Treatment tool for endoscope

• US 8,157,798 B2
• Filed: 04/30/2007
• Issued: 04/17/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 06/07/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Olympus Corporation
• Original Assignee: Olympus Medical Systems Corporation (Olympus Corporation)
• Inventors: Takahashi, Ichiro
• Primary Examiner(s): Peffley, Michael
• Application Number:
  US11/796,785
• Publication Number:
  US 20080033238A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,814 Days
• Field of Search: 606/46, 606/47, 606/113, 600/102, 600/104, 600/106
• US Class Current: 606/47
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 10/02 Instruments for taking cell samples or for biopsy A61B10/0038 and A61B10/0045 take precedence; needle locating or guiding means A61B17/3403; samplers for enzymology or microbiology C12M1/26; sampling or preparing biological specimens G01N33/48
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 17/072 for applying a row of staples in a single action , e.g. the staples being applied simultaneously
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 18/14 Probes or electrodes therefor
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 18/1445 at the distal end of a shaft, e.g. forceps or scissors at the end of a rigid rod
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2018/1407 Loop
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2018/141 Snare

Abstract

A treatment tool for an endoscope includes: a treatment portion that is positioned on a distal end side and of which at least a portion is formed from an electroconductive material; an operating wire that is formed from an electroconductive material and is connected to the treatment portion; a sheath that is formed from an electrically non-conductive material through which the operating wire is inserted; a base that is fixed to a base end side of the sheath; an operating section that is rotatably mounted on the base and is connected to a base end side of the operating wire, and that causes the treatment portion to move forwards and backwards and to rotate via the operating wire; and a plug that is provided on the base and is electrically connected to the operating wire.

Claims

1. A treatment tool for an endoscope comprising:

a treatment portion that is positioned on a distal end side and of which at least a portion is formed from an electroconductive material;

an operating wire that is formed from an electroconductive material and is connected to the treatment portion;

a sheath that is formed from an electrically non-conductive material through which the operating wire is inserted;

a base being comprised of a base main body having a connecting arm, the base being fixed to a base end side of the sheath so as to be orthogonal to an axis line of the sheath by means of the connecting arm;

an operating section being provided with an operating section main body that is rotatably attached to the base main body and to a slider that is attached to the operating section main body so that the slider can move forwards or backwards relative to the operating section main body, and a base end side of the operating wire that is connected to the slider, the operating section causing the treatment portion to move forwards and backwards and to rotate via the operating wire; and

a plug that is provided on the base main body and is electrically connected to the operating wire, wherein

the slider is attached to the operating section main body so that a direction in which the slider moves is orthogonal to an axis line which connects the base and the axis line of the sheath and so that an axis line along the direction in which the slider moves and the axis line of the sheath form skew axis lines.

2. The treatment tool for an endoscope according to claim 1, wherein an attachment that can be attached to or removed from an endoscope operating section is attached to the base.

3. The treatment tool for an endoscope according to claim 2, wherein the plug and the attachment protrude in the same direction from the base.

4. The treatment tool for an endoscope according to claim 2, wherein the plug and the attachment protrude in mutually opposite directions from the base.

5. The treatment tool for an endoscope according to claim 1, wherein an electroconductive elastic component is interposed between a base end side of the plug and the operating wire.

6. The treatment tool for an endoscope according to claim 1, wherein the base is attached to the base end side of the sheath, and the operating section main body is mounted on the opposite side of the base from the sheath so as to be able to rotate around a base end side axis of the sheath, and the slider is mounted on the operating section main body so as to be able to move forwards or backwards in the direction of the base end side axis of the sheath, and the base end side of the operating wire extends from an aperture end on the base end side of the sheath through the base towards the operating section main body side, and is connected to the slider.