Power supply apparatus
AssigneeOlympus Corporation
InventorsHatsuo SHIMIZU, Takemitsu HONDA, Tetsuo MINAI, Kazutaka NAKATSUCHI
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Abstract
A power supply apparatus supplies power to a body-insertable apparatus from outside a subject. The body-insertable apparatus is introduced into the subject and obtains intra-subject information. The power supply apparatus includes a first electric cable which is wound around a circumferential surface of a garment and forms a coil, the garment covering the subject, the coil having a non-directionality at a time of power supply; and a power supply unit which supplies power to the body-insertable apparatus in a contactless manner through the coil.
Claims3
A power-supply coil for a power supply apparatus that supplies power to a body-insertable apparatus from outside a subject, the body-insertable apparatus being introduced into the subject and obtaining intra-subject information, wherein
- the power-supply coil has adhesiveness.
A method of supplying power to a body-insertable apparatus from outside a subject, the body-insertable apparatus being introduced into the subject and obtaining intra-subject information, the method comprising:
- attaching a power-supply coil to at least one of the subject and a garment the subject wears;
- and
- supplying power to the power-supply coil.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.