Tip hood, endoscope device, and endoscope system
AssigneeOlympus Medical Systems Corp.
InventorsYuma KASUYA, Keita KIMURA, Shinya TORII, Masanori MAKI
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Abstract
A tip hood configured to be attached to a distal end portion of an endoscope. The tip hood includes a gas feed conduit configured to allow a predetermined gas to flow therethrough, a first gas feed outlet configured to feed the gas, supplied through the gas feed conduit, in a field-of-view direction of the endoscope, and a second gas feed outlet configured to feed the gas, supplied through the gas feed conduit, toward a distal end surface of the endoscope.
Claims20
A tip hood configured to be attached to a distal end portion of an endoscope, comprising:
- a gas feed conduit configured to allow a predetermined gas to flow therethrough;
- a first gas feed outlet configured to feed the gas, supplied through the gas feed conduit, in a field-of-view direction of the endoscope;
- and
- a second gas feed outlet configured to feed the gas, supplied through the gas feed conduit, toward a distal end surface of the endoscope.
An endoscope device comprising:
- an endoscope;
- a tip hood configured to be attached to a distal end portion of the endoscope;
- a gas feed conduit configured to allow a predetermined gas to flow therethrough;
- a first gas feed outlet disposed at the tip hood and configured to feed the gas, supplied through the gas feed conduit, in a field-of-view direction of the endoscope;
- and
- a second gas feed outlet disposed at the tip hood and configured to feed the gas, supplied through the gas feed conduit, toward a distal end surface of the endoscope.
An endoscope system comprising:
- an endoscope;
- a tip hood configured to be attached to a distal end portion of the endoscope;
- a gas feed conduit configured to allow a predetermined gas to flow therethrough;
- a control device configured to control supply of the gas to the gas feed conduit;
- a first gas feed outlet disposed at the tip hood and configured to feed the gas, supplied through the gas feed conduit, in a field-of-view direction of the endoscope;
- and
- a second gas feed outlet disposed at the tip hood and configured to feed the gas, supplied through the gas feed conduit, toward a distal end surface of the endoscope.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.