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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 05, 2018
Filed:
Mar. 03, 2014
Applicant:
Olympus Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Inventors:
Assignee:
OLYMPUS CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 1/04 (2006.01); A61B 1/005 (2006.01); A61B 1/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 1/0055 (2013.01); A61B 1/0016 (2013.01); A61B 1/0052 (2013.01); A61B 1/0057 (2013.01); A61B 1/00066 (2013.01);
Abstract
A first housing region A which is provided in the operation portion and in which a bending drive mechanism is housed, a second housing region B which is provided in the operation section and in which a flexible member is housed, and a third housing region C which is provided in the operation portion and in which an electric part is housed are provided, the first housing region A and the second housing region B are located to be lined up in an orthogonal direction Q, and the third housing region C is located to be adjacent to both of the first housing region A and the second housing region B so that a first boundary line Tis orthogonal to a second boundary line T