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Endoscope

US4860731A · kind A · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateOct 11, 1988
Grant dateAug 29, 1989
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Expiry dateOct 11, 2008

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC A)Human Necessities
  • CPC primaryA61B1/12
  • WIPO fieldMedical technology
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

An endoscope having sucking tube lines large in the sucking capacity of the present invention has an insertable part to be inserted into a body cavity and is provided in the front end part of the insertable part with an illuminating window illuminating an observed part, an observing window for observing the illuminated object and a sucking part. A first sucking tube line inserted through the insertable part and leading to the operating part is connected at one end to the sucking part and at the other end to a suction switching part operating the suction from the sucking part. A second sucking tube line of an inside diameter larger than of the first sucking tube line is connected to the suction switching part so as to make the suction from the sucking part through the suction switching part.

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