Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Endoscope shape detecting apparatus
- Patent Title (中): 内窥镜形状检测装置
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Application No.: US11799864Application Date: 2007-05-03
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Publication No.: US08147404B2Publication Date: 2012-04-03
- Inventor: Yoshitaka Miyoshi , Chieko Aizawa , Kensuke Miyake , Fumiyuki Onoda , Minoru Sato , Hiroshi Niwa , Tomohiko Oda
- Applicant: Yoshitaka Miyoshi , Chieko Aizawa , Kensuke Miyake , Fumiyuki Onoda , Minoru Sato , Hiroshi Niwa , Tomohiko Oda
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Olympus Corporation
- Current Assignee: Olympus Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, P.C.
- Priority: JP2004-326872 20041110
- Main IPC: A61B1/00
- IPC: A61B1/00 ; A61B1/04

Abstract:
A driving block includes a plurality of magnetic-field generating elements and a driving signal generating section, and the magnetic field generated by the plurality of magnetic-field generating elements is detected by a plurality of magnetic-field detecting elements. A shape calculating block calculates a shape of an insertion portion of an endoscope based on a frequency component corresponding to a frequency of the driving signal in a detection signal detected by the plurality of magnetic-field detecting elements. Oscillation frequency of the reference clock for deciding the frequency of the driving signal is changeably set by the frequency setting section, and the reference clock with oscillation frequency set by the frequency setting section is supplied to both of the driving block and the shape calculating block.
Public/Granted literature
- US20070208222A1 Endoscope shape detecting apparatus Public/Granted day:2007-09-06
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