Surgery – Endoscope – With control or monitoring of endoscope functions
Patent
1996-05-06
1999-02-09
Leubecker, John P.
Surgery
Endoscope
With control or monitoring of endoscope functions
600178, 348 76, A61B 1045
Patent
active
058686665
ABSTRACT:
An endoscope apparatus including an endoscope, a supply portion for supplying a required signal or energy to a peripheral unit relating to the endoscope; and a control portion for controlling the supply portion, wherein the control portion is constituted to have at least one field programmable gate array and a function required by at least either of the endoscope or the peripheral unit relating to the endoscope is realized by receiving circuit information for constituting a control circuit for controlling the supply portion to selectively write the circuit information on the field programmable gate array so that the control circuit is constituted.
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Reference Data; XC4000, Logic Cell Array Family, 1990.
Ito Mitsuhiro
Noguchi Toshiaki
Okada Yoshihiro
Taniguchi Akira
Uchimura Sumihiro
Leubecker John P.
Olympus Optical Co,. Ltd.
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