Olympus Corporation

Olympus Medical Systems Corporation

Panasonic Corporation

Tomoya Takenaka

Seiichiro Kimoto

Masatoshi Homan

Susumu Fukushima

Motoyoshi Kitagawa

Yasuteru Asakawa

Jun'ichi Kimura

A capsule type medical device having a substrate section that includes at least a single layer substrate; an antenna conductor that is arranged on and closely attached to at least one surface of the substrate section; a transmitting circuit that is arranged on the one surface of the substrate section within an area surrounded by the antenna conductor; and a plurality of lands that are arranged to another surface of the substrate section, and electrically connected with the transmitting circuit.

Capsule type medical device

A medical system includes a capsule type medical apparatus introduced into a subject and having an antenna having directionality and a communication unit which executes a communication through the antenna, an external antenna, which is disposed outside of the subject and has an antenna having directionality and an antenna disposed together with the antenna and having directionality in a direction different from the antenna, and an external machine having a selection unit which selects any of the antennas in the external antenna and a second communication unit which executes a communication with the first communication unit through the antenna whose polarized wave surface is selected by the selection unit.

Medical system and method of switching antenna

Growing community of inventors

Oita, Japan

Tomoya Takenaka