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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. 02, 2002
Filed:
Jul. 28, 1998
Applicant:
Inventor:
Tsutomu Nakamura, Hino, JP;
Assignee:
Olympus Optical Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 1/000 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 1/000 ;
Abstract
A treating tool for use in combination with an endoscope includes a sheath with a biopsy treating section provided at its distal end and adapted to be rotated with the treating section as one unit, an operation wire inserted in the sheath and adapted to transmit an operation force to the treating section, a treating section open/close operation section for operating the treating section through the operation wire, and a sheath rotation operation section equipped with an operation mechanism for rotating the sheath.