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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 22, 1984
Filed:
Apr. 02, 1982
Applicant:
Inventors:
Yutaka Konomura, Tokyo, JP;
Yasuhiko Omagari, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
Olympus Optical Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B / ; G01L / ; G01K / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
128-4 ; 7386253 ; 116216 ; 1283 / ; 128736 ; 374187 ;
Abstract
A disinfection indicator mounted on medical equipment which is inserted into a channel for forceps and repeatedly used after thermal sterilization, includes a deformable portion, made of a shape memory alloy having a one-way shape memory effect, which is deformed plastically by an external force, from a shape indicating disinfection of the medical equipment to a predetermined original shape when the medical equipment is in use, and which is modified from the original shape to the shape indicating disinfection of the medical equipment when the medical equipment is heated to a temperature higher than a predetermined temperature.