Patent ID: 7828722

Claim:
An endoscope comprising: a body control portion; and an insertion portion including a distal end hard portion, the insertion portion being connected to the body control portion, wherein an endoscope observing section and a treatment equipment lead-out port are provided at a distal end surface of the distal end hard portion, the endoscope observing section comprising two illumination portions and an observation portion, and wherein the observation portion comprises: an object optical system comprising an object lens and a prism for bending an optical axis of the object lens by 90° and; a pickup assembly comprising a solid-state image pickup device and a substrate of the solid-state image pickup device, the pickup assembly being connected to the prism, and wherein at least one of the illumination portions comprises an illumination lens and a light guide disposed opposite the illumination lens, wherein, when first and second axes orthogonal to each other are established on a section orthogonal to an axial line of the distal end hard portion, the first and second axes centering around an axial center of the distal end hard portion, the pickup assembly is disposed so as to be oriented to a direction parallel to the first axis, and the pickup assembly and an observation center of the object lens are disposed opposite each other with the first axis placed therebetween; the treatment equipment lead-out port and the observation portion are disposed opposite each other with the second axis placed as a boundary therebetween; a center of the treatment equipment lead-out port is disposed at a position between a first plane including a surface of a portion at the maximum width of the pickup assembly, and a second plane including the observation center of the object lens, the second plane being parallel to the first plane; the illumination portions are disposed on opposite sides of the object lens and each of the illumination portions is disposed at a side where the object lens is disposed with respect to the second axis; and the surface of the portion at the maximum width of the pickup assembly is a light-receiving plane of the solid-state image pickup device.