Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Illumination unit and endoscope
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Application No.: US15678738Application Date: 2017-08-16
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Publication No.: US10856731B2Publication Date: 2020-12-08
- Inventor: Bakusui Daidoji , Takeshi Ito , Satoshi Ohara
- 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: A61B13/00
- IPC: A61B13/00 ; A61B1/32 ; A61C1/00 ; A61B1/07 ; B29D11/00 ; F21V8/00 ; G02B6/24 ; A61B1/00 ; A61B1/012 ; A61B1/04 ; A61B1/06 ; G02B5/02 ; G02B23/24

Abstract:
An illumination unit includes a light guide and a light converter. Wettability which a distal end side surface of the light guide has for an enclosing member of the light converter is lower than wettability which a distal end face has for the enclosing member.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170340195A1 ILLUMINATION UNIT AND ENDOSCOPE Public/Granted day:2017-11-30
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