PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an optical scanning endoscope in which a member such as a piezoelectric material and an electrode is hardly broken.SOLUTION: An optical scanning endoscope is constituted of: a support member a vibration member being a vibration member which has a long shape in a prescribed direction, whose end face orthogonal to the prescribed direction in the vibration member is bonded to a partial surface of the support member, and which is supported by the support member on the bonded surface an optical fiber mounted on the vibration member and emitting irradiation light from an emission end and a first electrode group which is formed on a side face along the prescribed direction of the vibration member for vibrating the vibration member according to an applied driving voltage.COPYRIGHT: (C)2015,JPO&INPIT【課題】圧電体や電極等の部材が破損し難い光走査型内視鏡を提供する。【解決手段】光走査型内視鏡を、支持部材と、所定の方向に長尺な形状を有する振動部材であって、振動部材における所定の方向と直交する端面が支持部材の一部の面に接着され、接着された面で支持部材に支えられる振動部材と、振動部材に取り付けられており、射出端より照射光が射出される光ファイバと、振動部材の所定の方向に沿う側面に形成されており、印加される駆動電圧に従って振動部材を振動させるための第1の電極群と、から構成する。【選択図】図2
