US 12,082,779 B2
Endoscope holder
Naohisa Yahagi, Tokyo (JP); Norihito Wada, Tokyo (JP); Itsuro Ogawa, Saitama (JP); Satoru Ogawa, Saitama (JP); Yuzuru Inoue, Tokyo (JP); and Mitsuru Yoda, Tokyo (JP)
Assigned to KEIO UNIVERSITY, Tokyo (JP); WAKO INDUSTRIES CO., LTD., Saitama (JP); and SAITAMA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY, Saitama (JP)
Filed by KEIO UNIVERSITY, Tokyo (JP); WAKO INDUSTRIES CO., LTD., Saitama (JP); and SAITAMA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY, Saitama (JP)
Filed on Sep. 13, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/943,305.
Application 17/943,305 is a division of application No. 16/089,629, granted, now 11,464,396, previously published as PCT/JP2017/006160, filed on Feb. 20, 2017.
Claims priority of application No. 2016-069938 (JP), filed on Mar. 31, 2016; application No. 2016-251858 (JP), filed on Dec. 26, 2016; and application No. 2017-014787 (JP), filed on Jan. 30, 2017.
Prior Publication US 2023/0000323 A1, Jan. 5, 2023
Int. Cl. A61B 1/00 (2006.01); A61B 1/01 (2006.01)
CPC A61B 1/00147 (2013.01) [A61B 1/00071 (2013.01); A61B 1/0014 (2013.01); A61B 1/00149 (2013.01); A61B 1/01 (2013.01)] 8 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An endoscope holder which fixes and holds an endoscope inserted into a body at a predetermined insertion position, comprising:
a holder main body having a hollow quadratic shape which comprises an endoscope housing part with an opening in one side surface thereof, the endoscope housing part being configured to house the endoscope therein;
first and second gripping members each having a plate-like body extending in a lengthwise direction of the endoscope housing part, and contacts the endoscope housed in the endoscope housing part to pinch the endoscope;
a first elastic member which is disposed between the first and second gripping members and urges the first and second gripping members in a direction in which the first and second gripping members are separated from each other;
a pressing member which presses the first gripping member toward the second gripping member against an urging force of the first elastic member;
a switching mechanism which holds or releases a pressing state by the pressing member;
rollers which are rotatably provided at surfaces of the first and second gripping members which are in contact with the endoscope, along the lengthwise direction of the endoscope housing part; and
a second elastic member which is provided between the second gripping member and an inner wall of the endoscope housing part, and swingably supports the second gripping member with respect to the lengthwise direction of the endoscope housing part.