Patent ID: 8911356

Claim:
An endoscope comprising: an insertion portion that is inserted into a subject; an operation portion that is connected to a rear end in an insertion direction of the insertion portion; a signal cable that is extended to an inside of the operation portion from an image pickup device that is provided in an inside of a distal end side in the insertion direction of the insertion portion, and picks up an image of an inside of the subject; a plate-shaped member that is fixed to the inside of the operation portion and is configured by a metal; an electric board that is fixed to the plate-shaped member, and to which an extension end of the signal cable is electrically connected; a surplus portion that is a surplus of the signal cable and is located in the operation portion, the surplus portion being deformed into a loop shape having a plurality of U-shaped folded portions; a fixing member fixed to the plate-shaped member and having openings at a front and at a rear in the insertion direction, the fixing member causing the surplus portion to approach the plate-shaped member such that the surplus portion is movable forward and backward in the insertion direction in a state where the surplus portion has penetrated the openings and is inserted into an inside of the fixing member; and a fixing portion formed at a part of the fixing member, the fixing portion fixing the fixing member to the plate-shaped member, wherein the fixing member is formed into a U-shape in which a bottom surface that abuts on the plate-shaped member and has the fixing portion, a top surface that faces the bottom surface and presses the surplus portion to the bottom surface side, a side surface that connects the bottom surface and the top surface, and a fitting port for fitting the surplus portion of the signal cable into the inside, which is opened at a position facing the side surface are formed, wherein the fixing member includes a stopper for the surplus portion that is fitted in the inside of the fixing member, the stopper being formed on the bottom surface near the fitting port, and wherein the side surface has a raised height between the bottom surface and the top surface, the raised height being set to be slightly larger than a diameter in the surplus portion of the signal cable, and wherein the surplus portion is configured not to be disposed in layers in a height direction of the side surface along the raised height when the surplus portion is housed between the bottom surface and the top surface of the fixing member.