Patents Examined by Julianna J Nicolaus
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Patent number: 11925315Abstract: A scope device includes a shaft, a deflectable portion, and a handle portion. The shaft is inserted through a body lumen to a target area within a body. The shaft defines first and second lumens extending along a proximal portion thereof. The first and second lumens are merged to form a common lumen along a distal portion thereof via a fitting having a structure which, when connected to the first and second lumens, converge the first and second lumens toward the common lumen. The deflectable portion is connected to the distal end of the shaft and includes a channel aligned with and in communication with the common lumen. The handle portion includes a connector having a first hub including a first channel open to and in communication with the first lumen and a second hub including a second channel open to and in communication with the second lumen.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2020Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.Inventors: Michael S. H. Chu, Mayur Kiran Patel, Sacha Tang
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Patent number: 11925314Abstract: There is provided an ultrasound endoscope of which a distal-end-part body of an insertion unit can be reduced in size. In an ultrasound endoscope according to an embodiment of the invention, a straight pipe portion of a first three-way pipe and a straight pipe portion of a second three-way pipe are arranged adjacent to each other in a direction orthogonal to the direction of a longitudinal axis of an insertion unit, and a branch pipe portion and the straight pipe portion are arranged at positions overlapping with each other in a case where the first three-way pipe and the second three-way pipe are projected onto a plane perpendicular to the direction of the longitudinal axis.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2020Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Satoru Okada, Yasuhiko Morimoto, Tsuneo Fukuzawa
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Patent number: 11883048Abstract: A surgical instrument and related method includes an instrument body, a guide shaft distally projecting from the instrument body, and a first surgical tool. The guide shaft has a guide sidewall, a guide lumen, and a clearance opening radially extending through the guide sidewall in communication with the guide lumen. The first surgical tool has an elongate body and a distal head configured to deflect relative to the elongate body from a first position to a second position. The distal head in the first position is positioned within the guide lumen along the central axis. The distal head in the second position is deflected from the central axis and extends at least partially through the clearance opening thereby vacating at least a portion of the guide lumen for introducing a second surgical tool through the guide lumen.Type: GrantFiled: November 27, 2019Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignees: Acclarent, Inc., Biosense Webster (Israel) Ltd.Inventors: Fatemeh Akbarian, Yehuda Algawi, Itzhak Fang, Jetmir Palushi, Athanasios Papadakis, Henry F. Salazar, Ehsan Shameli
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Patent number: 11885954Abstract: Provided is a technology capable of generating and presenting more kinds of special light images with higher image quality. An endoscope system according to the present disclosure performs image processing using a G1 image data (image data obtained by irradiating light of 524±3 nm to 582±3 nm) and at least one of R1 image (image data obtained by irradiating light of 630±3 nm to 700±3 nm) data other than the G1 image data, B1 image data (452±3 nm to 502±3 nm), R2 image data (image data obtained by irradiating light of 582±3 nm to 630±3 nm), G2 image data (image data obtained by irradiating light of 502±3 nm to 524±3 nm), and B2 image data (image data obtained by irradiating light of 420±3 nm to 452±3 nm) so as to generate a special light image (FIG. 7).Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2019Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: HOYA CORPORATIONInventor: Toru Chiba
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Patent number: 11871907Abstract: An illumination optical system for endoscope includes a rod lens as an optical element. The optical element includes a proximal end surface through which light enters and a distal end surface configured to emit the light. The distal end surface includes a diffusion region configured to diffuse emitted light. The diffusion region includes a plurality of concave portions and a plurality of peripheral regions surrounding the concave portions. Each concave portion includes a plurality of inclined surfaces as total reflection surfaces that are inclined with respect to the distal end surface. Each peripheral region includes a transmission surface configured to emit light totally reflected by the total reflection surfaces after passing through the proximal end surface and light not totally reflected by the total reflection surfaces.Type: GrantFiled: May 25, 2022Date of Patent: January 16, 2024Assignee: Evident CorporationInventor: Susumu Takahashi
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Patent number: 11839354Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an apparatus and method for intubation. The present disclosure relates to an image-guided laryngoscope comprising a housing having a translational assembly, a primary blade coupled to a distal end of the housing and having a channel, a camera assembly having an image capture device, a display holder coupled to a proximal end of the housing and configured to hold a display, and an endotracheal tube configured to translate within the channel of the primary blade.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2018Date of Patent: December 12, 2023Assignee: CHILDREN'S NATIONAL MEDICAL CENTERInventors: Parto Sabetrasekh, Parisa Sabetrasekh, Sam Maghami, Reza Monfaredi, Kevin Cleary
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Patent number: 11832791Abstract: An optical imaging lens assembly, which is applied for an endoscopic optical device, from an object side to an image side aligned in order includes a first lens element, a second lens element and a third lens element. The first lens element has negative refracting power, and further has a first convex object-side surface and a first image-side surface. The second lens element has positive refracting power, and further has a second convex object-side surface and a second concave image-side surface. The third lens element has positive refracting power, and further has a third convex image-side surface and a third object-side surface.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2021Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Assignee: ALTEK BIOTECHNOLOGY CORPORATIONInventors: Cheng-Yi Lai, Yang-Chang Chien
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Patent number: 11826019Abstract: A tip part for a medical insertion vision device, a method of making the tip part, and a visualization system including the medical insertion vision device. The tip part includes an exterior housing having a distal front wall and a circumferential wall, the distal front wall and the circumferential wall enclosing an interior spacing having a camera compartment at a distal end and a potting compartment proximal of the camera compartment; a camera assembly positioned in the camera compartment, the camera assembly comprising an image sensor and a lens stack positioned distally of the image sensor, the image sensor having a proximal end; a sealing material that forms a seal that seals the camera compartment from the potting compartment; and a potting material in the potting compartment, the sealing material preventing the potting material from extending father distally than the proximal end of the image sensor.Type: GrantFiled: February 18, 2022Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignee: AMBU A/SInventors: Morten Sørensen, Hans Jochumsen
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Patent number: 11819194Abstract: An endoscope module including an annular prism, an annular lens, an annular stop, and an annular image sensor is provided. The annular prism has an annular reflective inclined surface, a light incident surface, and a light emitting surface. The light incident surface faces a side surface and the light emitting surface faces away from a front surface. The annular stop is disposed on a side of the light incident surface of the annular prism and surrounds the annular prism. The annular lens is disposed between the annular prism and the annular image sensor. A lateral light from the side surface is reflected to the annular lens by the annular reflective inclined surface after passing through the annular stop and then entering the annular prism, and is then condensed to the annular image sensor by the annular lens.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2021Date of Patent: November 21, 2023Inventor: Shi-Hwa Huang
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Patent number: 11812934Abstract: The present invention discloses a capsule endoscope system, a method of identifying stained area in endoscopic images, and a computer readable storage medium. The method comprises: obtaining a basic image taken by a photographing device; removing abnormal pixels from the basic image and recording it as a processed image; obtaining the hue, saturation and value of each pixel in the processed image of HSV format; setting a first condition that the hue is in a D1 range, the saturation is in a D2 range, and the value is in a D3 range; obtaining the b component of each pixel in the processed image of Lab format; setting a second condition that the b component is in a D4 range; collecting and processing the pixels that meet the first condition and/or the second condition to form a set C; calculating the initial range area S1 of the set C.Type: GrantFiled: January 15, 2021Date of Patent: November 14, 2023Assignees: ANKON TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD, ANX IP HOLDING PTE. LTD.Inventors: Hui Liu, Wenjin Yuan, Hang Zhang, Zhiwei Huang, Hao Zhang
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Patent number: 11786116Abstract: An illumination system for an endoscope has a plurality of light assemblies, including a red assembly with a red light source, a blue assembly with a blue light source, a green assembly with a green light source, and an infrared (IR) assembly with an IR light source. Each light assembly further includes an output beam shape adjuster configured to receive an output beam from the respective light source and adjust the beam angular profile, and an output beam angle adjuster configured to receive a beam from the output beam shape adjuster and adjust the output beam angle. A plurality of dichroic plates are configured to combine output beams of the red assembly, the blue assembly, the green assembly, and the IR assembly.Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 2021Date of Patent: October 17, 2023Assignee: Excelitas Canada, Inc.Inventors: Yong Wang, Sola Anne Kuk
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Patent number: 11744449Abstract: An endoscopy system including an insertion tube segment, a handle segment, at least one heat source, a heat pipe and a heat-conductive material is provided. The insertion tube segment has first and second end portions opposite to each other and is inserted in the handle segment. An inside of the insertion tube segment and an inside of the handle segment commonly have a connecting space. The at least one heat source is disposed in the first end portion. The heat pipe is disposed in the connecting space and at least extends from a portion of the connecting space of the insertion tube segment to a portion of the connecting space of the handle segment. The heat-conductive material is disposed between the at least one heat source and the first end portion, and the heat-conductive material is thermally coupled to the at least one heat source and the heat pipe, respectively.Type: GrantFiled: November 5, 2020Date of Patent: September 5, 2023Assignee: ALTEK BIOTECHNOLOGY CORPORATIONInventors: Hsi-Hsin Loo, Chun-Wei Liu, Liang-Yi Li
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Patent number: 11690501Abstract: A light transmission optical member for endoscope includes an incident surface provided at a distal end portion of an insertion section, light being made incident on the incident surface as incident light from a proximal end side of the insertion section, and an emission surface for emitting the light as illumination light. The emission surface includes a diffusing section that diffuses the emitted light. The diffusing section includes a plurality of convex-shaped sections extending in a predetermined direction on the emission surface. Each of the convex-shaped sections includes a first slope section having a first angle with respect to the emission surface, and totally reflecting the incident light, and a second slope section having a second angle smaller than the first angle with respect to the emission surface, and transmitting and emitting reflected light totally reflected on the first slope section and the incident light.Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 2021Date of Patent: July 4, 2023Assignee: Evident CorporationInventor: Susumu Takahashi
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Patent number: 11684238Abstract: A control device includes: an acquisition unit configured to acquire first and second image signals generated by an imaging device having an autofocus function by capturing an observation target irradiated with first light and second light having different wavelength bands, respectively; a signal processor configured to detect detection information of the first and second image signals; and a controller configured to calculate a first focal length based on the detection information of the first image signal, calculate a second focal length based on the detection information of the second image signal, and set a focal length of the imaging device to capture the observation target irradiated with the second light to either the first or second focal length at least based on the detection information of the second image signal.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 2021Date of Patent: June 27, 2023Assignee: SONY OLYMPUS MEDICAL SOLUTIONS INC.Inventors: Kazunori Segawa, Masataka Kado, Hiroshi Ushiroda
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Patent number: 11681137Abstract: There is provided an endoscope imaging unit including parallel electric wires, an image sensor located on a front end side by being separated from front ends of the respective electric wires, and having a light incident surface substantially perpendicular to the electric wires, a flexible substrate located between the electric wires and the image sensor, having a circuit, and conductively connecting the respective electric wires to the circuit, an image sensor mounting peninsula portion bent with respect to the substrate, and mounting the image sensor thereon by conductively connecting the image sensor to the circuit, and a circuit mounting peninsula portion extending from the substrate, located by being bent to a side opposite to the image sensor before the image sensor mounting peninsula portion, and mounting and conductively connecting an electronic component or the circuit pattern to the circuit.Type: GrantFiled: July 17, 2019Date of Patent: June 20, 2023Assignee: I-PRO CO., LTD.Inventors: Haruhiko Kohno, Naomi Shirai, Satoru Miyanishi
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Patent number: 11659981Abstract: A front end of an endoscope includes both a lens and an image sensor. There is provided a guide wire hole. The endoscope is easily inserted along a guide wire while a diameter is reduced in the front end in an insertion direction. The endoscope includes a lens which is disposed in the front end in the insertion direction, and receives incident imaging light, an image sensor disposed in a rear portion of the lens, and on which an image of the imaging light is formed, a holder which covers the lens and the image sensor, and having the guide wire hole through which the guide wire penetrates, and a flexible tubular sheath connected to a rear end portion of the holder, and into which a cable conductively connected to the image sensor is inserted.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 2019Date of Patent: May 30, 2023Assignee: I-PRO CO., LTD.Inventors: Yuichi Hatase, Naoyuki Haraguchi
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Patent number: 11653825Abstract: An imaging unit used in an oblique-viewing endoscope in which an endoscope axis along a longitudinal direction of a distal end portion of the endoscope and an optical axis of a lens unit cross along an observation direction includes: a semiconductor package including a light receiving surface arranged perpendicularly to the optical axis of the lens unit, an imaging device converting an optical image formed by the lens unit into an image signal, and a sensor electrode on a rear surface; a first circuit board including a first connecting electrode on a front surface and connected to the sensor electrode, and a second connecting electrode on a rear surface on which an electronic part is mounted; and a second circuit board including a first region including a third connecting electrode connected to the second connecting electrode, and a second region including a cable connecting electrode connected to a cable.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2020Date of Patent: May 23, 2023Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventor: Hirokazu Ichihara
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Patent number: 11633105Abstract: An imaging method of a fluorescent image performs image processing before generating colored-fluorescent images, including steps: respectively imaging the red, green and blue lights of the white light on three monochromatic sensors under the precondition that the software processing speed is not affected; imaging the near infrared fluorescent light on one of the monochromatic sensors; determining whether the sensor used to receive the near infrared fluorescent light receives the fluorescent signal; calculating the light intensity received by the sensor receiving the fluorescent signal and the light intensities received by the other two sensors; automatically adjusting the projection intensity of the white light source and/or the excitation light source according to the difference of the intensities of the two types of light signals, whereby a closed-loop system is formed to simultaneously present the colored-florescent images on a picture with the best contrast.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 2018Date of Patent: April 25, 2023Assignee: SHANGHAI KINETIC MEDICAL CO., LTDInventors: Shengjin Zhang, Wei Tang
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Patent number: 11625825Abstract: A method of displaying an area of interest within a surgical site includes modeling a patient's lungs and identifying a location of an area of interest within the model of the patient's lungs. The topography of the surface of the patient's lungs is determined using an endoscope having a first camera, a light source, and a structured light pattern source. Real-time images of the patient's lungs are displayed on a monitor and the real-time images are registered to the model of the patient's lungs using the determined topography of the patient's lungs. A marker indicative of the location of the area of interest is superimposed over the real-time images of the patient's lungs. If the marker falls outside of the field-of view of the endoscope, an arrow is superimposed over the real-time images to indicate the direction in which the marker is located relative to the field of view.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2019Date of Patent: April 11, 2023Assignee: COVIDIEN LPInventors: Irena Cantrall, John W. Komp, Francesca Rossetto
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Patent number: 11602267Abstract: An endoscope or other endoscopic instrument is provided with multiple image sensors, each capturing a portion of the image provided from an optical imaging system. One sensor receives two portions of the image light at opposing sides of the image. The output from the multiple sensors is combined and manipulated into a single high resolution image which can then be displayed to the user. A virtual horizon rotation feature is also provided which can rotate a displayed image within a combined field of view including data from the multiple image sensors. Various light directing element designs are provided to direct image light to the multiple sensors.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2020Date of Patent: March 14, 2023Assignee: KARL STORZ Imaging, Inc.Inventor: George E. Duckett, III