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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 08, 2007
Filed:
Apr. 20, 2004
Applicants:
Hatsuo Shimizu, Tokyo, JP;
Kazutaka Nakatsuchi, Tokyo, JP;
Inventors:
Hatsuo Shimizu, Tokyo, JP;
Kazutaka Nakatsuchi, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
Olympus Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 1/00 (2006.01); A61B 1/04 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A pill inserted into a body of a patient acquires in-vivo information on the body of the patient. A receiver disposed on the outside of the body receives the in-vivo information on the body of the patient from the pill through an antenna. When a power supply signal is transmitted from the receiver to the pill through the antenna, a drive control signal for making the pill to execute a predetermined function is superposed on the power supply signal, which makes it possible to control various functions performed by the pill from outside.