Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Endoscope insertion shape observation apparatus having a controller to drive bending of insertion portion of endoscope
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Application No.: US15352967Application Date: 2016-11-16
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Publication No.: US10123681B2Publication Date: 2018-11-13
- Inventor: Keijiro Omoto , Takashi Yamashita , Kensuke Miyake , Kazuhiro Hata , Fumiyuki Onoda
- Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
- Current Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Oliff PLC
- Priority: JP2014-215615 20141022
- Main IPC: A61B1/005
- IPC: A61B1/005 ; A61B1/01 ; A61B1/00 ; G02B23/24 ; H04N5/225

Abstract:
An endoscope insertion shape observation apparatus includes an endoscope, a magnetic field generation coil provided at an insertion portion of the endoscope and configured to generate a magnetic field, an antenna unit configured to receive a coil signal from the magnetic field generation coil, a bending portion configured to bend the insertion portion, a bending drive section configured to drive the bending portion to bend, an insertion shape processing circuit configured to generate an insertion shape of the endoscope inserted into a subject according to a signal received from the antenna unit, a touch panel configured to display a generation result of the insertion shape processing circuit and be able to perform touch operation, and a drive section control circuit configured to control a drive amount of the bending drive section based on the touch operation on a desired location of the insertion shape displayed on the touch panel.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170055809A1 ENDOSCOPE INSERTION SHAPE OBSERVATION APPARATUS Public/Granted day:2017-03-02
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