Endoscope imaging device and endoscope

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2025082185-A1
Application number	US-202418767920-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Jul 9, 2024
Priority date	Sep 8, 2023
Publication date	Mar 13, 2025
Grant date	—

Abstract

Provided are an endoscope imaging device and an endoscope capable of adjusting a position of a fixed lens along an optical axis.
An endoscope imaging device includes: at least one movement group including a movable lens that is movable along an optical axis; a plurality of fixed groups including a fixed lens whose position is fixed with respect to the optical axis, and at least one of which is an adjustment group; a sensor that images an observation target; a lens drive portion that moves the movement group along the optical axis. The adjustment group includes a cylindrical holding part, and the holding part includes a grip part provided at one end part of the holding part and an end surface provided at the other end part opposite to the one end part in the optical axis direction. The grip part includes a projecting portion or a recessed portion whose diameter changes in a radial direction of the holding part, and the adjustment group is configured such that the end surface provided at the other end part of the holding part is disposed at a position spaced apart from the lens barrel body provided with a movement group, the fixed group, and the lens drive portion, or the fixed group in the optical axis direction, and the grip part is disposed at a position spaced apart from the lens barrel body or the fixed group in the optical axis direction and protrudes from the lens barrel body or the fixed group, and a side surface of the holding part is fixed to the lens barrel body or the fixed group.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . An endoscope imaging device that acquires an image of an observation target, comprising:
at least one movement group including a movable lens that is movable along an optical axis; a plurality of fixed groups including a fixed lens whose position is fixed with respect to the optical axis; a sensor that receives light which has passed through the movable lens of the movement group and the fixed lens of the fixed group and that images the observation target; a lens drive portion that moves the movement group along the optical axis; and a lens barrel body provided with the movement group, the fixed group, and the lens drive portion, wherein at least one of the plurality of fixed groups is an adjustment group, the adjustment group includes a cylindrical holding part inside which the fixed lens is provided, the holding part includes a grip part provided at one end part of the holding part and an end surface provided at the other end part opposite to the one end part in an optical axis direction, and the grip part includes a projecting portion or a recessed portion whose diameter changes with respect to a radial direction of the holding part, and the adjustment group is configured such that the end surface provided at the other end part of the holding part is disposed at a position spaced apart from the lens barrel body or the fixed group in the optical axis direction, and the grip part is disposed at a position spaced apart from the lens barrel body or the fixed group in the optical axis direction and protrudes from the lens barrel body or the fixed group, and a side surface of the holding part is fixed to the lens barrel body or the fixed group.

2 . The endoscope imaging device according to claim 1 ,
wherein the adjustment group is provided at an end part of the lens barrel body on an observation target side or at an end part of the lens barrel body on a sensor side.

3 . The endoscope imaging device according to claim 1 ,
wherein the grip part includes at least one projecting portion or recessed portion, or at least one hole, each of which is provided in a circumferential direction of the holding part, the at least one projecting portion or recessed portion having a diameter that changes with respect to the radial direction of the holding part.

4 . The endoscope imaging device according to claim 2 ,
wherein the grip part includes at least one projecting portion or recessed portion, or at least one hole, each of which is provided in a circumferential direction of the holding part, the at least one projecting portion or recessed portion having a diameter that changes with respect to the radial direction of the holding part.

5 . The endoscope imaging device according to claim 1 ,
wherein, among the plurality of fixed groups, a fixed group other than the adjustment group is mechanically positioned in the optical axis direction.

6 . The endoscope imaging device according to claim 2 ,
wherein, among the plurality of fixed groups, a fixed group other than the adjustment group is mechanically positioned in the optical axis direction.

7 . The endoscope imaging device according to claim 3 ,
wherein, among the plurality of fixed groups, a fixed group other than the adjustment group is mechanically positioned in the optical axis direction.

8 . The endoscope imaging device according to claim 2 ,
wherein the fixed group is provided at the end part of the lens barrel body on the observation target side, and the adjustment group is provided at the end part of the lens barrel body on the sensor side.

9 . The endoscope imaging device according to claim 4 ,
wherein the fixed group is provided at the end part of the lens barrel body on the observation target side, and the adjustment group is provided at the end part of the lens barrel body on the sensor side.

10 . The endoscope imaging device according to claim 6 ,
wherein the fixed group is provided at the end part of the lens barrel body on the observation target side, and the adjustment group is provided at the end part of the lens barrel body on the sensor side.

11 . An endoscope comprising:
the endoscope imaging device according to claim 1 .

12 . An endoscope comprising:
the endoscope imaging device according to claim 2 .

Assignees

• Fujifilm Corp

Inventors

• Asaoka Takuro
• Yashiro Takashi

Classifications

• G02B23/243

  Objectives for endoscopes · CPC title

• G02B23/2423

  of the distal end · CPC title

• G02B23/2484

  Arrangements in relation to a camera or imaging device (processing or control of video signals generated by an endoscope H04N23/60, H04N23/70) · CPC title

• G02B23/2438

  Zoom objectives · CPC title

• A61B1/00188 Primary

  with focusing or zooming features · CPC title