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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 21, 2013
Filed:
Nov. 26, 2008
Applicant:
Shinsuke Tanaka, Tokyo, JP;
Inventor:
Shinsuke Tanaka, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
Olympus Medical Systems Corp., Tokyo, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 19/00 (2006.01); A61B 10/00 (2006.01); A61B 1/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A capsule medical device includes a capsule-shaped casing that can be introduced into an in-vivo region of a subject; and a rotation driving unit that generates torque along a circumferential direction of the capsule-shaped casing. The capsule medical device also includes a cutting-obtaining unit that rotates along the circumferential direction of the capsule-shaped casing due to the torque to cut out and obtain a mass of body tissue from the in-vivo region of the subject.