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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 27, 2020
Filed:
Feb. 19, 2020
Applicant:
Olympus Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Inventor:
Yuka Ide, Tachikawa, JP;
Assignee:
OLYMPUS CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 1/05 (2006.01); H04N 5/225 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 1/05 (2013.01); H04N 5/2251 (2013.01); H04N 2005/2255 (2013.01);
Abstract
An insertion portion of an endoscope includes: an image pickup unit having an observation unit and an image pickup cable; and a distal end frame member having a first hole and a second hole and having a contact surface with which a proximal end portion is brought into contact when the image pickup cable is provided in the second hole. The second hole has a shape in which the image pickup cable is rotatable together with the observation unit in a state where the image pickup cable is provided in the second hole.