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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 19, 2014
Filed:
Oct. 29, 2013
Applicant:
Olympus Medical Systems Corp., Tokyo, JP;
Inventor:
Yuki Hoshino, Sagamihara, JP;
Assignee:
Olympus Medical Systems Corp., Tokyo, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 1/00 (2006.01); A61B 1/005 (2006.01); A61M 25/01 (2006.01); G02B 23/24 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61M 25/0147 (2013.01); A61B 1/0052 (2013.01); A61B 1/00147 (2013.01); G02B 23/2476 (2013.01);
Abstract
A rotation shaft, a bending operation knob, a fixed shaft, two movable disks, a fixed disk, a cam member, a resistance giving member and a fixing lever are included. The resistance giving member has a rocking portion that fixes a rotation position of the cam member in a second position of the movable disks by abutting onto an inner circumferential face of a protruding portion provided at the cam member that moves with rotation of the cam member with an urging force, and is rockable in a diameter direction of the cam member.