Olympus Corporation

Hiroshi Suzushima

Noriyuki Fujimori

Kazutaka Nakatsuchi

Takemitsu Honda

Tatsuya Orihara

Masatoshi Homan

Tsutomu Nakamura

Katsuya Suzuki

Seiichiro Kimoto

Toshiaki Shigemori

Tetsuo Minai

Katsuyoshi Sasagawa

Masayuki Hashimoto

Ayako Nagase

Hatsuo Shimizu

Mikio Nakamura

Hideharu Miyahara

Fukashi Yoshizawa

A cable assembly includes a plurality of cables; and a cable fixing member which has a facing surface to be oppositely arranged, in connecting each of the cables to a member as a connection target, with respect to a connection surface of the connection target member and fixes a distal end part of each of the cables in a state where an axial direction of the distal end part of each of the cables is arranged along the facing surface, wherein a side surface of a core wire of each of the cables is exposed at a predetermined first position on the facing surface of the cable fixing member and a first connection part which connects the core wire of each of the cables to the connection target member is formed at the first exposed part.

Cable assembly, electronic circuit module, and imaging apparatus

To provide a capsule endoscope in which a degree of appearance of a sting-like member in a captured image is reduced, a capsule endoscope () includes an optical system () having a predetermined principal point, an imaging unit () which captures light focused by the optical system (), and an attachment member () which is arranged at a predetermined position on a window portion () having optical transparency and forming a portion of an outer casing member () housing the optical system () and the imaging unit (). The capsule endoscope () further includes a traction member () having one end secured to the attachment member () and extending by a predetermined distance in a direction from the optical system () toward a position of the attachment member (). Since the traction member () has such a structure, an appearance of an image of the traction member () can be reduced at the imaging unit ().

Body insertable apparatus and body-insertable apparatus system

To achieve a body-insertable apparatus such as a capsule endoscope that moves in a subject at a low speed at which acquisition of in-vivo information is sufficiently possible, the body-insertable apparatus is inserted into the subject and moves in the subject. The body-insertable apparatus includes an in-vivo information acquiring unit that acquires the in-vivo information, an external case member accommodating the in-vivo information acquiring unit, and a moving-speed suppressing unit positioned inside or outside of the external case member to generate a predetermined suppressing force for suppressing the moving speed between an inner wall of a passage route in the subject and the external case member.

Body-insertable apparatus and body-insertable apparatus system

An in-body information acquiring apparatus includes a function executing unit that realizes a predetermined function inside a body of a patient. A power-supply circuit includes a power unit that includes a cell and that outputs a first current and a first voltage; and a converter that converts the first current to a second current, which is a current required to operate the function executing unit for a predetermined time, and converts the first voltage to a second voltage, which is a voltage required to operate the function executing unit.

In-body information acquiring apparatus and power-supply circuit

A capsule endoscopeincludes a partial-image acquiring unit that has a field of vision of 360&#xb0; around a central axis in a longitudinal direction (moving direction), and acquires a plurality of partial image data on inner circumferential areasand the like according to a movement of the capsule endoscopeOn the other hand, the capsule endoscopeis configured to acquire position related data based on which positions Z(t) and Z(t) at which the respective partial image data is acquired can be calculated, and enables a receiving apparatus or the like to constitute overall image data based on the partial image data and the position related data, whereby an overall image of a predetermined imaging target in a body of a subject is acquired with simple constitution while suppressing an increase in data amount.

In-vivo image acquiring system and body-insertable apparatus

An capsule-type medical apparatus includes a sealed container; and a wiring board which is housed in the sealed container and on which a functional circuit performing a predetermined function while the capsule-type medical apparatus is inserted into a subject is mounted. The wiring board includes a plurality of comparatively rigid wiring board sections on which parts constituting the functional circuit are mounted, and a comparatively flexible wiring board section that connects the plurality of the rigid wiring board sections. The flexible wiring board is extended from a straight-line portion formed on the rigid wiring board sections, and the flexible wiring board section is folded so that the adjacent rigid wiring board sections oppose to each other.

Capsule apparatus with rigid and flexible wiring board sections

In a capsule endoscope illuminating units are disposed around an image capturing unit in such a manner that an optical axis of the illuminating units do not intersect with an optical axis of the observation unit, and illumination areas of the illuminating units overlap at substantially a central portion of an image capturing area of the image capturing unit.

Capsule endoscope and a capsule endoscope system

A capsule endoscope includes a capsule portion. The capsule portion includes at least an observation optical unit having an image pick-up element and an optical lens that forms an objective optical system, an illuminating unit having an illuminating substrate, an electroluminescence light source, and a light-emitting control circuit, a peripheral-circuit part which forms various circuits having a signal processing circuit, a receiving and transmitting circuit, and a control circuit, and a power source unit which supplies power to the observation optical unit, the illuminating unit, and the peripheral-circuit part.

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Nagano, Japan

Hiroshi Suzushima