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US 4,784,463 AGranted
Endoscope apparatus holding apparatus
AssigneeOlympus Optical Co., Ltd.
InventorAtsushi Miyazaki
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Abstract
An endoscope apparatus holding apparatus provided with an attaching means detachably attachable to such object to be inspected as a jet engine, a holding means for holding an endoscope or an endoscope insertion assisting means through which the endoscope is inserted and a means for adjusting the distance between the holding means and attaching means so as to be able to inspect the object position with a simple operation.
Claims17
An endoscope apparatus holding apparatus comprising:
- an endoscope provided with an elongate insertion part, an observing means and illuminating light emitting means housed on the tip side of said insertion part and a curving operation means provided on the base side of said insertion part and operating to curve a curvable part formed near the tip of said insertion part;
- an endoscope insertion assisting means provided with a guide tube part having a hollow path capable of inserting the insertion part of said endoscope and a holding means formed on the base side of said guide tube part and removably holding said endoscope;
- an apparatus fitting means to at least one endoscope apparatus;
- an attaching means capable of being detachably attached to an object to be inspected;
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- a distance adjusting means capable of varying the distance between said attaching means and said fitting means, wherein said distance adjusting means and said attaching means are separate from each other and a removable fitting means is formed therebetween, and further wherein said fitting means includes gripping pieces attached to one of said distance adjusting means and said attaching means and a bar-shaped member attached to the other of said distance adjusting means and said attaching means and gripped by said gripping pieces.
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An endoscope apparatus holding apparatus comprising:
- an endoscope provided with an elongate insertion part, an observing means and illuminating light emitting means housed on the tip side of said insertion part and a curving operation means provided on the base side of said insertion part and operating to curve a curvable part formed near the tip of said insertion part;
- an endoscope insertion assisting means provided with a guide tube part having a hollow path capable of inserting the insertion part of said endoscope and a holding means formed on the base side of said guide tube part and removably holding said endoscope;
- an apparatus fitting means to at least one endoscope apparatus;
- an attaching means capable of being detachably attached to an object to be inspected;
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- a distance adjusting means capable of varying the distance between said attaching means and said fitting means, wherein said distance adjusting means and said attaching means are separate from each other and a removable fitting means is formed therebetween, and further wherein said fitting means includes a bar-shaped end part attached to one of said distance adjusting means and said attaching means, a hole part which is provided in the other of said distance adjusting means and said attaching means and with which said bar-shaped end part can be engaged, and a fixing screw fixing the bar-shaped end part engaged with said hole part.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.