PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an endoscope apparatus excellent in the convenience of information management on an endoscope, capable of highly protecting an electronic tag used for the information management.SOLUTION: An endoscope apparatus equipped with an electronic tag inside the endoscope body for radio communication recognition having a storage medium for storing individual information on an endoscope and a communication part for wirelessly communicating the information of the storage medium includes: a metallic base body located inside the endoscope body a non-metallic exterior body located outside the base body and constituting the exterior surface of the endoscope body and a tag storage part disposed on an inner side of the exterior body, and having a storage space separated from the base body, and fluid-tight and air-tight to an internal space of the endoscope body, which stores the electronic tag in the storage space.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 3COPYRIGHT: (C)2019,JPO&INPIT【課題】内視鏡に関する情報管理の利便性に優れ、かつ情報管理に用いる電子タグを高度に保護可能である内視鏡装置を提供する。【解決手段】内視鏡の個別情報を記憶する記憶媒体と、記憶媒体の情報を無線通信する通信部とを有する無線通信認識用の電子タグを内視鏡本体に備えた内視鏡装置において、内視鏡本体の内部に位置する金属製のベース体と、ベース体の外側に位置して内視鏡本体の外面を構成する非金属製の外装体と、外装体の内方に設けられ、ベース体に対して離隔され且つ内視鏡本体の内部空間に対して液密及び気密となる収納空間を有して該収納空間内に電子タグを収納するタグ収納部と、を備える。【選択図】図3
