Olympus Optical Company, Ltd.

Yuji Ikuno

Hisao Yabe

Takeaki Nakamura

Masahide Kanno

Hiromasa Suzuki

Toshiaki Nishikori

Atsushi Kidawara

Akihiko Miyazaki

Shinichi Katoh

Takeshi Yokoi

Hiroki Hibino

Kazunari Nakamura

Fumiyuki Onoda

Tetsuo Nonami

Shinichiro Hattori

Shinichi Nishigaki

Yoshinao Oaki

Kunio Kinoshita

Jun Yoshinaga

Yoshikazu Tojo

Katsuyuki Kanehira

Kazuhiko Ohzeki

Yutaka Tanaka

An optical image is formed on one end surface of an image guide formed Of a fiber bundle by an objective optical system provided in a tip section at the tip of an elongate insertable section, is transmitted to the other end surface and is photoelectrically converted by an imaging device together with the pattern of the fiber bundle on the other end surface to be an image signal. This image signal is separated by a region separating circuit into a fiber bundle light transmitting region and another non-representative region. The image data of the non-representative region are processed to be replaced with other image data by an image replacing circuit to produce an image having had the network pattern of the fiber bundle reduced.

Apparatus for reducing network patterns from the image of a fiber scope

An endoscope light source apparatus which can feed an illuminating light adapted to a scope provided with a frame sequential type imaging device, a scope provided with a color mosaic type imaging device and a fiber scope has a light source lamp which can emit the illuminating light. A filter which can transmit the illuminating light is interposed in the light path connecting the light source lamp with the entrance end surface of a light guide capable of feeding the illuminating light to the scope and is provided within a cassette which is inserted through an inserting aperture provided on a housing containing the light source apparatus.

Endoscope light source apparatus

A video scope system including a video scope in which a solid state image sensor is disposed in a distal end of an insertion to be inserted into an object under inspection and picks up an image of the inside of the object under inspection illuminated by a light fed by a light guide extending in the insertion section, a light source unit having a light source feeding a light into the light guide, and a video processor unit processing a signal supplied from the solid state image sensor to output a picture signal to be displayed on a monitor. The light source unit and the video processor unit are disposed in separate housings, respectively, and these units are connected to each other by a cable to transmit a signal therebetween.

Video scope system

This electronic endoscope apparatus comprises an elongate insertable part, two image forming optical systems provide in the tip part of the insertable part and an integrated imaging device provided in the tip part of the insertable part and having two imaging regions in which object images are formed by two image forming optical systems. The imaging device has, for example, one solid state imaging device having two imaging regions or has two solid state imaging devices made integral.

Electronic endoscope apparatus

A system provided with an electronic scope containing a solid state imaging device on the tip side of the insertable part and a television camera containing an solid state imaging device and fitted to the eyepiece part of an optical endoscope provided with an optical image transmitting device within the insertable part. The number of pixels of the solid state imaging device of the television camera is made larger than the solid state imaging device of the electronic scope.

Endoscope imaging system used with an electronic scope and an optical

The endoscope light source apparatus of this invention has a light source for emitting a white color light as an illuminating light and a connecting part connectable with the light guide of the endoscope. Reflecting members are movably provided in the light path connecting the light source and the connecting part, and switch the light path between a light path through which the illuminating light adapted to an endoscope provided with a frame sequential type imaging device can be made to enter a filter which can sequentially transmit it and a light path which can avoid the filter.

Multiple characteristic endoscope light source for frame sequential

An apparatus for supplying power to an electrosurgical device comprising a power output device for providing a surgical current, a switch for supplying the power output device with a power signal to provide the surgical current, a first signal generator for supplying the switch with a switch signal to turn on and off the switch with a given timing, a second signal generator for supplying the power output device with a surgical signal having a period corresponding to the surgical current, a timer triggered by the switch signal and producing a timer signal for a given time after being triggered, and a gate for allowing the surgical current to be delivered from the power output device only while the timer signal is being produced. The surgical current is supplied from the power output device to the electrosurgical device in accordance with the logical AND of the switch signal, the timer signal and the surgical signal.

Apparatus for supplying power to an electrosurgical device

A connector for a light guide cable of an endoscope comprises a connector body having one end connected to a light guide cable and the other end flush with a light-receiving face of a light guide inserted in the connected body, an electrically insulating member surrounding the connector body, and contacts embedded in the outer surface of the insulating member. None or almost none of its members protrude from the forward end or the outer periphery of the connector, whereby the connector may be fitted into a receptacle in fluid-tight fashion and can be easily cleaned and fully dried after cleaning.

Connector for a light guide cable of an endoscope

A camera for an endoscope has a transmitting circuit for transmitting a release signal and a modulated signal modulated by a photocurrent signal, and a superposing circuit for superposing the modulated signal onto a motor drive line connecting to a film wind motor. A light source unit has a demodulated circuit for demodulating the modulated signal transmitting from the transmitting circuit, through the motor drive line. An exposure measuring circuit calculates an optimum exposure by using the demodulated signal from the demodulating circuit.

Photographing apparatus for an endoscope

A high frequency oscillator and a low frequency oscillator are provided to produce a high frequency cutting signal and a low frequency signal respectively. The high frequency cutting signal is modulated by a signal produced by differentiating the low frequency signal to form a coagulation signal. The high frequency cutting signal and the coagulation signal are compounded on a time division basis by a blend control signal generated by a blend control signal generating circuit to form a blend signal.

Electric power source for electrosurgical apparatus

The apparatus comprises a high frequency oscillator, an amplifier, and a pair of electrodes for treatment of a biological tissue. A high frequency voltage of constant magnitude is applied across the electrodes to permit a current flow across a biological tissue which is held between the electrodes, thereby causing Joule's heat to be produced depending upon the resistance thereof for the purpose of coagulation, excision or erasion of the biological tissue.

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Ohme, Japan

Yuji Ikuno