Endoscope and channel tube
AssigneeOlympus Corporation
InventorEijiro SATO
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Abstract
An endoscope includes an insertion portion that is inserted into a subject, and a flexible channel tube that is disposed on an outer peripheral side of the insertion portion, includes a tube through-hole that is formed to be long along a tube center axis, and has a slit formed throughout an entire length, and the slit is formed in a section substantially orthogonal to the tube center axis of the tube through-hole of the channel tube with an extension line of a central line extending to a through-hole side of the slit central line of the slit being displaced with respect to the tube center axis of the channel tube.
Claims14
An endoscope comprising:
- an insertion portion that is inserted into a subject;
- and
- a flexible channel tube that is disposed on an outer peripheral side of the insertion portion, includes a through-hole that is along a longitudinal axis, and has a slit formed throughout an entire length in the longitudinal axis direction,
- wherein a central line of the slit in a section substantially orthogonal to a center axis of the through-hole inclines with respect to a line segment connecting the center axis and the slit.
A flexible channel tube capable of being disposed on an outer peripheral side of an insertion portion that is inserted into a subject, comprising:
- a through-hole that is along a longitudinal axis;
- and
- a slit throughout an entire length in the longitudinal axis direction,
- wherein a central line of the slit in a section substantially orthogonal to a center axis of the through-hole inclines with respect to a line segment connecting the center axis and the slit.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.