Olympus Corporation

Olympus Optical Company, Ltd.

Mayekawa Mfg. Co., Ltd.

Olympus Medical Systems Corporation

Akira Taniguchi

Sumihiro Uchimura

Fumiyuki Onoda

Chieko Aizawa

Toshiaki Noguchi

Katsuya Suzuki

Jun Hasegawa

Masanao Hara

Kazutaka Tsuji

Takeshi Kawabata

Yoshinao Oaki

Yasuhiro Yoshizawa

Hiroshi Ishii

Hiroki Moriyama

Takashi Tsukaya

Yasuo Hirata

Katsuyoshi Sasagawa

Osamu Goto

Takayasu Miyagi

Tsugio Okazaki

Hiroyuki Sakurayama

Seiki Toriyama

Hiroaki Muranami

Masaru Tokumoto

Masaaki Hayashi

Hiroki Hibino

Tetsuo Nonami

Sakae Takehana

Tetsumaru Kubota

Syuichi Takayama

Hiroshi Niwa

Naomi Sekino

Naoki Uchiyama

Michio Sato

Nobuhiko Watanabe

Kouichiro Ishihara

Susumu Takahashi

Kimihiko Nishioka

Akira Suzuki

Yasuhito Kura

Akitoshi Toda

Koichi Matsui

Takahiro Kishi

Akira Takano

Nobuyuki Matsuura

Hirofumi Miyanaga

Masaru Shiraiwa

Katsutaka Adachi

Yasuo Miyano

Takatoshi Yoshida

Kiyoshi Tsuji

Makoto Abe

Yutaka Takahashi

Masahide Kanno

Hirokazu Nishimura

Shinji Hatta

Katsumi Hirakawa

Yutaka Yanagawa

Masanobu Koitabashi

Atsushi Amano

Yoshisada Aoki

Yoshihiro Okada

Yoshitaka Miyoshi

Shoichi Amano

Kouji Tanikawa

Hisanari Shimazu

Kousuke Matsumoto

Hisanari Simazu

Kenji Kasama

Mitsuhiro Ito

Kouji Nakamoto

Tsukasa Ishii

An X-ray image capturing device of bone-in meat for capturing an X-ray image of the bone-in meat that is from an arm part or a thigh part of a livestock carcass in a state where the bone-in meat is suspended, comprises: an X-ray source for irradiating the bone-in meat with an X-ray; a shielding box for covering the bone-in meat while the X-ray image is captured; a sensor which is disposed in the shielding box and which detects the X-ray which passes through the bone-in meat; and a filter which is disposed between the bone-in meat and the X-ray source and which adjusts an intensity distribution of the X-ray with which the bone-in meat is irradiated.

Device and method for capturing X-ray image of bone-in meat and deboning system of bone-in meat including the device

A deboning system for an arm part of bone-in meat includes: a clamp; at least one forearm-bone incision making device; an olecranon incision making device; and a forearm-bone separation device, wherein the at least one forearm-bone incision making device includes a robot arm and a forearm cutter attached to the robot arm, and the olecranon incision making device includes a pair of olecranon cutters.

Deboning system and deboning method for arm part of bone-in meat

Two hooking members of a hooking unit used in a device for conveying bone-in meat respectively have belt-like main body parts, blade-like pointed ends provided at ends on one side of the main body parts, and barbs provided on first sides of the main body parts to be continuous with the points. The hooking members are supported so as to be in parallel with each other with an elastically changeable interval therebetween and to be rotatable about rotation axes along longitudinal axes of the main body parts. Further, the hooking unit has an actuator which rotates the hooking members about the rotation axes.

Device and method for conveying bone-in meat and deboning system of bone-in meat including the device

A shoulder blade removal device of bone-in meat includes: a bottom holder which is configured to be in contact with a lower side of the bone-in meat such that the lower side of the bone-in meat is lifted upward and moved in a horizontal direction; a support member for bending the bone-in meat in cooperation with the bottom holder such that an end of the shoulder blade; and a chuck unit attached to a robot arm and gripping the tip part of the shoulder blade in cooperation with the robot arm. The chuck unit includes: a base member fixed to the robot arm; a grip member; and a lock member supported by the base member such that the lock member can be advanced or retracted toward or away from the lateral plate part, the lock member pinching the shoulder blade in cooperation with the lateral plate part.

Device and method for removing shoulder blade of bone-in meat and deboning system of bone-in meat including the device

A direction of movement, an insertion amount and an insertion force amount at a time when an insertion section of an endoscope is inserted in a large intestine, which is an object of an inspection, are detected by detection unit. The direction of movement, the insertion amount and the insertion force amount of the insertion section are displayed on a display device which is separably disposed. Thereby, a high-precision insertion operation can simply and easily be realized, and a handling operability is improved.

Endoscope apparatus with advancement/retreat detection means

A first and a second pumps for supplying a gas to a balloon for fixation mounted at an outer circumference portion at a tip end portion of an insertion portion of an endoscope and a balloon for fixation mounted at an outer circumference portion at a tip end portion of an overtube into which the endoscope is inserted and a control portion for controlling pressure in the respective balloons by operating the first and the second pumps are provided, and the control portion controls display of balloon inflation/deflation display portions and balloon during operation display portions of a remote controller on the basis of inflation-state information detected by a state detection output portion detecting inflation states of the respective balloons.

Endoscope balloon control device

At a distal end side of an insertion portion of an endoscope, an image pickup portion for capturing an image and a bending portion capable of being bent are provided, and a bending instruction operation portion executes a bending instruction operation for the bending portion. According to the bending instruction operation by the bending instruction operation portion, the bending control portion executes the controlling bending of the bending portion. As a bending control mode for executing the operation of the bending control by the bending control portion, a first bending control mode for bending control corresponding to a first image captured by the image pickup portion and a second bending control mode for bending control displaying the distal end side of the insertion portion are provided.

Bending control device

In an endoscope, air/water feed pipe lines are arranged through an elongated insertion portion having an image pickup unit at its front end. In an operation portion arranged at the rear end of the insertion portion, there are provided an antenna, and a wireless transmission unit for wirelessly transmitting, using this antenna, information including image data on a subject picked up by the image pickup unit, to endoscope peripheral apparatuses in the outside.

Endoscope

An endoscope of the present invention includes an insert section inserted in a subject body, an operation section provided at a base end of the insert section, a control process section provided in the operation section, for controlling an image pickup section for capturing a subject body image and a predetermined function in the operation section, a signal circuit extending from the control process section, and a connection section provided to the operation section, for allowing detachable connection of a tube unit through which at least one duct line is inserted.

Endoscope and endoscopic system

An insertion apparatus includes: an introducing duct including; insertion portion cover portion for covering an insertion portion extending from a distal side portion of a handling portion constituting an endoscope; and a spiral duct which is disposed on an inner circumferential surface side of the insertion portion cover portion, and has on a circumferential surface of the spiral duct, a propulsion power generating portion for applying a propulsion power for introducing the insertion portion into a deep portion in a body cavity, to the insertion portion covered by the insertion portion cover, and a rotating device comprising a rotating portion for rotating the spiral duct equipped to the introducing duct.

Insertion apparatus

An endoscope system, serving as a double-balloon endoscope system, includes an endoscope apparatus for examinations using an endoscope, a shape detection apparatus used in combination with the endoscope apparatus, and a balloon controller. The shape detection apparatus detects positions of respective points in an insertion section of the endoscope, estimates the shape of the insertion section on the basis of the detected positions, and displays an image representing the modeled shape of the insertion section corresponding to the estimated shape. The balloon controller controls balloons, serving as insertion support units, attached to the endoscope. The shape detection apparatus detects the states of the balloons controlled through the balloon controller and reflects the controlled states of the balloons on an image representing the shape of the insertion section. With this arrangement, the inflation/deflation states of the balloons and the insertion state can be visually confirmed in real time with ease.

Double-balloon endoscope system

An endoscope is provided that can reduce examination costs by realizing commonality of an operating unit by making an inserting unit and the operating unit attachable/detachable with respect to each other to enable the exchange of inserting units. The endoscope of this invention includes an operating unit, an inserting unit that can be detachably connected to the operating unit, and transmission and reception coils provided in the operating unit and the inserting unit, respectively, for sending and receiving signals in a non-contact manner between the operating unit and the inserting unit when the inserting unit is connected to the operating unit.

Endoscope with non-contact signal transmission and reception

First and second illumination and image pickup units are provided in the container body having opposite reference view field directions and are respectively freely tilted in an arbitrary direction within predetermined inclination angles from the reference view field direction.

Endoscope with first and second imaging and illumination units

An endoscope is provided wherein a variable rigidity portion is not restricted by a physical mechanism, and which allows a surgeon, in performing a rigidity varying operation, to operate the rigidity varying operation along with other operations without releasing inputting sections. The endoscope of the invention includes an inserting section and an operating section. The inserting section has variable-rigidity actuators. The operating section has a rigidity-variation controlling section, a trackball, and scope switches.

Endoscope with rigidity variation section

An endoscope has an insertion portion provided with a freely curvable curving portion; a grip portion provided at a base end side of the insertion portion and grasped by an operator. There provided at the grip portion and in its periphery is an instructing operation element with a function of implementing a curve instructing operation of the curving portion and a function of implementing the other instructing operation different from the above described curve instructing operation.

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