Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080266731 | LEVEL CONVERSION CIRCUIT AND SEMICONDUCTOR INTEGRATED CIRCUIT DEVICE EMPLOYING THE LEVEL CONVERSION CIRCUIT - In a level conversion circuit mounted in an integrated circuit device using a plurality of high- and low-voltage power supplies, the input to the differential inputs are provided. In a level-down circuit, MOS transistors that are not supplied with 3.3 V between the gate and drain and between the gate and source use a thin oxide layer. In a level-up circuit, a logic operation function is provided. | 10-30-2008 |
20090062604 | ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY TOOL - An endoscopic surgery tool in which an image pickup device is provided on a hollow guide component that penetrates a body wall of a living body and guides a surgical tool into a body cavity, includes: a detection device that detects an amount of change in the tilt of the guide component when the guide component is tilted relative to the body wall using the portion passing through the body wall as a support point; and a correction device that calculates from the tilt change amount an amount of movement of the image pickup device that moves in conjunction with the tilting of the guide component, and makes corrections in order that an observation image from the image pickup device before the guide component was tilted is maintained after it has been tilted. | 03-05-2009 |
20090076527 | SURGICAL INSTRUMENT - In a surgical instrument, a treatment portion continuously provided at a distal end of an insert section has a needle holding member made of an elastic body capable of holding a needle when the needle is pierced into the elastic body. | 03-19-2009 |
20090198098 | Endoscope treatment instrument - An endoscope treatment instrument provided with an inserted portion that is flexible, a treatment portion that is attached to the distal end of the inserted portion, an operator portion that is attached to the proximal end of the inserted portion for manipulating the treatment portion, and a transmitting member that is connected to the treatment portion and the operator portion and is inserted into the inserted portion, for transmitting the operation of the operator portion to the treatment portion; wherein:
| 08-06-2009 |
20100030019 | ENDOSCOPIC SURGICAL OPERATION METHOD - Endoscopic surgical operation method includes: a step of lifting a living tissue including an diseased tissue located distally relative to an operation channel of an endoscope inserted through a natural orifice; a step of suturing a proximal region and a distal region of the living tissue positioned basal relative to the diseased tissue lifted by a suturing means section projecting distally from the operation channel of the endoscope after the lifting; and a step of resecting the living tissue between the sutured regions and the diseased tissue endoscopically after suturing the proximal region and the distal region of the living tissue surrounding the diseased tissue. | 02-04-2010 |
20100081874 | MEDICAL TREATMENT ENDOSCOPE - Provided is a medical treatment endoscope including: an endoscope main body which includes an elongated insertion portion having a lumen and an image capturing mechanism disposed in a distal end of the insertion portion; an arm which is able to be inserted into or extracted from the lumen and has a treatment tool lumen for allowing an endoscope treatment tool to be inserted therethrough; and a positioning mechanism which positions a part of the arm inserted through the lumen with respect to the endoscope main body. | 04-01-2010 |
20100249501 | ENDOSCOPE APPARATUS - The endoscope apparatus comprises an endoscope which has an imaging element and a monitor which displays an image imaged by the imaging element. The endoscope is provided with an internal insertion portion which is movably arrangeable inside a body cavity, and an operation unit for changing the position of the internal insertion portion, which is arrangeable outside the body. The internal insertion portion and the operation unit are arranged on a common axis so as to interpose a body wall therebetween. | 09-30-2010 |
20110071354 | OVERTUBE AND MEDICAL PROCEDURE VIA NATURAL ORIFICE USING THE SAME - An overtube according to this invention includes: an insertion part, that is inserted into a subject and has a lumen, through which a device insertion part of a device for performing a medical procedure inside a body of the subject is removably inserted, the insertion part being inserted into the subject; and a tissue incising part that is disposed at a distal end side of the insertion part so as to cross the lumen and incises a tissue of the subject. | 03-24-2011 |
20110199708 | LEVEL CONVERSION CIRCUIT AND SEMICONDUCTOR INTEGRATED CIRCUIT DEVICE EMPLOYING THE LEVEL CONVERSION CIRCUIT - In a level conversion circuit mounted in an integrated circuit device using a plurality of high- and low-voltage power supplies, the input to the differential inputs are provided. In a level-down circuit, MOS transistors that are not supplied with 3.3 V between the gate and drain and between the gate and source use a thin oxide layer. In a level-up circuit, a logic operation function is provided. | 08-18-2011 |
20120154965 | LEVEL CONVERSION CIRCUIT AND SEMICONDUCTOR INTEGRATED CIRCUIT DEVICE EMPLOYING THE LEVEL CONVERSION CIRCUIT - In a level conversion circuit mounted in an integrated circuit device using a plurality of high- and low-voltage power supplies, the input to the differential inputs are provided. In a level-down circuit, MOS transistors that are not supplied with 3.3 V between the gate and drain and between the gate and source use a thin oxide layer. In a level-up circuit, a logic operation function is provided. | 06-21-2012 |
20130304115 | TREATMENT TOOL - A treatment tool includes a long shaft member, a pair of grasping members installed at a distal end portion of the long shaft member, a driving force transmission member connected to the pair of grasping member, a driving manipulation member, and a switch unit having a first sliding section and a second sliding section, and configured to switch a ratio of a magnitude of a force for moving the driving force transmission member with respect to a magnitude of a force for moving the driving manipulation member when the driving manipulation member is manipulated to be moved by switching a position at which the driving manipulation member is slid between the first sliding section and the second sliding section. | 11-14-2013 |
20140021240 | MEDICAL INSTRUMENT - A medical instrument includes a first grasping member and a second grasping member that approach and separate from each other, a rotating body that is rotatably installed on a rotation shaft fixed to the first grasping member, an open-close link whose first end is rotatably connected to a first rotation shaft provided on the second grasping member and whose second end is rotatably connected to a second rotation shaft provided on the rotating body at a distance from the rotation shaft, and a manipulating member rotating the rotating body. When the rotating body is rotated in a predetermined direction, the first grasping member and the second grasping member approach each other while the second rotation shaft approaches an imaginary straight line connecting axes of the rotation shaft and the first rotation shaft. | 01-23-2014 |
20140222051 | TISSUE EXCISION METHOD - Provided is a tissue excision method that excises a partial tissue within an excision region set in a hollow organ over an entire thickness direction. The tissue excision method includes a first process of gripping a peripheral edge portion of the excision region from the inside of the hollow organ; a second process of moving the portion and drawing the folded hollow organ into a slit with a predetermined width; a third process of suturing a part located outside the excision region so as to be integral over the thickness direction; and a fourth process of cutting the portion of the drawn hollow organ along the peripheral edge of the excision region. In the second process, a portion of a fluid within the hollow organ is moved out of the hollow organ to keep the internal pressure within a fixed range while drawing the portion of the hollow organ. | 08-07-2014 |
20140296631 | MEDICAL TREATMENT ENDOSCOPE WITH A POSITIONING MECHANISM - A medical treatment endoscope includes: an insertion portion which has a lumen formed along a longitudinal axis of the insertion portion and is configured to be inserted into a body cavity, a lateral opening portion which extends in a lateral surface of the insertion portion, from a distal end surface of the insertion portion to a proximal end side of the insertion portion, an elastic member which is provided in an inner wall of the lumen at a position separated from an edge of a proximal end of the insertion portion in a direction toward a distal end side of the insertion portion, and a tubular arm which includes a bendable bending part provided at a distal end side of the tubular arm. | 10-02-2014 |