Light irradiation device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12383755-B2
Application number	US-202018032678-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 1, 2020
Priority date	Dec 1, 2020
Publication date	Aug 12, 2025
Grant date	Aug 12, 2025

Abstract

A light irradiation device includes a tube including a tube main body and a light emitting portion, a plurality of wiring boards disposed inside the light emitting portion and including a plurality of light emitting elements disposed at an equal interval mounted, an anode lead wire for connecting an anode terminal of each of the wiring boards to a power source, and a cathode lead wire for connecting a cathode terminal of each of the wiring boards to the power source. In the light emitting portion, a central lumen and surrounding lumens that are arrayed at a 90° interval around the central lumen are formed. The wiring boards are disposed in the respective surrounding lumens with the light emitting elements arrayed along a longitudinal direction of the light emitting portion.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A light irradiation device comprising:
a tube including a light emitting portion and inserted into a body,
wherein
the light emitting portion includes a central lumen extending along a center axis of the tube, at least one surrounding lumen arranged around the central lumen, and at least one light emitting element disposed inside the at least one surrounding lumen, the central lumen is open on a distal end side of the tube, and
the at least one surrounding lumen is closed on the distal end side of the tube.

2. The light irradiation device according to claim 1 , wherein
the light emitting portion includes a plurality of the surrounding lumens, and
in a cross-sectional view perpendicular to a central axis, the plurality of the surrounding lumens is arrayed along a circumferential direction of the central lumen.

3. The light irradiation device according to claim 2 , wherein
the light emitting portion includes four of the plurality of the surrounding lumens, and
in the cross-sectional view perpendicular to the central axis, four of the plurality of the surrounding lumens are arrayed at equal intervals from each other around the central lumen.

4. The light irradiation device according to claim 1 , wherein
the at least one surrounding lumen extends along a central axis,
the light emitting portion includes a plurality of the light emitting elements, and
the plurality of the light emitting elements is arrayed along the central axis.

5. The light irradiation device according to claim 1 , wherein
the light emitting portion includes a wiring board in the at least one surrounding lumen on which the at least one light emitting element is mounted,
the wiring board includes an anode terminal and a cathode terminal, and
the light irradiation device includes at least one anode lead wire connected to the anode terminal and at least one cathode lead wire connected to the cathode terminal.

6. The light irradiation device according to claim 5 , wherein
the tube includes a tube main body on the proximal end side of the tube from the light emitting portion,
the tube main body includes a first lumen communicating with the central lumen and extending in parallel to the center axis, and a second lumen extending along the first lumen and opening on a proximal end side of the tube, and
the at least one anode lead wire and the at least one cathode lead wire are inserted in the second lumen from the at least one surrounding lumen, pass through the second lumen, and extend from an opening of the second lumen.

7. The light irradiation device according to claim 6 , wherein
the tube includes, between the light emitting portion and the tube main body, a lumen switching portion, and
the lumen switching portion seal the at least one anode lead wire and the at least one cathode lead wire and includes a communication path through which the central lumen and the first lumen communicate with each other.

8. The light irradiation device according to claim 6 , wherein
the light emitting portion includes a plurality of the surrounding lumens,
the plurality of the surrounding lumens each accommodate the wiring board,
a plurality of the anode lead wires inserted in the second lumen from each of the plurality of the surrounding lumens are combined with each other and extends from the opening of the second lumen, and
a plurality of the cathode lead wires inserted in the second lumen from each of the plurality of the surrounding lumens are combined with each other and extends from the opening of the second lumen.

9. The light irradiation device according to claim 6 , wherein
the first lumen is closed on a proximal end surface of the tube main body, and
the tube main body includes a side hole extending from an outer periphery of the tube main body to the first lumen.

10. The light irradiation device according to claim 9 , wherein the tube main body includes a mark on the outer periphery indicating a position of the side hole.

11. The light irradiation device according to claim 6 , further comprising:
a lead protection sheath enclosing the at least one anode lead wire and the at least one cathode lead wire extending from the opening of the second lumen and detachable from the tube.

12. The light irradiation device according to claim 1 , wherein
the tube includes a most distal end portion on a distal end side of the tube from the light emitting portion, and
the most distal end portion includes a lumen communicating with the outside of the tube and the central lumen.

13. The light irradiation device according to claim 12 , wherein the most distal end portion includes at least one side hole extending from an outer periphery of the most distal end portion to the lumen.

14. The light irradiation device according to claim 12 , wherein
the lumen has a larger diameter than a diameter of the central lumen, and
the tube includes a lumen diameter expansion portion between the light emitting portion and the most distal end portion, and
the lumen diameter expansion portion includes a diameter expansion communication path through which the central lumen and the lumen communicate with each other.

15. The light irradiation device according to claim 1 to be used for photoimmunotherapy against at least one of bile duct cancer or pancreatic cancer.

Assignees

• Japan Lifeline Co Ltd
• Univ Hokkaido Nat Univ Corp

Inventors

• Kodama Yuki
• Kuwatani Masaki
• Hirata Hajime
• Ogawa Mikako
• Nakajima Kohei

Classifications

• A61N2005/0655

  Tubes · CPC title

• A61N5/062

  Photodynamic therapy, i.e. excitation of an agent · CPC title

• A61N2005/0659

  infrared · CPC title

• A61N2005/0651

  Diodes · CPC title

• A61N2005/0632

  Constructional aspects of the apparatus · CPC title