Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Endoscope device and endoscope system with deforming insertion portion wire
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Application No.: US16192916Application Date: 2018-11-16
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Publication No.: US11172807B2Publication Date: 2021-11-16
- Inventor: Yoshiro Okazaki
- 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.
- Main IPC: A61B1/00
- IPC: A61B1/00 ; A61B1/005

Abstract:
An endoscope device is provided with: an elongated sheath having an endoscope insertion passage that penetrates therethrough in the longitudinal direction and into which an endoscope is inserted; and a wire that is provided in the sheath and that has a bending portion that bends toward the endoscope insertion passage, wherein the wire has a deforming region that is provided in a distal end portion of the sheath and that deforms between a normal form, in which the deforming region is disposed in the interior of the sheath or along an outer circumferential surface thereof, and a loop-shaped expanded form, in which the bending portion is bended and has a diameter larger than the outer diameter of the sheath.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190082939A1 ENDOSCOPE DEVICE AND ENDOSCOPE SYSTEM Public/Granted day:2019-03-21
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