ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,318,068, issued on June 3, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).
"Method of molding elevator and endoscope" was invented by Takashi Harada (Ashigarakami-gun, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a method of molding an elevator and an endoscope, the method making it possible to mold an elevator integrally with an operation wire with a simple operation. A method of molding an elevator (36) is a method of molding an elevator (32) integrally with an operation wire (40), the elevator (32) being to be disposed in a distal-end-portion body (32) of an endoscope (10). The method includes: a step of disposing the operation wire (40) t...