Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Flexible insertion apparatus with input device having actuator force control
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Application No.: US14974610Application Date: 2015-12-18
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Publication No.: US10188265B2Publication Date: 2019-01-29
- Inventor: Yasuhiro Okamoto
- Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
- Current Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, P.C.
- Priority: JP2013-127351 20130618
- Main IPC: A61B1/00
- IPC: A61B1/00 ; A61B1/008 ; A61B1/005 ; A61B1/05 ; G02B23/24

Abstract:
An insertion apparatus includes an elongated inserting section having a curving section, an input section which is provided in an operating section, receives an arbitrary input to curve the curving section in a movable range including a first range that includes the neutral input position and a second range that has an operation amount from the neutral input position exceeding the first range, a first actuator, a detecting section, a second actuator which gives a force towards the neutral position to the input section, and a control section which operates the first actuator and the second actuator, when the input amount to the input section is in the second range, thereby giving a force to the input section so that an input amount to the input section is in the first range.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160100742A1 INSERTION APPARATUS Public/Granted day:2016-04-14
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