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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 27, 2025
Filed:
Feb. 18, 2021
Fujifilm Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
FUJIFILM Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
Provided is an endoscope that can suppress increase in the temperature of a distal end portion of an insertion section while preventing increase in the number of components and increase in the diameter of the distal end portion. An endoscope includes: a distal end portion body that is provided on a distal end side of an insertion section and that has a distal end, a proximal end, and a longitudinal axis; a treatment tool lead-out port that is formed in the distal end portion body and that leads out a treatment tool inserted through an inside of the insertion section; an elevator support member that is provided in the distal end portion body, that is made of a metal, and that rotatably supports an elevator that controls a lead-out direction in which the treatment tool is led out from the treatment tool lead-out port; a light guide that is inserted through the inside of the insertion section and that emits illumination light through an illumination window formed in the distal end portion body; and a light guide holding portion that is provided in the elevator support member and that holds a light guide distal end portion of the light guide on the illumination window side.