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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 04, 2021
Filed:
Jun. 07, 2019
Olympus Winter & Ibe Gmbh, Hamburg, DE;
Antonia Weis, Hamburg, DE;
OLYMPUS WINTER & IBE GMBH, Hamburg, DE;
Abstract
A reconditioning apparatus including: a chamber for a medical instrument having a channel(s); fluid connections in the chamber connected to the channel(s) to flush them with a reconditioning fluid; a memory for storing data sets, each data set comprising information relating to an allocation of the fluid connections to a specific type of medical instrument; and an input device for detecting an identifying feature; wherein the input device detects the identifying feature of the medical instrument, in which information relating to the type of the medical instrument is stored; a controller compares the type of the medical instrument identified based on the read-out information with data sets in the memory and establishes an allocation of a fluid connection(s) connected to the channel(s) on the basis of the identified type and actuates a compressed air source to apply compressed air to the allocated fluid connections to blow out the channel(s).