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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:
Apr. 16, 1991
Filed:
Nov. 07, 1989
Applicant:
Inventor:
Shouichi Ieoka, Hachioji, JP;
Assignee:
Olympus Optical Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
128-6 ; 358 98 ;
Abstract
In the endoscope light source apparatus of this invention, the position within a body cavity of an endoscope tip part can be confirmed with a body outside transmitted light and there are provided an illuminating light feeding apparatus for generating an illuminating light to be fed to the endoscope and a light amount increasing apparatus for increasing for a set time the light amount of the illuminating light generated by the illuminating light feeding apparatus when a body outside light observing signal confirming from outside the body the position within the body cavity of the endoscope tip part is input.