Patent ID: 6402686
Filing Date: 2002-06-11
Classification: A61B,G02B

Abstract:
A fully-swallowable endoscopic system comprising:a rod-shaped endoscope body which can be swallowed entirely by a patient to be examined so as to be placed in a body cavity, said rod-shaped endoscope body including two bendable portions having different lengths which are respectively provided close to the opposite ends of said rod-shaped endoscope body, each of said two bendable portions being bendable along a curve of said body cavity; and an external device provided separately from said rod-shaped endoscope body having no mechanical connection with said rod-shaped endoscope body; wherein said rod-shaped endoscope body is provided therein with at least one light emitter; at least one observing system; a transmitter for transmitting a radio wave which carries an image formed by said observing system; and a power supplying device, and wherein said external device comprises a receiver for receiving said radio wave which carries said image.