Kiyotaka Kanno,Koichiro Tabuchi,Keisuke Tsutsui,Makoto Ono
申请号：
US13651812
公开号：
US08617055B2
申请日:
2012.10.15
申请国别(地区):
US
年份:
2013
代理人:
摘要：
An endoscope apparatus includes: a plurality of connection portions to which an endoscope can be connected, respectively, wherein a priority setting portion sets a connection priority of the plurality of connection portions, a drive portion supplies a drive signal to one endoscope and a control portion that controls so that the drive portion supplies the drive signal to any one endoscope only based on the connection priority. The endoscope apparatus further includes an identification portion that identifies the kind of endoscope based on a resistance value of a specific resistance that differs according to a kind of the endoscope that is arranged in the endoscope, and that is detected by cancelling a contact resistance in the connection portion.
