Patent ID: 7938774

Claim:
An endoscope apparatus comprising: an endoscope comprising: an insertion section comprising a first tube and a second tube having a diameter larger than a diameter of the first tube, the second tube being disposed so as to cover an outer circumferential surface of the first tube; a cover glass disposed at a distal end portion of the second tube; a heating resistor adapted to heat the cover glass by resistance heating, the heating resistor having a controllable resistance value and a predetermined temperature to resistance value characteristic; and an identification circuit element adapted to identify the predetermined temperature to resistance value characteristic of the heating resistor; and a heat generation control section adapted: to be detachably connected to the endoscope, to receive a target temperature, to determine a resistance value associated with the target temperature based on the predetermined temperature to resistance value characteristic of the heating resistor identified by the identification circuit element provided in the connected endoscope, and to control the resistance value of the heating resistor based on the determined resistance value.