ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,465,203, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to OLYMPUS Corp. (Tokyo).
"Bending operation mechanism for endoscope, and endoscope" was invented by Keisuke Hatano (Fuchu, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bending operation mechanism includes an operation lever, a wire pulling member, a pulling wire, a cylinder, and a pulley, and the pulley is disposed with a predetermined rotation shaft tilted so that an extended line of the predetermined rotation shaft intersects with the cylinder."
The patent was filed on April 11, 2022, under Application No. 17/717,418.
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