ROTATING SELF-PROPELLED ENDOSCOPE DEVICE

• US 20090156897A1
• Filed: 09/30/2005
• Published: 06/18/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 09/30/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Olympus Medical Systems Corporation (Olympus Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Olympus Medical Systems Corporation (Olympus Corporation)
• Inventors: Kishi, Takahiro, Tanii, Yoshiyuki, Omot, Keijiro, Kura, Yasuhito
• Application Number:
  US12/066,330
• Publication Number:
  US 20090156897A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 600/118
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 1/0016 using motor drive units
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 1/005 Flexible endoscopes

Abstract

A rotating self-propelled endoscope device 1 of the present invention comprises an insertion portion 2 to be inserted into a subject, a thrust generation portion 12 provided rotatably around a longitudinal axis of an outer circumference of the insertion portion, a rotary motive force generating unit 3 having a driving unit 45 for rotating the thrust generation portion, a detecting unit 52 for detecting physical information based on driving of the driving unit of the rotation driving portion, and a notifying unit 10 for notifying the physical information based on a detection result of the detecting unit, and a behavior of the thrust generating unit can be grasped by a user.

Claims

1. A rotating self-propelled endoscope device comprising:

an insertion portion to be inserted into a subject;

a trust generation portion provided rotatably around a longitudinal axis of an outer circumference of the insertion portion;

rotary motive force generating means having driving means for rotating the thrust generation portion;

detecting means for detecting physical information based on driving of the driving means of the rotation driving portion; and

notifying means for notifying the physical information based on a detection result of the detecting means.

3. The rotating self-propelled endoscope device according to claim 1, wherein the physical information is a torque amount of the driving means.

4. The rotating self-propelled endoscope device according to claim 1, wherein the physical information is a driving current value of the driving means.

5. The rotating self-propelled endoscope device according to claim 1, wherein the physical information is a torque amount of the thrust generation portion.

6. The rotating self-propelled endoscope device according to claim 1, wherein the notifying means digitizes and displays the physical information.

7. The rotating self-propelled endoscope device according to claim 1, further comprising alarming means for notifying abnormality by an alarm sound, vibration or lighting of a light emitting body when a value of the physical information becomes a value outside a predetermined range.

8. The rotating self-propelled endoscope device according to claim 1, further comprising a storage medium for storing the physical information.

9. The rotating self-propelled endoscope device according to claim 1, wherein the detecting means is a potentiometer which can vary a threshold value of the physical information.

2. A rotating self-propelled endoscope device comprising:

an insertion portion to be inserted into a subject;

a thrust generation portion provided rotatably around a longitudinal axis of an outer circumference of the insertion portion;

rotary motive force generating means having driving means for rotating the thrust generation portion;

detecting means for detecting physical information based on driving of the driving means of the rotation driving portion; and

a control portion for controlling rotation of the thrust generation portion based on a detection result of the detecting means.

10. The rotating self-propelled endoscope device according to claim 2, wherein the physical information is a torque amount of the driving means.

11. The rotating self-propelled endoscope device according to claim 2, wherein the physical information is a driving current value of the driving means.

12. The rotating self-propelled endoscope device according to claim 2, wherein the physical information is a torque amount of the thrust generation portion.

13. The rotating self-propelled endoscope device according to claim 2, wherein the notifying means digitizes and displays the physical information.

14. The rotating self-propelled endoscope device according to claim 2, further comprising alarming means for notifying abnormality by an alarm sound, vibration or lighting of a light emitting body when a value of the physical information becomes a value outside a predetermined range.

15. The rotating self-propelled endoscope device according to claim 2, further comprising a storage medium for storing the physical information.

16. The rotating self-propelled endoscope device according to claim 2, wherein the detecting means is a potentiometer which can vary a threshold value of the physical information.