Patent ID: 9658445
Date: 2017-05-23
CPC Classifications: A61B,G02B

Claim:
1. An endoscope apparatus comprising: an endoscope including at least an elongated insertion section having flexibility and an image pickup device, the insertion section including, at a distal end portion, an observation window forming an observation optical system and an illumination window forming an illumination optical system and the image pickup device including an image pickup surface on which an optical image passing through the observation window is formed; an apparatus body incorporating a display section that displays an image picked up by the image pickup device; and an operation section coupled to a proximal end portion of the insertion section, and is provided with a bending operation section for operating actions of a bending portion provided to the insertion section, wherein the apparatus body includes a housing with multiple sides including a first side and a rear side located opposite relative to the first side of the housing, the display section is mounted to and incorporated at the first side of the apparatus housing, and on said rear side is attached the operation section which functions as a holding member that holds the insertion section on the rear side in a wound state, the operation section being attached to the rear side of the apparatus housing by an attaching and detaching mechanism section which is provided at the rear side and at the operation section and which allows the operation section to be detachably attached to the rear side; wherein the operation section includes a first regulating section formed by a surface of the operation section facing the rear side of the apparatus body; said first regulating section prevents the insertion section in the wound state from projecting in an axial direction perpendicular to the rear side; wherein a gap separates the first regulating section and the rear side of the apparatus housing; and wherein the operation section includes a holding hole through which a distal end portion of the insertion section can be inserted.