Treatment tool for endoscope
AssigneeOlympus Medical Systems Corp.
InventorsRei Matsunaga, Masahiro Ishikawa
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Abstract
A treatment tool for an endoscope which is transendoscopically inserted into a body cavity for use, and which includes: a sheath at least partially composed of mixed material in which thermoplastic resin and a crosslinking promoter are mixed; a manipulation wire inserted through the aforementioned sheath so as to be capable of advancing and retracting; a treatment part attached to a first end of the aforementioned manipulation wire; and a manipulation part attached to a second end of the aforementioned manipulation wire; wherein said sheath has a crosslinked part where said thermoplastic resin is crosslinked by irradiating said mixed material with ionizing radiation, and a non-crosslinked region where said thermoplastic resin is not crosslinked.
Claims5
A treatment tool for an endoscope which is transendoscopically inserted into a body cavity for use, comprising:
- a sheath at least partially composed of mixed material in which thermoplastic resin and a crosslinking promoter are mixed;
- a manipulation wire inserted through said sheath so as to be capable of advancing and retracting;
- a treatment part attached to a first end of said manipulation wire;
- and a manipulation part attached to a second end of said manipulation wire;
- wherein said sheath has a crosslinked part where said thermoplastic resin is crosslinked by irradiating said mixed material with ionizing radiation, and a non-crosslinked region where said thermoplastic resin is not crosslinked.
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