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Capsulated medical equipment

  • US 7,076,284 B2
  • Filed: 04/26/2002
  • Issued: 07/11/2006
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/16/2001
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A capsulated medical equipment comprising:

  • a capsulated body that is inserted into a living body and passed through a duct in the living body and that includes a biomedical information detection unit for detecting biomedical information, said biomedical information detection unit having an imaging unit comprising an objective and an imaging device;

    a position detection unit that detects the position of said capsulated body; and

    a sensing unit for sensing whether said capsulated body has halted in the duct for a certain period of time, said sensing unit having an arithmetic circuit that performs arithmetic operations to calculate a change in position information, and a judgment circuit that judges from an output of said arithmetic circuit whether said capsulated body is at a halt.

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