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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 18, 2012
Filed:
Jan. 16, 2009
Hideto Onishi, Tokyo, JP;
Eiri Suzuki, Kanagawa, JP;
Masahiko Tomita, Tokyo, JP;
Toshiaki Noguchi, Tokyo, JP;
Ryuta Sewake, Tokyo, JP;
Hitoshi Hasegawa, Hamburg, DE;
Hideto Onishi, Tokyo, JP;
Eiri Suzuki, Kanagawa, JP;
Masahiko Tomita, Tokyo, JP;
Toshiaki Noguchi, Tokyo, JP;
Ryuta Sewake, Tokyo, JP;
Hitoshi Hasegawa, Hamburg, DE;
Olympus Medical Systems Corp., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A washing tube of the present invention is a washing tube for supplying a washing and disinfecting fluid to an endoscope conduit of an endoscope placed in an endoscope washing and disinfecting apparatus, includes: a tube body, one end of which is connected to fluid supply sections of the endoscope washing and disinfecting apparatus for sending a fluid, a connector section disposed at the other end of the tube body and loosely and detachably fitted to a base of the endoscope conduit, a sealing member that is provided inside the connector section and comes into close contact with the base to keep the base and the connector section connected in a watertight manner, a valve body that moves forward by a liquid sending pressure of the supplied fluid and a biasing member provided inside the connector section for biasing the valve body backward.