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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 21, 2021
Filed:
Sep. 14, 2018
Osaka University, Osaka, JP;
Panasonic I-pro Sensing Solutions Co., Ltd., Fukuoka, JP;
Keita Okayama, Osaka, JP;
Shinsuke Nanto, Osaka, JP;
Seiji Higashiyama, Fukuoka, JP;
Makoto Kamioka, Fukuoka, JP;
OSAKA UNIVERSITY, Osaka, JP;
PANASONIC I-PRO SENSING SOLUTIONS CO., LTD., Fukuoka, JP;
Abstract
Plug for endoscope includes a flexible tube-shaped sheath through which a plurality of wires are inserted. The plurality of wires is connected to an insertion tip portion having an image capturing portion. The plug includes a housing having a substrate accommodation portion and a sheath introduced portion. The substrate accommodation portion accommodates a substrate, a base end aperture portion of the sheath passed through an opening of the housing is arranged in the sheath introduced portion, and a part of the plurality of wires derived from the base end aperture portion is connected to the substrate. A liquid intrusion prevention wall is provided to stand on a bottom wall of the housing, and the bottom wall is arranged under the base end aperture portion of the sheath in a substantially vertical direction, and the substrate accommodation portion and the sheath introduced portion are spatially isolated from each other.