Portable medical apparatus storage holder and capsule endoscope medical care system

• US 20090118576A1
• Filed: 01/20/2006
• Published: 05/07/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 02/17/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Olympus Medical Systems Corporation (Olympus Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Olympus Medical Systems Corporation (Olympus Corporation)
• Inventors: Segawa, Hidetake, Akagi, Toshimasa
• Application Number:
  US11/658,388
• Publication Number:
  US 20090118576A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 600/109
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 1/00016 using wireless means
• 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 2560/0219 of externally powered implanted units
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/073 Intestinal transmitters

Abstract

An object of the invention is to eliminate unstable behavior of a drawn cable connected to a portable medical apparatus, which is of a storage target, to prevent cable jam or looseness and cable disconnection. A bundling member (13) is an example of a constraint member which constrains paths of cables (5) drawn from an opening (44) of a pouch (41) in which a receiver (6) is stored. The bundling member (13) has a joint structure in which a surface fastener is used between a flap (46) and a backside of the pouch (41), and the bundling member (13) bundles the cables (5) drawn from the opening (44). The bundling member (13) is constrained by clamping the bundling member (13) at a portion of a joint structure (48). Therefore, unstable behavior of the cable (5) can be eliminated to prevent jam or looseness of the cable (5), and steep bending can be eliminated at a base portion where the cable (5) is drawn from the receiver (6) to protect the cable (5).

Claims

1. A portable medical apparatus storage holder, comprising:

a storage container in which a portable medical apparatus is detachably stored from an opening, the portable medical apparatus being placed on a subject body, and electrically connected to a detecting device through a cable to record a predetermined electric displacement amount detected by the detecting device;

a placing member which detachably places the storage container on the subject body; and

a constraint member which is continuously connected to the storage container or the placing member, the constraint member constraining a path of the cable drawn from the opening of the storage container in which the portable medical apparatus is stored.

2. The portable medical apparatus storage holder according to claim 1, wherein the opening is an opening which is positioned so as to face the subject side while the storage container is placed, the opening permitting the portable medical apparatus to be inserted and detached, the opening permitting the cable to be drawn,

the opening includes

a cap member which is continuously connected to the storage container at a side on a top portion side of the opening by a hinge pair to open and close the opening, the cap member having a size in which an end side parallel to the hinge pair overlaps an outer surface on a backside of the storage container when the opening is closed;

and

a joint structure which joints an inner surface of the cap member and the outer surface on the backside of the storage container in an overlapping range between the cap member and the storage container,

the cable includes a plurality of cables and

the constraint member has the joint structure, and constrains a path of a base portion of the cables by clamping a bundling member with the joint structure portion, the bundling member bundling the cables in a flat shape, the cables being drawn to the subject side from the opening of the storage container in which the portable medical apparatus is stored.

3. The portable medical apparatus storage holder according to claim 2, wherein the joint structure is a joint structure in which a surface fastener is used.

4. The portable medical apparatus storage holder according to claim 3, wherein the storage container has a groove structure in which the cables and the bundling member are fitted in a vertical direction in the joint structure.

5. The portable medical apparatus storage holder according to claim 1, wherein the constraint member includes a cushioning member arranged at a position included in an inside of the bent cable in a region where a base portion of the cable is bent on a path through which the cable is drawn from the storage container through the opening.

6. The portable medical apparatus storage holder according to claim 1, wherein the placing member includes a suspension placing member which is suspended on a shoulder of the subject to place the storage container on a middle abdomen portion of the subject, and

the constraint member includes a pulling member which is provided in the suspension placing member to pull a neighbor of the base portion of the cable drawn from the opening.

7. The portable medical apparatus storage holder according to claim 1, wherein the constraint member includes a strap member which routes the cable drawn from the opening to surround the cable on the outer surface side of the storage container.

8. The portable medical apparatus storage holder according to claim 1, wherein the storage container includes a friction member in a backside thereof which is in contact with the subject body, the friction member having elasticity.

9. The portable medical apparatus storage holder according to claim 2, wherein the storage container and the cap member include friction members in backsides thereof which are in contact with the subject body, the friction member having elasticity.

10. The portable medical apparatus storage holder according to claim 1, wherein the placing member includes an abdominal region placing member and a suspension placing member, the abdominal region placing member being rounded around a abdomen portion of the subject, the suspension placing member being suspended on the shoulder of the subject while detachably attached at an arbitrary position of the abdominal region placing member.

11. The portable medical apparatus storage holder according to claim 1, wherein the placing member is freely adjustable in length according to a habitus of the subject.

12. The portable medical apparatus storage holder according to claim 11, wherein the placing member is formed by a disposable material which can freely be cut with a cutting tool, and the placing member is freely adjustable in length by cutting the placing member according to the habitus of the subject.

13. The portable medical apparatus storage holder according to claim 12, wherein the storage container is formed by disposable nonwoven cloth, and a joint region with the placing member is reinforced by synthetic leather.

14. A capsule endoscope medical care system, comprising:

an capsule endoscope which includes an imaging unit, an illumination unit for illuminating a region to be imaged, and a transmitting unit for transmitting image data obtained by the imaging unit to the outside, a subject being able to swallow the capsule endoscope;

a detecting device which is placed in a subject body surface, the detecting device having an antenna structure in which the image data transmitted from the transmitting unit is received as a predetermined electric displacement amount;

a portable medical apparatus which is electrically connected to the detecting device through a cable to record the image data received by the detecting device; and

a portable medical apparatus storage holder which retains the portable medical apparatus on a subject body, the portable medical apparatus storage holder including

a storage container in which the portable medical apparatus is detachably stored from an opening;

a placing member which detachably places the storage container on the subject body; and

a constraint member which is continuously connected to the storage container or the placing member, the constraint member constraining a path of the cable drawn from the opening of the storage container in which the portable medical apparatus is stored.