ELECTRIC CURVATURE CONTROL DEVICE

A curving control device (3) to which an electrically-controlled endoscope (2) is connected has a main CPU (55) for primarily performing curving driving control, and a monitoring CPU (56) for monitoring whether the operating state relating to curving actions is normal or abnormal. In the event of de...

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Main Authors KAWAI, TOSHIMASA, HONDA, TAKEMITSU, KOBAYASHI, EIICHI, KIMOTO, SEIICHIRO
Format Patent
LanguageEnglish
French
German
Published 16.03.2011
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DIAGNOSIS
HUMAN NECESSITIES
HYGIENE
IDENTIFICATION
MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE
OPTICAL ELEMENTS, SYSTEMS, OR APPARATUS
OPTICS
PHYSICS
SURGERY
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Summary:A curving control device (3) to which an electrically-controlled endoscope (2) is connected has a main CPU (55) for primarily performing curving driving control, and a monitoring CPU (56) for monitoring whether the operating state relating to curving actions is normal or abnormal. In the event of detecting an abnormality from the monitoring CPU (56), the curving control device (3) also performs processing for handling the occurrence of the abnormality, such as outputting an emergency stop through an interlock (57) via the main CPU (55), turning the main power and the like of a servo driver (45) OFF, and so forth.
Bibliography:Application Number: EP20050772605