US 11,864,731 B2
Connector device for endoscope
Shintaro Hattori, Kanagawa (JP); and Nobuyuki Torisawa, Kanagawa (JP)
Assigned to FUJIFILM Corporation, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by FUJIFILM Corporation, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Aug. 19, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/407,123.
Application 17/407,123 is a continuation of application No. PCT/JP2020/011160, filed on Mar. 13, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 2019-050667 (JP), filed on Mar. 19, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2021/0382292 A1, Dec. 9, 2021
Int. Cl. A61B 1/00 (2006.01); G02B 23/24 (2006.01); A61B 1/313 (2006.01)
CPC A61B 1/00126 (2013.01) [G02B 23/2469 (2013.01); A61B 1/313 (2013.01)] 16 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A connector device for an endoscope comprising:
an exterior member that includes a plug which has an annular first connecting part forming a first opening in an end part thereof and a connector exterior case which has an annular second connecting part forming a second opening in an end part thereof,
wherein the first connecting part has at least a pair of first linear portions facing each other,
the second connecting part has at least a pair of second linear portions facing each other,
an outer peripheral surface of the first linear portion has a first groove along the first linear portion,
an inner peripheral surface of the second linear portion has a second groove along the second linear portion,
the second linear portion has a first through-hole that penetrates an outer peripheral surface and an inner peripheral surface of the second connecting part and is connected to one end side of the second groove and a second through-hole that penetrates the outer peripheral surface and the inner peripheral surface of the second connecting part and is connected to the other end side of the second groove,
the first groove and the second groove face each other so that an insertion passage along the first linear portion and the second linear portion is formed in a state where the outer peripheral surface of the first linear portion is fitted into the inner peripheral surface of the second linear portion so that the plug and the connector exterior case are connected to each other, and
the connector device for an endoscope further comprises a shaft member that is fitted into the second through-hole from the first through-hole via the insertion passage and is fitted to the first through-hole, the insertion passage, and the second through-hole.