Endoscope cover with channel

• US 5,460,167 A
• Filed: 03/29/1993
• Issued: 10/24/1995
• Est. Priority Date: 03/04/1993
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Olympus Optical Company Ltd. (Olympus Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Olympus Optical Company Ltd. (Olympus Corporation)
• Inventors: Suzuki, Akira, Tamada, Osamu, Yabe, Hisao, Iida, Yoshihiro, Itoh, Hideo, Yamazaki, Minoru, Furukawa, Tatsuya, Tashiro, Yoshio
• Primary Examiner(s): Apley, Richard J.
• Assistant Examiner(s): FLANAGAN, BEVERLY MEINDL
• Application Number:
  US08/038,650
• Time in Patent Office: 939 Days
• Field of Search: 128/4, 128/6
• US Class Current: 600/107
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 1/00098 Deflecting means for inserted tools
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 1/00101 the distal tip features being detachable
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 1/00142 with means for preventing contamination, e.g. by using a sanitary sheath
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 1/00174 characterised by the viewing angles
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 46/10 specially adapted for instruments, e.g. microscopes

Abstract

An endoscope cover with a channel covers at least an inserted portion of an endoscope. The endoscope cover has a treatment tool channel into which a treatment tool is inserted and incorporates a treatment tool raising device for moving, to a predetermined position, the treatment tool inserted into the treatment tool channel and protruding from a distal end portion of the treatment tool channel. The endoscope cover includes an endoscope operating portion fixing port portion provided at a proximal end portion of an inserted portion covering portion which covers the inserted portion of the endoscope. The port portion fixes an operating portion of the endoscope inserted into the inserted portion covering portion. A treatment tool raising device operating member connected to the treatment tool raising device for operating the treatment tool raising device is disposed in the endoscope operating portion fixing port portion.

Claims

1. An improved endoscope cover with a channel, said improved endoscope cover having a treatment tool channel into which a treatment tool is inserted, said improved endoscope cover being detachable from and covering at least an inserted portion of an endoscope, the improvement comprising:

said treatment tool channel being connected to said endoscope cover in such a manner that a rear end portion of said treatment tool channel is slidable relative to an endoscope operating portion fixing port portion provided in a rear end portion of said improved endoscope cover.

2. An improved endoscope cover with a channel, said improved endoscope cover having a treatment tool channel into which a treatment tool is inserted, said improved endoscope cover being detachable from and covering at least an inserted portion of an endoscope, the improvement comprising:

said treatment tool channel being connected to said endoscope cover in such a manner that a rear end portion of said treatment tool channel is slidable relative to an endoscope operating portion fixing port portion provided in a rear end portion of said endoscope cover, and wherein a movement restriction means for restricting an amount of movement of said treatment tool channel at least in either of rotational and longitudinal directions of said channel is provided in said endoscope operating portion fixing port portion.