| 摘要 |
<p>A light supply apparatus for endoscope (14), which comprises a lamp (22) provided inside a housing (20) for emitting light, a socket (16) mounted on the housing (20), a connector (10) of the endoscope (14) being detachably connected to the socket (10), a detecting section (40) including a LED (46) and a photo-transistor (60) which is provided within the socket (16) so as to face each other and which optically detects the state of coupling between the connector (10) and socket (16), and a light transmission restricting section (70) for cutting off current supplied to the lamp (22) when the connector (10) is disconnected from the socket (16).</p> |
