Patent ID: 11858074
Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
Field: Medical technology (Instruments)
Classification: CPC B  A | IPC A  B

Claim 0:
1. A medical apparatus remanufacturing method comprising:
disassembling a housing including a first housing and a second housing, the first housing including a boss that is press-fitted to a boss hole of a press-fitted portion of the second housing in an assembled state in which the first housing and the second housing are assembled to each other, the disassembling including:
heating the press-fitted portion through a hole formed in the second housing so as to thermally expand the boss hole to decrease a contact surface pressure between the boss and the boss hole, the hole extending from an opening at an outer surface of the second housing toward the press-fitted portion; and
removing the boss from the boss hole to release the assembled state.