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 Endoscope connecting apparatus

Details
Inventors: Terayama, Toshiki;
Assignee: Olympus Optical Co, Ltd. (Tokyo, JP)
Primary Examiner: Kundrat; Andrew V.
Assistant Examiner:
Attorney, Agent or Firm: Armstrong, Nikaido, Marmelstein, Kubovcik & Murray

A connecting mechanism is formed by providing grooves having angularly disposed slopes in a rotary member in a position facing the outside of guide grooves provided in a housing for engaging endoscope fitting pins and providing an energizing device biasing the rotary member for rotation in one direction so that the endoscope may be locked and fitted by the simple operation of pushing in the endoscope forward through an open end of the housing.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION An object of the present invention is to provide an endoscope connecting apparatus whereby an endoscope can be fitted by a simple operation.
Another object of the present invention is to provide an endoscope connecting apparatus which is high in such operability as the capability of locking an endoscope when it is fitted.
Further, another object of the present invention is to provide an endoscope connecting apparatus which can prevent water from leaking out.
In the present invention, a connecting mechanism having a cylindrical housing part is provided with guide grooves for receiving engaging projections provided on the endoscope, grooves having a wall part defined by sloped walls oriented at an angle to each other are provided in a rotary ring rotatably fitted to a base end part of the body of the connecting apparatus and an energizing means is provided for energizing the rotary ring in one direction so that the above mentioned slopes may close the grooves is formed in the housing part which is provided with an opening for receiving an endoscope insertable part in the base end part of the connecting apparatus body so that, by the operation of pushing in the endoscope, the rotary ring may be rotated against the energization of the above mentioned energizing means to engage the projections of the above mentioned endoscope and then the rotary ring is rotated in the reverse direction by the above mentioned energizing means to automatically lock the endoscope that is pushed in.


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