a bent conduit having a bend with a radius such that the conduit communicates with the pipe sleeve;
- and
- a forceps plug that is detachable from the pipe sleeve and includes an opening and a lid,
- wherein in a state where the forceps plug is attached to the pipe sleeve, the opening having a center axis offset from a center axis of the pipe sleeve such that the center axis of the opening is eccentric with respect to the center axis of the pipe sleeve in a direction extending outward in a radial direction of the bend in the bent conduit;
- and
- the lid being detachably disposed over the opening and comprising a slit piercing through the lid.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.