- Patent Title: Optical fiber scanner, illumination device, and observation apparatus having a holding section that conducts electricity between an electrically conductive frame and a piezoelectric element
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Application No.: US15299534Application Date: 2016-10-21
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Publication No.: US10067338B2Publication Date: 2018-09-04
- Inventor: Yoshiro Okazaki , Yasuaki Kasai , Hiroshi Tsuruta , Hirokazu Yokota , Kazutoshi Kumagai
- Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
- Current Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, P.C.
- Priority: JP2014-111376 20140529
- Main IPC: A61B1/00
- IPC: A61B1/00 ; G02B26/10 ; A61B1/07 ; G02B23/24

Abstract:
An optical fiber scanner including: an optical fiber that guides illumination light; a piezoelectric element that is disposed at an intermediate position on the optical fiber in the long-axis direction and that displaces, due to a bending vibration, an emission end of the optical fiber in a direction intersecting the long axis; a wiring part that is electrically bonded to the piezoelectric element at a location between the piezoelectric element and the optical fiber; a tube-shaped electrically conductive frame that has an inner hole for accommodating the piezoelectric element and the optical fiber; and a holding section that fixes the frame and the piezoelectric element and that conducts electricity between the frame and the piezoelectric element.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170038580A1 OPTICAL FIBER SCANNER, ILLUMINATION DEVICE, AND OBSERVATION APPARATUS Public/Granted day:2017-02-09
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