SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL
In order to overcome the defects in the prior art, the present invention provides a split capsule endoscope and an endoscope system.
In order to realize the above object of the present invention, according to the first aspect of the present invention, the present invention provides a split capsule endoscope, which adopts one of the following two structures:
the structure I is as follows:
comprises at least two capsule monomers which can be separated or connected;
one end of the capsule single body is provided with a camera, and the other end of the capsule single body is provided with a connecting piece;
the capsule single bodies can be connected through a connecting piece;
the structure II is as follows:
comprises at least two separable or connected capsule monomers and a common connecting piece;
one end of the capsule single body is provided with a camera, and the other end of the capsule single body is provided with a connecting piece;
the capsule single bodies are respectively connected with the public connecting piece through the connecting pieces.
The beneficial effects of the above technical scheme are: the size and the volume of each capsule unit meet the swallowing requirement of an operator, and the capsule unit is provided with an independent power supply and a camera and a complete and same working system, and can work independently. The capsule endoscope has the advantages that at least two capsule monomers are connected together through the connecting piece and the public connecting piece before or after being swallowed, the capsule monomers are swallowed in a time-sharing mode without swallowing difficulty, multiple cameras are used for shooting simultaneously due to the fact that the capsule monomers are connected together in the checking process, the contradiction between the volume of a single capsule and the requirements of double lenses and multiple lenses can be effectively solved, one lens or multiple lenses are added on the premise that the swallowing experience of a patient is not influenced, the missing rate in the clinical use process can be effectively reduced, and the capsule endoscope has great significance for the use of the capsule endoscope; meanwhile, because each capsule monomer independently supplies power, the whole endurance time can not be shortened, and the layout of devices in the capsule monomers can not be influenced. In a preferred embodiment of the present invention, the capsule units in the first structure can be magnetically connected by a connecting member;
and in the second structure, the capsule single bodies are respectively and magnetically connected with the public connecting piece through the connecting pieces.
The beneficial effects of the above technical scheme are: the magnetic connection mode is simple and easy to implement, and the capsule monomer swallowed when the control unit with the magnet outside is used for controlling the digestive tract organ (such as the stomach) can be magnetically connected, so that the swallowing experience of a patient is further improved.
In a preferred embodiment of the present invention, there are two capsule units.
The beneficial effects of the above technical scheme are: the magnetic connection enables the sizes of the two capsule monomers to pass through the whole digestive tract, and more digestive tract organs can be detected.
In a preferred embodiment of the present invention, at least one of the connection member and the common connection member is a magnetic element, and the others are made of a material that can be magnetically attracted by the magnetic element.
The beneficial effects of the above technical scheme are: the structure is flexible and the application is convenient.
In a preferred embodiment of the present invention, the magnetic element is an electromagnet or a magnet.
The beneficial effects of the above technical scheme are: the electromagnet has magnetism when being electrified and does not have magnetism when being powered off, thereby being convenient for realizing the control of magnetic connection and disconnection between the capsule monomers.
In a preferred embodiment of the present invention, the magnetization direction of the magnetic element is radial or axial.
The beneficial effects of the above technical scheme are: the connection strength of the magnetic connection is enhanced.
In a preferred embodiment of the present invention, the capsule unit comprises a head cover and a shell coupled to the head cover; a circuit board is sequentially arranged in a closed space formed by the hood and the shell, and a camera, a battery and an antenna are arranged on the circuit board;
the camera is positioned in the hood; the attachment is located at an end of the housing interior or exterior remote from the hood.
The beneficial effects of the above technical scheme are: the single device of capsule is rationally distributed, is favorable to connecting, can not block the camera after connecting simultaneously and shoot.
In a preferred embodiment of the invention, when the connection element is located inside the housing, all or part of the outer surface of the end of the housing where the connection element is located is planar.
The beneficial effects of the above technical scheme are: when the magnetic connection is carried out, the plane structure is beneficial to increasing the connection area and enhancing the connection strength.
In order to achieve the above object of the present invention, according to a second aspect of the present invention, there is provided an endoscope system comprising the split capsule endoscope and a recording device of the present invention;
the recording equipment receives image signals sent by all capsule monomers in the split capsule type endoscope at the same time or in a time-sharing wireless mode.
The beneficial effects of the above technical scheme are: the system realizes simultaneous shooting of a plurality of cameras, can effectively solve the contradiction between the volume of a single capsule and the requirements of double lenses and multiple lenses, and adds one lens or a plurality of lenses on the premise of not influencing the swallowing experience of a patient, so that the missing rate in the clinical use process can be effectively reduced, and the system has great significance for the use of a capsule endoscope; meanwhile, because each capsule monomer independently supplies power, the whole endurance time can not be shortened, and the layout of devices in the capsule monomers can not be influenced.
In a preferred embodiment of the present invention, the system further comprises at least one external control unit;
and the external control unit is provided with an external magnet for controlling the magnetic connection between the capsule monomers swallowed in a time-sharing manner or the magnetic connection between each capsule monomer and the public connecting piece.
The beneficial effects of the above technical scheme are: the external control unit can realize the magnetic connection of the capsule monomers swallowed in a time-sharing manner in the digestive tract organ (such as the stomach), thereby further improving the swallowing experience of a patient and ensuring the effectiveness of the magnetic connection of the capsule monomers.
Additional aspects and advantages of the invention will be set forth in part in the description which follows and, in part, will be obvious from the description, or may be learned by practice of the invention.
Detailed Description
Reference will now be made in detail to embodiments of the present invention, examples of which are illustrated in the accompanying drawings, wherein like reference numerals refer to the same or similar elements or elements having the same or similar function throughout. The embodiments described below with reference to the drawings are exemplary only for the purpose of explaining the present invention, and should not be construed as limiting the present invention.
In the description of the present invention, unless otherwise specified and limited, it is to be noted that the terms "mounted," "connected," and "connected" are to be construed broadly, and may be, for example, mechanically or electrically connected, or may be connected between two elements through an intermediate medium, or may be directly connected or indirectly connected, and specific meanings of the terms may be understood by those skilled in the art according to specific situations.
The utility model discloses a components of a whole that can function independently capsule type endoscope, in an preferred embodiment, it adopts one of following two kinds of structures:
the structure I is as follows: as shown in fig. 1 and 5, includes at least two capsule units 100 that can be separated or connected; one end of the capsule single body 100 is provided with a camera 7, and the other end of the capsule single body 100 is provided with a connecting piece 6; the capsule units 100 can be connected through a connecting piece 6;
the structure II is as follows: as shown in fig. 2, 3 and 4, includes at least two capsule units 100 which can be separated or connected and a common connecting member 8; one end of the capsule single body 100 is provided with a camera 7, and the other end of the capsule single body 100 is provided with a connecting piece 6; the capsule units 100 are connected to the common connection member 8 through the connection members 6, respectively.
In the present embodiment, in the first structure and the second structure, the connecting member 6 may be located inside or outside the single capsule body 100, and preferably, the shape of the connecting member 6 is consistent with the cross-sectional shape of the single capsule body 100.
In the present embodiment, in the first configuration, magnetic connection, rope connection, and the like are preferable but not limited to between the respective connecting members 6.
In the present embodiment, in the second configuration, each link 6 and the common link 8 are preferably, but not limited to, a magnetic link, a rope link, or the like.
In the present embodiment, the connecting member 6 of the first structure is preferably, but not limited to, an elongated rope; the common connecting member 8 of the second structure is preferably, but not limited to, an elongated rope, and the connecting member 6 of the second structure is preferably, but not limited to, a rope connecting hole. Before swallowing, two or more than two capsule units 100 are connected in sequence, after the connection, the capsule units 100 are swallowed in a time-sharing manner, after swallowing is completed, the capsule units 100 move together in the alimentary canal due to the connection relation, and at each moving position, the camera 7 on each capsule unit 100 independently shoots the image of the alimentary canal, so that the missing rate of shooting by a single camera 7 can be effectively improved. In a preferred embodiment, as shown in fig. 1 and 5, the capsule units 100 can be magnetically connected by the connecting member 6 in the first structure;
as shown in fig. 2 and 3, in the second structure, the capsule units 100 are magnetically connected to the common connecting member 8 through the connecting members 6.
In the present embodiment, the connecting element 6 in the first structure is preferably, but not limited to, made of a magnetic material, and is generally made of a permanent-magnet type strong magnetic material, such as a neodymium-iron-boron magnetic material, and the magnetization direction may be radial magnetization or axial magnetization, and is preferably radial magnetization, so that the installation and the mutual attraction are convenient. When the number of the capsule units 100 is 2, if the connecting pieces 6 of the capsule units 100 are axially magnetized, the magnetic poles at the tail parts of the two capsule units 100 need to be opposite magnetic poles, so that the attraction and combination can be ensured.
In this embodiment, the connecting member 6 and the common connecting member 8 in the second structure are preferably, but not limited to, made of magnetic materials, and are generally made of permanent magnetic ferromagnetic materials, such as neodymium-iron-boron magnetic materials, and the magnetizing direction may be radial magnetizing or axial magnetizing, and is preferably radial magnetizing, so as to facilitate installation, production and mutual attraction.
In a preferred embodiment, at least one of the connection 6 and the common connection 8 is a magnetic element, the remainder being made of a material that is magnetically attracted by the magnetic element.
In the present embodiment, the magnetic element is preferably an electromagnet or a magnet. The electromagnet can be powered by the battery 4 in the capsule unit 100, and the power on or off of the electromagnet is controlled by sending a wireless control command to the controller in the capsule through the external controller of the endoscope system. The magnets are preferably, but not limited to, permanent magnets.
In the present embodiment, the material that can be magnetically adsorbed by the magnetic element is preferably, but not limited to, iron.
In the present embodiment, preferably, in the first structure, the connecting member 6 of one part of the capsule unit 100 may be a magnetic element, and the connecting member 6 of the other part of the capsule unit 100 may be an iron element. For example, in an application scenario of the first structure, when there are two capsule units 100, the connecting member 6 of one capsule unit 100 is a magnet, and the connecting member 6 of the other capsule unit 100 is an iron sheet.
In this embodiment, preferably, at least one of the connecting member 6 and the common connecting member 8 of the second-component capsule unit 100 is a magnetic element, and the rest is an iron piece, for example, in an application scenario of the second component, the common connecting member 8 is a magnetic element, and all the connecting members 6 are iron pieces.
In a preferred embodiment, as shown in fig. 1, 2, 4 and 5, there are two capsule units 100.
In a preferred embodiment, as shown in fig. 1 and 2, the capsule unit 100 includes a head housing 1, a housing 2 coupled to the head housing 1; a circuit board 3, a camera 7 arranged on the circuit board 3, a battery 4 and an antenna 5 are sequentially arranged in a closed space formed by the hood 1 and the shell 2;
the camera 7 is positioned in the head cover 1; the attachment 6 is located at the end of the interior or exterior of the housing 2 remote from the hood 1.
In the present embodiment, as shown in fig. 1, 2 and 3, the connection member 6 is located inside the capsule unit 100, and as shown in fig. 4 and 5, the connection member 6 is located outside the capsule unit 100.
In the present embodiment, the head cap 1 is a head structure of the capsule endoscope, and functions to seal the capsule endoscope, and is also an outer surface of the capsule, and forms an inner cavity of the capsule endoscope together with the housing 2. The head cover 1 is made of transparent material, and can be made of PC material.
In the present embodiment, the housing 2 and the head cap 1 together constitute the overall appearance of the capsule endoscope. Typically, the transparent hood 1 is adhesively or heat bonded thereto.
In the present embodiment, the camera 7 is a main optical component of the capsule endoscope, and functions to capture an image. The circuit board is an electronic device, is a main structure of an internal circuit of the capsule endoscope, is provided with various capacitors, chips and the like, is mainly arranged in the main capsule, and can also be provided with a PCB circuit board in the light source capsule to optimize control requirements or arrange other sensing components.
In the present embodiment, the main power source of the battery 4 during the operation of the capsule endoscope is generally a button battery, and the size is generally the outer diameter corresponding to the inner diameter of the shell.
In the present embodiment, the antenna 5 is used to wirelessly output an image captured by the camera 7 and other sensor signals, or also to receive an external wireless control signal.
In a preferred embodiment, when the connector 6 is located inside the housing, as shown in fig. 1-3, all or part of the outer surface of the end of the housing 2 where the connector 6 is located is planar.
In this embodiment, the head cap 1 of the capsule unit 100 is circular to ensure that the capsule is not combined at the arc lens end and combined at the plane end, without excluding other shapes, and preferably, the edge position of the plane end needs to be rounded to protect the stomach wall.
The utility model also discloses an endoscope system, as shown in fig. 6, comprising the split capsule endoscope and a recording device;
the recording device wirelessly receives image signals sent by each capsule unit 100 in the split capsule type endoscope at the same time or in a time sharing manner.
In this embodiment, the recording apparatus preferably includes at least one recorder, which can select a recorder product of an existing capsule type endoscope system; each capsule unit 100 corresponds to one recorder, and simultaneously, wireless signals sent by each capsule unit 100 are received; a plurality of capsule units 100 may correspond to one recorder, and the recorder may be provided with a plurality of wireless receiving modules for respectively receiving the wireless signals sent by the capsule units 100, or only one wireless receiving module for sequentially receiving the wireless signals sent by the capsule units 100 by a time-sharing method.
In a preferred embodiment, as shown in fig. 6, further comprising at least one external control unit;
the external control unit is provided with an external magnet which controls the magnetic connection between the capsule single bodies 100 swallowed in a time-sharing manner or the magnetic connection between each capsule single body 100 and the common connecting piece 8.
In the present embodiment, the external control unit may employ an external magnetic control device of an existing magnetically controlled capsule endoscope system.
In an application scenario of the embodiment, the split capsule endoscope adopts a form of a first structure, the number of the capsule monomers 100 is 2, the capsule monomers 100 are swallowed twice continuously, in the process of swallowing, a patient needs to take a certain amount of water to fill and swell the stomach, in order to ensure the effectiveness of combination, the two capsule monomers 100 are combined into a capsule in the stomach, the external control unit controls the capsule monomer 100 which is swallowed first and enters the stomach to stop waiting for the entry of the second capsule monomer 100 in the stomach, and simultaneously controls the two capsule monomers 100 to be combined, so that the combination speed is increased.
In an application scenario of the embodiment, the split capsule endoscope adopts a form of a structure two, the number of the capsule units 100 is at least two, the capsule units 100 and the common connecting piece 8 are swallowed in a time-sharing manner, during the swallowing process, a patient needs to take a certain amount of water to inflate the stomach, the capsule unit 100 or the common connecting piece 8 swallowed first and entering the stomach is controlled by at least one external control unit to stop waiting for the entering of the rest capsule units 100 or the common connecting piece 8 in the stomach, and meanwhile, the capsule unit 100 and the common connecting piece 8 are controlled to be connected in a combined manner.
In the description herein, references to the description of the term "one embodiment," "some embodiments," "an example," "a specific example," or "some examples," etc., mean that a particular feature, structure, material, or characteristic described in connection with the embodiment or example is included in at least one embodiment or example of the invention. In this specification, the schematic representations of the terms used above do not necessarily refer to the same embodiment or example. Furthermore, the particular features, structures, materials, or characteristics described may be combined in any suitable manner in any one or more embodiments or examples.
While embodiments of the present invention have been shown and described, it will be understood by those of ordinary skill in the art that: various changes, modifications, substitutions and alterations can be made to the embodiments without departing from the principles and spirit of the invention, the scope of which is defined by the claims and their equivalents.