Endoscope
AssigneeFUJIFILM Corporation
InventorMasaya INOUE
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Abstract
An endoscope according to the embodiment of the present invention includes an elevator operation lever that displaces an elevation angle of a treatment tool elevator for elevating a treatment tool provided in a distal end of an insertion part, the elevator operation lever including a coupling part coupled to a rotational movement member that moves rotationally about the same shaft as a rotational movement shaft of an angle knob, and being coupled to the rotational movement member as an engaging member is provided in any one of the rotational movement member or the coupling part and engages with an engaging hole provided in the other one of the rotational movement member or the coupling part.
Claims6
An endo scope comprising:
- a plurality of angle knobs that are operated to perform a bending operation of an insertion part;
- a lock lever that is operated to lock or unlock rotational movement of the angle knob disposed in a body part side of an operating part among the plurality of angle knobs;
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- an elevator operation lever that is operated to displace an elevation angle of a treatment tool elevator for elevating a treatment tool provided in a distal end of the insertion part,
- wherein the elevator operation lever includes a coupling part coupled to a rotational movement member that moves rotationally about the same shaft as a rotational movement shaft of the angle knob,
- an engaging member is provided in any one of the rotational movement member or the coupling part, and
- the elevator operation lever is coupled to the rotational movement member by engaging the engaging member with an engaging hole provided in the other one of the rotational movement member or the coupling part.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.