Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Endoscope apparatus and endoscope system providing angular orientation between overtube and endoscope insertion section inserted in overtube
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Application No.: US15826827Application Date: 2017-11-30
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Publication No.: US10881278B2Publication Date: 2021-01-05
- Inventor: Fuminori Wake , Kazuhiko Hino
- 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: JP2015-113341 20150603
- Main IPC: A61B1/00
- IPC: A61B1/00 ; A61B1/015 ; A61B1/018 ; A61B1/05 ; A61B1/12 ; A61B1/005 ; A61B18/14 ; A61B18/08 ; A61B18/00

Abstract:
The endoscope apparatus includes an endoscope insertion portion configured to be inserted into a subject and including a distal end portion, a distal end covering portion configured to cover at least an outer periphery of the distal end portion of the endoscope insertion portion and held by the distal end portion, a suction conduit provided with an opening in the distal end covering portion and configured to discharge a fluid including gas generated from an inside of the subject to outside of the subject via the opening, and a positioning portion configured to define a position of the opening of the suction conduit in a rotation direction with a long axis of the endoscope insertion portion as a center when the distal end covering portion is held by the distal end portion of the endoscope insertion portion.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180084974A1 ENDOSCOPE APPARATUS AND ENDOSCOPE SYSTEM Public/Granted day:2018-03-29
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