Capsule endoscope starter

Description

An article to which my new design is applied is a starter of a medical swallowable endoscope (the so-called capsule endoscope) used in a wireless in vivo information acquiring system for collecting in vivo information. The starter includes a permanent magnet. The capsule endoscope, when loaded into the starter, is applied with magnet force, thereby starting.

FIG. 1 is a front view of a capsule endoscope starter showing my new design;

FIG. 2 is a rear view thereof;

FIG. 3 is a plan view thereof;

FIG. 4 is a left side view thereof; and,

FIG. 5 is a cross sectional view taken along line A--A of FIG. 1.

Claims

CLAIM The ornamental design for a capsule endoscope starter, as shown and described.

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Inventors:	Segawa; Hidetake (Tokyo, JP), Amano; Hirotoshi (Tokyo, JP)
Assignee:	Olympus Medical Systems Corp. (Tokyo, JP) Olympus Imaging Corp. (Tokyo, JP)
Appl. No.:	D/255,741
Filed:	March 9, 2006

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Foreign Application Priority Data

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Sep 9, 2005 [JP]			2005-026264

Current U.S. Class:	D24/133; D24/138
Current International Class:	2402
Field of Search:	;D24/133,137,138,187,186,107,108 ;600/300,139,302,7,109-112,131,103,160

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References Cited [Referenced By]

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U.S. Patent Documents

6689056	February 2004	Kilcoyne et al.
2001/0051766	December 2001	Gazdzinski
2003/0023150	January 2003	Yokoi et al.
2007/0260175	November 2007	Segawa et al.
2008/0027267	January 2008	Segawa
2008/0033257	February 2008	Yokoi et al.
2008/0039675	February 2008	Segawa
2008/0045789	February 2008	Sawachi

Primary Examiner: Simmons; Ian
Assistant Examiner: Fitts; Carissa C
Attorney, Agent or Firm: Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, P.C.