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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 20, 2018
Filed:
Sep. 17, 2015
Olympus Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Yasuaki Kasai, Saitama, JP;
OLYMPUS CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A fiber-optic scanner equipped with a light-guiding optical fiber; the fiber-optic scanner including a plurality of vibration generating units disposed circumferentially at equal intervals on an outer peripheral surface of the optical fiber located on a base end side thereof at a predetermined distance from the emission end of the optical fiber to vibrate an emission end of the optical fiber in a plurality of directions; and a vibration damping member disposed at least in a position between base end-side edges of the vibration generating units and the emission end of the optical fiber, wherein the vibration damping member has a uniform shape of a rotating body rotated around the axis line of the optical fiber.