Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Optical fiber scanner, illumination apparatus, and observation apparatus
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Application No.: US15199254Application Date: 2016-06-30
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Publication No.: US09874739B2Publication Date: 2018-01-23
- Inventor: Hiroshi Tsuruta , Yasuaki Kasai , Yoshiro Okazaki , 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: JP2014-035654 20140226
- Main IPC: G02B23/24
- IPC: G02B23/24 ; G02B23/26 ; G02B26/10 ; A61B1/00 ; A61B1/07

Abstract:
This optical fiber scanner has an elongated optical fiber, a vibration transmission member which has a column-like shape and has a penetrating hole through which the optical fiber penetrates, and a piezoelectric element provided on an outer surface of the vibration transmission member, wherein the penetrating hole is a fitted hole which is formed from a proximal end of the vibration transmission member to a middle of the vibration transmission member and the optical fiber is fitted, and the penetrating hole is an accommodation hole which is formed from the middle to a distal end of the vibration transmission member, which has a large inner diameter than an outer diameter of the optical fiber, and which accommodates a distal end portion of the optical fiber with a gap between the optical fiber and the accommodation hole.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160377857A1 OPTICAL FIBER SCANNER, ILLUMINATION APPARATUS, AND OBSERVATION APPARATUS Public/Granted day:2016-12-29
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