Abstract: In a medical system including a medical imaging device and a robotic bed, the table may be movable between a first position where a maximum dimension of the robot arm not hidden under the table is less than one fourth of a longitudinal dimension of the table when the table is viewed from vertically above, and a second position where a maximum dimension of the robot arm not hidden under the table is one fourth of a longitudinal dimension of the table or more when the table is viewed from vertically above. The second position may be an imaging position or an imaging preparation position where an image is taken by the medical imaging device. The first position may be surgery position where a shortest distance between the robotic bed and a location of the medical imaging device is at least a predetermined distance.

Abstract: A robotic operating table according to one or more embodiments may include: a patient placement table; a robotic arm comprising a plurality of joints, and having a first end supported on a base and a second end supporting the table; a light emitter provided to the table; and an operation device including a move operation unit that receives, from a user, a move operation to move the table. In one or more embodiments, while the move operation unit is receiving the move operation to move the table, the light emitter may emit light.

Abstract: A robotic operating table according to one or more embodiments may include: a patient placement table; a robotic arm comprising a plurality of joints, and having a first end supported on a base and a second end supporting the table; and an operation device comprising a preset position registration setting unit that registers an anesthetization position, a surgical operation position, and an imaging position and sets one of the registered anesthetization, surgical operation, and imaging positions as a movement destination of the table, and a move-operation receiving unit that receives, from a user, a move operation to move the table. When the move-operation receiving unit is operated while one of the registered anesthetization, surgical operation, and imaging positions is set as the movement destination of the table, the robotic arm may move the table to the set one of the registered anesthetization, surgical operation, and imaging positions.

Abstract: A robotic operating table according to one or more embodiments may include: a table on which to place a patient; a robotic arm including a plurality of joints, and including a first end supported on a base fixed to a floor, and a second end supporting the table; an operation device including: a move operation receiving unit that receives, from a user, a move operation to move the table, and a register operation receiving unit that receives, from a user, a register operation to register a position of a movement destination of the table and a movement-destination set operation; a memory; and a controller that causes the robotic arm to move the table based on the move operation received by the move operation receiving unit.

Abstract: A robotic operating table according to one or more embodiments may include: a patient placement table; a robotic arm comprising a plurality of joints, and having a first end supported on a base and a second end supporting the table; a light emitter provided to the table; and an operation device including a move operation unit that receives, from a user, a move operation to move the table. In one or more embodiments, while the move operation unit is receiving the move operation to move the table, the light emitter may emit light.

Abstract: An operation device according to one or more embodiments may include: a display; a move operation receiving unit that receives, from a user, a move operation to move a table on which a patient can be placed of an operating table; and an operation controller. In a condition in which the table is put in a tilted posture in accordance with the move operation, the operation controller may cause the display to display an elapsed time in the tilted posture.

Abstract: A robotic operating table may include: a table on which to place a patient; and a robotic arm including a plurality of joints, and having a first end supported on a base fixed to a floor, and a second end supporting the table; and an operation device including: a mode-set operation receiving unit that receives a set operation to set a rotation mode for rotating the table; a move operation receiving unit that receives a move operation to move the table; and a display. When the mode-set operation receiving unit receives the set operation to set the rotation mode, the display may display setting information for setting a rotation center position of the table. When the move operation receiving unit receives the move operation in a state where the rotation center position is set, the robotic arm may rotate the table about a rotation axis at the rotation center position.

Abstract: A patient placement table moving method may be used with a robotic operating table including a patient placement table, a base buried in or fixed to a floor and an articulated robotic arm including joints and having first and second ends. The first end may be supported on the base to be rotatable about an axis extending in a vertical direction. The second end may support the table. The method may include: horizontally arranging the table by the robotic arm at an imaging position for imaging with a medical imaging apparatus; and translating the table from the imaging position to a surgical operation position by the robotic arm. The surgical operation position may be away from the imaging position by 200 mm or more in a second direction orthogonal to a first direction in a horizontal plane, and the first direction is parallel with a longitudinal direction of the table.

Abstract: A medical system according to one or more embodiments may include a memory, a robotic operation table top, and a controller. The robotic operation table includes a table top and a robot arm supporting the table top. The controller gives the robot arm a command to move the table top to positions corresponding to the medical processes. The robot arm includes a plurality of joints, a plurality of movable elements connected by the plurality of joints to one another, and a plurality of electric actuators and a plurality of position detectors. At least one of the plurality of joints is a horizontally-rotating joint which couples two movable elements among the plurality of movable elements to each other so as to be rotatable about a vertical axis. The positions corresponding to the medical processes include a placement position, an imaging position, and a surgery position.

Abstract: A work vehicle according to the present invention includes: a recessed portion (4) that is provided in a lateral side surface (31a) of an engine hood (30) and is recessed from the lateral side surface (31a) toward the inside of the engine hood (30). The recessed portion (4) includes a recessed portion bottom surface (41) that is recessed inward from the lateral side surface (31a) of the engine hood (30), and a peripheral wall portion (42) that is continuous with a peripheral edge of the recessed portion bottom surface (41) and a peripheral edge of a recessed portion inlet opening (40) that is formed in the lateral side surface (31a). A work light (5) that emits light forward and downward is provided on the peripheral wall portion (42).

Abstract: This disclosure discloses a surgical system that includes, for example, a patient-side cart (also referred to as a surgical robot) and a console apparatus. The patient-side cart includes an endoscope apparatus that includes three or more endoscope arms. The console apparatus manipulates the patient-side cart. In the endoscope apparatus, for example, feature points of respective images obtained by respective imaging devices of the three or more endoscopes are used to join the respective images together to generate a composite image, and the composite image is displayed on a display screen. The composite image generated from the images in three visual fields to be provided to an operator ensures providing an image in a wide range, and allows the operator to confirm various sites by a visual check during surgery (ensuring an endoscopic surgery while having a large visual field as in a laparotomy) (FIG. 1).

Abstract: In a medical system including a medical imaging device and a robotic bed, the table may be movable between a first position where a maximum dimension of the robot arm not hidden under the table is less than one fourth of a longitudinal dimension of the table when the table is viewed from vertically above, and a second position where a maximum dimension of the robot arm not hidden under the table is one fourth of a longitudinal dimension of the table or more when the table is viewed from vertically above. The second position may be an imaging position or an imaging preparation position where an image is taken by the medical imaging device. The first position may be surgery position where a shortest distance between the robotic bed and a location of the medical imaging device is at least a predetermined distance.

Abstract: A patient placement table moving method may be used with a robotic operating table including a patient placement table, a base buried in or fixed to a floor and an articulated robotic arm including joints and having first and second ends. The first end may be supported on the base to be rotatable about an axis extending in a vertical direction. The second end may support the table. The method may include: horizontally arranging the table by the robotic arm at an imaging position for imaging with a medical imaging apparatus; and translating the table from the imaging position to a surgical operation position by the robotic arm. The surgical operation position may be away from the imaging position by 200 mm or more in a second direction orthogonal to a first direction in a horizontal plane, and the first direction is parallel with a longitudinal direction of the table.

Abstract: A robotic operating table according to one or more embodiments may include: a patient placement table; a robotic arm comprising a plurality of joints, and having a first end supported on a base and a second end supporting the table; a light emitter provided to the table; and an operation device including a move operation unit that receives, from a user, a move operation to move the table. In one or more embodiments, while the move operation unit is receiving the move operation to move the table, the light emitter may emit light.

Abstract: A robotic operating table according to one or more embodiments may include: a table on which to place a patient; a robotic arm including a plurality of joints, and including a first end supported on a base fixed to a floor, and a second end supporting the table; an operation device including: a move operation receiving unit that receives, from a user, a move operation to move the table, and a register operation receiving unit that receives, from a user, a register operation to register a position of a movement destination of the table and a movement-destination set operation; a memory; and a controller that causes the robotic arm to move the table based on the move operation received by the move operation receiving unit.

Abstract: A robotic operating table may include: a table on which to place a patient; and a robotic arm including a plurality of joints, and having a first end supported on a base fixed to a floor, and a second end supporting the table; and an operation device including: a mode-set operation receiving unit that receives a set operation to set a rotation mode for rotating the table; a move operation receiving unit that receives a move operation to move the table; and a display. When the mode-set operation receiving unit receives the set operation to set the rotation mode, the display may display setting information for setting a rotation center position of the table. When the move operation receiving unit receives the move operation in a state where the rotation center position is set, the robotic arm may rotate the table about a rotation axis at the rotation center position.

Abstract: A robotic operating table according to one or more embodiments may include: a patient placement table; a robotic arm comprising a plurality of joints, and having a first end supported on a base and a second end supporting the table; and an operation device comprising a preset position registration setting unit that registers an anesthetization position, a surgical operation position, and an imaging position and sets one of the registered anesthetization, surgical operation, and imaging positions as a movement destination of the table, and a move-operation receiving unit that receives, from a user, a move operation to move the table. When the move-operation receiving unit is operated while one of the registered anesthetization, surgical operation, and imaging positions is set as the movement destination of the table, the robotic arm may move the table to the set one of the registered anesthetization, surgical operation, and imaging positions.

Abstract: An operation device according to one or more embodiments may include: a display; a move operation receiving unit that receives, from a user, a move operation to move a table on which a patient can be placed of an operating table; and an operation controller. In a condition in which the table is put in a tilted posture in accordance with the move operation, the operation controller may cause the display to display an elapsed time in the tilted posture.

Abstract: A moisture concentration detecting device including a gas chamber; a pair of porous electrodes facing each other in the gas chamber; a solid electrolyte membrane sandwiched between the electrodes; a case which covers the electrodes and the solid electrolyte membrane and on a surface of which a pleated portion is provided; an impedance measuring circuit measuring an AC impedance between the electrodes by applying an AC voltage to the electrodes; a storage device storing therein conversion information for converting an AC impedance between the electrodes into a moisture concentration in the insulating gas; and a computing unit obtaining a moisture concentration in the insulating gas from a measured value of the AC impedance by referring to the conversion information stored in the storage device with respect to the measured value of the AC impedance input from the impedance measuring circuit.

Abstract: The water-concentration detection device for detecting a water concentration of insulating gas filled in a gas-insulated device includes: porous electrodes having porous properties that are arranged to face each other in the insulating gas; a solid electrolyte membrane that is sandwiched between and fixedly attached to the electrodes and has hydrogen-ion conductivity; a voltage application unit that applies an alternating-current voltage at a frequency of 325 Hz or a frequency of 10 Hz or lower to the electrodes; an impedance measurement unit that measures an alternating-current impedance between the electrodes in a state in which the alternating-current voltage is applied to the electrodes; and a water-concentration detection unit that detects the water concentration of the insulating gas based on the alternating-current impedance measured by the impedance measurement unit.