Abstract: There is provided an endoscope imaging unit including parallel electric wires, an image sensor located on a front end side by being separated from front ends of the respective electric wires, and having a light incident surface substantially perpendicular to the electric wires, a flexible substrate located between the electric wires and the image sensor, having a circuit, and conductively connecting the respective electric wires to the circuit, an image sensor mounting peninsula portion bent with respect to the substrate, and mounting the image sensor thereon by conductively connecting the image sensor to the circuit, and a circuit mounting peninsula portion extending from the substrate, located by being bent to a side opposite to the image sensor before the image sensor mounting peninsula portion, and mounting and conductively connecting an electronic component or the circuit pattern to the circuit.

Abstract: A compound-eye endoscope includes two or more image-capturing modules, a sub-frame, and an outer shell. The two or more image-capturing modules are formed in the same outer shape, and each of the image-capturing modules includes a lens barrel housing an optical system, an image sensor, and a sensor holding member that relatively fixes the lens barrel and the image sensor. The sub-frame relatively fixes each of the two or more image-capturing modules. The outer shell accommodates and fixes the sub-frame and the two or more image-capturing modules.

Abstract: An endoscope includes an image-capturing module. The image-capturing module includes a lens barrel housing an optical system, an image sensor, a sensor holding member that relatively fixes the lens barrel and the image sensor, and a flexible substrate through which a signal of the image sensor is transmitted to a transmission cable. The flexible substrate is bendable at an arbitrary number of bending portion.

Abstract: An endoscope includes two or more imaging modules having a lens barrel containing an optical system, an image sensor, and a sensor holding member that relatively fixes the lens barrel and the image sensor, a sub-frame that relatively fixes each of the two or more imaging modules, and an outer shell portion that accommodates and fixes the sub-frame and the two or more imaging modules.

Abstract: This endoscope is provided with: a hard part that is provided at the distal end of a scope, is formed in a substantially cylindrical shape, and has a substantially circular distal end surface; and a plurality of cameras that are disposed on the left and right sides of the hard part to be located on both sides of a first virtual line perpendicular to the axis of the hard part on the distal end surface. The plurality of cameras include a first camera. The first camera is disposed so that the imaging axis is offset in the direction along the first virtual line from a second virtual line perpendicular to the axis and the first virtual line.

Abstract: An oblique-viewing endoscope is equipped with a hard portion which is provided at the tip of the oblique-viewing endoscope and is formed with an oblique end surface that is inclined with respect to the axial line of the oblique-viewing endoscope so as to form an acute included angle with it; an imaging window formed in the oblique end surface; a camera which is provided in the hard portion and performs imaging through the imaging window; an illumination window which is formed in the oblique end surface at a position in the rear of the imaging window; and an illumination device which is provided in the hard portion and performs illumination through the illumination window.

Abstract: An endoscope system includes a non-visible light source configured to emit first excitation light and second excitation light onto a target, an image sensor configured to generate an image including the target excited by at least one of the first excitation light and the second excitation light to emit fluorescence, and an output device configured to output the image. The first excitation light has a half width of not more than 10 nm and a first wavelength of a non-visible light band. The second excitation light has a half width of not more than 10 nm and a second wavelength of the non-visible light band being different from the first wavelength.

Abstract: An endoscope system includes a first light source that emits visible light, a second light source that emits non-visible light, an image sensor that generates a first image including a subject through first photoelectric conversion using the visible light and generates a second image including a subject that emits fluorescence emission light due to excitation by the non-visible light through second photoelectric conversion using the non-visible light, and an output device that alternately switches between and outputs the first image and the second image. The second light source starts light emission by a predetermined time before start of the second photoelectric conversion due to driving of the driving circuit.

Abstract: An endoscope has an imaging unit at a distal end portion of an insert section, and a relay board including an imaging signal converter that converts imaging signals output from the imaging unit is provided inside the insert section. Here, a data transmission method of an imaging signal transmitted at least in a section from the imaging unit to the relay board is a low-amplitude differential transmission method.

Abstract: There is provided an endoscope imaging unit including parallel electric wires, an image sensor located on a front end side by being separated from front ends of the respective electric wires, and having a light incident surface substantially perpendicular to the electric wires, a flexible substrate located between the electric wires and the image sensor, having a circuit, and conductively connecting the respective electric wires to the circuit, an image sensor mounting peninsula portion bent with respect to the substrate, and mounting the image sensor thereon by conductively connecting the image sensor to the circuit, and a circuit mounting peninsula portion extending from the substrate, located by being bent to a side opposite to the image sensor before the image sensor mounting peninsula portion, and mounting and conductively connecting an electronic component or the circuit pattern to the circuit.

Abstract: An endoscope has an imaging unit at a distal end portion of an insert section, and a relay board including an imaging signal converter that converts imaging signals output from the imaging unit is provided inside the insert section. Here, a data transmission method of an imaging signal transmitted at least in a section from the imaging unit to the relay board is a low-amplitude differential transmission method.

Abstract: An endoscope has an imaging unit at a distal end portion of an insert section, and a relay board including an imaging signal converter that converts imaging signals output from the imaging unit is provided inside the insert section. Here, a data transmission method of an imaging signal transmitted at least in a section from the imaging unit to the relay board is a low-amplitude differential transmission method.

Abstract: An endoscope system includes a non-visible light source configured to emit first excitation light and second excitation light onto a target, an image sensor configured to generate an image including the target excited by at least one of the first excitation light and the second excitation light to emit fluorescence, and an output device configured to output the image. The first excitation light has a half width of not more than 10 nm and a first wavelength of a non-visible light band. The second excitation light has a half width of not more than 10 nm and a second wavelength of the non-visible light band being different from the first wavelength.

Abstract: An endoscope system includes a first light source that emits visible light, a second light source that emits non-visible light, an image sensor that generates a first image including a subject through first photoelectric conversion using the visible light and generates a second image including a subject that emits fluorescence emission light due to excitation by the non-visible light through second photoelectric conversion using the non-visible light, and an output device that alternately switches between and outputs the first image and the second image. The second light source starts light emission by a predetermined time before start of the second photoelectric conversion due to driving of the driving circuit.

Abstract: An endoscope has an imaging unit at a distal end portion of an insert section, and a relay board including an imaging signal converter that converts imaging signals output from the imaging unit is provided inside the insert section. Here, a data transmission method of an imaging signal transmitted at least in a section from the imaging unit to the relay board is a low-amplitude differential transmission method.

Abstract: An imaging unit at a tip end portion of an insertion section has a board on which the image pickup device is installed, a cable through which a signal is input to and output from the board, and a ground bar which is provided so as to protrude from the surface of the board and is connected to a ground of the board. In a distal portion of the cable on the imaging unit side, a shield part is connected to the ground of the board through the ground bar and a core line is directly assembled on the board. The ground bar supports the cable on the board such that the height of the cable in the vicinity of a board-mounting portion of the cable becomes greater than or equal to a predetermined value.

Abstract: An endoscope according to exemplary embodiments of the present disclosure includes an insertion section configured to be bendable, extend from a base end to an idle end, and be rotatable about an extension direction thereof, a functional member provided to the idle end, a plurality of control wires, trailing ends of which are fixed to the idle end, and a traction member provided to the base end and configured to tow starting ends of the plurality of control wires so as to bend the insertion section. When the insertion section is rotated, the functional member, the plurality of control wires, and the traction member are rotated along with the insertion section. The traction member maintains a bending direction and a bending angle of the insertion section by changing a traction amount with respect to the plurality of control wires.

Abstract: An endoscope includes an insertion portion to be inserted into a subject to be observed, a first imaging unit and a second imaging unit arranged side by side in a distal end portion of the insertion portion, and a control unit which generates a 3D image from captured images taken by the first imaging unit and the second imaging unit. An optical axis of the first imaging unit can be changed to enable an image capturing area of the first imaging unit to be moved along a direction in which the first imaging unit and the second imaging unit are arranged. The endoscope includes an angle operation unit to change the inclination angle of the optical axis of the first imaging unit and an angle adjustment mechanism which changes the inclination angle of the optical axis of the first imaging unit according to an operation of the angle operation unit.

Abstract: To facilitate the operation performed when an endoscope and a treatment tool are inserted into a single hole, an insertion member having a movable imaging unit disposed at a distal end thereof is integrally provided with a tubular portion that receives an operation member for remotely operating the imaging unit and a guide hole that guides the treatment tool. Since the guide portion that guides the treatment tool is formed integrally with the insertion member that movably supports the imaging unit at the distal end thereof, mere insertion of the endoscope device through a single hole enables capturing of an image of any part within a predetermined range without need for rotation of the endoscope, while preventing a change in the shape of the hole and facilitating access of the treatment tool to a target part.

Abstract: An endoscope includes an imaging unit capturing an image of an object; an imaging holder holding the imaging unit; two systems of driving force transmission mechanisms each including a pair of driving rods having distal ends connected in a diagonal position to each other relative to the imaging holder; a driving apparatus disposed on a base end side of the driving rods and driving forward and backward at least one of the driving rods in each of the driving force transmission mechanisms; and a cover member extending from a base member of the driving apparatus and covering at least a portion of the imaging unit, the imaging holder, and the driving force transmission mechanisms. The imaging unit rotates around two different axes according to forward and backward movement of the driving rods.