ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,393,015, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to HOYA Corp. (Tokyo).
"Endoscope" was invented by Hisanori Bessho (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To provide an endoscope capable of appropriately dissipating heat of a heat generating portion with a simpler configuration.In an endoscope including an image sensor that generates heat during operation, and a shield pipe and a mold resin portion that are integrated with the image sensor and dissipate heat transferred from the image sensor in a case where the image sensor generates heat, the mold resin portion has a linear expansion coefficient larger than those of the image sensor and the shie...