Sony Olympus Medical Solutions Inc.

Sony Corporation

Kohtaro Amano

Yuichi Yamada

Noriaki Takagi

Taihei Michihata

Koji Izumi

Taku Yaegashi

Yuichi Kaneda

Yoshinori Sugiyama

Fuminori Tanahashi

Shin Miyashita

Nobuharu Murashima

Keisuke Ishii

Kentaro Fujii

Motoaki Kobayashi

Atsuomi Ohno

Kiyotaka Kanno

Morinao Fukuoka

Hikaru Tanoue

An endoscope camera headincludes a first and a second membersthat are relatively rotatable about a first axis Ax. The first memberhas a first rotation-sliding surfacethat extends in an annular shape about the first axis Axas its center. The second memberhas a second rotation-sliding surfacethat engages with the first rotation-sliding surfacein a state in which movement to a direction of the first axis Axrelative to the first memberis restricted, and that rotation-slides relative to the first rotation-sliding surfaceabout the first axis Ax. The second rotation-sliding surfaceabuts only on a part of the first rotation-sliding surface, to expose a part of the first rotation-sliding surfaceoutside.

Endoscope camera head

A camera head for an endoscope includes a casing that forms exterior, and an imaging unit that is housed in the casing and images a subject image. The casing includes a metal exterior unit that forms at least a part of the exterior and is formed by hydroforming.

Camera head for endoscope

A medical apparatus and a method of manufacturing the medical apparatus, which have an advantage in cost performance, are provided even if optical fibers are used therein. The medical apparatus includes, therein, a first optical fiberconfigured to transmit an optical signal, a second optical fiberconfigured to transmit an optical signal, and a first optical connectorconfigured to connect the first optical fiberand the second optical fiber

Medical apparatus and method of manufacturing medical apparatus

A camera head includes: a mounting portion having an abutting surface on which an eyepiece portion of an endoscope abuts in a direction along an optical axis of a subject image emitted from the eyepiece portion; and an elastic portion including elastic material and detachably attached to the mounting portion, the elastic portion being configured to sandwich the eyepiece portion with the abutting surface, and bias the eyepiece portion toward the abutting surface.

Camera head

A medical imaging apparatuscaptures observation light from an observed region inside a subject. This medical imaging apparatusincludes plural types of optical path separation deviceswhich respectively guide first observation light and second observation light that are included in observation light from scopesthat are inserted into the subject, take in the observation light from the observed region inside the subject, and emit the observation light, along optical paths being different from each other; and an imaging apparatuswhich is shared by the plural types of optical path separation devices, is detachably connected to the plural types of optical path separation devices, and captures the first observation light and the second observation light respectively guided by the connected optical path separation devices.

Medical imaging apparatus and medical observation system

There is provided a medical camera head including an imaging board integrally including an imaging element mounting section where an imaging element is mounted, a plurality of first flexible portions whose one ends connected to the imaging element mounting section are led out of the imaging element mounting section in different directions, and a connection section connected to the other end sides of the plurality of first flexible portions.

Medical camera head and medical camera apparatus

An endoscope apparatus includes: a camera including an imaging unit configured to receive light and convert the light into an electric signal; a first cable configured to transmit the electric signal, one end of the first cable being connected to the camera; an operating unit connected to another end of the first cable and including an electrooptic conversion unit configured to convert the electric signal transmitted through the first cable into an optical signal, and a switch configured to receive user operations; a second cable configured to transmit the optical signal, one end of the second cable being connected to the operating unit; and a connector provided to another end of the second cable and configured to connect the other end of the second cable to an external device.

Endoscope apparatus

An endoscope device includes: an endoscope configured to retrieve a subject image in a subject from a tip end, and output the subject image from an eyepiece unit; and a camera head including a mounting unit detachably connected to the eyepiece unit, and configured to pick up the subject image. The eyepiece unit and the mounting unit are connected with each other so as to be able to relatively rotate the endoscope and the camera head around an insertion axis. The eyepiece unit includes an endoscope side terminal. The mounting unit includes a head side terminal that feeds power to the endoscope from the camera head. One of the endoscope side terminal and the head side terminal includes at least three terminals disposed on a virtual circle around the insertion axis, and the other includes at least two terminals disposed on the virtual circle.

Endoscope device using an alternating current voltage

An endoscope apparatus includes: an imaging apparatus that includes an imaging element configured to capture a subject image of inside of a subject, the imaging apparatus outputting an image signal obtained by capturing the subject image by the imaging element; a control apparatus configured to process the image signal to generate a video signal for display; and a signal transmission path configured to transmit the image signal from the imaging apparatus to the control apparatus. The imaging apparatus outputs, as the image signal, pixel signals of respective pixels in a specified pixel area out of a whole pixel area of the imaging element, the specified pixel area being smaller than the whole pixel area and containing the entire subject image.

A medical imaging device includes: a left eye imaging element including a left eye light receiving surface configured to receive left eye observation light from an observed region of a subject; and a right eye imaging element including a right eye light receiving surface configured to receive right eye observation light being an observation light from the observed region and having a parallax from the left eye observation light. The left eye imaging element and the right eye imaging element are arranged such that: short sides of the left eye light receiving surface and the right eye light receiving surface are along a direction in which an optical axes of the left eye observation light and the right eye observation light are juxtaposed with each other; and long sides of the left eye light receiving surface and long sides of the right eye light receiving surface oppose each other.

Medical imaging device and medical observation system

There is provided a medical camera head including: a first casing configured to accommodate an imaging element; a heat-generating section accommodated in the first casing; a connection section provided in the first casing, an external signal transmission section being connected to one end of the connection section; and a heat transfer member interposed between the heat-generating section and the other end of the connection section.

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