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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 11, 2024
Filed:
Mar. 07, 2022
Olympus Winter & Ibe Gmbh, Hamburg, DE;
Hannes Miersch, Hamburg, DE;
OLYMPUS WINTER & IBE GMBH, Hamburg, DE;
Abstract
A medical endoscope is an instrument having an elongate, tubular shaft. The instrument is commonly provided with a flushing device. The flushing liquid can be guided through corresponding separate liquid channels. In order to be able to control the flow of the liquid, the liquid channels have a stopcock. The stopcocks here are of complex construction, and for this reason both the production thereof and the cleaning thereof are complicated. The invention includes a stopcock and also a housing and a method for producing the housing, by way of which the production and the cleaning of the housing are simplified. This is achieved in that a housing and at least one spring element for form-fitting fixing of a plug in a position in the interior space of the housing are manufactured integrally from a single part, that is to say in one part.