151 results about "Endoscopic washing" patented technology

A managing system manages not only an endoscope washer-disinfector performing cleaning and disinfection with an insertion tube of an endoscope but also an endoscope apparatus performing an endoscopic examination using the endoscope. The system comprises an acquiring unit and a manger. The acquiring unit acquires information indicative of a finish time of the endoscopic examination which is the newest and performed by the endoscope apparatus. The manager manages states of the cleaning and disinfection performed by the endoscope washer-disinfector depending on the information indicative of the finish time of the endoscopic examination acquired by the acquiring unit. Every time when an endoscopic examination is finished, the information indicative of the finish time of the endoscopic examination is updated. For example, a length of an elapsing time from the finish of each endoscopic examination is reflected in how the cleaning and disinfection is performed.

An endoscope reprocessor having a water supply disinfection filter and a method for self-disinfection of the filter employ a pair of connectors to switch from a normal operating mode into a self-disinfection mode in which circulating germicidal fluid within the reprocessor flows through the filter, while the water supply remains connected to the system and isolated from the circulating fluid.

An endoscope washing and disinfecting apparatus of the present invention includes a first channel member in which a projection portion abuts on a fitting surface in a channel mouthpiece, and a first channel internally provided communicates with a suction channel inside the channel mouthpiece, a second channel member which is fitted and fixed to an outer periphery of the first channel member, and is internally provided with a second channel which communicates with the first channel, a pressing member which is provided in the second channel, and presses the first channel member to the channel mouthpiece side in the second channel, and a liquid introduction port which is formed in the second channel member and introduces a liquid to the second channel.

An endoscope washer disinfector washes and disinfects an endoscope with a mouth ring communicating with an endoscope duct. The washer disinfector comprises a washing disinfecting bath; a nozzle arranged with the bath, loaded into the mouth ring, and formed to supply fluid to the duct via the mouth ring; a tray on which the endoscope is mounted. In this washer disinfector, a bilateral positioning member positions the endoscope and the tray so that the mouth ring of the endoscope mounted on the tray is located at a given position on the tray; and a trilateral positioning member positions the washing disinfecting bath, the tray, and the endoscope so that, when the tray is loaded into the washing disinfecting bath, the mouth ring of the endoscope positioned at the given position on the tray by the bilateral positioning member is positioned at a position that is across is from the nozzle.

An endoscope cleaning/disinfecting apparatus of the present invention includes a cleaning tub, a chemical solution tank for storing a germicide, a chemical solution collection pipe, a chemical solution pipe, a feed pipe, a germicide bottle tray which can be drawn from the body of the cleaning/disinfecting apparatus, and a control unit for performing control to prepare the germicide by mixing a basis, a buffering agent, and a diluent. The germicide bottle tray includes a storage part which stores at least a first bottle body out of the first bottle body for storing the basis or a second bottle body for storing the buffering agent, and a detection portion for outputting a detection signal in a state in which the bottle body is stored in the storage part. The control unit performs control based on the detection signal outputted from the detection portion to prepare the germicide.

The invention provides a Washing tube and endoscope washing and disinfecting apparatus. The washing tube 40 of the invention is a washing tube for supplying a washing and disinfecting fluid to an endoscope conduit of an endoscope 100 placed in an endoscope washing and disinfecting apparatus 1, includes: a tube body 67, one end of which is connected to fluid supply sections 33 and 34 of the endoscope washing and disinfecting apparatus for sending a fluid, a connector section 41 disposed at the other end of the tube body and loosely and detachably fitted to a base 101 of the endoscope conduit, a sealing member 82 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 63 that moves forward by a liquid sending pressure of the supplied fluid and a biasing member 62 provided inside the connector section for biasing the valve body backward.

A laparascope and endoscope cleaning and de-fogging device with a port located horizontally that is used to warm the scope prior to insertion into the body cavity/surgical site. The scope punctures the initial membrane and enters the cavity between two bodies of absorbent material that contain fluid. The absorbent material is arranged such that the passage of a scope would be accommodated for different sizes of surgical scopes. A circuit board is located on the bottom of the chamber that has a design element used to warm the liquid to a temperature equal to or greater than the temperature of the proposed surgical environment. When the scope is located between the two absorbent bodies, the heat generated by the circuit board is transferred via the liquid and contacts the scope, warming it in preparation for surgery.

In an endoscope washer disinfector, a bath comprises a mounting plane on which an endoscope with a duct is mounted and a wall member. A connector has two ends consisting of one end located to penetrate through the wall member and to be secured watertightly to the wall member. The one end faces an opening of the duct of the endoscope mounted in the bath. The other end is connected to a fluid source storing fluid for washing and disinfecting the endoscope. A nozzle is movable in the connector along an inner passage thereof and moved toward the one end of the connector to protrude from the one end to realize a watertight and detachable connection with the opening of the duct. The fluid is supplied to the duct when the fluid is supplied from the fluid source.

The present invention relates to a endoscope washer, including a basin for receiving an endoscope to be washed; a rack which secures thereto a portion of the endoscope and moves vertically within the basin; a drive unit for vertically moving the rack; a positioning member for adjusting a rack stopping position when the endoscope is to be set on the rack; and a drive control unit for controlling the drive unit based on computed results from the positioning member. For the endoscope washer, user may set the endoscope effectively and simply. In addition, the endoscope washer can blow air into the basin after completing the process of cleaning, disinfecting and flushing, to restrain the dilution/deterioration and reduce of used-repeatedly disinfecting liquid suitably.

An endoscope washing and disinfecting apparatus (1) includes an apparatus main body (2) equipped with a washing bath (4) in which an endoscope (101) is mounted; a nozzle unit (70) provided so as to face a connector portion (104) of an endoscope conduit provided in the endoscope mounted in the washing bath, to which fluid within the apparatus main body is supplied so that the nozzle unit advances due to pressure of the fluid, and which supplies the fluid to inside the endoscope conduit by connecting to the connector portion; and an automatic brush mechanism (80) that is provided in the apparatus main body and that carries out brushing and cleaning within the endoscope conduit by introducing a cleaning brush (81) into the endoscope conduit through the nozzle unit and moving the cleaning brush (81) forward and rearward.

The present invention provides an endoscope cleaning device, wherein a label reader (27) is connected with a printer (28) in the cleaning device. A cleaning operator operates an operating panel (18) for selecting the cleaning program. If the endoscope (12) is closed to the label reader, the ID of the endoscope is read and recorded in an EEPROM (44). The endoscope after using is placed in a cleaning tank and the cover is closed. The starting of cleaning is indicated through the operating panel. If all processes of the cleaning program is finished, a CPU (40) records the cleaning information ofthe endoscope into the EEPROM. If the cover is opened, a detection signal which comes from a cover detection sensor (17) and represents the opening is output. The CPU receives the detection signal. The cleaning information is read from the EEPROM, is displayed on a display panel (19) and is simultaneously transmitted to the printer (28). The printer prints and outputs the cleaning information to the recording paper.

The present invention is provided with: a connection section for connection to the cleaning and sterilizing device,a flow section (2),and a discharge section (4). The discharge section (4) communicates with the flow section (2) and is provided with: first flow paths (A1, A2) for discharging fluid (R), which has passed through the flow section (2), into a fitting (11),a second flow path (B) branched from the first flow paths (A1, A2) and discharging the fluid (R) around the fitting (11),and an opening and closing section (6) capable of expanding and contracting according to the flow rate of the fluid (R) and expanding to close the second flow path (B) when the flow rate of the fluid (R) is greater than or equal to a set amount, the opening and closing section (6) being provided either in a branch section (8) branched from the first flow paths (A1, A2) to the second flow path (B) or in the second flow path (B).

The endoscope washing and sterilizing device (1) has: a washing tank (4) capable of accommodating multiple endoscopes (100); a holding mesh (111) that is provided inside the washing tank (4) and defines the positions of the multiple endoscopes (100) that are stowed and set inside the washing tank (4); and an endoscope information readout unit (64). The endoscope information readout unit (64) is provided inside the washing tank (4) and is provided in an area that is exposed to the upper end of the washing tank (4) so that when one endoscope (100A) is set in the washing tank (4) with the position thereof defined by the holding mesh (111), the readout unit is not covered by the one endoscope (100A).

The invention discloses a through-connection box for a full-automatic soft type endoscope cleaning machine. The through-connection box is matched with the full-automatic soft type endoscope cleaning machine, and an endoscope containing rack and pipe cavity cleaning joints are arranged inside the through-connection box; a water inlet joint, a disinfectant inlet joint, an air drying joint and a drainage joint are further arranged on a through-connection box body; all the joints are in one-way communication, and before cleaning is carried out, an endoscope is placed on the endoscope containing rack in the through-connection box; and a pipeline opening of the endoscope is connected with the pipe cavity cleaning joints through a hose, and the joints on the through-connection box are correspondingly connected with a water supply pipe, a disinfectant supply pipe, a drying pipe and a drainage pipe of the cleaning machine respectively through hoses. Cleaning, disinfecting and drying of the endoscope are completed in the through-connection box, and after disinfecting and drying are completed, the endoscope does not need to be taken out of the box, and the through-connection box is directly used for transferring and storing the endoscope, and it is ensured that in the cleaning and transferring process, the endoscope is prevented from being damaged.

An endoscope washing and disinfecting apparatus includes: a connecting portion connected to a bending transmitting portion of an endoscope to transmit driving force; a distal end driving portion for transmitting the driving force to the bending transmitting portion through the connecting portion; a fluid supplying unit for supplying gas into an inner space of the endoscope; and a control unit for controlling a pressure detecting portion for detecting pressure in the inner space and the distal end driving portion to provide the bending portion with bending motion, and for determining occurrence or nonoccurrence of water leak in the endoscope by comparing the pressure detected by the pressure detecting portion and a preset threshold.

Provided are a method of cleaning an endoscope, a washing machine and a washing machine for endoscope, which can effectively clean an endoscope while preventing the endoscope from deterioration. The electrolytic cell 11 can produce from tap water acidic water with pH of 2 to 5 and the residual chlorine concentration of 50 to 300 ppm. A tank for acidic water 14 can store acidic water, in which part thereof can be fed to a tank of diluting acidic water 17 and the rest thereof can be fed to a feed section of concentrated water 20. A water feed section for dilution 16 can feed water for dilution to the tank of diluting acidic water 17. The tank of diluting acidic water 17 can add water for dilution from the water feed section for dilution 16 to part of the acidic water from the tank for acidic water 14 to adjust diluted acidic water to pH of 2.3 to 5.7 and the residual chlorine concentration of 10 to 60 ppm. The feed section of concentrated water 20 can feed the rest of acidic water fed from the tank for acidic water 14 through a channel connection port 20c to a channel port of an endoscope.

The invention discloses a pipeline system of an endoscope cleaning machine and a working method thereof, The system comprises a decontamination tank, a circulating tank, a first water supply pipeline,a disinfection system and a leakage detection pipeline, wherein a perfusion port, a backflow port and a discharge port which communicate with the endoscope are arranged in the decontamination tank, the perfusion port communicates with the circulating tank through an injection pipeline, and the backflow port communicates with the circulating tank through a backflow pipeline; a circulating pump anda first control valve are arranged on the backflow pipeline, the discharge port is connected with a liquid discharging pipeline, a second control valve is arranged on the liquid discharging pipeline,the bottom of the circulating tank communicates with a drying system and an enzyme washing system, and one end of the first water supply pipeline communicates with the decontamination tank, a third control valve, the water pump and a filter are arranged on the first water supply pipeline, and a disinfectant supply system communicates with the decontamination tank; and one end of a side leakage pipeline communicates with the decontamination tank, the other end of the side leakage pipeline communicates with a side leakage device, and a twelfth control valve is arranged on the side leakage pipeline. The cleaning quality is good, a cleaning fluid or the disinfectant can be circularly used within a certain cleaning frequency range, so that the cleaning cost is reduced.

In an endoscope washing and disinfecting apparatus, a duct of the endoscope is washed by a washing brush having a brush chip and a shaft having a distal end to which the brush chip is detachably loaded. A brush-chip accommodating unit has a brush-chip accommodating chamber communicable to a flow passage of a nozzle detachably coupled to the duct. A shaft accommodating unit has a shaft accommodating chamber communicable to the brush-chip accommodating chamber, the shaft being selectively accommodated in the shaft accommodating chamber. A shaft driving unit drives the shaft to be fed to the duct from the shaft accommodating chamber and to be returned to the shaft accommodating chamber from the duct. In the brush-chip accommodating chamber, coupling and decupling means allow the brush chip to be coupled and decoupled with and from the shaft, during the shaft is driven to go back and forth.

The invention provides a device and method for cleaning and disinfecting an endoscope. The endoscope in a cleaning tank is treated with a dilute liquid chemical obtained by diluting a liquid chemical with warm water in a dilution tank. The device is characterized in that: the warm water is introduced into the cleaning tank just before the treatment; after the temperature of the warm water being introduced into the cleaning tank becomes in a specified range, the warm water is introduced into the dilution tank to yield the dilute liquid chemical; and the dilute liquid chemical is introduced into the cleaning tank to treat an endoscope.

An endoscope washer-disinfector cleans and disinfects an endoscope with a duct. A brush cassette is detachably loaded to a loading part of the washer-disinfector and comprises a brush element and a shaft holding the brush element. Inside the cassette, first and second members are formed to hold the shaft tight therebetween for making the shaft advance and retreat to and from the duct. A lock device separates the second member from the first member so that the second member is located at a first position. The lock device locks the separated second member, when the brush is not loaded on the loading part. When the cassette is loaded to the loading part, the lock device also unlocks the locked second member responsively to an operating force and allows the second member to be moved to a second position where the first and second members hold tight the shaft.

The invention relates to a cleaning device, in particular to hard endoscope cleaning equipment for a medical digestive department. Aiming to solving the technical problem of providing hard endoscope cleaning equipment for the medical digestive department of simple operation and good cleaning effect, the hard endoscope cleaning equipment for the medical digestive department is characterized in thathard endoscope cleaning equipment comprises various parts such as a base plate, a first bracket, a bearing seat, a rotating shaft, a small pulley, a first fixed plate, a rotary motor, a large pulley,a flat belt and a cleaning cylinder; the first bracket with the middle provided with the bearing seat is arranged on the right side of the top of the base plate; the rotating shaft with the right portion provided with the small pulley is arranged on the bearing seat. The hard endoscope cleaning equipment for the medical digestive department has the advantages of realizing simple operation, high cleaning efficiency and good cleaning, conducting automatic cleaning of an endoscope in the cleaning cylinder of simple operation and high cleaning efficiency with the rotary motor to drive the cleaning cylinder to rotate, enhancing cleaning effect with heating wire and a condensation ball coordinated to prepare distilled water, and having a novel structure and strong practicability.

An endoscope cleaning tube according to the invention includes a housing portion; a movable portion adapted to divide an inner part of the housing portion into a side of the fluid introduction port and a side of the fluid lead-out port and placed between a first position and a second position in the housing portion, the second position being located closer to the side of the fluid lead-out port than the first position; a pressure-receiving portion which, being equipped with a pressure-receiving surface placed at a position facing the fluid introduction port and adapted to receive pressure of the fluid, is adapted to pivot according to fluid pressure on the pressure-receiving surface; and a linking portion adapted to connect the movable portion and the pressure-receiving portion with each other and move the movable portion from the second position to the first position when the pressure-receiving portion receives the fluid pressure.