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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 27, 2022
Filed:
Jul. 11, 2019
Applicant:
Olympus Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Inventors:
Hiroaki Nakaji, Nagoya, JP;
Eijiro Sato, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
OLYMPUS CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 1/005 (2006.01); A61B 1/00 (2006.01); A61B 1/008 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 1/0055 (2013.01); A61B 1/0057 (2013.01); A61B 1/00071 (2013.01); A61B 1/008 (2013.01); A61B 1/0052 (2013.01);
Abstract
A bending piece of a bending portion for endoscope is provided with: an annular wall portion; a plurality of wire inserting portions in which the wall portion has a first wall thickness; thin wall portions having a second wall thickness thinner than the first wall thickness; and a thick wall portion that is a part of the wall portion different from the thin wall portions between the plurality of wire inserting portions around a longitudinal axis, the thick wall portion formed to have a third wall thickness that is equal to or less than the first wall thickness and is thicker than the second wall thickness.