Medical instrument guide device and endoscope apparatus
AssigneeFUJIFILM Corporation
InventorsShinya Abe, Tatsuya Minagawa
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Abstract
A medical instrument guide device includes a tube main body (606) that includes an outer tube (602) having flexibility and an inner tube (604) having flexibility and being arranged inside the outer tube (602), and a shape deformable body (612) that is provided between the outer tube (602) and the inner tube (604) and is deformable along a shape of the tube main body (606).
Claims19
A medical instrument guide device that guides a medical instrument into a body, the medical instrument guide device comprising:
- a tube main body that includes an outer tube having flexibility and an inner tube having flexibility and being arranged inside the outer tube;
- a shape deformable body that is provided between the outer tube and the inner tube and is deformable along a shape of the tube main body;
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- an interlayer that is provided between the outer tube and the inner tube and is contactable with the shape deformable body,
- wherein a first contact surface that is provided on the shape deformable body and a second contact surface that is provided on the interlayer and faces the first contact surface are provided, and at least a part of any one contact surface of the first contact surface or the second contact surface includes a high friction surface.
A medical instrument guide device that guides a medical instrument into a body, the medical instrument guide device comprising:
- a tube main body that includes an outer tube having flexibility and an inner tube having flexibility and being arranged inside the outer tube;
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- a shape deformable body that is provided between the outer tube and the inner tube and is deformable along a shape of the tube main body,
- wherein a first contact surface that is provided on the shape deformable body and a second contact surface that is provided on at least one tube of the outer tube or the inner tube and faces the first contact surface are provided, and at least a part of any one contact surface of the first contact surface or the second contact surface includes a high friction surface.
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