Medical equipment storage belt

• US 20050279799A1
• Filed: 06/07/2005
• Published: 12/22/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 06/07/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Olympus Corporation
• Original Assignee: Olympus Corporation
• Inventors: Nakatsuchi, Kazutaka, Kubokawa, Hiroaki
• Application Number:
  US11/146,526
• Publication Number:
  US 20050279799A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 224/665
• CPC Class Codes: A45F 3/14 Carrying-straps; Pack-carrying harnesses

Abstract

A medical equipment storage belt, which enables a subject to carry a medical equipment, includes a belt wound around a subject and storage sections which are provided in the belt section and store at least one medical equipment therein. Since the belt section which is used for carrying medical equipment is adopted, mounting and removing the medical equipment is easy. In the storage section of the medical equipment storage belt, an attachment portion may be provided, which is movably attached on the belt section. The storage section may be provided with openings for exposing a notification section so that the notification section can be visually checked. The belt-section may be provided with an electromagnetic weakening member. The belt section is further provided with a second storage section for power supply equipment and a power-supply-cord storage section.

Claims

1. A medical equipment storage belt, which enables a subject to carry medical equipment, the medical equipment storage belt comprising:

a belt section to be wound around the subject; and

storage sections provided on the belt section for storing at least a medical equipment therein.

2. The medical equipment storage belt according to claim 1,

wherein the storage section has an attachment portion movably attached to the belt section.

3. The medical equipment storage belt according to claim 2,

wherein belt fixing portions having coupling members are provided on both ends of the belt section.

4. The medical equipment storage belt according to claim 2,

wherein storage-section fixing portions having coupling members are provided in the belt section and the attachment portion.

5. The medical equipment storage belt according to claim 4,

wherein the storage-section fixing portion also has a usage as a belt fixing member.

6. The medical equipment storage belt according to claim 3, further comprising

a suspension band to be suspended on the shoulder of the subject to support the belt section and includes attachment tools capable of detaching from and attaching on the belt section,

wherein attachment portions for attaching the attachment tools provided to the suspension band are provided in the belt section.

7. The medical equipment storage belt according to claim 6, wherein the attachment tools comprise three attachment tools corresponding to three attachment portions, wherein one of the three attachment portions being provided in a vicinity of a center of the belt section and others of the three attachment portions being respectively provided in an area closer to the center than the belt fixing members.

8. The medical equipment storage belt according to claim 7,

wherein the storage-section fixing portion is provided closer to the center than the attachment portions provided in the area closer to the center than the belt fixing members.

9. The medical equipment storage belt according to claim 1,

wherein at least one of the storage sections has an opening for exposing a notification section provided in the medical equipment stored therein to notify an operation state, so that the notification section can be visually checked from outside the at least one storage section.

10. The medical equipment storage belt according to claim 9,

wherein the notification section is a display unit for visually displaying an operation state of the medical equipment.

11. The medical equipment storage belt according to claim 9,

wherein the opening is provided with a transparent member.

12. The medical equipment storage belt according to claim 1,

wherein the medical equipment includes a receiver for receiving a signal generated by a wireless capsule medical equipment as an electric wave,

wherein, in the belt section, an electromagnetic wave weakening member for weakening the electric wave and preventing the electric wave from being mixed into the receiver is arranged in the vicinity of the storage section in which at least the medical equipment is stored.

13. The medical equipment storage belt according to claim 12,

wherein the electromagnetic wave weakening member is a cloth provided inside an exterior of the belt section.

14. The medical equipment storage belt according to claim 13,

wherein the cloth is formed by at least one of depositing a metal having an electromagnetic wave shielding property onto the surface of a fabric formed of predetermined fibers and by depositing a metal having an electromagnetic wave shielding property onto at least a portion of predetermined fibers used to weave the cloth.

15. The medical equipment storage belt according to claim 1, wherein the storage sections comprise:

a first storage section provided on the belt section and in which a medical equipment is stored;

a second storage section provided on the belt section and in which a power supply equipment for supplying electric power to drive the medical equipment is stored.

16. The medical equipment storage belt according to claim 15, further comprising a power-supply-cord storage section for storing excess of a power supply cord for transmitting electric power of the power supply equipment to the medical equipment.

17. The medical equipment storage belt according to claim 16,

wherein the belt section further has coupling members constituting a belt fixing section for integrally fixing both ends of the belt section, and the power-supply-cord storage section is provided on a part of the belt section facing the coupling members for coupling both ends integrally in a state where the belt section is wound around the subject.

18. The medical equipment storage belt according to claim 17,

wherein the power-supply-cord storage section is disposed at a backside of the subject in a state where the belt section is wound around the subject.