Bending operation apparatus for endoscope

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 8808167
APP PUB NO 20140058323A1
SERIAL NO

14066040

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A rotation shaft, a bending operation knob, a fixed shaft, two movable disks, a fixed disk, a cam member, a resistance giving member and a fixing lever are included. The resistance giving member has a rocking portion that fixes a rotation position of the cam member in a second position of the movable disks by abutting onto an inner circumferential face of a protruding portion provided at the cam member that moves with rotation of the cam member with an urging force, and is rockable in a diameter direction of the cam member.

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  • OLYMPUS CORPORATION

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Hoshino, Yuki Sagamihara, JP 30 112

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