Two types of lenses go into the head set piece. One is the cover glass or windshield glass for protection. The second is the objective lens. The objective lens is glued to the small pipe with the iris in the front, and then glued into the head set piece. Following this, an image bundle with another lens glued onto it will be inserted into the pipe as well.
This is the long cable portion of the scope which extends from the body of the control unit to the light guide plug, housing the light guide fibers. Most of the light guide is enclosed inside the insertion tube, but about five feet of the light guide that comes out from the body of the fiberscope needs protection.
The light guide plug has been designed to insure ease of use. The standard Machida sleeve can easily be replaced with a separate optional sleeve to permit use of this instrument with other manufacturers
All Machida standard borescopes have built-in fiber optic light guides which call for reliable sources of cold white or other light. Light sources are a reliable source of light for effective illumination of the field of view and are essential to the use of a flexible borescope.
The end of the borescope probe contains the ocular lens system, which presents the virtual image of the object to the observer. Machida offers an ocular piece for the small diameter modular borescopes and rubber eyecup shields.
Working channel tools permit passage of operating instruments through the borescope from the control body to the distal tip. The purpose is to perform physical tasks at the examination site. Such tasks may include probing, scraping, brushing, grasping, suction, spraying, irrigation, and material retrieval.
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Machida recently announced two innovative additions to our videoscope product line. A 2mm Videoscope, VSC-2-86, and a 3mm Working Channel Videoscope, VSC-3-65C. Both units work with either the 15” Video Processor, 7-5050, or the 10” Portable Video Processor, 7-6060, and provide the same high quality image as the VSC-3-140-N Videoscope. Visit our Videoscope page to learn more.
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