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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 17, 2023
Filed:
Feb. 04, 2019
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Jun Arai, Tokyo, JP;
Yohei Kuroda, Tokyo, JP;
Masaru Usui, Tokyo, JP;
Tetsuharu Fukushima, Tokyo, JP;
Daisuke Nagao, Kanagawa, JP;
SONY CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
There is provided an endoscope including a main body including a coupler to which a cable is attached, a tubular section having a tubular form, a reflector having a reflection surface that reflects light introduced from the coupler to inside of the main body and introduces the light to inside of the tubular section, a first optical system that transmits the light introduced by the reflector to the inside of the tubular section to a front-end portion of the tubular section and irradiates a subject with the light from the front-end portion, and a second optical system that transmits reflected light of the subject from the front-end portion of the tubular section to the main body side. The coupler is provided to be rotatable in the main body around a central axis of the tubular section with respect to another portion. The cable is coupled to a light source.