Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Capsule medical apparatus guidance system
- Patent Title (中): 胶囊医疗器械指导系统
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Application No.: US13052509Application Date: 2011-03-21
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Publication No.: US08821398B2Publication Date: 2014-09-02
- Inventor: Hironao Kawano , Johannes Reinschke , Wolfgang Schmidt
- Applicant: Hironao Kawano , Johannes Reinschke , Wolfgang Schmidt
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo DE Munich
- Assignee: Olympus Medical Systems Corp.,Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
- Current Assignee: Olympus Medical Systems Corp.,Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo DE Munich
- Agency: Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, P.C.
- Priority: JP2008-305619 20081128
- Main IPC: A61B5/07
- IPC: A61B5/07 ; A61B1/04 ; A61B1/00 ; A61B19/00

Abstract:
A system includes a capsule body having a casing introduced into a subject to perform, in liquid, examination of or treatment on the interior of the subject, the casing containing a permanent magnet, a mass of the casing excluding the magnet being set to be less than a product of a volume of the casing and a density of the liquid; a magnetic field generator that generates a magnetic attraction for the magnet to guide the capsule body; and a magnetic field generation device that controls the magnetic field generator to generate the magnetic attraction by setting a maximum value of the generated magnetic attraction vertically upward to the capsule body, to be equal to a maximum value of the generated magnetic attraction vertically downward to the capsule body, and by setting the maximum values to be less than a value obtained by multiplying a mass of the magnet by a gravitational acceleration.
Public/Granted literature
- US20110282165A1 CAPSULE MEDICAL DEVICE GUIDANCE SYSTEM Public/Granted day:2011-11-17
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