Industrial endoscope system having a rotary treatment member

An industrial endoscope system, comprising:

• (a) an industrial endoscope;
• an insertion unit having a hard top part formed of a hard material and a bendable bending part shaped at the rear end of said hard top part,
• an operating unit formed at the proximal end of said insertion unit and having a bend-operating means for bend-operating said bending part,
• an objective optical system, provided in said hard top part, for forming an optical image of an object,
• an illumination light emitting means, provided in said hard top part, for emitting the illumination light, and
• a rotary treatment member, provided to project from said hard top part, for effecting a treatment such as grinding, wherein said rotary treatment member includes a rotary force transmitting member for transmitting rotary forces given by said rotary driving means and a grinding member, attached to a distal end of said rotary force transmitting means, for grinding/polishing/grinding a contact portion by rotating said grinding means itself, and wherein said rotary force transmitting member is composed of:
• a hard shaft member having a distal end fitted with said grinding member and its vicinity which are made of a hard member;
• and a flexible shaft connected to the proximal end of said hard shaft member;
• (b) a rotary driving means for rotationally driving said rotary treatment member;
• and
• (c) a moving means at least for making a distal end of said rotary treatment member movable in axial directions of said insertion unit, wherein a moving operation means of said moving means is provided in the vicinity of said operating unit and makes said grinding member movable in the axial directions of said insertion unit by changing a bending quantity of said flexible shaft vicinal to said operating unit.

An industrial endoscope system, comprising:

• (a) an industrial endoscope;
• an insertion unit having a hard top part formed of a hard material and a bendable bending part shaped at the rear end of said hard top part,
• an operating unit formed at the proximal end of said insertion unit and having a bend-operating means for bend-operating said bending part,
• an objective optical system, provided in said hard to part, for forming an optical image of an object,
• an illumination light emitting means, provided in said hard top part, for emitting the illumination light, and
• a rotary treatment member, provided to project from said hard top part, for effecting a treatment such as grinding, wherein said rotary treatment member includes a rotary force transmitting member for transmitting rotary forces given by said rotary driving means, and a grinding member, attached to a distal end of said rotary force transmitting means, for grinding/polishing/grinding a contact portion by rotating said grinding means itself, and wherein said rotary force transmitting member is composed of:
• a hard shaft member having a distal end fitted with said grinding member and its vicinity which are made of a hard member;
• and a flexible shaft connected to the proximal end of said hard shaft member;
• (b) a rotary driving means for rotationally driving said rotary treatment member;
• and
• (c) a moving means at least for making a distal end of said rotary treatment member movable in axial directions of said insertion unit, wherein a moving operation means of said moving means is provided in the vicinity of said operating unit and operates to move, together with said flexible shaft, said rotary driving means connected to the proximal end of said flexible shaft.

An industrial endoscope system, comprising:

• (an) an industrial endoscope;
• an insertion unit having a hard top part formed of a hard material and an bendable bending part shaped at the rear end of said hard top part,
• an operating unit formed at the proximal end of said insertion unit and having a bend-operating means for bend-operating said bending part,
• an objective optical system, provided in said hard top part, for forming an optical image of an object,
• an illumination light emitting means, provided in said hard top part, for emitting the illumination light, and
• a rotary treatment member, provided to project from said hard top part, for effecting a treatment such as grinding;
• (b) a rotary driving means for rotationally driving said rotary treatment member;
• and
• (c) a moving means at least for making a distal end of said rotary treatment member movable in axial directions of said insertion unit, wherein said moving means makes movable said distal end of said hard top part to which a distal end of said rotary treatment member is attached with respect to a proximal end of said hard top part, and said moving means also makes said distal end of said rotary treatment member movable in the axial directions of said insertion unit together with said distal end of said hard top part.

An industrial endoscope system, comprising:

• (a) an industrial endoscope;
• an insertion unit having a hard top part formed of a hard material and a bendable bending part shaped at the rear end of said hard top part, wherein said bending part has a bendable length variable by inserting a hard moving member from a proximal end of said bending part,
• an operating unit formed at the proximal end of said insertion unit and having a bend-operating means for bend-operating said bending part,
• an objective optical system, provided in said hard top part, for forming an optical image of an object,
• an illumination light emitting means, provided in said hard top part, for emitting the illumination light, and
• a rotary treatment member, provided to project from said hard top part, for effecting a treatment such as grinding;
• (b) a rotary driving means for rotationally driving said rotary member;
• and
• (c) a moving means at least for making a distal end of said rotary treatment member movable in axial directions of said insertion unit.