Patent ID: 8264767
Filing Date: 2012-09-11
Classification: A61B

Abstract:
1. A surgical observation system comprising: an observation apparatus switchable between an endoscope observation and an microscope observation; and a supporting arm movable in a three-dimensional direction in a state where the observation apparatus is supported, wherein the observation apparatus is constructed to include an endoscope objective unit having a tubular insertion section and provided with objective optical systems; a microscope objective unit provided with objective optical systems having a focusing optical system and variable magnification optical systems; and a mounting and dismounting section provided in the supporting arm, having a mounting and dismounting port constructed so that the endoscope objective unit and the microscope objective unit are mountable and dismountable by having interchangeability, wherein the objective optical systems provided in each of the endoscope objective unit and the microscope objective unit are constructed so that light beams emerging therefrom toward the mounting and dismounting section are changed to afocal light beams, wherein the mounting and dismounting section is provided with a pair of imaging lenses and a pair of image sensors and is constructed so that, in a state where a selected one of the endoscope objective unit and the microscope objective unit is mounted to the mounting and dismounting port of the mounting and dismounting section, the afocal light beams, emerging from the objective optical systems in the selected one of the endoscope objective unit and the microscope objective unit, are optically connected with the imaging lenses and the image sensors, wherein the objective optical systems in the endoscope objective unit are constructed as a pair of objective optical systems of different observation ranges in size so that, in a state where the endoscope objective unit is mounted to the mounting and dismounting port of the mounting and dismounting section, a pair of afocal light beams emerging from the pair of objective optical systems in the endoscope objective unit are optically connected with the pair of imaging optical systems and the pair of image sensors provided in the mounting and dismounting section, wherein, of the pair of objective optical systems of different observation ranges in size, arranged in the endoscope objective unit, an objective optical system with a narrower observation range is constructed as an endoscope objective optical system having the tubular insertion section, and wherein, of the pair of objective optical systems of different observation ranges in size, arranged in the endoscope objective unit, an objective optical system with a wider observation range has a field angle at which a top of the tubular insertion section in the objective optical system with the narrower observation range is observable, and is provided in a proximity of the mounting and dismounting section in the endoscope objective unit.