Hirose Electric Company, Ltd.

Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Olympus Corporation

Mitsubishi Rayon Company, Limited

Olympus Medical Systems Corporation

Tsuyoshi Nakagawa

Tetsuya Kobayashi

Yasuyuki Ishii

Yutaka Yanuma

Shinji Uehara

Yoshiro Saito

Isao Sasaki

Kenji Shibaki

Hiroaki Goto

Tetsuya Ozaki

Tsutomu Nakamura

Yasuhito Kura

Masahide Kinoshita

Osamu Tamada

Kazuhisa Kemmochi

Yasunari Watanabe

Ichiro Takahashi

Arihiro Yamamoto

Kenji Kawamura

Takashi Shibuya

Norihisa Hoshika

Junichi Muramatsu

Yasushi Okoshi

Kazunori Hashimoto

Takashi Otawara

Hiroaki Kubokawa

Yukinori Miyake

Hidenobu Kimura

Kohei Hida

Jin Ito

Norifumi Hirota

Koichiro Sanefuji

Seiko Yunoki

Shinji Makino

Tae Mitsuya

Akihito Sadamasa

Daisuke Yamakoshi

Hiroshi Abe

Takashi Saeki

Yasushi Ohkoshi

Kenichi Adachi

Yasuo Miyano

This mucosa separation apparatus includes a first insertion portion inserted to the interior of a subject, an expansion portion disposed on a head portion of the first insertion portion, and which expands by infusion of a fluid, a passage formed within the first insertion portion and connected to the expansion portion, for supplying the fluid to the expansion portion, and a curving portion which makes a head portion of an instrument inserted to the interior of the subject curve with respect to a part of the instrument which is closer to a base portion of the instrument than the head portion thereof.

Mucosa separation apparatus, and method for mucosa separation

A coaxial connector includes an insulation housing having a receptacle opening portion for receiving a coaxial plug; an outer conductive member; a first terminal disposed below the receptacle opening portion; a second terminal disposed below the first terminal; and an insulation member disposed between the first terminal and the second terminal. The first terminal includes a first contact portion for contacting with a central conductive member of the coaxial plug. The second terminal includes a second contact portion for contacting with the central conductive member. The first terminal further includes a third contact portion, and the second terminal further includes a fourth contact portion for contacting with the third contact portion when the coaxial plug is not inserted into the insulation housing.

Coaxial connector

A coaxial connector to be attached to a coaxial change-over switch includes an insulated connector housing; an outer connector conductor provided outside the insulated connector housing and capable of connecting to an outer conductor of a coaxial cable; and a contact provided in the insulated connector housing to be movable for connecting to a center conductor of the coaxial cable. The contact has a first portion including a distal end portion and a second portion connected to the first portion via a bent section. The contact is mounted on a mounting section of the insulated connector housing, and is supported in a cantilever state at the second portion. The distal end portion is elastically displaced in a direction opposite to an attaching direction of the coaxial change-over switch when the distal end portion contacts with the coaxial change-over switch.

Method of installing antenna and coaxial connector

A coaxial connector for connecting a coaxial plug includes an insulation housing including an insertion opening portion and a pressing deformation portion situated above the insertion opening portion; an outer conductive member including a pressing portion for pressing the pressing deformation portion; a stationary terminal including a contact portion; and a movable terminal fitted into the insertion opening portion and including a fixed portion and an elastic portion. The elastic portion is separated from the contact portion so that the movable terminal is electrically disconnected from the stationary terminal when the coaxial plug is inserted into the insulation housing. The elastic portion contacts with the central conductive member so that the movable terminal is electrically connected to the central conductive member when the coaxial plug is inserted into the insulation housing.

Coaxial connector and method of assembling the same

The instrument for an endoscope is an instrument for an endoscope is able to move reciprocally in the channel of the endoscope along a guide wire, and includes: a sheath portion having a guide lumen into which the guide wire is inserted and another lumen disposed along the guide lumen. The proximal end of the sheath portion is bifurcated into the first sheath portion having the guide lumen and the second sheath portion having the other lumen.

Instrument for endoscope

An active energy ray curable resin composition for a sheet-like optical article capable of providing a cured material having a dynamic elastic modulus at 25&#xb0; C. of 950 MPa or less and a dynamic elastic modulus at 60&#xb0; C. of 100 MPa or more and a sheet-like optical article prepared from the resin composition are disclosed. The sheet-like optical article (e.g., prism sheet) has good heat resistance and extremely small warpage.

Active energy ray curable resin composition and sheet-like optical article

A plastic rod lens having a cylindrical shape with a radius R including a central axis; and an outer peripheral portion, wherein a refractive index ndecreases from the central axis to the outer peripheral portion, and the following requirements (1) to (3) are met:43&#x2266;&#x3bd;&#x2266;60&#x2003;&#x2003;(1)|{&#xd7;&#x3bd;/(&#x2212;1)}&#x2212;{&#xd7;&#x3bd;/(&#x2212;1)}|&#x3c;5&#x2003;&#x2003;(2)&#x2267;0.01&#x2003;&#x2003;(3)

Plastic rod lens, rod lens array, rod lens plate, image sensor and printer

A surface mount connector includes a housing and a movable terminal attached to the housing. The movable terminal includes a movable section to be movable relative to the housing, an adhering section connected to the movable section and having an adhering surface relative to the housing, and a connecting section connected to the adhering section via a joining section. The adhering surface includes a groove extending toward the movable section having a first width. The movable terminal further includes an opening portion connected to the groove. The opening portion extends in a first direction crossing a second direction that the adhering section is connected to the movable section and having a second width larger than the first width.

Surface mount connector having housing with groove

An adapter for an endoscope of the present invention includes: a locking device for attaching and detaching that attaches and locks this adapter for an endoscope onto a predefined position on an endoscope control part; and a first treatment tool locking device that keeps a treatment tool at a first predefined position. Furthermore, at the first predefined position, a guidewire entry aperture of the treatment tool and an entry aperture of a forceps plug are separated in such a way as to face each other along substantially the same line.

Adapter for endoscope and endoscope

The coaxial connector having a switch, which is mounted on a board, according to the invention includes an insulated housing having a hole that can receive a center conductor of a coaxial plug from the upper side, an outer conductor that is provided outside of the insulated housing and can be attached to/detached from an outer conductor of the coaxial plug, and a stationary terminal and a movable terminal, which are provided below the hole and can contact to/be away from each other. The stationary terminal has a contact section and the movable terminal has a securing section secured in the insulated housing and an elastic section that is arranged in the insulated housing through a insert hole provided in the insulated housing, extends like a cantilever from the securing section, can touch the center conductor of the coaxial plug and can contact with the contact section. In addition, the coaxial connector further includes a covering section to cover the insert hole.

Coaxial connector having a switch

A connecting device is designed releasably to connect a control section of an endoscope and a catheter control portion in a manner such that a channel opening portion in the control section of the endoscope and the catheter control portion are located close to each other.

Endoscope apparatus

An electrical connector, comprising a housing body having a tubular plugging face for plugging in a mating connector, the tubular plugging face () having a sectional shape of substantially square () with respect to a sectional plane perpendicular to a direction of plugging into the mating connector, the tubular plugging face including a square tubular portion () and a cylindrical portion (), wherein the square tubular and cylindrical portions have sectional shape of a square and a circle, respectively, with respect to the sectional plane, which are overlapped with each other, and at least one key (A) or at least one key groove (A) for preventing a plugging error, the key or key groove provided in the cylindrical portion.

Electrical connector capable of preventing plugging error

The outer conductor is comprised of a first outer conductor () and a second outer conductor (). The first outer conductor () and the second outer conductor () are connected to each other by attaching them to an insulating housing () and contacting the contact section () of the second outer conductor () to the first outer conductor (). The backsides of the switching terminal () and the connecting terminal () are covered by a backside shielding section (), and the lead section provided on the backside shielding section () is arranged between the lead section (B) of the switching terminal () and the lead section (B) of the connecting terminal ().

An endo-therapy accessory is used in combination with an endoscope which has a forceps elevator. This endo-therapy accessory has an insertion portion of the endo-therapy accessory to be inserted into the endoscope. The insertion portion of the endo-therapy accessory has a forceps elevator fixing section set in a range of passing the elevator, and fixed when the elevator is lifted, and a main index for use in determining whether a part of the elevator fixing section, which is more proximal than a far end of the fixing portion, is located on the elevator.

Endoscope treatment-tool, endoscope device, treatment-tool fixing method and catheter-replacing method

An image-forming apparatus includes an image-bearing member for holding thereon an electrostatic latent image; a charging device for electrostatically charging a surface of the image-bearing member; an exposure unit for forming the electrostatic latent image on the image-bearing member by exposing to light the image-bearing member having been charged by the charging device; and a developing unit which has at least a toner-carrying member for carrying and transporting a negatively-chargeable toner thereon and developing the electrostatic latent image by a contact developing system to form a toner image. In the triboelectric series relationship between the toner and a surface layer of the image-bearing member, the surface layer of the image-bearing member has a charge polarity which is a different polarity with respect to the charge polarity of the toner in the developing unit. The image-bearing member includes the electrostatic latent image including a surface potential, as a nonimage area potential (Vd) within a range of &minus;500 to &minus;800 V, and as an image area potential (Vl), at which the maximum toner image density is to be obtained, within a range of &minus;50 to &minus;200 V. A process cartridge includes the above-described image-bearing member.

Image-forming apparatus for use with negatively-charged toner and featuring a negatively-chargeable image-bearing member, and process cartridge using same

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Tsuyoshi Nakagawa