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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 21, 1989
Filed:
Mar. 28, 1988
Applicant:
Inventor:
Tsuruo Hatori, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
Olympus Optical Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
128-4 ;
Abstract
An endoscope has an operating section and an insertion section. The insertion section includes a flexible tube and a bending tube. At least two wires for operating the bending tube from the operating section are each connected at one end to the bending tube, with at least two wire guides for guiding these wires being arranged in the flexible tube. The endoscope further includes a coupling member for coupling the flexible tube and the bending tube to each other. The coupling member consists of at least two parts which can be combined integral, and one of the wire guides is fixed to each of the parts.