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US 2016/0353974 A1Published application
Endoscope
AssigneeOlympus Corporation
InventorTaigo KAKEHASHI
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Abstract
An endoscope includes: a functional portion having a function of pressing by rotating around a rotation shaft; a link mechanism attached to the rotation shaft and having a through hole; a shaft member disposed in the through hole and causing the link mechanism to rotate around the rotation shaft; and a slide member fixed to the shaft member and being moved together with the shaft member; and a restricting member configured to restrict the slide member.
Claims7
An endoscope comprising:
- a functional portion having a function of, by rotating around a rotation shaft formed in a first direction, pressing in a second direction from a pressing portion formed on an outer circumferential surface;
- a link mechanism attached to the rotation shaft, rotatable around the rotation shaft, and having a through hole formed in the first direction;
- a shaft member disposed in the through hole and capable of moving in a cross direction crossing the first and second directions by causing the link mechanism to rotate around the rotation shaft;
- a slide member fixed to the shaft member, having a longitudinal axis in the cross direction, and being moved in the cross direction together with the shaft member by an operation force for causing the functional portion to function being inputted;
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- a restricting member configured to restrict the slide member so as not to move in a direction different from the cross direction.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.