Endoscope
AssigneeOlympus Corporation
InventorsKeisuke HATANO, Yudai HARADA
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Abstract
An endoscope includes a bending operation member provided at an operation portion and configured to bend a bending portion of an insertion portion, a plurality of bending operation wires configured to be pulled or relaxed by the bending operation member, a plurality of tubular members provided inside the operation portion, into which the plurality of bending operation wires are inserted respectively, and disposed in a deflected state so as to avoid an internal component provided inside the operation portion, and a tubular member fixing member provided inside the operation portion and enabled to optimally adjust end portions of the plurality of tubular members at different positions along a longitudinal axis of the operation portion in a direction orthogonal to the longitudinal axis.
Claims5
An endoscope comprising:
- a bending operation member provided at an operation portion and configured to bend a bending portion of an insertion portion;
- a plurality of bending operation wires configured to be pulled or relaxed by the bending operation member;
- a plurality of tubular members provided inside the operation portion, into which the plurality of bending operation wires are inserted respectively, and disposed in a deflected state so as to avoid an internal component provided inside the operation portion;
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- a tubular member fixing member provided inside the operation portion and enabled to freely adjust end portions of the plurality of tubular members to different positions along a longitudinal axis of the operation portion in a direction orthogonal to the longitudinal axis, wherein
- the tubular member fixing member comprises a fixing member rotatably provided in the operation portion and configured to fix the plurality of tubular members at rotating positions to adjust deflections of the plurality of tubular members.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.