Asahi Kogaku Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Hoya Corporation

Pentax Corporation

Takayuki Ogino

Hiroyuki Katsurada

Naoki Yasui

Hiroshi Iwata

Keiji Ito

Eiji Hayamizu

Tomokazu Yamashita

Akihiro Ito

Kazuyuki Yamamoto

Wataru Murai

Seiichiro Okamura

Shizuharu Miura

An image capturing unit for an electronic endoscope, including a solid-state image capturing element, a metallic housing member, which hermetically encloses a circumference of an insulated base and is arranged to cover a front-end portion of the insulated base, at least one connection land, which is connected to at least one signal conductor at a position in vicinity to a rear-end portion of the insulated base outside the housing member, and a conductive cylindrical shield, which surrounds the at least one connection land and the at least one signal conductor and is spaced from the at least one connection land and the at least one signal conductor in a radial direction, is provided. An outer periphery of the rear-end portion of the insulated base is formed to be smaller than the circumference of the insulated base enclosed by the housing member.

Image capturing unit for endoscope

An image capturing unit for an electronic endoscope is provided with a solid-state image capturing element having multiple boding wires arranged at peripheral positions on a front surface of the solid-state image capturing element, the bonding wires extending outward, an image capturing element holding frame in which the solid-state image capturing element is held and a transparent cover glass enclosing the front surface of the solid-state image capturing element from outside, together with a tip end portion of the image capturing element holding frame. The tip end portion of the image capturing element holding frame is formed to have a tubular section, the cover glass being fitted in the tubular section and located at a position where the cover glass does not contact the bonding wires, the cover glass being air-tightly cemented to the tubular section.

Image capturing unit for electronic endoscope

An image capturing unit for an electronic endoscope, includes an image capturing element with an image capturing area, at least one bonding wire, which is extended curvedly and outwardly from at least one edge portion of a surface of the image capturing element to at least one conductor, and a transparent cover plate, which is fixed to a frame and is adapted to seal the image capturing element from an external environment. The cover plate is formed to have at least one bonding wire preventing portion, which is adapted to prevent the at least one bonding wire from being in contact with the cover plate. An edge portion on a front surface of the cover plate is hermetically sealed to the frame.

Endoscope

An apparatus for controlling a suction passage in an endoscope includes a cylinder connected between an insertion pipe, on an insertion side of the endoscope, and a suction pipe, on a suction side of the endoscope. A piston is provided in the cylinder to move in an axial direction thereof to selectively connect or disconnect the insertion and suction pipes. The suction pipe, attached to the cylinder, is open at a position opposed to an outer periphery of the piston. A communication passage, provided in the piston, connects the insertion and suction pipes when the piston is in an operative position. An opening in the communication passage at the outer periphery of the piston is surrounded by an annular seal member to establish a water-tight connection between the open end of the communication passage and an open end of the suction pipe.

Apparatus for controlling a suction passage in an endoscope

A cap assembly of a front end of an inserting portion of an endoscope and a cap to be attached to the front end of the endoscope, comprising; a first engaging portion provided on the front end of the inserting portion of the endoscope; and, a second engaging portion provided on the cap being disengageably engaged with the first engaging portion of the endoscope. The front end of the inserting portion of the endoscope is provided with a projection whose diameter being smaller than a diameter of the front end, the projection being connected to the front end through a stepped portion.

Front end structure of endoscope

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Saitama, Japan

Takayuki Ogino