Endoscope system

• US 8,262,565 B2
• Filed: 01/26/2007
• Issued: 09/11/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 01/31/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Olympus Corporation
• Original Assignee: Olympus Medical Systems Corporation (Olympus Corporation)
• Inventors: Okada, Tsutomu
• Primary Examiner(s): Kasztejna, Matthew J
• Assistant Examiner(s): HENDERSON, RYAN N
• Application Number:
  US11/698,522
• Publication Number:
  US 20070179341A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,055 Days
• Field of Search: 600/104, 600/153, 600/154, 600156-159, 600/562, 600/565, 600/571, 600/573, 606113-115, 604/317, 604319-326
• US Class Current: 600/156
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 1/00068 Valve switch arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 1/00137 End pieces at either end of the endoscope, e.g. caps, seals or forceps plugs
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 1/015 Control of fluid supply or evacuation
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 1/018 for receiving instruments
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 10/04 Endoscopic instruments
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 1/7413 by changing the cross-section of the line
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 1/79 Filters for solid matter specially adapted for dental use A61C17/065

Abstract

In the endoscope system 1, a tissue recovery device 3 that recovers tissue is directly mounted on an endoscope 2. The tissue recovery device 3 has a filter portion, and the filter portion is inserted so as to traverse the conduit of the suction conduit 20 that passes inside the endoscope operation portion 10. The suction conduit 20 opens to the distal end portion of the endoscope insertion portion 11, and the working channel 23 branches off from the branch portion 22 that is provided further on the distal end side than the insertion location of the tissue recovery device 3. With this endoscope system, it is possible to reduce operational burden of the operator with regard to the endoscope system that includes the tissue recovery device that recovers tissue.

Claims

1. An endoscope system comprising:

an endoscope in which an endoscope insertion portion that is inserted into a body extends from an endoscope operation portion that an operator controls;

a working channel that opens to a distal end portion of the endoscope insertion portion and passes through the endoscope, with its proximal end portion opening to the endoscope operation portion;

a connection conduit that branches from a branch portion formed in the proximal end portion of the working channel;

a suction conduit for suctioning tissue, being connected to a suction unit through the inside of the endoscope;

a tissue recovery device that is inserted into the connection conduit and a distal end of the suction conduit and is capable of trapping tissue which is drawn into the working channel by a suction of the suction unit via the suction conduit; and

an attachment that removably attaches a portion of the working channel that includes the branch portion and the distal end portion of the suction conduit with respect to the endoscope operation portion as one piece, wherein the attachment has a bypass conduit that bypasses the tissue recovery device to allow communication between the connection conduit and the suction conduit, with the bypass conduit being blocked when the tissue recovery device is attached and opened when the tissue recovery device is removed.

2. The endoscope system according to claim 1, wherein the tissue recovery device is removably attached to the attachment.

3. The endoscope system according to claim 2, wherein the attachment has a main body portion that is attached to and detached from the endoscope and a valve that is inserted to rotate freely in the main body, with the valve being rotated so as to be able to select a first rotation position that allows communication between the distal end portion of the suction conduit and the proximal end portion of the working channel via the bypass conduit, and a second rotation position that blocks the bypass conduit to separately open the distal end of the suction conduit and the proximal end portion of the working channel to the outside.

4. The endoscope system according to claim 2, further comprising a coupling member that is mountable on a distal end side connection port that is provided on a proximal end of the connection conduit of the attachment to be connectable with the tissue recovery device and a proximal end side connection port that is provided on the conduit forming the distal end of the suction conduit in the attachment to be connectable with the tissue recovery device to fluidly connect the working channel and the suction conduit.

5. The endoscope system according to claim 1, wherein the attachment is manufactured from an elastic member.

6. The endoscope system according to claim 1, wherein the tissue recovery device has a tissue recovery case and a tissue recovery filter that is removably attached to the tissue recovery case.

7. The endoscope system according to claim 6, wherein the tissue recovery filter consists of two tissue trapping surfaces provided back to back, and the tissue recovery case is constituted so as to mount the tissue recovery filter so that the tissue trapping surfaces are disposed approximately perpendicular to a flow path of a fluid that suctions tissue.

8. The endoscope system according to claim 4, provided with a first plug body that is mountable in the distal end side connection port of the connection conduit that is open to the outside when the tissue recovery device is removed from the attachment, and a second plug body that is mountable in the distal end side connection port of the connection conduit that is open to the outside when the tissue recovery device is removed from the attachment.

9. The endoscope system according to claim 1, wherein the attachment has a first face that faces the endoscope operation portion when mounted on the endoscope operation portion and is constituted so that the tissue recovery device is disposed on a second face that is on an opposite side of the first face.