Olympus Corporation

Olympus Optical Company, Ltd.

Renesas Electronics Corporation

Taiyo Yuden Co., Ltd.

Hiroyoshi Kobayashi

Yoshihiro Maeda

Kazuya Yamanaka

Satoru Akiyama

Toshihiro Kitahara

Takeshi Murata

Satoru Kikuchi

Hiromu Ikeda

Motohiro Atsumi

Susumu Kobayashi

Hisao Inomata

Isao Doshida

Sei Saitou

Masakatsu Ohuchi

Tatsuo Nagasaki

Tomoyuki Nakamura

Yoichi Iba

Seiichiro Tabata

Masatoshi Homan

Shotaro Takemoto

Akihiro Kubota

Yasuhiro Miyazaki

Osamu Konno

Masafumi Haraguchi

Yutaka Adachi

Takami Shibazaki

Shinya Fukushima

Katsuhiko Yoshimura

Junichi Ishibashi

Yuji Ogasawara

Kumi Kikuchi

Masao Nichogi

Azusa Tomita

Yasunori Tanahashi

Jun Wakasone

Shin Itakura

Hisanori Tetsuka

A surgical system includes: an overtube including a channel into which an endoscope is inserted; and an expansion device configured to ensure a surgical space by expanding an interior of a body at a distal side relative to a tip of the overtube. The expansion device includes a sheath and a wire configured to be protrudable from the sheath. The wire is configured to be switchable between a first configuration in which the wire protrudes from the sheath and a second configuration in which the wire protrudes from the sheath in a state where the wire is tilted, around a longitudinal axis, at an angle different from the first configuration.

Surgical system and expansion device

A test device according to an embodiment of the present invention includes: a first measurement terminal connected to one end of a first coil to be tested; a second measurement terminal connected to another end of the first coil; a direct-current power source connected to the first measurement terminal; a first semiconductor switch connected between the second measurement terminal and a ground; and a drive unit for turning on and off the first semiconductor switch.

Reliability test device for coil

A medical overtube device has a main body formed by articulating a plurality of nested units into a first group of nested units and a second group of nested units and is bendable in a longitudinal direction thereof; a first shape-fixation mechanism configured to fix a shape of the first group which has a first wire, both end of the first wire coupled to the first group of nested units and a first pulley configured to be wound by the first wire; and a second shape-fixation mechanism configured to fix a shape of the second group which has a second wire, both end of the second wire coupled to the second group of nested units; and a second pulley configured to be wound by the second wire, wherein the first shape-fixation mechanism is configured to release the fixed shape of the first group independently from the second shape-fixation mechanism.

Medical overtube device

An equivalent circuit is capable of, while having a simple configuration, accurately expressing a superposition characteristic and having excellent practicality and workability. A current sensor and a voltage source are connected in series between external terminals of an equivalent circuit. A reference state element having an impedance forms a closed loop with a current source. A current flowing through the equivalent circuit and detected by the current sensor is reproduced by the current source and then applied to the reference state element, so that a potential difference is generated across the reference state element. A voltage obtained by multiplying the potential difference by a correction coefficient is outputted by the voltage source. By setting the correction coefficient to be dependent on the current or an inter-terminal voltage, the impedance represented by the equivalent circuit can be reproduced as a characteristic dependent on the current I or the inter-terminal voltage.

Equivalent circuit construction method, simulation method and simulation device

A semiconductor device, including a first semiconductor chip including a first substrate having a semiconductor larger in bandgap than silicon, the first semiconductor chip being formed with a first FET including a first gate electrode, a first source, and a first drain, a second semiconductor chip including a second substrate having a semiconductor larger in bandgap than silicon, the second semiconductor chip being formed with a second FET having a second gate electrode, a second source, and a second drain, and a third semiconductor chip including a third substrate having silicon, the third semiconductor chip being formed with a MOSFET including a third gate electrode, a third source, and a third drain. The first semiconductor chip and the second semiconductor chip are mounted over a first chip mounting section, and the third semiconductor chip is mounted over a second chip mounting section.

Semiconductor device and electronic apparatus

A mantle tube including a bendable member, which is formed in such a way as to be received in an elongate, annular, cylindrical member, includes two fixed sites that are fixed to the cylindrical member and a bendable site that is interposed between these fixed sites and bendable in a direction intersecting a longitudinal direction thereof, an angle adjustment member that is capable of adjusting a bending angle of the bendable site, and an angle holding mechanism that is capable of holding, at any desired bending angle, the bendable site bent by the angle adjustment member.

Mantle tube and treatment tool

A trocar including a distal-end tube portion that is disposed inside the body and has a first inner hole through which a medical device can be inserted; a proximal-end tube portion that is disposed outside the body and is connected to the distal-end tube portion, the proximal-end tube portion having a second inner hole that communicates with the first inner hole and has an axis which can be disposed in a direction not parallel to an axis of the first inner hole; and a movement facilitating portion that is disposed on at least one of the inner surface of the first inner hole and the inner surface of the second inner hole to facilitate the movement of the medical device inside the inner hole.

Trocar

The manufacturing yield of a semiconductor device is improved. There is provided a semiconductor device of a cascode coupling system, which is equipped with a plurality of normally-on junction FETs using as a material, a substance larger in bandgap than silicon, and a normally-off MOSFET using silicon as a material. At this time, the semiconductor chip has a plurality of junction FET semiconductor chips (semiconductor chip CHPand semiconductor chip CHP) formed with the junction FETs in a divided fashion, and a MOSFET semiconductor chip (semiconductor chip CHP) formed with the MOSFET.

Semiconductor device and electronic apparatus of a cascode-coupled system

An appropriate stereoscopic image of a subject is readily acquired. Provided is a stereoscopic endoscope device including two image capture elements spaced apart from each other and disposed at a distal end of an insertion section to be inserted into a subject; an angle changing mechanism that changes a relative angle between optical axes of the image capture elements; a distance sensor that detects the distance from the image capture elements to the subject; and a controller that controls the angle changing mechanism on the basis of the distance detected by the distance sensor.

Stereoscopic endoscope device having mechanism that changes an angle between optical axes of two imaging sensors

A dental color measurement tool disposed opposite an opening portion for capturing light from an artificial tooth to undergo color measurement with a color measurement device includes at least one pair of guide posts having an engaging portion corresponding to an engaging portion on the color measurement device side, and an abutment post disposed between the pair of guide posts and having a pointed convex shape to which the artificial tooth can be mounted. The abutment post has a color measurement reference surface in a color measurement light axis direction as the vicinity of a focus position of the color measurement device in a photographing state. When performing color measurement photographing, the artificial tooth is mounted to the abutment post to position the front thereof at the color measurement reference surface. Thus, the artificial tooth can be stably retained at a suitable position with respect to the color measurement device.

Dental color measurement tool, dental color measurement tool system, and dental color measurement system

A contact cap is attached to a top cover of a camera of a dental tooth measuring apparatus, and when shooting, positioning of the tooth to be measured is performed with a bite section being slightly bitten by both of adjacent teeth sandwiching the tooth to be measured, and with keeping a state where the inside of the adjacent teeth is in contact with a camera side surface of a positioning convex section. Positioning of the tooth to be measured and the adjacent teeth with variation among individuals with respect to the camera can be performed more precisely.

Contact cap for dental tooth measuring apparatus and measuring method using dental tooth measuring apparatus

A multi-spectrum image capturing device includes a multi-spectrum illuminating device comprising LED's for emitting lights of different wavelengths from one another, a plurality of optical rods for relaying the lights emitted from the LED's, an optical diffusion element for diffusively reflecting the lights from the optical rods by a white diffusion surface and an aluminum-coated reflecting surface to be irradiated at an angle of about 60&#xb0; with respect to an image-capturing optical axis, and an optical sheet for further diffusing the lights from the optical diffusion element, and also includes an image-capturing optical system and a CCD for forming an image based on lights reflected from an irradiated surface under illumination by the multi-spectrum illuminating device to capture the formed image. An image output captured by the CCD is analyzed to measure color components of the irradiated surface.

Multi-spectrum image capturing device and multi-spectrum illuminating device

Contact cap for photographic device of tooth

A light modulating unit includes first and second light modulating sections each of which modulates an illumination light on the basis of a video signal to generate a projection light that is a linearly polarized light, a light path synthesizing section which synthesizes the projection lights generated by the first and second light modulating sections using the nature that directions of polarizations of the projection lights cross at right angles, and a beam shifting section which sets beams of the projection lights synthesized by the light path synthesizing section, in a shifted state or a non-shifted state on the basis of the directions of polarizations of the projection lights, the beam shifting section switching the shifted state and the non-shifted state synchronously with modulation timings for the first and second light modulating sections.

Light modulating unit and image projection apparatus

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Hachioji, Japan

Hiroyoshi Kobayashi