Detailed Description
The following description of the embodiments of the present application will be made clearly and completely with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which it is apparent that some, but not all embodiments of the application are described. All other embodiments, which can be made by those skilled in the art based on the embodiments of the application without making any inventive effort, are intended to be within the scope of the application.
The terms first, second and the like in the description and in the claims, are used for distinguishing between similar elements and not necessarily for describing a particular sequential or chronological order. It is to be understood that the data so used may be interchanged, as appropriate, such that embodiments of the present application may be implemented in sequences other than those illustrated or described herein, and that the objects identified by "first," "second," etc. are generally of a type, and are not limited to the number of objects, such as the first object may be one or more. Furthermore, in the description and claims, "and/or" means at least one of the connected objects, and the character "/", generally means that the associated object is an "or" relationship.
The wire harness support, the cable fixing structure and the endoscope provided by the embodiment of the application are described in detail through specific embodiments and application scenes thereof by combining the attached drawings.
In various embodiments of the present application, "proximal" and "distal" refer to the endoscope and its components in the environment of use, relative to the user's proximal-distal position, wherein the end closer to the user is designated as the "proximal end" and the end farther from the user is designated as the "distal end".
The inventor finds that a cable is connected to the camera module, the proximal end of the cable extends towards the direction close to the operating handle, and a gap between the proximal end of the passive bending tube and the proximal end of the instrument tube penetrates out of the insertion part, enters the operating handle and is connected with a circuit board in the operating handle. When the rotating head is rotated, the passive bending tube and the instrument tube in the insertion part also rotate in a following manner, and as the cable is arranged in a gap between the passive bending tube and the instrument tube and the gap is smaller in size, the cable can be contacted with the passive bending tube or the instrument tube, so that the cable can twist along with the rotation of the instrument tube or the passive bending tube, the cable in the operating handle can be pulled, and pulling stress is generated in the cable, so that the cable is damaged, and obviously, the cable can cause image transmission to be failed, and the observation and diagnosis of a doctor of an operator are influenced.
As shown in fig. 1 to 8, the embodiment of the present application discloses a wire harness support, which is applied to an operation handle 400 of an endoscope, and includes a wire harness member 100, wherein a penetrating channel 110 for penetrating a cable is provided on the wire harness member 100, the penetrating channel 110 includes a redundant section 111, a distal end of the wire harness member 100 is used for being connected to an instrument tube 510 or a passive bending tube 520 of the endoscope, the instrument tube 510 is used for being connected to an operation instrument, or may be used as a suction channel, the passive bending tube 520 is connected to an active bending section of the endoscope, the passive bending tube 520 is capable of being deformed to adapt to a shape of a body cavity, and a proximal end of the wire harness member 100 is used for being connected to a handle housing 410 of the endoscope, and the proximal end of the wire harness member 100 may be directly connected to the handle housing 410 or may be indirectly connected to the handle housing 410 through a part inside the handle housing 410.
Specifically, since the proximal end of the wire harness 100 is fixed to the handle housing 410, the handle housing 410 is a stationary member, and the distal end of the wire harness 100 is fixed to the instrument tube 510 or the passive bending tube 520, the instrument tube 510 or the passive bending tube 520 is rotatable relative to the handle housing 410, and thus the wire harness 100 is torsionally deformed when the instrument tube 510 or the passive bending tube 520 is rotated.
The wire harness 100 is a deformable structure, and the wire harness 100 may be made of an elastic material or a flexible material, and the wire harness 100 can be torsionally deformed following rotation of the instrument tube 510 or the passive bending tube 520, for example. The cross-sectional shape of the wire harness 100 may be circular, square, or the like, and the present application is not limited to the shape thereof. In some embodiments, the outer profile of the cross section of the wire harness 100 includes an arc-shaped section having a penetration passage 110 formed therein, and a flat plate section blocking the penetration passage 110, and a penetration port 130 described below may be provided on the flat plate section. When the wire harness support of the present embodiment is connected to the passive bending tube 520, the flat plate section can be directed to the instrument tube 510, which can make the whole wire harness 100 closer to the instrument tube 510, and further make the cable penetrating into the wire harness 100 closer to the instrument tube 510, so as to prevent the cable penetrating out between the instrument tube 510 and the passive bending tube 520 from being bent outwards, and eliminate the bending position of the cable, and make the cable in a flat state as much as possible.
When the wire harness 100 of the present application is used, the distal end of the wire harness 100 can be connected with the instrument tube 510 or the passive bending tube 520, the proximal end of the wire harness 100 can be connected with the handle housing 410, and the cable can be threaded into the threaded channel 110 on the wire harness 100, since the threaded channel 110 comprises the redundancy section 111, the cable itself can generate redundancy after the cable is threaded into the redundancy section 111, thereby providing a tensile redundancy amount, and even if the wire harness 100 and the cable are twisted along with the rotation of the instrument tube 510 or the passive bending tube 520, the redundant part of the cable can be pulled first, and the pulling stress can not be generated inside the cable, so that the cable is prevented from being damaged, and the normal transmission of images is ensured.
In addition, since the wire harness 100 is inserted into the insertion passage 110, even though the wire harness 100 and the wire harness are twisted and moved relative to the handle housing 410 and the components therein, the wire harness 100 prevents the twisted wire harness from directly contacting the handle housing 410 and the components therein, thereby preventing the wire harness from being worn out, and the wire harness 100 can restrict the wire harness so that the twisted deformation path of the wire harness is consistent with the wire harness 100, that is, so that the twisted deformation path of the wire harness is controllable, which can prevent the wire harnesses from being twisted with each other and prevent the wire harness from being twisted and fatigued due to disorder torsion, which contributes to the life of the extension wire.
In an alternative embodiment, referring to fig. 2 and 3, the wire harness support further includes a first fixing ring 200 and a second fixing ring 300, the first fixing ring 200 is located at a proximal side of the second fixing ring 300, two ends of the wire harness 100 are respectively connected to the first fixing ring 200 and the second fixing ring 300, the first fixing ring 200 is used for sleeving with the instrument tube 510 or the passive bending tube 520, and the second fixing ring 300 is used for connecting with the handle housing 410.
In this embodiment, the first fixing ring 200 can be fixedly sleeved on the passive bending tube 520, and the second fixing ring 300 can be fixed with the handle housing 410, for example, by gluing, hot-melt welding, or the like, that is, the first fixing ring 200 can rotate relative to the second fixing ring 300, so that the wire harness 100 is torsionally deformed. The first fixing ring 200 and the second fixing ring 300 are additionally added, so that the wire harness 100 is indirectly connected with the instrument tube 510 or the passive bending tube 520 through the first fixing ring 200, the connection area and the connection strength between the wire harness 100 and the instrument tube 510 or the passive bending tube 520 can be increased, and the wire harness 100 is indirectly connected with the handle housing 410 through the second fixing ring 300, the connection area and the connection strength between the wire harness 100 and the handle housing 410 can be increased.
In an alternative embodiment, referring to fig. 3, the wire harness 100 includes a curved redundant portion 120, the redundant segments 111 are disposed on the redundant portion 120, the number of the wire harnesses 100 is at least two, at least two wire harnesses 100 are circumferentially spaced along the first fixing ring 200, and an included angle between a protrusion direction of each redundant portion 120 and a first rotation direction of the first fixing ring 200 is smaller than ninety degrees, for example, forty-five degrees, thirty degrees, zero degrees, and the like. Specifically, the first fixing ring 200 may rotate in two directions, such as a clockwise direction or a counterclockwise direction, where the first rotation direction is one of the rotation directions of the first fixing ring 200, and may be either a clockwise direction or a counterclockwise direction.
In this embodiment, the included angle between the bulge direction of each redundancy part 120 and the first rotation direction of the first fixing ring 200 is smaller than ninety degrees, so that when the distal end of each wire harness 100 rotates along the first rotation direction along the first fixing ring 200, the distal end of each wire harness 100 moves along the bulge portion of each redundancy part 120, and the bulge portion of each redundancy part 120 applies the same resistance to the distal end of the corresponding wire harness 100, so that the first fixing ring 200 is stressed and balanced, and similarly, when the distal end of each wire harness 100 rotates along the opposite direction of the first fixing ring 200 along the first rotation direction, the distal end of each wire harness 100 moves against the bulge portion of each redundancy part 120, and the bulge portion of each redundancy part 120 applies the same resistance to the distal end of the corresponding wire harness 100, so that the first fixing ring 200 is stressed and balanced.
Or in an alternative embodiment, referring to fig. 8, the wire harness 100 includes a curved redundant portion 120, the redundant segments 111 are disposed on the redundant portion 120, the number of the wire harnesses 100 is two, the two wire harnesses 100 are respectively located on two opposite sides of the first fixing ring 200, and the protruding directions of the two redundant portions 120 are opposite.
In this embodiment, the protruding directions of the two redundant parts 120 are opposite, so that when the distal end of each wire harness 100 follows the first fixing ring 200 to rotate in the first rotation direction or in the opposite direction to the first rotation direction, the distal end of one of the two wire harnesses 100 moves along the protruding part of the redundant part 120, and the distal end of the other wire harness moves against the protruding part of the redundant part 120, that is, when the first fixing ring 200 rotates in two different rotation directions, the total resistance applied by the two wire harnesses 100 to the first fixing ring 200 is uniform, so that the damping applied by the operator doctor when screwing the rotating head 530 in different directions is uniform, and the operation is facilitated.
In an alternative embodiment, the first securing ring 200 has a first securing position thereon and the second securing ring 300 has a second securing position thereon, both for threading and securing the cable. Illustratively, the cable and the first fixing ring 200 are connected by hot melt connection, knotting connection, adhesive connection, etc., and the adhesive connection may be bonded by double sided adhesive or glue. It should be noted that the first fixing location may be a first glue storage location 212 described below, and the second fixing location may be a second glue storage location described below.
When the cable support of the present embodiment is used, the cables can be respectively fixed to the first fixing position of the first fixing ring 200 and the second fixing position of the second fixing ring 300, which not only can make the cable adjacent to the pipe orifice of the instrument tube 510 or the pipe orifice of the passive bending tube 520 rotate along with the first fixing ring 200, prevent the part of the cable from generating relative motion with the pipe orifice, thereby avoiding the cable from being worn by friction with the pipe orifice, but also can make the trend of the cable penetrating out of the second fixing ring 300 unchanged, and avoid the part of the cable from being worn by moving relative to the handle housing 410 or other parts.
In an alternative embodiment, referring to fig. 4 and 5, the distal end of the wire harness 100 is connected to the proximal end face of the first fixing ring 200, the first fixing ring 200 is provided with a first channel 210 that penetrates axially through itself, the first channel 210 includes a first threading position 211 and a first glue storage position 212, the first threading position 211 is connected to the first glue storage position 212, the first threading position 211 is used for threading a cable, the first glue storage position 212 is used for containing glue solution, and the first threading position 211 is opposite to the threading channel 110.
In this embodiment, after the cable is threaded at the first threading position 211, glue solution can be injected into the first glue storage position 212 to fix the cable with the first fixing ring 200, so that the cable adjacent to the pipe orifice of the instrument tube 510 or the pipe orifice of the passive bending tube 520 can rotate along with the first fixing ring 200, and the cable and the pipe orifice are prevented from generating relative movement, thereby avoiding abrasion caused by friction between the cable and the pipe orifice.
In some embodiments, referring to fig. 4, the distal end surface of the first fixing ring 200 is provided with a groove 270, and the groove 270 can be sleeved on the outer portion of the passive bending tube 520, and the first channel 210 is in communication with the groove 270. Further, the outer circumferential surface of the first fixing ring 200 is provided with glue injection holes 260, the glue injection holes 260 are communicated with the grooves 270, and after the first fixing ring 200 is sleeved outside the passive bending pipe 520, glue solution can be injected into the glue injection holes 260 to glue the first fixing ring 200 on the passive bending pipe 520.
In an alternative embodiment, referring to fig. 6, the proximal end of the wire harness 100 is connected to the distal end surface of the second fixing ring 300, the second fixing ring 300 is provided with a second channel 320 that penetrates axially through itself, the second channel 320 includes a second threading position and a second glue storage position, the second threading position is connected to the second glue storage position, the second threading position is used for threading a cable, the second glue storage position is used for containing glue solution, and the second threading position is opposite to the threading channel 110.
In this embodiment, after the cable is threaded in the second threading position, glue solution can be injected into the second glue storage position to fix the cable with the second fixing ring 300, so that the trend of the cable threaded out of the second fixing ring 300 is kept unchanged, and abrasion of the cable relative to the handle housing 410 or other parts is avoided.
In an alternative embodiment, referring to fig. 5 to 7, a blocking structure 220 is formed at the proximal end of the first fixing ring 200, the blocking structure 220 is disposed opposite to the first glue storage position 212 and covers the first glue storage position 212, a portion of the penetrating channel 110 is disposed opposite to the first threading position 211, and another portion of the penetrating channel 110 is disposed opposite to the blocking structure 220.
In this embodiment, the blocking structure 220 can block glue solution, prevent glue solution from flowing from the first glue storage position 212 to the penetrating channel 110 to bond the cable in the penetrating channel 110, and referring to fig. 7, since another portion of the penetrating channel 110 is opposite to the blocking structure 220, the blocking structure 220 protrudes from the inner wall of the penetrating channel 110, so as to form a step structure in cooperation with the inner wall of the penetrating channel 110, the step structure can enable the portion of the cable adjacent to the step structure to be far away from the inner wall of the penetrating channel 110, so that an avoiding space is formed between the penetrating channel 110 and the portion of the cable, the cable may be bent by the wire harness member 100 in the process of twisting the wire harness member 100, the avoiding space may provide an avoiding space for bending the cable, if the avoiding space is not provided, the cable may be pushed to move axially when the cable is bent, so that the cable pulls the glue solution of itself, and the glue solution is invalid, thereby the purpose of avoiding the friction between the cable and the pipe orifice and wear of the cable, and the abrasion of the handle housing 410 or other parts cannot be avoided.
In an alternative embodiment, referring to fig. 7, the outer surface of the wire harness 100 is provided with a through hole 130, the through hole 130 extends along the extending direction of the through channel 110, the through hole 130 is communicated with the through channel 110, and the through hole 130 is used for allowing a cable to enter the through channel 110, so that the cable can be integrally installed into the through channel 110 from the side of the through channel, thereby facilitating the installation of the cable. Of course, the side of the through channel 110 may not have the through opening 130, and the cable may be threaded through the port of the through channel 110.
The width of the through hole 130 gradually decreases in the direction (the direction indicated by the x arrow line in fig. 7) in which the through hole 130 extends toward the through channel 110, and the edge of the through hole 130 near the through channel 110 can be engaged with the cable.
In this embodiment, the width of the threading opening 130 is gradually reduced along the direction indicated by the x arrow line in fig. 7, so that the cable can be better guided into the threading channel 110, and the thickness of the threading opening near the side wall (hereinafter, the first portion 230) of the threading channel 110 is smaller, so that the threading opening has better deformability to form a buckle, so that the cable is clamped and connected, and thus the cable is stably constrained in the wire harness 100, and the deformation process of the cable in the process of twisting along with the first fixing ring 200 is controllable.
In an alternative embodiment, referring to fig. 4 and 7, the wire harness 100 includes a first portion 230 and a second portion 240, the first portion 230 and the second portion 240 are sequentially distributed along a direction extending from the through hole 130 to the through channel 110, the through hole 130 is provided in the first portion 230, a distal end of the second portion 240 is connected to a proximal end face of the first fixing ring 200, and a gap 201 is provided between the distal end of the first portion 230 and the proximal end face of the first fixing ring 200. Optionally, the first fixing ring 200 is provided with a first channel 210 penetrating along its axial direction, and the first channel 210 is disposed opposite to the penetrating channel 110.
In this embodiment, the through hole 130 is disposed in the first portion 230, that is, the first portion 230 can be used to clamp a cable, and in the process of clamping the cable into the through channel 110, the first portion 230 needs to be deformed, so that the first portion 230 is not connected with the first fixing ring 200, and a gap 201 is formed between the first portion 230 and the first fixing ring 200, so that the rigidity of the first portion 230 is reduced, the deformability of the first portion 230 is improved, and thus the cable is easier to be clamped into the through channel 110.
And/or, in an alternative embodiment, referring to fig. 5, the distal end of the wire harness 100 is connected to the proximal end face of the first fixing ring 200, the first fixing ring 200 is provided with a first channel 210 penetrating along its axial direction, the first channel 210 is disposed opposite to the penetrating channel 110, a portion of the first fixing ring 200 located between the first channel 210 and the inner hole of the first fixing ring 200 forms an elastic plate 250, and two ends of the elastic plate 250 are a fixed end and a movable end respectively. Specifically, the fixed end here is an end of the elastic plate 250 connected to a portion of the first fixing ring 200 other than the elastic plate 250, and the movable end is an end of the elastic plate 250 not connected to a portion of the first fixing ring 200 other than the elastic plate 250.
In this embodiment, one of the plate surfaces of the elastic plate 250 is an inner wall of the first channel 210, the other plate surface of the elastic plate 250 is an inner wall of the first fixing ring 200, and when the movable end of the elastic plate 250 is pulled towards a direction close to the first channel 210 or the inner hole of the first fixing ring 200, an avoidance opening is formed between the movable end of the elastic plate 250 and a portion of the first fixing ring 200 except the elastic plate 250, and a cable can enter the first channel 210 through the avoidance opening, and after the movable end of the elastic plate 250 is released, the elastic plate 250 can recover elastic deformation to lock the cable in the first channel 210, so as to prevent the cable from being separated from the first channel 210.
As shown in fig. 2, the embodiment of the present application further discloses a cable fixing structure, which is applied to an endoscope, and comprises a handle housing 410, an endoscope component and the wire harness support described in any of the above embodiments, wherein the endoscope component is connected with the distal end of the handle housing 410, the proximal end of the endoscope component extends into the handle housing 410, the distal end of the wire harness 100 is connected with the endoscope component, the proximal end of the wire harness 100 is connected with the handle housing 410, and the endoscope component is an instrument tube 510 or a passive bending tube 520. Because the cable fixing structure of the embodiment includes the above-mentioned wire harness support, the cable fixing structure has the beneficial effects of the above-mentioned wire harness support, and will not be described here again.
As shown in fig. 1, the embodiment of the application also discloses an endoscope, which comprises the cable fixing structure. Optionally, the endoscope further includes an insertion portion 600 and a rotating head 530, the insertion portion 600 is connected to the handle housing 410, the insertion portion 600 includes an instrument tube 510 and a passive bending tube 520, the instrument tube 510 is inserted into the passive bending tube 520, the rotating head 530 is rotatably disposed in the handle housing 410, the insertion portion 600 is connected to the rotating head 530, and the rotating of the insertion portion 600 is controlled by the rotating head 530, and it should be noted that the connection relationship among the rotating head 530, the operating handle 400 and the insertion portion 600 and the specific structure of the present application will not be described again.
Further, the insertion portion 600 further includes an active bending section connected to the distal end of the passive bending tube 520, and bending of the active bending section can be controlled by a traction wheel provided on the handle housing 410 and a traction rope connected to the traction wheel.
The endoscope in the embodiment of the application can be a bronchoscope, a pyeloscope, an esophagoscope, a gastroscope, a enteroscope, an otoscope, a rhinoscope, a stomatoscope, a laryngoscope, a colposcope, a laparoscope, an arthroscope and the like, and the embodiment of the application does not limit the type of the endoscope.
The foregoing embodiments of the present application mainly describe differences between the embodiments, and as long as there is no contradiction between different optimization features of the embodiments, the embodiments may be combined to form a better embodiment, and in view of brevity of line text, no further description is provided herein. The embodiments of the present application have been described above with reference to the accompanying drawings, but the present application is not limited to the above-described embodiments, which are merely illustrative and not restrictive, and many forms may be made by those having ordinary skill in the art without departing from the spirit of the present application and the scope of the claims, which are to be protected by the present application.