Insert-type examination processing video system

PURPOSE: To provide an insert-type examination processing video system capable of disinfecting/sterilizing an inspection object by making it possible to control the horizontal/vertical directions of a one-hand bendable part of the bending mechanism and to examine/process an examining region simply, and by dipping it, as it is, into an antisepsis solution. CONSTITUTION: This system has an inserting tube 11 to be put into an examining region of a subject; a bendable part 12 set at/joint-connected to the one end of the inserting tube 11; a bending mechanism differentially driven via a cable for bending the bendable part 12; a control handle 13 equipped with the housings 21, 22 connecting at least a pair of connection control cables to be drawn out of the bending mechanism via the inserting tube 11; an actuator differentially driving the control cables accommodated into the housings 21, 22; a control stick set in projecting out of the housings 21, 22, servo-likely operating it via manipulation and driving the control cables; and an airtight structure unifying both the inserting tube 11 and control handle 13 into one unit. COPYRIGHT: (C)1994,JPO