Abstract: An image pickup apparatus includes: an optics system that forms an optical image of a subject on an imaging surface; a variable magnification lens that is part of the optics system, that is provided to be movable in a direction of an optical axis of the optics system, and that enlarges or reduces the optical image formed on the imaging surface in association with a movement of the variable magnification lens; a position detection unit that detects a position of the variable magnification lens in the direction of the optical axis; a storage unit that stores output characteristic information about a characteristic of an output of the position detection unit according to a position of the variable magnification lens in the direction of the optical axis; and a driving control unit that performs a control for moving the variable magnification lens on the basis of the output characteristic information.

Abstract: An image pickup apparatus includes: an optics system that forms an optical image of a subject on an imaging surface; a variable magnification lens that is part of the optics system, that is provided to be movable in a direction of an optical axis of the optics system, and that enlarges or reduces the optical image formed on the imaging surface in association with a movement of the variable magnification lens; a position detection unit that detects a position of the variable magnification lens in the direction of the optical axis; a storage unit that stores output characteristic information about a characteristic of an output of the position detection unit according to a position of the variable magnification lens in the direction of the optical axis; and a driving control unit that performs a control for moving the variable magnification lens on the basis of the output characteristic information.

Abstract: In a washing/disinfecting tank of an endoscope washing/disinfecting device, an endoscope connection portion to be joined to a connector portion of an endoscope body is provided, and receiving-side bases to be connected to each of pipelines of the endoscope body are provided. In washing/disinfecting the endoscope body, the connector portion is opposed to the endoscope connection portion in the predetermined positioned state, and then, a switch is turned on. Then, an electromagnet disposed at the endoscope connection portion is excited so as to attract and fix the connector portion by a generated magnetic force.

Abstract: A treatment instrument output data analysis section includes a probe ID extraction section, an output waveform extraction section, a data analysis section and an analysis result output section. The analysis result output section of the treatment instrument output data analysis section can display on a centralized display panel a synthetic image made by synthesizing a frame image stored in an image storage section of an endoscopic camera apparatus and an analysis result analyzed by the data analysis section.

Abstract: An endoscope system includes an endoscope having an image pickup device, a control unit, signal lines, a first earth electric wire, a light guide and a scope connector. The scope connector is formed by collecting a first electric contact, a first non-contact power transmitting portion serving as a non-contact electromagnetic induction and coupling device, a first non-contact signal transmitting portion, and a first illumination light transmitting portion.

Abstract: A treatment instrument output data analysis section includes a probe ID extraction section, an output waveform extraction section, a data analysis section and an analysis result output section. The analysis result output section of the treatment instrument output data analysis section can display on a centralized display panel a synthetic image made by synthesizing a frame image stored in an image storage section of an endoscopic camera apparatus and an analysis result analyzed by the data analysis section.

Abstract: An inexpensive and compact leakage tester is provided, which performs a leakage determination on a measurement object automatically and with high accuracy. The leakage tester of the present invention includes; a pressurizing device for pressurizing the inside of a measurement object; a pressurizing controlling section for controlling the pressurizing device so as to perform a first pressurizing operation and a second pressurizing operation; a pressure detecting section for detecting a pressure value in the measurement object at the stoppage of the first pressurizing operation and a pressure change value in the measurement object after the stoppage of the second pressurizing operation; a volume estimating section for estimating a volume of the measurement object based on at least the pressure value; and a leak determination section for determining a leak state of the measurement object based on pressure change information and the pressure change value.

Abstract: A leak tester which detects leakage of a gas from a measured object, the leak tester including a source of a pressurized gas which supplies the pressurized gas, a differential pressure detecting section which detects a pressure difference between the pressure of a gas in the measured object and the pressure of a pressurized gas supplied by the source of the pressurized gas, and a pressure adjusting section which makes the pressure of the pressurized gas supplied by the source of the pressurized gas constant.

Abstract: In a washing/disinfecting tank of an endoscope washing/disinfecting device, an endoscope connection portion to be joined to a connector portion of an endoscope body is provided, and receiving-side bases to be connected to each of pipelines of the endoscope body are provided. In washing/disinfecting the endoscope body, the connector portion is opposed to the endoscope connection portion in the predetermined positioned state, and then, a switch is turned on. Then, an electromagnet disposed at the endoscope connection portion is excited so as to attract and fix the connector portion by a generated magnetic force.

Abstract: An endoscope is provided which has good operability, such as ease of varying the rigidity of an insertion portion, as well as a lighter-weight bending mechanism for changing the shape of a bending portion. The endoscope according to the present invention comprises an insertion portion to be inserted into a subject, an electroconductive expanding/contracting member which can expand/contract the insertion portion in the lengthwise direction and which is for expanding/contracting according to the state of voltage application, and electrodes for applying the voltage supplied from a power source to the electroconductive expanding/contracting member.

Abstract: An inexpensive and compact leakage tester is provided, which performs a leakage determination on a measurement object automatically and with high accuracy. The leakage tester of the present invention includes; a pressurizing device for pressurizing the inside of a measurement object; a pressurizing controlling section for controlling the pressurizing device so as to perform a first pressurizing operation and a second pressurizing operation; a pressure detecting section for detecting a pressure value in the measurement object at the stoppage of the first pressurizing operation and a pressure change value in the measurement object after the stoppage of the second pressurizing operation; a volume estimating section for estimating a volume of the measurement object based on at least the pressure value; and a leak determination section for determining a leak state of the measurement object based on pressure change information and the pressure change value.

Abstract: An endoscope system in which an endoscope can be cleaned and sterilized more easily. The endoscope system includes the endoscope including at least a main body unit formed by collecting an electric function portion, an optical function portion, and channels to a part of the main body unit, a signal line which is detachable to the main body unit and which is extended from the electric function portion of the main body unit, and a universal cord unit having a scope connector at an end portion of the universal cord unit in which a light guide extended from the optical function portion is inserted, and an endoscope control device including at least a multi-connector portion to which the scope connector of the universal cord unit is detachably arranged, a signal processing unit which controls the electric function portion of the endoscope, a light source device which controls the optical function portion of the endoscope, a light source control unit, and a power supply unit for lighting-on a lamp.

Abstract: An endoscope system in which an endoscope can be easily cleaned and sterilized. The endoscope system includes the endoscope including at least a main body unit which is formed by collecting various channels to a part of the main body unit, and a channel unit including various channels which are communicated with the various channels collected to the main body unit, and an endoscope control device including at least a pump/electromagnetic valve control unit which controls the operation for feeding or sucking a fluid via the various channels of the endoscope.

Abstract: An endoscope washer system comprises: an endoscope having a channel positioned on the inside thereof and comprising an insertion portion and an operating unit; and an endoscope washer device comprising a fluid supplying channel capable of moving between a retreated position distanced from the channel of the endoscope set in a predetermined position within the cleaning sink and a first utilizing position, to which the fluid supplying channel advances, toward the channel side from this retreated position, and makes connection to the channel of the endoscope, and a fluid channel drive mechanism that recognizes that the endoscope is positioned at the predetermined position within the cleaning sink, and automatically moves the fluid supplying channel from the retreated position to the first utilizing position.

Abstract: A leak tester which detects leakage of a gas from a measured object, the leak tester including a source of a pressurized gas which supplies the pressurized gas, a differential pressure detecting section which detects a pressure difference between the pressure of a gas in the measured object and the pressure of a pressurized gas supplied by the source of the pressurized gas, and a pressure adjusting section which makes the pressure of the pressurized gas supplied by the source of the pressurized gas constant.

Abstract: A plurality of portable terminals carried by nurses and a plurality of TV cameras disposed in respective rooms are able to send and receive images to and from a TV camera controller, by means of a wireless LAN, and hence a nurse can observe the status in each room, in real time, by means of his or her portable terminal. Moreover, the TV camera controller is able to provide a multiple display of the images from the plurality of TV cameras, on a TV monitor, and therefore the status of each of the rooms can be monitored in real time in the reception area also. Consequently, work can be carried out more effectively and at lower cost, in terms of the movements performed by the nurses.

Abstract: The medical equipment rental system comprises a plurality of hospitals, and a medical equipment rental center run by a rental operator who has concluded medical equipment rental agreements with these hospitals, the hospitals and the medical equipment rental center being interconnected by means of a communications line. The medical equipment rental center dispatches endoscope equipment required by a hospital, from a stock room, on the specified date and time, recovers the equipment from the examination room of the hospital after the examination, and cleans and sterilises the endoscope device that has been rented out, in a reprocessing room, before subsequently storing the equipment in a stock room. As a result of this, by renting out medical equipment requested by a rentee system, to the rentee system, by means of a rental service system on a fee-paying basis, it is possible to support medical examinations which are efficient and inexpensive.

Abstract: The invention provides a cautery apparatus, which includes a cautery probe provided at the tip of a sheath that can be inserted into, for example, a treatment-tool channel of an endoscope, and also includes a liquid-supply pump to be connected to the sheath for supplying a liquid through nozzles formed in the cautery probe. The cautery apparatus comprises a pump driving motor provided in its main body, a pump unit containing the liquid-supply pump, an attaching device for detachably attaching the liquid-supply pump unit to the main body, and a coupling mechanism. The coupling mechanism couples the driving shaft of the liquid-supply pump to the driving shaft of the pump driving device to attach the liquid-supply pump unit to the main body, and separates the driving and driving shafts from each other to detach the liquid-supply pump unit from the main body.