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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 16, 2014
Filed:
Apr. 23, 2013
Olympus Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Moe Goto, Tokyo, JP;
Olympus Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A vagus nerve is efficiently stimulated while preventing wasteful energy consumption. Provided is a nerve stimulating device () including a stimulation-signal outputting portion () that outputs a stimulation signal to a vagus nerve (B); a heart-event detecting portion () that detects a heart event; and a control portion () that makes a judgment regarding the responsiveness of a heart (A) based on the heart event detected by the heart-event detecting portion () in response to the stimulation signal output from the stimulation-signal outputting portion (), and that controls the stimulation-signal outputting portion () so that an intensity of the stimulation signal is decreased when the responsiveness of the heart (A) is decreased.