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US 11,589,734 B2Granted
Endoscope
AssigneeI-Pro Co., Ltd.
InventorsShigeki Ogata, Naomi Shirai
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Abstract
An endoscope includes a scope provided with a hard portion at a distal end of a long flexible portion having flexibility; an image capturing portion housed in the hard portion and having an image sensor; a transmission cable inserted into the scope and conductively connected to the image sensor at a distal end via a substrate, and a voltage conversion device mounted on the substrate and outputting a constant voltage to the image sensor with respect to a input voltage input to the transmission cable.
Claims8
An endoscope provided with a hard portion at a distal end of a scope, the endoscope comprising:
- an image capturing portion housed in the hard portion and having an image sensor;
- a substrate conductively connected to a transmission cable inserted into the scope and the image sensor;
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- a voltage conversion device mounted on the substrate and outputting a constant voltage to the image sensor with respect to an input voltage input to the transmission cable,
- wherein the substrate includes a first rigid substrate and a second rigid substrate connected by a hinge portion having flexibility, and
- the image sensor is mounted on the first rigid substrate, and the voltage conversion device is mounted on the second rigid substrate.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.