Patents by Inventor Seigo Itou

Seigo Itou has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Electric bending endoscope device
    Patent number: 8066633
    Abstract: An electric bending endoscope device includes an endoscope with a driving unit, a control unit and an operation portion with a bending instruction portion. The operation portion includes a correction algorithm calculating portion in which the output range of instruction signal of the joystick is converted to coincide with the predetermined output range of the bending instruction portion instruction-signal being the operation signal outputted by the operation portion according to the joystick being the bending instruction portion to be fitted to the operation portion, to generate the bending instruction portion operation-signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2011
    Assignee: Olympus Medical Systems Corp.
    Inventors: Seigo Itou, Masanobu Koitabashi
  • ELECTRIC BENDING ENDOSCOPE DEVICE
    Publication number: 20080262311
    Abstract: An electric bending endoscope device includes an endoscope with a driving unit, a control unit and an operation portion with a bending instruction portion. The operation portion includes a correction algorithm calculating portion in which the output range of instruction signal of the joystick is converted to coincide with the predetermined output range of the bending instruction portion instruction-signal being the operation signal outputted by the operation portion according to the joystick being the bending instruction portion to be fitted to the operation portion, to generate the bending instruction portion operation-signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2008
    Publication date: October 23, 2008
    Applicant: OLYMPUS MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORP.
    Inventors: Seigo ITOU, Masanobu KOITABASHI