Olympus Optical Company, Ltd.

Mutsumi Yoshikawa

Akira Suzuki

Hiroki Hibino

Sakae Takehana

Yoshinao Oaki

Yoshisada Aoki

Masahito Goto

Yoshikatsu Nagayama

Toshiyuki Takara

Koichi Yoshimitsu

Masaaki Hayashi

Yasuhiro Ueda

Shuichi Takayama

Raifu Matsui

Eiichi Fuse

Makoto Inaba

Koichiro Ishiwara

Motoyuki Tagawa

Koichi Hoshimitsu

At least one controlling unit of a controlling unit for controlling a bending driving motor bending driving a bendable portion, a controlling unit for controlling an advancing and retreating driving motor advancing and retreating moving an insert section and a controlling unit for controlling a rotating driving motor rotating driving the insert section and a camera controlling unit for processing a signal for an imaging device are made separate from each other so that such existing scope as an electronic scope or fiber scope fitted with a TV camera may be used.

Electronic endoscope system provided with a separate camera controlling

A radioactive ray detecting endoscope comprises an elongated insertable part having an observing window in the tip part, an imaging apparatus converting an image of an observed part obtained through the observing window to an electric signal and a radioactive ray detecting apparatus detecting radioactive rays from inside the visual field of the imaging apparatus. The imaging apparatus has, for example, a solid state imaging device imaging an optical image of an object. Also, a collimator regulating the radioactive ray detecting direction is provided, for example, around the radioactive ray detecting apparatus.

Radioactive ray detecting endoscope

An endoscope apparatus comprises an elongate insert section including an observation window in the distal end portion and inserted into an object to be observed; an observation device for producing an endoscope image, the observation device including a focusing optical system which receives an incident light from the object through the observation window to focus the endoscope image; and a vibration device for vibrating at least a part of the insert section in a direction crossing the axial direction of the insert section, the vibration device including a vibration unit capable of vibrating in itself to vibrate at least the part of the insert section even under a condition that the insert section is not contact with the object.

Endoscope apparatus

The endoscope apparatus comprises an endoscope having an elongate insertable part having a bendable part and a driving apparatus for bending and driving the bendable part, a first bending controlling apparatus for controlling the driving apparatus and a second bending controlling apparatus for controlling the driving apparatus independently of the first bending controlling apparatus when the first bending controlling apparatus is controllable.

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Mutsumi Yoshikawa