CONNECTOR AND MEDICAL APPARATUS

• US 20080281157A1
• Filed: 05/06/2008
• Published: 11/13/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 05/08/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Olympus Intellectual Property Services Co., Ltd. (Olympus Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Olympus Intellectual Property Services Co., Ltd. (Olympus Corporation)
• Inventors: Miyagi, Masaaki, Sawai, Takashi
• Application Number:
  US12/115,848
• Publication Number:
  US 20080281157A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 600/132
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 1/00124 electrical, e.g. electrical plug-and-socket connection
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 1/00126 optical, e.g. for light supply cables
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 1/00128 mechanical, e.g. for tubes or pipes
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 6/3817 containing optical and electrical conductors cables including electrical and optical conductors H01B11/22; G02B6/3816 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 6/3833 Details of mounting fibres in ferrules; Assembly methods; Manufacture
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 6/3853 Lens inside the ferrule lensed connectors G02B6/32
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 13/6315 allowing relative movement between coupling parts, e.g. floating connection for coupling devices specially adapted for printed circuits, flat or ribbon cables, or like generally planar structures, H01R12/91 takes precedence

Abstract

A connector includes a flange receiving portion serving as a first standard surface provided on a chassis serving as a stationary base plate, a casing serving as a first connector portion which is supported in a manner to be movable at least in parallel to the flange receiving portion, a flange receiving portion serving as a standard surface which is provided on the casing and is substantially parallel to the flange receiving portion, and a light guide fixing member serving as a second connector portion which is supported in a manner to be movable at least in parallel to the flange receiving portion.

Claims

1. A connector comprising:

a first standard surface provided on a stationary base plate;

a first connector portion which is supported in a manner to be movable at least in parallel to the first standard surface;

a second standard surface which is provided on the first connector portion and is parallel to the first standard surface; and

a second connector portion which is supported in a manner to be movable at least in parallel to the second standard surface.

2. The connector according to claim 1, wherein the first connector portion and the second connector portion are coaxially provided.

3. The connector according to claim 1, wherein the first connector portion and the second connector portion are provided in parallel.

4. The connector according to claim 3, wherein the first standard surface and the second standard surface are positioned in the same plane.

5. The connector according to claim 1, wherein the first connector portion includes a flange portion, and

the first standard surface includes a flange receiving portion which supports the flange portion such that the flange portion is movable at least in parallel.

6. The connector according to claim 1, wherein the second connector portion includes a flange portion, and

the second standard surface includes a flange receiving portion which supports the flange portion such that the flange portion is movable at least in parallel.

7. The connector according to claim 1, wherein the first standard surface includes support means for supporting the first connector portion such that the first connector portion is three-dimensionally oscillatable.

8. The connector according to claim 1, wherein the second standard surface includes support means for supporting the second connector portion such that the second connector portion is three-dimensionally oscillatable.

9. The connector according to claim 1, wherein the first connector portion and the second connector portion are connector portions for connection to at least one of an electrical member and an optical member.

10. A medical apparatus comprising:

first medical equipment including the connector according to claim 1; and

second medical equipment which is detachably connected to the first medical equipment.

11. The medical apparatus according to claim 10, wherein the first medical equipment is an endoscope control device including one or both of an electrical connector and an optical connector, and

the second medical equipment is an endoscope which is detachably connected to at least one of the electrical connector and the optical connector.

12. The medical apparatus according to claim 11, wherein the first medical equipment is an endoscope control device including an electrical connector and an optical connector which are coaxially provided, and

the second medical equipment is an endoscope including an operation section body which is detachably connected to the electrical connector and the optical connector.

13. The medical apparatus according to claim 11, wherein the first medical equipment is an endoscope control device including an electrical connector and an optical connector which are provided in parallel, and

the second medical equipment is an endoscope including an operation section body which is detachably connected to the electrical connector and the optical connector.