Patent ID: 8372001

Claim:
A capsule endoscope diagnosis system comprising: a capsule endoscope which includes an image capturing unit, an illuminating unit capable of illuminating an image capturing region, and a transmitting unit capable of sending image data captured by the image capturing unit to the outside and can be swallowed by a subject; a detector having an antenna structure attached to the body surface of the subject and receiving image data transmitted from the transmitting unit; and a portable electronic device including: a battery housing having, at one end of the battery housing, an opening to/from which a battery of a rectangular flat shape having two flat faces that are parallel to each other and a front end face that is perpendicular to the flat faces is allowed to be inserted/detached, and in which the battery is detachably housed; a long member whose one end is fixed and which is routed in the battery housing, can be drawn by an operation of drawing the other end, and can be pushed to the deepest place in the insertion direction in the battery housing by an operation of inserting the battery whose battery front end face comes into contact with the long member; guide parts provided on both side walls of the battery housing and, when the long member is drawn by the drawing operation, making the long member cross the battery housing so as to be stretched in a position where the battery can be taken out, wherein the portable electronic device is carried by the subject with the battery loaded in the battery housing, and stores the image data received by the detector; and a device-side connector, to which a battery-side connector in the battery front end face can be inserted, in the deepest place in the insertion direction of the battery housing, wherein the guide parts are provided in positions to set a position of contact, with the battery front end face, of the long member in the stretched state so that the long member does not come into contact with the battery-side connector.