US 12,185,913 B2
Endoscope cap and endoscope
Keiichi Saito, Tokyo (JP)
Assigned to HOYA CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
Appl. No. 17/626,999
Filed by HOYA CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
PCT Filed Nov. 10, 2020, PCT No. PCT/JP2020/041818
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Jan. 13, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/100537, PCT Pub. Date May 27, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 2019-209048 (JP), filed on Nov. 19, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0248942 A1, Aug. 11, 2022
Int. Cl. A61B 1/00 (2006.01)
CPC A61B 1/00137 (2013.01) [A61B 1/00098 (2013.01)] 7 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An endoscope cap detachably attached to an insertion portion of an endoscope, the endoscope cap comprising:
a cover having a cylindrical shape with a bottom, and being detachably attached to a distal tip of the insertion portion from an opening end portion;
a pedestal held inside the cover; and
an elevator rotatably supported by the pedestal,
wherein the pedestal includes:
a base having a tabular shape, being disposed in an inner surface of a cylindrical portion of the cover;
a support wall having a tabular shape, rising from an edge of the base, and extending in an axial direction of the cover to support the elevator;
a distal tip wall extending from a distal tip of the support wall in the same direction as the base;
a bottom fixing protrusion protruding from the distal tip wall in a direction opposite to the support wall; and
a lateral face fixing protrusion outwardly protruding from the base in a radial direction opposite to the support wall, and
the cover includes:
a first fixing hole into which the bottom fixing protrusion is inserted, the first fixing hole being disposed in the bottom; and
a second fixing hole into which the lateral face fixing protrusion is inserted, the second fixing hole being disposed in a lateral face surface of the cover along an axial direction of the cover.