| Patent application number | Description | Published |
| 20100010509 | TISSUE FASTENING APPARATUS - A tissue fastening apparatus includes a tissue fastening tool, with fastens a first biological tissue and a second biological tissue so as to bring the tissues into close contact and an applicator for indwelling the tissue fastening tool. The tissue fastening tool is made of an elastic wire rod and is wound in a coil shape. The applicator includes a needle tube accommodated in an inner cavity with the tissue fastening tool stretched, a stylet inserted into the inner cavity of the needle tube nearer to the proximal side than the tissue fastening tool, and a rotating mechanism that rotates the stylet around an axis when the stylet is moved toward a distal end of the needle tube. The tissue fastening tool and the stylet are disengageably engaged with each other and integrally and rotatably connected with each other. The rotating mechanism rotates the stylet in a direction opposite to the winding direction of the tissue fastening tool as seen from the proximal side. | 01-14-2010 |
| 20100010514 | TISSUE FASTENING TOOL - A tissue fastening instrument that fastens a first biological tissue and a second biological tissue that is adjacent to the first biological tissue so as to come into close contact, provided with a first tissue fixing portion that consists of an elastic wire that is wound into a coil shape and engaged on the first biological tissue; a second tissue fixing portion that consists of an elastic wire that is wound into a coil shape, is connected to a first end portion of the first tissue fixing portion and engaged on the second biological tissue; and a peripheral spring portion that is connected to a second end portion of the first tissue fixing portion and extends toward the second tissue fixing portion while forming a loop on the outside of the first tissue fixing portion and the second tissue fixing portion, in which the peripheral spring portion has a spring portion that is connected to the second end portion of the first tissue fixing portion and extends toward the second tissue fixing portion, and an end turn portion that is connected to the spring portion and forms, on the outside of the spring portion, a loop that is approximately parallel with a base loop that the first tissue fixing portion and the second tissue fixing portion form; and the base loop, the loop that the spring portion forms, and the loop that the end turn portion forms are disposed so as not to mutually overlap in the diameter direction of the base loop. | 01-14-2010 |
| 20100056863 | MEDICAL MANIPULATOR, MEDICAL TREATMENT SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR MEDICAL TREATMENT - A medical manipulator which includes: a plurality of arms formed in a cylindrical shape a distal end portion of which is made of a rigid member having a bending portion capable of bending; an insertion portion made of a rigid member having a plurality of channels in which base ends of the plurality of arms are connected to a distal end of the insertion portion so as to connect lumens of the arms to the plurality of channels; a photographic device provided at the distal end of the insertion portion; an operation portion that operates the bending portion; and a transmission member that connects the bending portion and the operation portion, in which the bending portion has: a first bending portion that is capable of bending in a predetermined direction by an operation of the operation portion, and a second bending portion provided in a base end than the first bending portion that is capable of fixing the plurality of arms in a bent state so as to mutually separate, and the transmission portion has: a first region which is flexible, and a second region which is rigid and connected to a base end portion of the first region. | 03-04-2010 |
| 20100069710 | TREATMENT METHOD - A treatment method for a tissue in a body cavity of a patient includes the steps of endoscopically introducing treatment tools into the body cavity of the patient from a natural opening of the patient, and setting the posture of the patient to a prone position. | 03-18-2010 |
| 20100179383 | SELECTIVE CANNULATION METHOD AND ENDOSCOPIC TREATMENT INSTRUMENT USED FOR LUMENAL TISSUE HAVING BRANCH SECTION - A selective cannulation method for a lumenal tissue's branch section includes: a first step for guiding an endoscope having a channel to an aperture section of the lumenal tissue; a second step for inserting a distal end of an endoscopic treatment instrument through the channel into the aperture section of the lumenal tissue; a third step for having the distal end of the endoscopic treatment instrument make contact with a pipe wall extending from the aperture section of the lumenal tissue to the branch section at two opposed points on the pipe wall by deforming the distal end of the endoscopic treatment instrument; a fourth step for sliding and moving the distal end of the endoscopic treatment instrument to the branch section while having the distal end of the endoscopic treatment instrument make contact with the pipe wall; and a fifth step for inserting the distal end of the endoscopic treatment instrument into a predetermined branch lumen divided from the branch section. | 07-15-2010 |
| Patent application number | Description | Published |
| 20090089631 | MEMORY DIAGNOSIS APPARATUS - A memory diagnosis apparatus include an intra-word testing unit that tests for a coupling fault in each bit in each word in a memory, an inter-word testing unit that tests for a coupling fault between words in each sub-array each being plural words in the memory, and an inter-block testing unit that tests for a coupling fault between sub-arrays in the memory. | 04-02-2009 |
| 20090284531 | Information Processing Apparatus, Information Processing Method and Program - An information processing apparatus includes a network structure generation unit that generates a network structure showing relations formed between registered users at a predetermined time based on user information containing attribute information showing attributes of the registered user registered with a social networking service (SNS) and registration time information showing a registration time of the registered user, and relation information containing relation formation information showing a relation formed between the registered users on the SNS, and relation formation time information showing a relation formation time, a network image generation unit that generates a network image representing the generated network structure with the registered user as a node and a relation formed between the registered users as an edge, and a network image display unit that chronologically displays the generated network images at a plurality of the predetermined times. Accordingly, a change of SNS operation conditions can efficiently be grasped. | 11-19-2009 |
| 20110087773 | CONTENTS' RELATIONSHIP VISUALIZING APPARATUS, CONTENTS' RELATIONSHIP VISUALIZING METHOD AND ITS PROGRAM - There is provided a contents' relationship visualizing apparatus including a usage history acquiring unit for acquiring usage histories of multiple contents, a users' set specifying unit for specifying a content's users' set indicating users utilizing each content by use of the contents' usage histories, a similarity calculating unit for calculating a similarity between the specified users' sets by use of a similarity index, and a network creating unit for creating a network indicating a relationship between the contents by use of the calculated similarity between the users' sets. | 04-14-2011 |
| 20110302466 | SIGNAL TRANSMISSION DEVICE FOR ELEVATOR - Each of a control panel node | 12-08-2011 |