Abstract:
An endoscope insertion part of an endoscope and a treatment tool insertion part of a treatment tool are insertable through an overtube inserted into a body wall, and a slider is provided for moving the endoscope insertion part and the treatment tool insertion part forward and backward in an interlocking manner. An operating part of the treatment tool includes a guide member that guides a cable part so as to be movable forward and backward in an axial direction so that the cable part of the endoscope is kept from being separated from the surface of the operating part beyond a fixed distance. Accordingly, the cable part can be reliably held down by an index finger of a right hand gripping the operating part, and, the operation of the operating part and the movement operation of the endoscope insertion part can be performed with only a right hand.
Abstract:
A self-propelling device includes a turning unit and a supporter. The supporter includes a first support sleeve, a second support sleeve and a cover formed respectively cylindrically. A drive wheel is secured to the first support sleeve in a rotatable manner. A pair of follower rollers are secured to the second support sleeve together. The cover is fitted on an outer surface of the second support sleeve externally, and disposed in the turning unit together with the second support sleeve. The turning unit is pressed by the follower rollers to the drive wheel. When the drive wheel rotates, the turning unit is circulated around the second support sleeve in a longitudinal direction of the first support sleeve. An inner wall of a body cavity will not be damaged, as the follower rollers are covered by the cover and do not appear externally even if the turning unit breaks.
Abstract:
Provided is an endoscopic surgical device and an overtube with which a surgeon can easily obtain a desired image and operability is high. The overtube includes a slider inside the overtube body that guides an endoscope and a treatment tool into a body cavity, the first valve member provided in the endoscope insertion passage, and the second valve member provided in the treatment tool insertion passage. F1>F3 and F2>F3 are satisfied when a fixing force for fixing the slider to the endoscope is defined as F1, a fixing force for fixing the slider to the treatment tool is defined as F2, and a frictional force that receives from the first valve member when the endoscope moves forward and backward is defined as F3.
Abstract:
An electronic endoscope system is composed of an electronic endoscope, a light source apparatus, and a temperature converter. The electronic endoscope has a CMOS sensor in a distal portion of an insert section to be inserted into a patient's body cavity. Illumination light from the light source apparatus is applied to the body cavity through the distal portion. The temperature converter obtains an average pixel value of an optical black (OB) region out of an imaging signal from the CMOS sensor, and converts the average OB pixel value into a temperature of the CMOS sensor on a frame-by-frame basis with the use of data in a temperature conversion table. The table represents a relationship between the average OB pixel value and the temperature of the CMOS sensor. Light quantity of the illumination light is adjusted in accordance with the temperature of the CMOS sensor to prevent deterioration of image quality.
Abstract:
The overtube includes a slider within an overtube body, which guides an endoscope and a treatment tool into a body cavity. An endoscope-coupled part and a treatment tool-coupled part are provided inside the slider, and the slider has a dead zone where the forward and backward movement of either the endoscope or the treatment tool does not interlock with the movement of the other and a sensing zone where the forward and backward movement of either the endoscope or the treatment tool interlocks with the movement of the other. A contact surface of the overtube body with a body wall is constituted of a wall surface member that serves as a rotation-preventing wall surface for preventing rotation in a rotational direction with an axial direction of the overtube body as a center.
Abstract:
A tissue sampling device includes a flexible sheath 34; a needle tube 35 which is inserted into the sheath 34 so as to advance and retreat and with which biological tissue is punctured; and an operating unit which is provided on a proximal side of the sheath 34 and is used for operating the advancing and retreating of the needle tube 35. This needle tube 35 has a distal portion provided with a slit 50 extending toward the proximal side from a distal opening 35c, and when the distal portion is in a state of protruding from a distal end of the sheath 34, at least a part of the distal portion is positioned further on the radially outside than the inner surface of the sheath when viewed from an axial direction of the needle tube 35.
Abstract:
An endoscope system includes an endoscope, having a tip device for entry in a body cavity, and a viewing window portion formed in the tip device. A sleeve-shaped condition checking device is disposed on a distal side in an axial direction, for resiliently deforming in a transverse direction crosswise to the axial direction when pushed on an inner wall of the body cavity, to enter a viewing area of the viewing window portion. Furthermore, a propulsion assembly constitutes the condition checking device, and exerts force of propulsion to the tip device, for assistance to entry in the body cavity. The condition checking device includes a resilient end ring, disposed distally of a support sleeve, covered by a propulsion assembly, and having a tapered wall of which a diameter decreases in the axial direction from the support sleeve.
Abstract:
A self-propelling device includes a drive unit and a toroid unit supported thereabout. The toroid unit includes a track structure of a toroid shape and a roller support sleeve inside the track structure. Three belt portions are provided in the track structure with high rigidity. The drive unit includes an inner sleeve for mounting on an introducer of an endoscope, and an outer sleeve supported around the inner sleeve. An inner surface of the roller support sleeve and an outer surface of the outer sleeve extend triangularly. Drive wheels are disposed upstream and downstream of respectively flat portions of the outer sleeve. Two follower rollers are disposed on respectively each of flat portions of the roller support sleeve. The drive wheels and follower rollers nip the belt portions of the track structure to move the track structure endlessly.
Abstract:
An endoscopic surgical device that can suitably puncture a body wall with an overtube that having two insertion passages is provided. In a case where a body wall is punctured with the overtube that has two insertion passages through which medical instruments are inserted and that has openings of the insertion passages in a distal end surface, distal end parts of two needle parts of an inner needle are disposed to protrude from the openings in a case where the inner needle is mounted. Accordingly, a distal end portion of the overtube has a tapered shape, cutting blade parts are disposed in the same straight line as seen from a distal end side, and an insertion load is reduced.
Abstract:
The overtube includes a slider within an overtube body, which guides an endoscope and a treatment tool into a body cavity. An endoscope-coupled part and a treatment tool-coupled part are provided inside the slider, and the slider has a dead zone where the forward and backward movement of either the endoscope or the treatment tool does not interlock with the movement of the other and a sensing zone where the forward and backward movement of either the endoscope or the treatment tool interlocks with the movement of the other. A contact surface of the overtube body with a body wall is constituted of a wall surface member that serves as a rotation-preventing wall surface for preventing rotation in a rotational direction with an axial direction of the overtube body as a center.