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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 31, 2006
Filed:
Sep. 10, 2003
Applicant:
Nobuyuki Saruya, Hino, JP;
Inventor:
Nobuyuki Saruya, Hino, JP;
Assignee:
Olympus Optical Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 1/01 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An endoscope apparatus includes at least one of a connector on the side of a scope unit and a connector on the side of a fixed unit in a connector portion disposed in an detachable portion of a base unit and the fixed unit of the scope unit is a movable connector, and in the detachable portion, the base unit is connected to the fixed unit by positioning means for positioning the fixed unit side to the base unit side, when the connector on the fixed unit side is connected to that on the base unit side.