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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 21, 2017
Filed:
Oct. 03, 2016
Applicant:
Olympus Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Inventor:
Masahiko Tomita, Hachioji, JP;
Assignee:
OLYMPUS CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 1/00 (2006.01); A61B 1/12 (2006.01); G02B 23/24 (2006.01); G01M 3/26 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 1/00057 (2013.01); A61B 1/00 (2013.01); A61B 1/12 (2013.01); G01M 3/26 (2013.01); G02B 23/24 (2013.01); G02B 23/2476 (2013.01);
Abstract
When an air supply conduit is connected to an empty space portion inside an endoscope and air is fed to the empty space portion to perform a leak determination based on a change in the internal pressure of the endoscope which is caused by the air, a surface temperature of the endoscope that is measured by a temperature measurement portion is maintained at a temperature at the time that the leak determination starts, through energy supply control that irradiates far infrared rays onto a surface of the endoscope from a far-infrared ray irradiation portion.