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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 14, 2017
Filed:
Jan. 30, 2014
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Gyeonggi-do, KR;
Industry-university Cooperation Foundation Hanyang University Erica Campus, Gyeonggi-do, KR;
Yong-Hee Lee, Seoul, KR;
Byung-Ju Yi, Gyeonggi-do, KR;
Mun-Kue Park, Gyeonggi-do, KR;
Jin-Won Lee, Gyeonggi-do, KR;
Su-Kwang Lim, Seoul, KR;
Jong-Tae Seo, Gyeonggi-do, KR;
Jae-Hong Woo, Gyeonggi-do, KR;
Abstract
An endoscope apparatus is provided. An endoscope apparatus includes a slave device including a plurality of drive motors configured to adjust insertion and insertion direction of an insertion tube of an endoscope, and a plurality of load sensors provided on the plurality of drive motors; and a master device including displacement sensors configured to generate signals for driving the drive motors according to an operator manipulation, and resistive motors configured to operate based on loads detected by the load sensors. The drive motors produce drive forces according to the signals generated by the displacement sensors and the resistive motors produce resistive forces corresponding to the operator manipulation based on the loads detected by the load sensors.