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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 22, 2017
Filed:
Aug. 17, 2016
Olympus Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Satoshi Makiyama, Hino, JP;
OLYMPUS CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An endoscope achieves favorable advancing and retracting motion without causing disturbance in displacement of built-in components in bending of a bending tube by covering, out of an image pickup cable and a conduit that are cross-symmetrical built-in components disposed to intersect with each other in a radial direction of the bending tube, an outer circumference of the conduit with a second heat-shrinkable tube serving as a protective member, and removing the second heat-shrinkable tube from a partial region that includes a region (an intersection region) where the image pickup cable and the conduit intersect with each other, even when the built-in components in the bending tube are intersected with each other.