Capsule-type medical apparatus

• US 20060264709A1
• Filed: 07/26/2006
• Published: 11/23/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 01/26/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Olympus Corporation
• Original Assignee: Olympus Corporation
• Inventors: Fujimori, Noriyuki, Suzushima, Hiroshi
• Application Number:
  US11/493,755
• Publication Number:
  US 20060264709A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 600/130
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 1/00016 using wireless means
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 1/00029 externally powered, e.g. wireless
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 1/00032 internally powered
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 1/04 combined with photographic or television appliances
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 1/148 Arrangements of two or more hingeably connected rigid printed circuit boards, i.e. connected by flexible means
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 1/189 characterised by the use of a flexible or folded printed circuit H05K3/326 takes precedence

Abstract

An capsule-type medical apparatus includes an sealed container; a power supply battery housed in the sealed container; and a wiring board, housed in the sealed container, on which a functional circuit for implementing a predetermined function is mounted and which includes an external power supply terminal. The functional circuit is driven by electric power supplied from the power supply battery through the external power supply terminal to implement the predetermined function when the capsule-type medical apparatus is inserted into a subject.

Claims

1. An capsule-type medical apparatus, comprising:

an sealed container;

a power supply battery housed in the sealed container; and

a wiring board, housed in the sealed container, on which a functional circuit for implementing a predetermined function is mounted and which includes an external power supply terminal, the functional circuit being driven by electric power supplied from the power supply battery through the external power supply terminal to implement the predetermined function when the capsule-type medical apparatus is inserted into a subject.

2. The capsule-type medical apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

the wiring board includes an external input terminal for receiving a default setting value of the functional circuit.

3. The capsule-type medical apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

the wiring board includes

a plurality of rigid wiring board sections on which the functional circuit is implemented;

and

a flexible wiring board section that connects the plurality of rigid wiring board sections in series, and

the flexible wiring board section is folded so that the adjacent rigid wiring board sections oppose to each other, and

the power supply battery is held between a pair of the rigid wiring boards.