Heat using therapeutic device
AssigneeOlympus Optical Co., Ltd.
InventorsHidetoshi Saito, Makoto Inaba, Motoyuki Tagawa, Toru Nagase
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Abstract
A heat using therapeutic device includes an applicator provided with an insertion section, a balloon enclosing a high frequency warming electrode attached to the insertion section of the applicator; medicine ejecting holes arranged on the balloon; and a medicine passage for connecting the medicine ejecting holes to a medicine mouth piece attached to a rear end of the applicator.
Claims16
A heat using therapeutic device including an applicator provided with a first section that is insertable into a body cavity of a patient, a second section located on a rear end side of the first section and adapted to be positioned outside a body of the patient, and warming means attached to the first section for use when a heat therapy is to be applied to the patient, said heat using therapeutic device further comprising:
- balloon means which is formed of a flexible material, said balloon means being arranged at the first section of the applicator to enclose the warming means, and said balloon means forming a space into which an operating fluid is introduced;
- means for supplying and exhausting the operating fluid into and out of the space formed by the balloon means, said means for supplying and exhausting the operating fluid, expanding the balloon means to fix the applicator in the body cavity of the patient by supplying the operating fluid to the space formed by the balloon means;
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- medicine releasing means having a first section side and a second section side for releasing a medicine from a region near the warming mean, said medicine releasing means having a medicine ejecting portion formed on either an inner or outer surface portion of the balloon means without penetrating through the balloon means, a medicine supply portion formed on the second section side of the medicine releasing means, and a medicine passage for enabling a communication between the medicine ejecting portion and the medicine supply portion.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.