Patents Assigned to Olympus Corporation
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Patent number: 11925312Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 15, 2021Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventors: Ramiya Uchida, Masanobu Koitabashi, Yasuhiro Okamoto
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Publication number: 20240079425Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: November 14, 2023Publication date: March 7, 2024Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventors: Naoki ITO, Takatoshi IGARASHI, Keiichi KOBAYASHI, Takahiro SHIMOHATA
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Patent number: 11918179Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 6, 2021Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventor: Yusuke Nakagawa
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Patent number: 11918415Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 10, 2021Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: Olympus CorporationInventor: Norihisa Suzuki
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Publication number: 20240069311Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: November 6, 2023Publication date: February 29, 2024Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventor: Jumpei YONEYAMA
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Publication number: 20240069324Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: November 6, 2023Publication date: February 29, 2024Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventor: Mitsuru HAGIHARA
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Publication number: 20240065530Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: November 6, 2023Publication date: February 29, 2024Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventor: Kensuke SUGA
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Publication number: 20240069326Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: November 6, 2023Publication date: February 29, 2024Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventor: Mitsuru HAGIHARA
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Patent number: 11911020Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 23, 2021Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventor: Akihiro Shimazu
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Patent number: 11914138Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 18, 2021Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventor: Daichi Kodama
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Patent number: 11910993Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 7, 2020Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventor: Gen Horie
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Patent number: 11911002Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 17, 2019Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroshi Hashi, Masaru Yanagihara
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Patent number: 11915413Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 1, 2020Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventor: Kenji Yamazaki
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Publication number: 20240057848Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: October 31, 2023Publication date: February 22, 2024Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventors: Naoki FUKATSU, Hiromasa FUJITA
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Publication number: 20240058048Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: November 1, 2023Publication date: February 22, 2024Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventor: Shoei TSURUTA
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Publication number: 20240057974Abstract: An ultrasound probe includes: an ultrasound transducer including plural piezoelectric elements; an acoustic lens layer configured to radiate the ultrasound emitted from the plural piezoelectric elements to outside; a back layer that faces the acoustic lens layer with the ultrasound transducer interposed between the back layer and the acoustic lens layer; and a wiring member having at least a part that is arranged at a first position between the acoustic lens layer and the ultrasound transducer or at a second position that faces the ultrasound transducer with the back layer interposed between the second position and the ultrasound transducer. The wiring member includes: a resin layer having electrically insulating; and an electrically conducting layer that is provided on the resin layer and includes plural signal wirings.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 31, 2023Publication date: February 22, 2024Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventor: Satoshi YOSHIDA
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Patent number: 11903643Abstract: A lithotripsy apparatus includes: a treatment laser beam source that emits a treatment laser beam that crushes a stone; a guide light source that emits guide light; a photodetector that detects return light that returns as a result of the emitted guide light being reflected at the stone; and a processor including hardware, the processor being configured to: measure a distance from the treatment laser beam source to the stone on the basis of the return light; determine a condition of a bubble occurring between the treatment laser beam source and the stone on the basis of the measured distance; and adjust a light quantity of the treatment laser beam on the basis of the determined condition of the bubble.Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 2021Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventors: Ikutoshi Fukushima, Atsuyoshi Shimamoto, Mitsuru Namiki
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Patent number: 11906410Abstract: A cell inspection method includes a concentrate production step, a staining step, a cell precipitation step, and an observation step. In the concentrate production step, the cell concentrate is produced by causing an inner cylinder which has a filter provided on a bottom surface to enter from the bottom surface side into the through hole of the outer cylinder and bringing the inner cylinder closer to the slide, the inner cylinder having an internal space, and in the observation step, observation is performed in a state where the inner cylinder is entered into the outer cylinder.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2020Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventors: Kazutaka Nishikawa, Jun Funazaki
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Patent number: 11910106Abstract: A light source device includes a plurality of light emitters, an optical system configured to combine light from the light emitters, a wavelength selective filter located on an optical path of the optical system, and an optical sensor configured to receive light from one light emitter among the light emitters through an optical filter. The optical filter has a wavelength selection characteristic corresponding to a wavelength selection characteristic of the wavelength selective filter.Type: GrantFiled: July 25, 2023Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroyuki Kamee, Takeshi Ito, Masahiro Nishio, Satoshi Tanaka
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Patent number: 11906894Abstract: A lens control device, comprising a first stepping motor that drives a zoom lens contained in the photographing lens, a second stepping motor that drives a focus lens contained in the photographing lens, and a processor that controls the first stepping motor and the second stepping motor, whereby, within a given section in which the zoom lens and the focus lens are driven, there is a period in which at least one of the first stepping motor and the second stepping motor is driven at a constant rate, and the processor makes a time, required to move the specified section with a specified number of pulses, a specified time.Type: GrantFiled: January 19, 2022Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: Olympus CorporationInventor: Yasunori Kudo