| 摘要 |
<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an endoscope and an endoscope system which permit a liquid to be supplied to a part that is being observed while preventing the size from being increased. <P>SOLUTION: A WJ tube 45 arranged in the insertion portion 16 of the endoscope includes a WJ soft tube 46 and a WJ hard tube 47. The WJ soft tube has one end connected to a liquid supply device through a universal cord, a connector and a liquid supply tube. The other end of the WJ soft tube is connected to the WJ hard tube. The WJ hard tube has a first WJ route 47a extending in a photographing optical axis direction in a position separate from an imaging module 63 in the radial direction of a tip hard portion 16a and a second WJ route 47b having one end communicate with a WJ outlet 24 and the other end extend in the direction crossing the photographing optical axis direction almost at right angles and communicate with a first WJ route 47a. A cleaning liquid supplied from the liquid supply device is ejected from a WJ outlet through the WJ soft tube, and a first WJ route and a second WJ route of the WJ hard tube and cleans the interior of a test object. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2012,JPO&INPIT |
