Energy supplying coil and capsule endoscope system

• US 20050065407A1
• Filed: 09/15/2004
• Published: 03/24/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 09/18/2003
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Olympus Corporation
• Original Assignee: Olympus Corporation
• Inventors: Nakamura, Tsutomu, Matsumoto, Kazuya, Shimizu, Hatsuo, Yoshizawa, Fukashi
• Application Number:
  US10/941,699
• Publication Number:
  US 20050065407A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 600/160
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 1/00016 using wireless means
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 1/00029 externally powered, e.g. wireless
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 1/041 Capsule endoscopes for imaging
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 1/0684 using light emitting diodes [LED]
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2560/0219 of externally powered implanted units

Abstract

An energy supplying coil for supplying energy to a capsule endoscope includes a coil wound around an outside of a subject into which the capsule endoscope is introduced. The capsule endoscope is disposed in an internal space of the coil. The coil may include a plurality of loops and a power feeder connecting power-feeding points of the loops.

Claims

1. An energy supplying coil for supplying energy to a capsule endoscope, comprising

a coil wound around an outside of a subject into which the capsule endoscope is introduced, the capsule endoscope being disposed in an internal space of the coil.

2. The energy supplying coil according to claim 1, wherein a pitch of the coil is substantially constant.

3. The energy supplying coil according to claim 1, wherein the coil comprises a plurality of loops, and a power feeder that connects power feeding points of the loops.

4. The energy supplying coil according to claim 1, wherein the coil includes a plurality of coils that form the internal space, each of the coils having more than one winding to which power is fed individually.

5. The energy supplying coil according to claim 4, further comprising a power feeding controller feeding power to at least one of the coils based on a position of the capsule endoscope.

6. The energy supplying coil according to claim 1, wherein a diameter of the coil is substantially the same as a diameter of the body of the subject.

7. The energy supplying coil according to claim 1, wherein a ratio of a radius of the coil forming the internal space to a length of the coil in an axial direction is 0.1 to 3.

8. The energy supplying coil according to claim 1, wherein a driving frequency of the coil is less than one megahertz.

9. The energy supplying coil according to claim 1, wherein a voltage supplied to the coil is less than 100 volts.

10. The energy supplying coil according to claim 1, wherein a voltage gotten by multiplying a driving frequency of the coil, a self inductance of the coil, a current that flows through the coil, and 2π

is less than 100 volts.

11. The energy supplying coil according to claim 1, wherein

a resistance of the coil is less than 100 ohms.

12. The energy supplying coil according to claim 1, wherein

the coil is fitted to a flexible material.

13. A capsule endoscope system comprising:

a capsule endoscope introduced into a subject; and

a transmitting/receiving device disposed at an outside of the subject, acquiring information gotten by the capsule endoscope via wireless communication, and supplying energy to the capsule endoscope, wherein

the capsule endoscope includes

a function executing unit that executes a predetermined function;

a wireless unit that wireless transmits information gotten by the function executing unit; and

an energy receiver that receives the energy, and

the transmitting/receiving device includes

a wireless receiver that receives information transmitted from the wireless unit;

an energy supplying coil that includes a coil wound around an outside of the subject, the capsule endoscope being disposed in an internal space of the coil, and that supplies energy to the energy receiver; and

a processor that analyzes the received information.

14. The capsule endoscope system according to claim 13, wherein a pitch of the coil is substantially constant.

15. The capsule endoscope system according to claim 13,

the coil comprises a plurality of loops, and a power feeder that connects power feeding points of the loops.

16. The capsule endoscope system according to claim 13,

the coil includes a plurality of coils that form the internal space, each of the coils having more than one winding to which power is fed individually.

17. The capsule endoscope system according to claim 16, further comprising a power feeding controller feeding power to at least one of the coils based on a position of the capsule endoscope.

18. The capsule endoscope system according to claim 13, wherein a diameter of the coil is substantially the same as a diameter of the body of the subject.

19. The capsule endoscope system according to claim 13, wherein a ratio of a radius of the coil forming the internal space to a length of the coil in an axial direction is 0.1 to 3.

20. The capsule endoscope system according to claim 13, wherein a driving frequency of the coil is less than one megahertz.

21. The capsule endoscope system according to claim 13, wherein a voltage supplied to the coil is less than 100 volts.

22. The capsule endoscope system according to claim 13, wherein a voltage gotten by multiplying a driving frequency of the coil, a self inductance of the coil, a current that flows through the coil, and 2π

is less than 100 volts.

23. The capsule endoscope system according to claim 13, wherein a resistance of the coil is less than 100 ohms.

24. The capsule endoscope system according to claim 13, wherein the coil is fitted to a flexible material.