US Patent Issued to FUJIFILM on May 27 for "Endoscope having elevator support member in distal end portion body for heat dissipation" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,310,554, issued on May 27, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"Endoscope having elevator support member in distal end portion body for heat dissipation" was invented by Yasuhiko Morimoto (Kanagawa, Japan), Shozo Iyama (Kanagawa, Japan) and Tsuneo Fukuzawa (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an endoscope that can suppress increase in the temperature of a distal end portion of an insertion section while preventing increase in the number of components and increase in the diameter of the distal end portion. An endoscope includes: a distal end portion body that is provided on a distal end side of an insertion sect...