Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Industry-University Cooperation Foundation Hanyang University

Jae-Hong Woo

Jin-Won Lee

Mun-Kue Park

Yong-Hee Lee

Byung-Ju Yi

Jong-Tae Seo

Su-Kwang Lim

An endoscope apparatus is provided. An endoscope apparatus includes a slave device including a plurality of drive motors configured to adjust insertion and insertion direction of an insertion tube of an endoscope, and a plurality of load sensors provided on the plurality of drive motors; and a master device including displacement sensors configured to generate signals for driving the drive motors according to an operator manipulation, and resistive motors configured to operate based on loads detected by the load sensors. The drive motors produce drive forces according to the signals generated by the displacement sensors and the resistive motors produce resistive forces corresponding to the operator manipulation based on the loads detected by the load sensors.

Endoscope apparatus with slave device and master device

Growing community of inventors

Gyeonggi-do, South Korea

Jae-Hong Woo