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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6740106 | Forceps for endoscope and manufacturing method of forceps An electroless nickel plating film layer is formed over a surface of a base material of a forceps piece made of austenitic stainless steel. The forceps are chemical resistant. The electroless nickel plating film layer displays a hardness suitable for the forceps and... | 05/25/2004 |
| 6734912 | TV lens system In a TV lens system including a TV lens apparatus and a control unit, CPUs of the TV lens apparatus and the control unit monitor intervals between received data in serial communication in a digital control mode. If the data transmission stops for a predetermined tim... | 05/11/2004 |
| 6726568 | Coil shaft and method for fabricating same A coil shaft or tube to be fitted into a flexible sleeve to serve as a flexible rotation transmission shaft, containing a partially coarsely wound coil shaft formed by winding around a core a plural number of unit wires which are arranged in intimately parallel rela... | 04/27/2004 |
| 6719685 | Mouthpiece and insertion assisting device for endoscope According to the present invention, a fixing member is integrated with a mouthpiece body through slide grooves and a rotational groove, and this improves the portability. Moreover, a guide tube can easily be fixed to the mouthpiece body only by rotating the fixing m... | 04/13/2004 |
| 6721012 | Lens unit of TV camera A lens unit is attached to a body of a TV camera, and a main power supply of the camera body supplies power to motors that drive movable lenses of the lens unit. When the lens unit becomes unused, specifically, when the main power supply is turned off, or when the l... | 04/13/2004 |
| 6661971 | Camera having a holding member for holding a device for measuring a lens-to-subject distance Provided is a camera capable of contributing reductions in the number of components and manufacturing costs. A holding member is mounted on a top portion of a camera body. A block portion for holding a device for range-finding, a finder and so on, a semic... | 12/09/2003 |
| 6639695 | Image reading device In an image reading device, light from a source document is formed in an image by an optical image-forming system including a lens and the formed image is detected by a charged coupled device (CCD) sensor. A reading line of the image read by the optical s... | 10/28/2003 |
| 6636364 | Single-focus lens Provided is a single-focus lens with a shorter overall length which exhibits optimal optical performance chiefly for an imaging lens, and does not require a complicated fabrication technique. In the single-focus lens, consecutively arranged form an object... | 10/21/2003 |
| 6582360 | Tube connection structure in endoscope A tip component is provided at an extremity of an insertion part of an endoscope. The tip component includes a body member, in which a forceps aperture is formed. A forceps tube is arranged inside the insertion part. A hard part is formed at the end of th... | 06/24/2003 |
| 6570696 | Optical system for scanning and optical scanning apparatus An optical system and optical scanning apparatus can form a minute beam spot and big size images. The optical scanning apparatus deflects a beam with a polygon mirror, and focuses the beam on a target surface through a fθ-lens, a cylindrical lens, and a ... | 05/27/2003 |
| 6535271 | Exposure apparatus An exposure apparatus comprises a light source section, which is constituted of a plurality of arrayed light source units, each of the light source units comprising multiple kinds of light emitting devices, which produce light beams having wavelengths fal... | 03/18/2003 |
| 6527706 | Insertion instrument of an endoscope In an endoscopic insertion instrument having a rigid tip end section, an elongated flexible body, and an angle section connected between the rigid tip end section and the flexible body, a joint construction connects an angle section to the fore end of the... | 03/04/2003 |
| 6512542 | TV lens drive unit having a mechanism for designating a constant zoom rate When a constant rate switch is pressed during the operation of a seesaw switch, an output voltage of a potentiometer in the seesaw switch is stored in a condenser and a command from the seesaw switch is invalidated. The output voltage of the potentiometer... | 01/28/2003 |
| 6494222 | Ultrasonic cleaning apparatus for an endoscope An ultrasonic cleaning apparatus of the present invention has a cleaning vessel which is made of a synthetic resin, while an ultrasonic vibration units are respectively disposed to face a hand control part, a top end, and a connector of an endoscope which... | 12/17/2002 |
| 6491627 | Manipulation mechanism for an angle section of an endoscope A manipulation mechanism for an angle section of an endoscope includes at least one pulley provided within a main operation unit, with the base ends of a pair of operating wires wound thereupon, a pulley rotating shaft extended externally from a casing of... | 12/10/2002 |
| 6482149 | Curved part of endoscope A curve control wire, which is inserted in a curved part of an endoscope, is inserted and guided in guide holes of connecting pins, which are rotatably provided inside a plurality of joint rings. A body of the connecting pin is inserted into a hole formed... | 11/19/2002 |
| 6471641 | Joint construction for connecting an angle section to a flexible body section of endoscopic insertion instrument In joining an angle section with an elongated flexible body of an endoscopic insertion instrument, a connector ring on the side of the angle section and a connector ring on the side of the flexible body are connected by fitting engagement, one connector r... | 10/29/2002 |
| 6461304 | Ultrasound inspection apparatus detachably connected to endoscope An ultrasound inspection apparatus detachably connected to an endoscope comprises an ultrasonic scanning portion in the front-end side having an ultrasound transducer for performing ultrasonic scanning by arranging a number of transducer chips in a rectan... | 10/08/2002 |
| 6459447 | Video signal transmission device With an electronic endoscope, a wide band video signal is output to connected instruments without giving electric shocks to a body even when the connected instruments are not insulated. The video signal V is converted to differential signals V1, V2 by a d... | 10/01/2002 |
| 6456794 | Distance-measuring apparatus Distance measurement operations are executed by carrying out projection of light from IRED 4, reception of light by PSD 5, arithmetic operation by an arithmetic unit, and integral operation by an integrator plural times, and thereafter a detector detects ... | 09/24/2002 |
| 6454703 | Angle portion of an endoscope Within a flexible angling joint tube which is connected to a rigid tip end section of an endoscopic insertion instrument and which is formed by connecting a predetermined number of angle rings successively and pivotally by the use of pivoting pins, a plur... | 09/24/2002 |
| 6450947 | Endoscopic terminal processor An endoscopic terminal processor for an electronic endoscope, which accommodates within its casing an illumination light source along with a video signal processor for an electronic endoscope. A circuit board of the video signal processor is supported com... | 09/17/2002 |
| 6447447 | Endoscope with objective lens drive mechanism An endoscope having an objective lens drive mechanism for an optical objective lens system, which is incorporated into a rigid tip end section of an elongated insertion instrument of the endoscope and provided with at least two movable lens groups which a... | 09/10/2002 |
| 6447445 | Endoscopic insertion instrument An insertion instrument for an endoscope is disclosed which comprises, a hard end portion formed at least an illuminating means having an illumination lens provided in a lens barrel and light guide, and an observing means at least an objective optical sys... | 09/10/2002 |
| 6429911 | Liquid crystal pixel interpolating mechanism in a liquid crystal photo printer A liquid crystal pixel interpolating mechanism is provided in a liquid crystal photo printer, wherein an image displayed on a liquid crystal panel, which is constituted of a plurality of pixels arrayed in two-dimensional directions and at predetermined pi... | 08/06/2002 |
| 6425535 | Fluid supplying apparatus for endoscope A nozzle spraying a cleaning liquid to an observation window. A jet spray aperture for spraying fluid is provided to the distal end portion of an insertion portion. A first fluid supplying passage connected to a nozzle and a control-valve. A second fluid ... | 07/30/2002 |
| 6415241 | Distance measurement system In a distance measure system, an autofocus integrated circuit is furnished with a power source voltage and an integrating capacitor is preliminarily charged to a reference voltage VREF. A temperature sensor detects ambient temperature. Thereaft... | 07/02/2002 |
| 6404564 | Projection lens A projection lens having a first lens group of negative refractive power and a second lens group of positive refractive power, in order from the enlarging side of the projection lens. A stop is positioned within a specified distance of the projection lens... | 06/11/2002 |
| 6398722 | Endoscope rubber part having a perfluoromonomer structure In an endoscope apparatus, a suction button is detachable from a manual control part, and rubber parts such as O-rings and a knob are attached to the suction button. The rubber parts are made of a perfluoromonomer rubber material that is obtained by vulca... | 06/04/2002 |
| 6383141 | Ultrasound transducer An ultrasound transducer having transducer elements arrayed in a polygonal shape on a common plane. The polygonal array of transducer elements includes a core unit consisting of a single transducer element of a polygonal shape and a plural number of frame... | 05/07/2002 |
| 6366412 | Lens system for reading images and image reader A lens system for reading images, consisting of six lens elements of positive, positive, negative, negative, positive and positive refractive power, respectively, in order from the object side, with a stop positioned between the third lens element and the... | 04/02/2002 |
| 6362924 | Real-image-type zoom finder A compact, real-image-type zoom finder having a high zoom ratio and high optical performance is provided. The finder is formed of an objective optical system and an erecting eyepiece. The objective optical system is formed of, in order from the object sid... | 03/26/2002 |
| 6357742 | Paper conveying mechanism including a device for altering the direction of the paper A paper conveying mechanism comprises at least one pair of right and left conveying rollers, which are rotated at an identical speed and convey paper, and a driving device. The driving device simultaneously inclines the at least one pair of the right and ... | 03/19/2002 |
| 6353509 | Wide-angle lens A wide-angle lens is disclosed having only three lens groups of negative, positive, and positive refractive power, in order from the object side, and having only six lens elements with refractive power. The first lens group is formed of a meniscus lens wi... | 03/05/2002 |
| 6353588 | Objective lens used with high density optical recording medium An objective lens having no more that two lens elements with refractive power is disclosed for reading or writing at high density on a recording medium. The first lens element, in order from a light source side, is biconvex and includes at least one asphe... | 03/05/2002 |
| 6351337 | Three-group zoom lens A three-group zoom lens of negative, positive, and positive refractive power, in order from the object side. The first lens group is formed of two lens elements of negative and positive refractive power, respectively, the second lens group includes an ape... | 02/26/2002 |
| 6351336 | Attachment lens for short distance shots An attachment lens for attachment to the object side of a main camera lens in order to enable the taking of short distance shots is disclosed. The attachment lens consists of three lens elements of positive, negative, and positive refractive power, in ord... | 02/26/2002 |
| 6337759 | Polarization converter and projection-type display device using the same A polarization converter, and a projection-type display device using the same, is disclosed having two or more comb polarization-separation prism arrays that are arranged, with regard to the alignment of alternating polarizing beam splitter films and refl... | 01/08/2002 |
| 6334845 | Electronic-endoscope light source unit for setting shading period The present invention is a unit for eliminating the fluctuation of luminous energy reduction by keeping the response time of a shading mechanism constant even if a diaphragm opening degree differs when reading every pixel by setting a shading period. This... | 01/01/2002 |
| 6324013 | Collimator lens and optical scanning device which uses it A collimator lens having only two lens elements, wherein the surface of the collimator lens nearest the collimated light side is concave, and at least one of the two lens elements includes an aspherical surface having diffraction optical element zones the... | 11/27/2001 |
