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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method and a system for adjusting the amount of energy supplied to a handpiece of a surgical system based on feedback. SOLUTION: This system includes a transformer or an element 1010 for lowering the voltage level of an output 724 of a charging element 720 in a capacitor 750. A controller 730 includes a processor or a numerical value operation unit 1020 for calculating a difference between digital values buffered or stored in a memory 850. A difference calculation result 1022 is supplied to a PLD 860 including a table 1030. The table 1030 correlates the value of a difference and an increasing rate of the output 724 of the charging element corresponding thereto as the time passes. The determined difference is known so that the table 1030 is used to determine a corresponding charging rate 1032, thereby dynamically adjusting the output of the charging element 720, and dynamically adjusting charging of the capacitor 750. COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide the up-and-down grip of a surgical cassette. SOLUTION: One preferred embodiment includes the surgical cassette having the first side (for example, the inside) and the second side (for example, the outside) which can be employed for a surgical system. The surgical cassette includes a main body of composition of forming interface in a surgical console on the first side at during the use, the first gripper which projects from the upper part of the main body composed so as to touch the first clamp rail on the second side during the use, and the second gripper which projects from the lower part of the main body composed so as to touch the second clamp rail on the second side during the use. COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an irrigation/suction tip having a shaft with a reduced or relatively small diameter with a distal tip with a relatively large diameter. SOLUTION: The diameter of the shaft varies depending on an incision size preferred by a surgeon, and the diameter of the distal tip varies depending on the size of a phacoemulsification tip preferred by the surgeon. A distal end part 110 of the irrigation/suction tip 112 includes a suction tube 114 having a distal end part 118 of a tubular infusion sleeve 120. A suction port 122 provides fluid communication between a surgical site and a hollow interior part 124 of the tube 114. The infusion sleeve 120 forms an annular infusion fluid passageway 126, and an infusion fluid flows out of a port 128 on the side surface of the sleeve 120. A distal end part 130 of the tube 114 includes an enlarged portion 131 that has an outer diameter, that is larger than the shaft 133, and approximates the inner diameter of the sleeve 120 and provides a relatively tight fit between the sleeve 120 and the distal end part 130. COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a safe, biocompatible intraocular lens. SOLUTION: A first lens 12 capable of radiating, located at the back in a capsula lentis, and laid along a rear capsula, the circumference of which is attached to a ring 16 having a side wall 28 and capable of focusing; a second lens 14 located above the first lens 12 in the capsula lentis, the end of the circumference of which is arranged in a twisted shape, containing a plurality of tactile calyx 20 protruded back in the direction of the first lens 12 from the second lens 14; the tactile calyx 20 is relatively hard but still flexible, is housed in the side wall 28 of the ring 16, and moves the second lens 14 along an optical axis of a lens apparatus 10 to cope with flattening or steepening of the capsula lentis in response to the movement of ciliary muscles and contracting of the capsula lentis. COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide methods for driving cutting tips of ultrasonic handpieces in various modes and that are more efficient, generate less heat, consume less power and allow for more flexibility. SOLUTION: In the method for controlling the ultrasonic handpiece of an ocular surgical system, such as a phacoemulsification system, first and second signal sources generate first and second drive signals. The first signal is at a first frequency and is used to drive the cutting tip of the handpiece with a first type of motion. The second signal is at a second frequency and is used to drive the cutting tip with a second type of motion. The different motions can be generated with different first and second frequencies. The first and second signals can be summed or combined and supplied to a class D amplifier, and the output of the class D amplifier includes multiple frequency components or multiple signals of different frequencies to drive the cutting tip in different directions at the same time, for example, with simultaneous longitudinal and torsional motions. COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide methods for driving cutting tips of ultrasonic handpieces in various modes and that are more efficient, generate less heat, consume less power and allow for more flexibility. SOLUTION: In the method for controlling the ultrasonic handpiece of an ocular surgical system, such as a phacoemulsification system, first and second signal sources generate first and second drive signals. The first signal is at a first frequency and is used to drive the cutting tip of the handpiece with a first type of motion. The second signal is at a second frequency and is used to drive the cutting tip with a second type of motion. The different motions can be generated with different first and second frequencies. The first and second signals can be summed or combined and supplied to a class D amplifier, and the output of the class D amplifier includes multiple frequency components or multiple signals of different frequencies to drive the cutting tip in different directions at the same time, for example, with simultaneous longitudinal and torsional motions. COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a fluidic cassette detection mechanism for detecting the presence and the appropriate position of a cassette within a fluid control device. SOLUTION: The fluidic cassette detection mechanism comprises a number of mechanical probes, optical interrupt switches, and miscellaneous components including springs and screws. The probes extend beyond the face of a fluidic module faceplate and beyond rear stops of a set of holding clamps. When the fluidic cassette 12 is inserted into a fluidic module 10 far enough to sufficiently move the probes, the probes trip the switches to signal that the cassette 12 is in the correct position and orientation for a clamping motion to begin. The correct position and orientation are sensed by the use of probes in the mechanism. COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a cassette having a fluid channel for reducing the possibility of fault of the cassette under transitional positive pressure. SOLUTION: A console for surgical operation includes a cassette 10 storing region having a pump head with a roller. The cassette 10 is held at a prescribed position coming into contact with the pump head by a latch mechanism for pulling the cassette into the pump head. The peripheral edge of an elastomer sheet includes a protruding vertex or projection integrally molded as a part of the elastomer sheet in the neighborhood of one or more regions of the elastomer sheet receiving high transitional or static pressure. The vertex enables the elastomer sheet to be firmly pressed against the cassette 10 storing part of the console for surgical operation, and furthermore enables the cassette 10 to be pulled into the pump head. It is useful for ensuring that the elastomer sheet is not removed when the cassette 10 is exposed to high transitional pressure. COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a peristaltic pump having reduced pressure pulsation. SOLUTION: This cassette has an elastic sheet adhered to or mechanically mounted on a rigid base. One flow path corresponding to a flow path formed in the elastic sheet is formed in the rigid base. The cassette is used in combination with the peristaltic pump which has a pump head roller mounted radially from the rotating shaft of a pump motor for compressing an elastic flow path against the rigid base being operated. The flow path formed in the rigid base has a smooth fluid line with no sharp edge or no rapid directional change and corresponds to a fluid groove path formed in the elastic sheet. Herein, a transition region which has a relatively constant cross section approximate to the cross section of the flow path formed in the rigid base or of the fluid groove path formed in the elastic sheet is provided throughout the length in such a form that the whole fluid passage has a relatively constant cross section. COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To allow a user to easily select a different pulse mode by touching a part of a display screen in a graphical user system used in a crystal lens ultrasonic emulsification suction surgery system. SOLUTION: The interface comprises first and second display elements. One display element comprises an on-time expression 50 of pulses and the other display element comprises an off-time expression 60. An expression 20 shows how the on-time and the off-time vary according to the position of a controller such as a foot pedal. The expression shows constant time or that the time is extended or reduced as the foot pedal is stamped. A user can scroll a different pulse expression by touching the display element on the screen for selecting a pulse mode. The selected pulse mode may be continuous, pulse, burst, or a combination of them, or a derivative of them. COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT