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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:
Sep. 12, 1995
Filed:
Dec. 01, 1993
Applicant:
Inventor:
Izumi Watanabe, Tochigiken, JP;
Assignee:
Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Kawasaki, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
600139 ; 138118 ; 600112 ;
Abstract
An endoscope has a flexible tube covered with a covering layer. The covering layer is made from polyester-based soft thermoplastic elastomer containing hard segments of liquid crystal monomers and polyester-based hard thermoplastic elastomer containing hard segments of PBT.