LIVING BODY INFORMATION ACQUISITION SYSTEM

• US 20150141754A1
• Filed: 01/26/2015
• Published: 05/21/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 07/27/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Olympus Corporation
• Original Assignee: Olympus Corporation
• Inventors: YASUNAGA, Shinji
• Application Number:
  US14/604,942
• Publication Number:
  US 20150141754A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 600/109
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 1/00029 externally powered, e.g. wireless
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 1/041 Capsule endoscopes for imaging
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/073 Intestinal transmitters

Abstract

Provided is a living body information acquisition apparatus comprising a sensor configured to acquire living body information of an inside of a subject, and a power supply apparatus comprising a power supply circuit configured to be able to wirelessly supply power necessary for driving the sensor of the living body information acquisition apparatus, wherein the living body information acquisition apparatus further comprises a power receiving circuit configured to receive power supplied from the power supply circuit and an extension part that is provided so as to extend from a main body part of the living body information acquisition apparatus, and is formed from a flexible member which can contain thereinside at least a part of the power receiving circuit.

Claims

1. A living body information acquisition system comprising a living body information acquisition apparatus comprising a sensor configured to acquire living body information of an inside of a subject, and a power supply apparatus comprising a power supply circuit configured to be able to wirelessly supply power necessary for driving the sensor of the living body information acquisition apparatus, wherein

the living body information acquisition apparatus further comprises a power receiving circuit configured to receive power supplied from the power supply circuit and an extension part that is provided so as to extend from a main body part of the living body information acquisition apparatus, and is formed from a flexible member which can contain thereinside at least a part of the power receiving circuit.

2. The living body information acquisition system according to claim 1, wherein

the power receiving circuit is configured to resonate at a resonance frequency defined by a power receiving coil and a power receiving capacitor, and

at least a part of the power receiving coil is contained in an inside of the extension part.

3. The living body information acquisition system according to claim 2, wherein

the power supply apparatus includes:

an alternating magnetic field generation circuit configured to generate an alternating magnetic field corresponding to power required to drive the sensor of the living body information acquisition apparatus; and

a control circuit configured to perform control to cause the alternating magnetic field generation circuit to generate the alternating magnetic field so as to compensate for deterioration of transmission efficiency caused by variation of resonance frequency of the power receiving circuit associated with deformation of the extension part.

4. The living body information acquisition system according to claim 3, wherein

the alternating magnetic field generation circuit comprises a power transmission circuit configured to generate an alternating magnetic field in accordance with power required to drive the sensor of the living body information acquisition apparatus by resonating at a resonance frequency defined by a power transmission coil and a power transmission capacitor, and

the control circuit performs control to change the resonance frequency of the power transmission circuit following variation of the resonance frequency of the power receiving circuit.

5. The living body information acquisition system according to claim 1, wherein

before the living body information acquisition apparatus is disposed in the body cavity of the subject, the extension part is provided in a state of being covered by a covering part which is formed using a water-soluble substance.

6. The living body information acquisition system according to claim 5, wherein

the extension part is configured to deform according to the movement of the living body information acquisition apparatus after the covering part dissolves.

7. The living body information acquisition system according to claim 5, wherein

the extension part is configured to take on a predetermined non-linear shape regardless of the movement of the living body information acquisition apparatus after the covering part dissolves.