Olympus Medical Systems Corporation

Olympus Corporation

Shuichi Takie

Nau Satake

Takanori Sekido

Yuta Sato

An image pickup unit for use with an endoscope comprises: a first wiring board in which a first surface, a plurality of first pads are disposed on the first surface, and a plurality of second pads are disposed on the first surface; and a second wiring board in which a second surface comprises a first region and a second region spaced apart from the first region, a plurality of first lands are disposed on the first region, the plurality of first lands are solder-bonded to the plurality of first pads, and a plurality of second lands are disposed on the second region, the plurality of second lands are solder-bonded to the plurality of second pads, and a sum of areas of the plurality of first pads is substantially same as a sum of areas of the plurality of second pads.

Image pickup unit and endoscope

The image pickup unit includes an image pickup device, a first substrate, and a second substrate that are connected in this order. The second substrate includes a side surface formed in a direction crossing a light-receiving surface of the image pickup device. The second substrate includes, in the side surface thereof, a recessed portion into which a jig is inserted to hold the image pickup unit.

An image pickup unit includes: an image pickup device, a first wiring board bonded to the image pickup device; and a second wiring board bonded to the first wiring board and including a gate remnant in a back area of the second wiring board.

An endoscope includes: a composite cable in which a plurality of cables each including a core wire and an electric insulating coated portion coating the core wire are bundled with an electric insulating outer sheath; a substrate that includes electrodes to which the respective cables are connected; and a cable fixing portion that includes a cable distal end fixing portion holding the plurality of cables in which the core wire and the coated portion are exposed from a distal end surface side of the composite cable, a cable alignment portion aligning the plurality of cables, and a cable body fixing portion holding an end portion of the composite cable on a side where the plurality of cables is exposed, and provided with a through hole having a diameter same as a diameter of an outer periphery of the composite cable.

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Hachioji, Japan

Shuichi Takie