Endoscope Cap Segmentation for Elevator Maintenance
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing endoscopes with elevators require complex structures that complicate cleaning and cause trouble during attachment and detachment of caps, leading to increased maintenance time and efficiency issues.
Innovation Solution
An endoscope cap design featuring a lever pivotally attached to the distal end of the endoscope, with a pivot part allowing the lever to pivot, a bottomed cylindrical cover, a pedestal for elevator attachment, and an elevator shaft that pivots within the cover, facilitating easy attachment and detachment by simplifying the mechanism and reducing maintenance complexity.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If a complicated structure is used around the elevator to ensure proper function, then the elevator can be properly supported and controlled, but cleaning becomes more difficult and time-consuming
Solution Approach 1:
The cap is designed as a detachable component that can be separated from the insertion part. This segmentation allows the cap to be removed for cleaning, simplifying the cleaning process while maintaining the elevator's proper function when assembled. The cap structure is divided into separable parts that can be independently cleaned and reassembled.
2Reliability
If a complicated structure is used around the elevator to ensure proper function, then the elevator can be properly supported and controlled, but the attachment and detachment of the cap becomes more troublesome
Solution Approach 1:
The cap is designed as a detachable component that can be easily separated from the insertion part. This segmentation allows for simple attachment and detachment operations while maintaining the elevator's proper function when assembled. The connection interface is designed to be straightforward, enabling quick cap replacement without complex procedures.
3Ease of operation
If the cap structure is simplified to ease attachment and detachment, then the attachment process becomes faster and easier, but the elevator may lack proper support and control
Solution Approach 1:
The cap is designed as a detachable component that can be easily separated from the insertion part. This segmentation allows for simple attachment and detachment operations while maintaining the elevator's proper function when assembled. The connection interface is designed to be straightforward, enabling quick cap replacement without complex procedures.
4Loss of time
If the structure around the elevator is simplified, then maintenance time is reduced, but the elevator mechanism may become unreliable
Solution Approach 1:
The cap is designed as a detachable component that can be easily separated from the insertion part. This segmentation allows the cap to be removed for cleaning, simplifying the cleaning process while maintaining the elevator's proper function when assembled. The cap structure is divided into separable parts that can be independently cleaned and reassembled.
Data Source
AI summary
Provided is an endoscope cap or the like with an elevator which is easily attached to and detached from the distal end of an endoscope.An endoscope cap attachable to and detachable from an endoscope including a lever pivotally provided at a distal end of an insertion part of an endoscope and a pivot part causing the lever to pivot comprises: a cylindrical cover; and an elevator which is pivotally supported at the inside of the cover, is connected to the lever when the endoscope is attached to the cover, and pivots in response to pivoting of the lever.