Endoscopic surgery device

• US 10,456,020 B2
• Filed: 09/29/2015
• Issued: 10/29/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 03/29/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Fujifilm Corporation (Fujifilm Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Fujifilm Corporation (Fujifilm Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Iwasaka, Masayuki
• Primary Examiner(s): Neal, Timothy J
• Assistant Examiner(s): Woo, Jae
• Application Number:
  US14/868,392
• Publication Number:
  US 20160015260A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,491 Days
• Field of Search: 600117
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 1/00087 Tools A61B17/00234 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 1/00135 Oversleeves mounted on the endoscope prior to insertion
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 1/00154 using guiding arrangements for insertion
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 1/00188 with focusing or zooming features
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 1/04 combined with photographic or television appliances
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 1/045 Control thereof
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 1/05 characterised by the image sensor, e.g. camera, being in the distal end portion
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 1/0676 at distal tip of an endoscope
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 1/3132 for laparoscopy
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 17/3421 Cannulas
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2017/3441 with distal sealing means
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2017/3445 used as instrument channel for multiple instruments catheters A61B2017/22072
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2017/3466 for simultaneous sealing of multiple instruments
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2034/2059 Mechanical position encoders
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2034/2065 Tracking using image or pattern recognition
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2090/0811 for the position of a particular part of an instrument with respect to the rest of the instrument, e.g. position of the anvil of a stapling instrument

Abstract

An endoscopic surgery device that can easily acquire an image desired by a surgeon, and that has high operability. The endoscopic surgery device includes: an outer tube body; an endoscope insertion path that is provided inside the outer tube body; a treatment tool insertion path that is provided inside the outer tube body; a position sensor that detects a movement amount of the treatment tool insertion part with respect to the outer tube body; and a control unit that has a non-sensitive area where a range of an observation image is not changed if the movement amount of the treatment tool insertion part is within a predetermined range, and a sensitive area where the range of the observation image is varied in accordance with the movement amount of the treatment tool insertion part if the movement amount of the treatment tool insertion part is not within the predetermined range.

Claims

1. An endoscopic surgery device comprising:

a guide member configured to penetrate through a body wall to be inserted into a body cavity;

an endoscope insertion path which is provided inside the guide member, and into which an endoscope configured to observe an inside of the body cavity is inserted in a back-and-forth movable manner;

a treatment tool insertion path which is provided inside the guide member, and into which a treatment tool configured to inspect or treat a diseased part in the body cavity is inserted in a back-and-forth movable manner;

a position sensor configured to detect a movement amount of the treatment tool with respect to the guide member when the treatment tool inserted into the treatment tool insertion path moves back and forth; and

an image capture controller, wherein a range of an observation image acquired by the endoscope is not changed if the movement amount of the treatment tool is within a predetermined range when the movement amount of the treatment tool is detected by the position sensor, and the range of the observation image is changed in accordance with the movement amount of the treatment tool if the movement amount of the treatment tool is not within the predetermined range,

wherein outside the predetermined range, a ratio of a movement amount of the endoscope to the movement amount of the treatment tool is equal to one.

2. The endoscopic surgery device according to claim 1, wherein the image capture controller changes the range of the observation image in proportion to the movement amount of the treatment tool if the movement amount of the treatment tool is not within the predetermined range.

3. The endoscopic surgery device according to claim 1, wherein the image capture controller is an endoscope movement control unit, wherein the endoscope is not moved back and forth if the movement amount of the treatment tool is within the predetermined range when the movement amount of the treatment tool is detected by the position sensor;

and the endoscope is moved back and forth in accordance with the movement amount of the treatment tool if the movement amount of the treatment tool is not within the predetermined range.

4. The endoscopic surgery device according to claim 1, wherein the image capture controller is a zoom control unit, wherein a magnification of the observation image is not changed if the movement amount of the treatment tool is within the predetermined range when the movement amount of the treatment tool is detected by the position sensor;

and the magnification of the observation image is changed in accordance with the movement amount of the treatment tool if the movement amount of the treatment tool is not within the predetermined range.

5. The endoscopic surgery device according to claim 4, wherein

the endoscope includes a zoom lens configured to be movable in an optical axis direction, and

the zoom control unit includes an optical zoom control unit configured to change the magnification of the observation image by allowing the zoom lens to move in the optical axis direction, based on a detection result by the position sensor.

6. The endoscopic surgery device according to claim 4, wherein the zoom control unit includes an electronic zoom control unit configured to change the magnification of the observation image acquired by the endoscope by performing electronic variable magnification processing to the observation image based on a detection result by the position sensor.

7. The endoscopic surgery device according to claim 1, wherein

the position sensor includes:

a calculation unit configured to calculate the movement amount of the treatment tool in the observation image; and

a conversion unit configured to convert the movement amount of the treatment tool in the observation image calculated by the calculation unit into an actual movement amount.

8. An endoscopic surgery device comprising:

a guide member configured to penetrate through a body wall to be inserted into a body cavity;

an endoscope insertion path which is provided inside the guide member, and into which an endoscope configured to observe an inside of the body cavity is inserted in a back-and-forth movable manner,

a treatment tool insertion path which is provided inside the guide member, and into which a treatment tool configured to inspect or treat a diseased part in the body cavity is inserted in a back-and-forth movable manner;

a position sensor configured to detect a movement amount of the treatment tool with respect to the guide member when the treatment tool inserted into the treatment tool insertion path moves back and forth; and

an image capture controller, wherein a range of an observation image acquired by the endoscope is not changed if the movement amount of the treatment tool is within a predetermined range when the movement amount of the treatment tool is detected by the position sensor, and the range of the observation image is changed in accordance with the movement amount of the treatment tool if the movement amount of the treatment tool is not within the predetermined range,

wherein outside the predetermined range, a ratio of a movement amount of the endoscope to the movement amount of the treatment tool is equal to one,

wherein a movement direction of the treatment tool is parallel to an axial direction of the endoscope.