ENDOSCOPE APPARATUS

• US 20120220826A1
• Filed: 01/30/2012
• Published: 08/30/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 02/25/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Fujifilm Corporation (Fujifilm Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Fujifilm Corporation (Fujifilm Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: YAMAMOTO, Goki
• Granted Patent: US 8,944,998 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 600/109
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 1/051 Details of CCD assembly

Abstract

In an endoscope apparatus in which an imaging element and a circuit board to which the imaging element is connected are provided inside a distal end of an insertion part, disconnection between the circuit board and a signal wiring line is prevented. In an endoscope apparatus including an insertion part to be inserted into the body, an imaging element, a circuit board electrically connected to the imaging element and arranged parallel to the longitudinal direction of the insertion part, and a signal wiring line electrically connected to the circuit board and extending in the longitudinal direction are provided within the insertion part, and a connecting portion between the circuit board and the signal wiring line is provided with a easing member that eases a force applied to the connecting portion.

Claims

1. An endoscope apparatus comprising:

an insertion part to be inserted into the body,

an imaging element, a circuit board electrically connected to the imaging element and arranged parallel to a longitudinal direction of the insertion part, and a signal wiring line electrically connected to the circuit board and extending in the longitudinal direction being provided within the insertion part,

wherein a connecting portion between the circuit board and the signal wiring line is provided with a easing member that eases a force applied to the connecting portion.

2. The endoscope apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the easing member includes a pad member that comes into contact with a wiring pattern formed on the circuit board and has the signal wiring connected thereto, and a supporting member that swingably supports the pad member.

3. The endoscope apparatus according to claim 2,

wherein the supporting member regulates the position of the pad member.

4. The endoscope apparatus according to claim 2,

wherein the supporting member regulates the amount of movement of the pad member.

5. The endoscope apparatus according to claim 3,

wherein the supporting member regulates the amount of movement of the pad member.

6. The endoscope apparatus according to claim 2,

wherein the pad member includes a spherical contact part that comes into contact with the wiring pattern.

7. The endoscope apparatus according to claim 3,

wherein the pad member includes a spherical contact part that comes into contact with the wiring pattern.

8. The endoscope apparatus according to claim 6,

wherein the pad member has the spherical contact part, a connecting plate part having the signal wiring line connected thereto, and a pillar part that connects the contact part and the connecting plate part to each other, and

wherein the supporting member has a through hole into which the pillar part penetrates.

9. The endoscope apparatus according to claim 7,

wherein the pad member has the spherical contact part, a connecting plate part having the signal wiring line connected thereto, and a pillar part that connects the contact part and the connecting plate part to each other, and

wherein the supporting member has a through hole into which the pillar part penetrates.

10. The endoscope apparatus according to claim 8,

wherein the connecting plate part is tilted using the pillar part as an axis.

11. The endoscope apparatus according to claim 9,

wherein the connecting plate part is tilted using the pillar part as an axis.

12. The endoscope apparatus according to claim 10,

wherein an opening of the through hole on the side of the pad member is larger than an opening of the through hole on the side of the circuit board.

13. The endoscope apparatus according to claim 11,

wherein an opening of the through hole on the side of the pad member is larger than an opening of the through hole on the side of the circuit board.

14. The endoscope apparatus according to claim 10,

wherein the pillar part has a portion formed thin toward the contact part.

15. The endoscope apparatus according to claim 11,

wherein the pillar part has a portion formed thin toward the contact part.

16. The endoscope apparatus according to claim 14,

wherein the pillar part and the connecting plate part are formed so that the connecting plate part touches on the supporting member before the pillar part comes into contact with an inner wall of the through hole when the pillar part is inclined from a direction perpendicular to the circuit board.

17. The endoscope apparatus according to claim 15,

wherein the pillar part and the connecting plate part are formed so that the connecting plate part touches on the supporting member before the pillar part comes into contact with an inner wall of the through hole when the pillar part is inclined from a direction perpendicular to the circuit board.

18. The endoscope apparatus according to claim 2,

wherein the pad member has a spherical contact part that comes into contact with the wiring pattern, and

wherein a portion of the wiring pattern is formed with a spherical hole that the contact part swingably engages.