ELECTRIC CURVATURE CONTROL DEVICE

• Main Authors: KAWAI, TOSHIMASA, HONDA, TAKEMITSU, KOBAYASHI, EIICHI, KIMOTO, SEIICHIRO
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; French; German
• Published: 16.03.2011
• Subjects: DIAGNOSIS; HUMAN NECESSITIES; HYGIENE; IDENTIFICATION; MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; OPTICAL ELEMENTS, SYSTEMS, OR APPARATUS; OPTICS; PHYSICS; SURGERY

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...