Patents Assigned to Olympus Corporation
  • Publication number: 20240081796
    Abstract: A full-thickness resection method for a gastrointestinal tract includes forming a pair of first markings in surrounding tissue on both sides of a lesion to sandwich the lesion therebetween; performing a full-thickness resection to a portion including the lesion; identifying a pair of suture locations in the vicinity of the pair of first markings; and suturing the pair of first suture locations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2022
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicants: OLYMPUS CORPORATION, NATIONAL CANCER CENTER
    Inventors: Arimasa SUGIMOTO, Satoru NONAKA
  • Publication number: 20240088076
    Abstract: An image pickup unit includes: an image pickup substrate including a first principal surface and a second principal surface, a light receiving circuit being formed on the first principal surface and a through wiring being placed on an inner surface of a via hole including an opening in the second principal surface; a solder resist film placed around the via hole on the second principal surface and in the via hole in a range from a bottom face to a level not reaching the second principal surface; and a bonding terminal which is made of solder, covers a surface of the solder resist film placed in the via hole, and is bonded to the through wiring on an outer edge of the opening in the via hole, the through wiring being not covered with the solder resist film.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Keiichi KOBAYASHI
  • Patent number: 11925313
    Abstract: An endoscope includes: an insertion portion configured to be inserted into a subject; and a channel fixing portion disposed on an outer periphery of the insertion portion and configured such that a part or all of a long channel tube is fixed in a state of being embedded in a distal end portion of the insertion portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Eijiro Sato
  • Patent number: 11925404
    Abstract: A treatment system that includes a pair of jaws and a heater resistor provided on one jaw of the pair of jaws that generates heat by energization. The system also includes a heating device that controls a current to set a resistance value of the heater resistor to a target resistance value. The heating device includes a double bridge circuit allowing current to flow between the heating device and the heater resister when detecting, by the detection resister, a difference between the resistance value of the heater resistor and the predetermined target resistance value. The heating device including a power supply voltage generator that generates a power supply voltage to be applied to the heater resistor and the double bridge circuit, a controller that modulates the generated power supply voltage, and a heater resistance detector that detects an AC component from the current flowing through the detection resistor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Sadao Ebata
  • Patent number: 11925312
    Abstract: An endoscope includes an insertion portion, an operation portion, a power transmission unit, a power relay unit, a power generation unit configured to apply power to the power relay unit in a second power transmission shaft direction which is non-parallel to a first power transmission shaft direction, an elastic member configured to perform either one of urging the power relay unit against the power generation unit or urging the power generation unit against the power relay unit, and a cable configured to extend from the operation portion in the second power transmission shaft direction which is a direction different from a longitudinal direction, wherein the power generation device is attached such that the power generation device is disposed to extend in an extending direction of the cable after being mounted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ramiya Uchida, Masanobu Koitabashi, Yasuhiro Okamoto
  • Patent number: 11925324
    Abstract: An insertion apparatus includes: a base member, a rotary shaft, and a driven member including a hole. A plurality of concave portions are formed on the rotary shaft, and a pair of side wall surfaces which form each of the plurality of concave portions are disposed so as to intersect with each other at a right angle or at an obtuse angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akihiro Kato, Takuya Toyooka, Fumitoshi Hayakawa
  • Publication number: 20240079425
    Abstract: An image pickup module includes: a lens unit including a first principal surface and a second principal surface; an image pickup unit including a third principal surface and a fourth principal surface on which an external electrode is disposed; a wiring board including a hole and a bonding electrode disposed on a bottom surface of the hole; a solder that bonds the bonding electrode and the external electrode; a rigid member that defines a spacing between the fourth principal surface and the bottom surface; and a second resin disposed between the fourth principal surface and the bottom surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naoki ITO, Takatoshi IGARASHI, Keiichi KOBAYASHI, Takahiro SHIMOHATA
  • Patent number: 11918415
    Abstract: An ultrasound endoscope comprises an operation portion, an insertion portion coupled to the operation portion, a distal end portion coupled to the insertion portion and including a projecting portion and a distal end body portion, a balloon channel disposed inside the insertion portion and extending from the operation portion to the rigid distal end portion, and a balloon mounting portion between the projecting portion and the distal end body portion. The balloon channel includes a bending portion in the rigid distal end portion and a balloon outlet that is formed at the bending portion and connected to the balloon mounting portion. A cross section of the bending portion includes a first bending angle and a second bending angle, and the first bending angle is smaller than the second bending angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Olympus Corporation
    Inventor: Norihisa Suzuki
  • Patent number: 11918179
    Abstract: An image pickup apparatus for endoscope includes an image sensor, a ferrule which is a rectangular parallelepiped having a front surface, a rear surface, and four side surfaces and includes insertion holes and trenches parallel to the insertion holes on respective two side surfaces orthogonal to each other among the four side surfaces, an optical element in which a light emitting region is disposed in a position opposed to the insertion holes, and optical fibers inserted into the insertion holes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yusuke Nakagawa
  • Publication number: 20240065530
    Abstract: A lens unit includes a first optical element including a first principal surface that is an incident surface; and including a first glass substrate and a first resin, the first glass substrate including a frame-shaped cutout at an outer edge of the first principal surface, the first resin being disposed only in the cutout.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kensuke SUGA
  • Publication number: 20240069326
    Abstract: An image pickup apparatus includes a lens unit and an image pickup unit. The lens unit includes a plurality of optical devices including a first optical device that includes: a first glass substrate having a first principal surface and a second principal surface and a groove leading to the second principal surface from the first principal surface in at least one of four corners on an outer edge; first resin disposed in the groove; and a resin lens disposed on the second principal surface. The image pickup unit including an image pickup device is disposed on an optical device not including the first resin, of the plurality of optical devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Mitsuru HAGIHARA
  • Publication number: 20240069311
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a lens unit includes: producing a stacked wafer including a plurality of optical wafers that include at least one optical wafer in which a light shielding layer is disposed and having a first principal surface and a second principal surface; forming grooves in a grid pattern on the first principal surface or the second principal surface of the stacked wafer using a dicing blade, in which the grooves have a depth at which the light shielding layer is cut; and dividing the stacked wafer into a plurality of lens units by performing stealth dicing using a filamentation laser along the grooves.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Jumpei YONEYAMA
  • Publication number: 20240069324
    Abstract: A lens unit includes: a first optical device including a first glass substrate including a first principal surface and a second principal surface, and a resin lens disposed on the second principal surface; a second optical device including a second glass substrate including a third principal surface and a fourth principal surface, in which the third principal surface is disposed facing the second principal surface, and a substantially rectangular aperture layer made of metal that is disposed on the third principal surface and that has four corner regions cut out; and an adhesive layer that adhesively bonds the first optical device and the second optical device, in which four corner regions do not sandwich the aperture layer between the first optical device and the second optical device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Mitsuru HAGIHARA
  • Patent number: 11911002
    Abstract: An overtube device includes: a tube body having a bending part and a main body part; a wire having a distal end part fixed to the bending part and a proximal end part positioned on the proximal end side and extending along a longitudinal axis; an operation part capable of pulling the wire to the proximal end side; and an overtube base configured to fix the tube body in a longitudinal axis direction so as not to advance and retract, and configured so that the operation part is provided in a state where the wire is pulled toward the proximal end side of the wire until a curved shape of the bending part is held. In a state where the operation part is mounted on the overtube base, the overtube base holds the wire in a state where the wire is pulled toward the proximal end side of the wire.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroshi Hashi, Masaru Yanagihara
  • Patent number: 11915413
    Abstract: An endoscope system includes a light source apparatus, an illumination-light setting section capable of setting, as illumination light for illuminating an object including a biological tissue, first illumination light obtained by combining light in one or more wavelength bands selected from the light in plural wavelength bands and second illumination light obtained by combining light in one or more wavelength bands different from the first illumination light, selected out of the light in the plural wavelength bands, a light-source control section, and an image analyzing section configured to acquire an analysis result related to presence or absence of an abnormal finding. The illumination-light setting section sets, based on the analysis result of the image analyzing section for the first image acquired by the first illumination light, a combination of light in wavelength bands included in the second illumination light to be irradiated next.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kenji Yamazaki
  • Patent number: 11914138
    Abstract: A distal end frame includes: a distal end frame body including a resin molded product; an image pickup unit housing chamber formed of a bottomed hole with an opening which is formed on a distal end surface of the distal end frame body; a through hole penetrating from a bottom face of the image pickup unit housing chamber to a proximal end side of the distal end frame body; a mounting face formed on the bottom face of the image pickup unit housing chamber; an inclined face that is formed in a region containing a part of an inner wall face of the through hole to be adjacent to the mounting face, and is visible through the opening; and a wiring pattern that is formed of the metal pattern constituting the molded interconnect device, and is continuously formed in a region containing the mounting face and the inclined face.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Daichi Kodama
  • Patent number: 11910993
    Abstract: An endoscopic task supporting system including: an image storage that stores a plurality of endoscopic images acquired in a time series; a three-dimensional data generation unit that generates three-dimensional data indicating a three-dimensional shape of a predetermined part subject to observation, based on the plurality of endoscopic images stored in the image storage; a two-dimensional image generation unit that generates, from the three-dimensional data generated by the three-dimensional data generation unit, a two-dimensional image corresponding to a viewpoint position and a direction of line of sight entered; and a display control unit that causes a predetermined display unit to display the two-dimensional image generated by the two-dimensional image generation unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Gen Horie
  • Patent number: 11911020
    Abstract: A needle holder includes: a flexible sheath portion which is capable of being inserted into an instrument channel of a flexible endoscope; a first grasping member which is rotatably coupled with a distal end portion of the flexible sheath portion; and a second grasping member which is provided in the distal end portion of the flexible sheath portion. In a state where a curved needle is grasped by a first grasping surface of the first grasping member and a second grasping surface of the second grasping member, the second grasping surface inclines such that a grasped region of the curved needle that is grasped by the first grasping surface and the second grasping surface is positioned between a distal end of the second grasping member and a needle tip of the curved needle in a direction of a center axis of the second grasping member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Akihiro Shimazu
  • Publication number: 20240057848
    Abstract: A control device includes a processor. The processor acquires an endoscope image that is an image captured by an endoscope; determines whether suction is needed, based on the endoscope image; when the suction is determined to be needed, implements control to carry out the suction; determines a state of a subject based on a change in the endoscope image when the suction is performed; and performs control regarding suction based on the state of the subject.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2023
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naoki FUKATSU, Hiromasa FUJITA
  • Publication number: 20240058048
    Abstract: A treatment tool generator includes: a power source configured to supply power to a treatment tool; and a processor configured to control an operation of the power source and the treatment tool, the processor being configured to cause the power source to supply the power to the treatment tool to apply treatment energy to a biological tissue from the treatment tool, calculate a thickness index value to be an index of a thickness dimension of the biological tissue that is grasped by the treatment tool, determine whether it is a change timing to change a control state of at least one of the power source and the treatment tool based on the thickness index value, and perform at least one of a first control, a second control, and a third control upon determining that it is the change timing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2023
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shoei TSURUTA