Olympus Optical Company, Ltd.

Koji Taguchi

Tatsuo Nagasaki

Shinichi Imade

Tetsumaru Kubota

Akio Nakada

Syuichi Takayama

Masaaki Hayashi

Hiroyoshi Fujimori

Hitoshi Karasawa

Shinji Hatta

Tadao Hagino

Akihiro Taguchi

Eishi Ikuta

Toshiki Terayama

Hiroyuki Kusunoki

Kazunori Shionoya

Yasuhiro Ueda

Akira Shiga

Naomi Sekino

Tatsuya Kubota

Seiichi Wakamatsu

Yutaka Ohshima

Toyoo Nishiyama

Daisaku Negoro

Ryouichi Konou

A medical resecting device is disclosed in which, a living organism tissue is resected with ultrasonic vibrations while the corresponding body cavity is observed with an optical observation pipe. The resecting device includes an ultrasonic vibrator for generating ultrasonic vibrations, a horn connected to the vibrator, a probe connected to the front portion of the horn to transmit the ultrasonic vibrations generated by the vibrator, the probe being provided with a rod-like shaft and a distal end portion with a resecting blade, a power source unit for supplying a drive voltage to the vibrator, and an optical observation pipe having a guide hole in which the shaft of the probe is inserted.

Resecting device for living organism tissue utilizing ultrasonic

A medical treatment device for resecting, e.g., a prostate or breaking a bladder stone, which includes a vibrator for generating ultrasonic vibrations, a horn connected to the vibrator, a casing for accommodating the vibrator and the horn, a probe connected to the front portion of the horn to transmit ultrasonic vibrations generated by the vibrator, and a power source unit for supplying a drive voltage to the vibrator, the power source unit having an oscillator for producing a wave having a frequency for vibrating the probe and a frequency switching circuit for selecting an oscillating frequency at which the distal end of the probe serves as a loop of vibration or a frequency at which the distal end of the probe serves as a node of vibration.

Medical treatment device utilizing ultrasonic wave

An ultrasonic endoscope apparatus in which an ultrasonic vibrating element radiating an ultrasonic wave to obtain an image of an object to be inspected is rotatably housed in a distal end of an insertion section of the endoscope, and a rotation angle sensing mechanism is also housed in the distal end. The rotation angle sensing mechanism has a magnetic recording section having a magnetization pattern for forming a magnetic field, and a magnetic sensor having at least one magneto-resistive element for sensing the magnetic field. One of the magnetic recording section and the magnetic sensor is rotated integrally with the ultrasonic vibrating element so that a rotation angle of the ultrasonic vibrating element is sensed in a precise manner.

Ultrasonic endoscope apparatus

A medical treatment apparatus utilizing ultrasonic waves according to this invention is applied to treatments such as breaking up a stone formed in a living body. The medical treatment apparatus utilizing ultrasonic waves includes a vibration generator (10) for generating ultrasonic vibrations and a vibration transmission member (16) for transmitting the ultrasonic vibrations generated by the vibration generator (10). The vibration transmission member (16) has a front end portion and a proximal end portion which is mounted on the vibration generator (10). The medical treatment apparatus further includes a cover member (20) for surrounding the outer surface of the vibration transmission member (16) and an exposing member (21) for exposing the distal end portion of the vibration transmission member (16) outside the cover member (20). When the vibration transmission member (16) is inserted into an endoscope channel and a body cavity, the distal end of vibration transmission member (16) does not damage them since the distal end is sealed with the cover (20).

Medical treatment apparatus utilizing ultrasonic wave

A pulse compression apparatus comprises a quadrature detector for converting an echo signal obtained by an ultrasonic transducer into a complex signal, a reference wave oscillator for producing a reference wave signal, and a correlation circuit for deriving a correlation between the complex signal and the reference wave signal to compress the echo signal.

Pulse compression apparatus for ultrasonic image processing

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Koji Taguchi