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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 10, 2003
Filed:
Sep. 27, 2000
Seiji Kojima, Gunma, JP;
Katumi Tominaga, Saitama, JP;
Shigeo Hayashi, Hiroshima, JP;
Hiromu Miura, Hiroshima, JP;
Other;
Abstract
A liquid infusion apparatus for fixing an outer cylinder of a syringe and a driver for pushing a plunger in a predetermined direction so as to exhaust liquid in the syringe, an incremental linear encoder arranged along the feeding axis of said driver for pushing the plunger, a detector of said incremental linear encoder mounted on a slider portion of the driver for pushing the plunger so as to generate a signal indicating a moving quantity of the plunger, and a sensor provided in the vicinity of a liquid exhaust port of the outer cylinder for setting along the feeding axis a remaining liquid quantity small section so as to generate a signal about a position of the plunger at the remaining liquid quantity small section.