发明名称 |
Method for manufacturing a flexible tube for an endoscope |
摘要 |
A flexible tube for use in an endoscope comprises a flexible basic tubular core structure and a homogeneous thermoplastic synthetic resin tube bonded to the outer surface of the tubular core structure to form a coating layer by positioning the synthetic resin tube tightly over the basic tubular core structure with a contact pressure therebetween and heating the synthetic resin tube to a temperature higher than a softening point of the thermoplastic synthetic resin forming the same. A flexible tube having flexibility which varies in a step-wise manner from one end of the tube to the other is obtained by integrally bonding as a whole two or more homogeneous thermoplastic synthetic resin tube sections formed of respective resin materials having different hardnesses to the outer surface of the tubular core structure to form a coating layer in an analogous manner. The ends of adjacent tube sections substantially abut each other and upon heating the tube sections to a temperature higher than a softening point of any one of them, the regions of the respective pairs of abutting tube section ends are heated to a temperature substantially near a melting point of the tube section having the higher melting point to successively fuse the respective pairs of abutting tube section ends together.
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申请公布号 |
US4495134(A) |
申请公布日期 |
1985.01.22 |
申请号 |
US19820441998 |
申请日期 |
1982.11.16 |
申请人 |
KABUSHIKI KAISHA MEDOS KENKYUSHO |
发明人 |
OUCHI, TERUO;SHIBUYA, HIROMICHI |
分类号 |
F16L11/10;A61B1/00;A61B1/005;A61M25/00;B29C51/00;B29C63/00;B29C63/18;B29C63/26;B32B1/08;(IPC1-7):B29C17/07;B29C23/00;B29D9/04 |
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F16L11/10 |
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