Olympus Corporation

Olympus Medical Systems Corporation

Jdi Design and Development G. K.

Tomohiko Oda

Fumiyuki Onoda

Yoshitaka Miyoshi

Minoru Sato

Hiroshi Niwa

Chieko Aizawa

Kensuke Miyake

Hiroyuki Ushifusa

Jun Hasegawa

Kazutaka Nakatsuchi

Katsumi Hirakawa

Masakazu Takata

Daisuke Sano

Toshiyuki Akiyama

Mineki Hasegawa

Mutsumi Ohshima

Yasuhiro Sekimoto

Tadao Eto

Hideyuki Shoji

Muneharu Sato

Hirotaka Akiba

Katsuyoshi Ishibashi

Masami Fukuchi

Nobuyasu Ito

Toshiro Ijichi

Kyoko Hiyama

Kazutaka Tuji

Masashi Kikkawa

Shinichiro Ishino

Takeshi Kamiya

An organic EL element including an anode, a first functional layer including organic material, disposed above the anode, a second functional layer including organic material, disposed on and in contact with the first functional layer, a light emitting layer disposed on and in contact with the second functional layer, and a cathode disposed above the light emitting layer. A highest occupied molecular orbital (HOMO) level of the organic material of the second functional layer has an energy level at least 0.2 eV lower than that of a HOMO level of the organic material of the first functional layer, and film thickness of the second functional layer is 15 nm or less.

Organic EL element, organic EL panel, and organic EL element manufacturing method

A detecting apparatus includes: a change-over switch for switching on/off display of a scope model on a liquid crystal monitor; a position calculating portion for calculating respective positions of source coils; a scope model generating portion for generating a scope model of an electronic endoscope based on the respective positions of the source coils calculated by the position calculating portion; and a selector for selectively outputting to the liquid crystal monitor a display-pause-time image stored in a display-pause-time image storing portion and a scope model image from the scope model generating portion; and a control portion for controlling each of these portions. The detecting apparatus thus displays an insertion shape of the endoscope at a timing as needed.

Endoscope shape detecting apparatus

A probe shape detection apparatus includes a magnetic field sensing section for sensing a magnetic field generated by an electromagnetic coil in a flexible probe, a movement speed calculation section for calculating a movement speed of the coil, a coordinate computation section for calculating three-dimensional coordinates of the coil based on the sensed magnetic field, a moving average coordinate calculation section for calculating moving average coordinates of the coil, a comparison section for comparing the calculated movement speed with a predetermined threshold, a coil coordinate setting section for setting one of the moving average coordinates and the three-dimensional coordinates calculated by the coordinate computation section as the three-dimensional coordinates of the coil, based on a comparison result of the calculated moving speed, and a signal processing section for generating a video signal to display a shape of the probe, based on the set three-dimensional coordinates of the coil.

Probe shape detection apparatus and probe shape detection method

A medical instrument including a distortion detection probe disposed in an insertion portion to be inserted into the interior of an examinee provided with a plurality of FBG sensor sections that detect distortion of the insertion portion, a coordinate calculation section that calculates first three-dimensional coordinates of the respective FBG sensor sections according to a first three-dimensional coordinate system whose origin is a predetermined position based on the detection results of the FBG sensor sections, a coordinate system setting section that sets a second three-dimensional coordinate system based on the first three-dimensional coordinates of the respective FBG sensor sections, a coordinate transformation section that transforms the first three-dimensional coordinates of the respective FBG sensor sections into second three-dimensional coordinates according to the second three-dimensional coordinate system set by the coordinate system setting section and a shape display section that displays the shape of the insertion portion based on the second three-dimensional coordinates transformed by the coordinate transformation section.

Medical instrument having a display unit that displays a shape of an insertion body inserted into an interior of an object to be examined

An endoscope insertion shape detecting device of the present invention comprises an insertion shape detection portion for detecting an insertion shape of an endoscope insertion portion, an insertion shape image generation portion for generating an insertion shape figure of the endoscope insertion portion according to the insertion shape, a marking processing portion for carrying out a control to add a mark to the insertion shape figure for output as a control for the insertion shape image generation portion in a first observation for the subject, a memory portion for storing subject information, the insertion shape figure, and information on a position to which the mark is added in the insertion shape figure, and a position detection information output portion for outputting position detection information when a distal end portion of the insertion shape figure overlaps the mark position information in second observation made for the same subject.

Endoscope insertion shape detecting device

An endoscope inserted-shape detecting apparatusincludes a sense coil unitin which multiple sense coil groups of sense coil groupsA toI for detecting magnetic fields generated by multiple source coilsin an inserted-shape detecting probeare placed as a part of the endoscope inserted-shape detecting apparatus, a signal detecting section, a source coil position analyzing sectionand a signal control sectionthat selects a magnetic-field detecting element to be used for detection of a magnetic field signal based on the magnetic field generated by each of the source coilsfrom the sense coil groupsA toI in a control section based on positional information signals outputted from the source coil position analyzing section

Endoscope inserted-shape detecting apparatus

A driving block includes a plurality of magnetic-field generating elements and a driving signal generating section, and the magnetic field generated by the plurality of magnetic-field generating elements is detected by a plurality of magnetic-field detecting elements. A shape calculating block calculates a shape of an insertion portion of an endoscope based on a frequency component corresponding to a frequency of the driving signal in a detection signal detected by the plurality of magnetic-field detecting elements. Oscillation frequency of the reference clock for deciding the frequency of the driving signal is changeably set by the frequency setting section, and the reference clock with oscillation frequency set by the frequency setting section is supplied to both of the driving block and the shape calculating block.

A source coil drive circuit section of an endoscope shape detection device includes, an oscillator that generates a sine wave and an amplifier that amplifies the sine wave and generates (drives) an alternating magnetic field to source coils through a switch section. The switch section is configured to switch a direct current to an output of the amplifier and supply to the source coils. In the source coil drive circuit section, a direct current resistance value detection section for measuring a direct current resistance value of the source coils by voltage drop when the switch section is supplying the direct current to the source coils is provided.

Endoscope shape detection device

A medical image recording system easily obtains information of a device, etc. used at the time of an examination without conscious effort on operator's part, and records image information and the device information, which are obtained at the time of the examination, by making a 1-to-1 association between them. The system comprises at least an image information obtaining unit obtaining an observation image at the time of an examination for a medical treatment, a device information obtaining unit obtaining information of a device used at the time of the examination, and a recording unit recording information composing of the image information obtained by the image information obtaining unit and the device information obtained by the device information obtaining unit, as one associated information.

Medical image recording system

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Kawagoe, Japan

Tomohiko Oda