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Article: Japanese Inventor Develops Light Source Apparatus
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- July 27, 2006
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ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 27 -- Noriko Ota of Saitama, Japan, has developed a light source apparatus for endoscope.
According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "light source apparatus for an endoscope including a main light source; a light guide member whose incident end face is opposed to the main light source and which guides light incident thereon to an emission end face thereof; an auxiliary light source which is activated to emit light when no light is emitted from the main light source and which is supported to move between a stand-by position in which the auxiliary light source is located out of a main light path between the main light source and the ...