Patent ID: 9393078
Filing Date: 2016-07-19
CPC Classification: A61B

Claim Text:
1. A medical-use light-source apparatus comprising: a variable output light source including a light source lamp which emits a variable amount of illumination light; a connector to which a body cavity endoscope that emits the illumination light in a body cavity of an examinee and an ophthalmic observation apparatus that emits the illumination light toward an anterior eye part of an examinee can be selectively connected; a determiner which determines whether said body cavity endoscope or said ophthalmic observation apparatus is currently connected to said connector; and a lamp controller which sets a value of a maximum light amount of the illumination light that said light source lamp emits and supplies to said body cavity endoscope to a first threshold value when said determiner determines that said body cavity endoscope is currently connected to said connector, and sets a value of a maximum light amount of the illumination light that said light source lamp emits and supplies to said ophthalmic observation apparatus to a second threshold value that is smaller than said first threshold value when said determiner determines that said ophthalmic observation apparatus is currently connected to said connector, wherein, when the light source lamp supplies illumination light to the body cavity endoscope, the lamp controller controls the light source lamp to switch between a continuous lighting operation and a blinking operation, and when the light source lamp supplies illumination light to the ophthalmic observation apparatus, the lamp controller controls the light source lamp to remain in the continuous lighting operation.