Capsule Endoscope Storage Case

• US 20080027267A1
• Filed: 11/28/2005
• Published: 01/31/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 01/05/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Olympus Corporation
• Original Assignee: Olympus Corporation
• Inventors: Segawa, Hidetake
• Granted Patent: US 7,770,725 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 600/7
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 1/00036 Means for power saving, e.g. sleeping mode
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 1/00144 Hygienic packaging
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 1/041 Capsule endoscopes for imaging
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2050/0065 Peelable cover
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2560/0214 of power generation or supply
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/073 Intestinal transmitters
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 50/30 Containers specially adapted for packaging, protecting, dispensing, collecting or disposing of surgical or diagnostic appliances or instruments for wound clamps A61B17/10; for ligaturing clips A61B17/122; packages or dispensers for surgical gloves or finger-stalls A61B42/40

Abstract

In a storage case 40 for accommodating a capsule endoscope 2 in which a power supply can be operated by a predetermined magnetic force, when the capsule endoscope 2 is retained by both a retaining portion 41e3 provided in a blister pack 41 and a hole portion 42e1 provided in an inner cover portion 42 while accommodated in the storage case 40, the blister pack 41, the inner cover portion 42, a sterilizing sheet 43, and a shield 44 of the storage case 40 are configured to cover an operable range for power supply 2b of the capsule endoscope 2, and the storage case 40 prevents malfunction of the capsule endoscope 2 accommodated therein even if a magnet is unintentionally approximated.

Claims

1. A capsule endoscope storage case comprising a surrounding unit that covers all directions of an operable range for a power supply of a capsule endoscope, the capsule endoscope storage case accommodating the capsule endoscope whose power supply can be operated by a predetermined magnetic force.

2. The capsule endoscope storage case according to claim 1, wherein the surrounding unit includes

a retainer that retains the capsule endoscope in the capsule endoscope storage case;

a sterilizing sheet that blocks a retention space area, having a sterilizing gas permeability; and

a shield that shields a lower surface of the retainer.

3. The capsule endoscope storage case according to claim 2, wherein the retainer includes a first retainer and a second retainer which form the retention space area for retaining the capsule endoscope therebetween, the first retainer and the second retainer accommodating and retaining the capsule endoscope in the retention space area.

4. The capsule endoscope storage case according to claim 3, wherein one of the first retainer and the second retainer is accommodated in the other one of the first retainer and the second retainer.