Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Medical-device guidance system
- Patent Title (中): 医疗器械引导系统
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Application No.: US12307490Application Date: 2007-06-29
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Publication No.: US08386020B2Publication Date: 2013-02-26
- Inventor: Atsushi Kimura , Akio Uchiyama , Ryoji Sato , Atsushi Chiba
- Applicant: Atsushi Kimura , Akio Uchiyama , Ryoji Sato , Atsushi Chiba
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Olympus Corporation
- Current Assignee: Olympus Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC
- Priority: JP2006-185308 20060705
- International Application: PCT/JP2007/063080 WO 20070629
- International Announcement: WO2008/004497 WO 20080110
- Main IPC: A61B5/055
- IPC: A61B5/055 ; A61B1/00

Abstract:
A situation where a medical device is outside a region suitable for guidance control thereof can be easily coped with. Included are a medical device provided with a magnet; a guiding unit (5X-1, 5X-2, 5Y-1, 5Y-2, 5Z-1, 5Z-2) that forms a control magnetic field for guidance control of the medical device, inside a prescribed control area; a detection unit (7Y-1, 7Y-2) that detects positional information of the medical device; and a computational unit that judges that the medical device has gone outside the control area on the basis of an output from the detection unit (7Y-1, 7Y-2) and calculates a direction for returning the medical device to the control area, wherein a signal-waveform calculating unit (21) stops forming the control magnetic field when the medical device is outside the control area.
Public/Granted literature
- US20100022835A1 MEDICAL-DEVICE GUIDANCE SYSTEM Public/Granted day:2010-01-28
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