Patents by Inventor Suguru OKANIWA

Suguru OKANIWA has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • ENDOSCOPE SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20140039259
    Abstract: In an endoscope system including a plurality of endoscopes including insertion portions having different diameters, each of the plurality of endoscopes includes a first bending portion subjected to bending operation to actively bend, a second bending portion passively bent by external force, a flexible tube portion having rigidity higher than rigidity of the second bending portion, and a bending portion including the first bending portion and the second bending portion. In the plurality of endoscopes, a relation among lengths of the second bending portions is set to be contrary to a size relation among insertion portion diameters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2013
    Publication date: February 6, 2014
    Inventor: Suguru OKANIWA