Olympus Medical Systems Corporation

Kazuya Mitsueda

Hideto Onishi

Takumi Tsuzuki

A liquid feeding conduit includes: a tube body of a cleaning tube through which a fluid passes; an endoscope-side connector provided at an end of the tube body, the endoscope-side connector being connected to a conduit cap of an endoscope conduit; a valve element provided in the endoscope-side connector, the valve element being configured to move toward a side of the conduit cap by a supply pressure of the fluid to thereby watertightly connect the endoscope-side connector and the conduit cap; a spring configured to bias the valve element toward an opposite side of the conduit cap; and a buffer unit configured to delay the movement of the valve element toward the side of the conduit cap.

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Hino, Japan

Kazuya Mitsueda