Small intestine endoscope training simulator

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 9257055
APP PUB NO 20120164616A1
SERIAL NO

13394427

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It is possible to provide a small intestine endoscope training simulator (11) which allows to obtain a feeling similar to that of inserting an endoscope (38) into the small intestine (34) of the living body (30) and learn the actual operation of the endoscope (38). This training simulator (11) includes a plurality of longitudinal elastic members (32) for applying an elastic force to each of a plurality of portions of a simulated small intestine (13). One end portion sides of the plurality of longitudinal elastic members (32) are respectively attached to the first attachment portions (27) on the simulated small intestine (13) side. The other end portion sides of the plurality of longitudinal elastic members (32) are respectively attached to the second attachment portions (33, 57) on the case (12) side.

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KOKEN CO LTDTOKYO
SHOWA UNIVERSITY1-5-8 HATANODAI SHINAGAWA-KU TOKYO 1428555 ?1428555

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Endo, Yutaka Yokohama, JP 27 778
Uno, Hiroshi Tsuruoka, JP 43 618

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