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US 9,164,271 B2Granted
Endoscope system
AssigneeOlympus Corporation
InventorsSadao Ebata, Katsunori Sakiyama
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Abstract
An endoscope system according to the invention includes a display device including a first connector, plural apparatuses having different functions in which placing sections, on which the display device can be detachably set from a common direction, are respectively provided, and a second connector disposed in common in each of the placing sections and electrically connected to the first connector of the display device to form a pair in a state in which the display device is set on the placing sections.
Claims14
An endoscope system comprising:
- a display device comprising:
- a display;
- a display device-side battery configured to store a charge;
- and
- a display device-side connector configured to form a first electrical connection with a first apparatus-side connector of a first endoscopic apparatus, wherein the first endoscopic apparatus comprises:
- a first mechanism for performing a first function;
- and
- a first endoscopic apparatus-side battery for powering the first mechanism to perform the first function;
- and
- a processor comprising hardware, the processor being configured to:
- control discharging of the display device-side battery through the first electrical connection between the display device-side connector and the first apparatus-side connector of the first endoscopic apparatus to charge the first endoscopic apparatus-side battery;
- determine during charging of the first endoscopic apparatus-side battery whether a charging capacity of the first endoscopic apparatus-side battery is equal to or larger than a first predetermined threshold;
- and
- stop charging of the first endoscopic apparatus-side battery when the processor determines that the charging capacity of the first endoscopic apparatus-side battery is equal to or larger than the first predetermined threshold.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.