Introduction device
AssigneeOlympus Corporation
InventorYasuhiro Okamoto
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Abstract
An introduction device includes an operation main body, a bending section capable of bending in a first direction and a second direction, a first rotary body configured to be operated at a time of bending the bending section in the first direction, and a second rotary body configured to be operated at a time of bending the bending section in the second direction, the second rotary body being configured such that a part of an outer edge is located on an extension plane which is defined by extending the first surface, or the part of the outer edge is located more on the distal-end direction side of the first shaft portion than the extension plane.
Claims4
An introduction device comprising:
- a bending section capable of bending in a first direction and a second direction that intersects with the first direction;
- an operation main body configured to be gripped by a user when bending the bending section;
- a first rotary body configured to be rotatable about a first shaft portion, a distal-end portion of the first shaft portion projecting from the operation main body, and to be operated to bend the bending section in the first direction;
- a grip section provided adjacent to the operation main body including a first curved surface including an apex portion projecting most to a distal-end direction side of the first shaft portion, and a second curved surface extending in a direction crossing the first curved surface and having a curvature different from that of the first curved surface;
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- a second rotary body provided on the second curved surface side in a manner to be rotatable about a second shaft portion projecting from the operation main body, and configured to be operated to bend the bending section in the second direction, the second rotary body being configured such that a part of an outer edge of the second rotary body, which part is located on the distal-end direction side of the first shaft portion, is located on a plane including the apex portion and a boundary portion which forms a boundary between the first curved surface and the second curved surface when viewing the grip section along a cross-sectional plane which intersects with a longitudinal axis of the grip section, on the cross-sectional plane, the boundary portion corresponds to a nondifferentiable point between a first curved line corresponding to the first curved surface and a second curved line corresponding to the second curved surface.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.