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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 26, 2016
Filed:
Apr. 21, 2014
Applicant:
Olympus Medical Systems Corp., Tokyo, JP;
Inventor:
Yuki Hoshino, Sagamihara, JP;
Assignee:
OLYMPUS CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 1/005 (2006.01); A61B 1/05 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 1/0052 (2013.01); A61B 1/05 (2013.01);
Abstract
A bending operation apparatus for an endoscope includes a bending operation knob, a first movable disk, a second movable disk, a cam member, a fixed disk, an annular member, and a step portion that is provided at the annular member and comes into contact with a base portion of the cam member as the cam member is pivoted in another direction to cause the second movable disk to move from a second position to a first position.