Liquid feeding conduit and endoscope reprocessor

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United States of America

PATENT NO 12193648
APP PUB NO 20220330801A1
SERIAL NO

17232536

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A liquid feeding conduit includes: a tube body of a cleaning tube through which a fluid passes; an endoscope-side connector provided at an end of the tube body, the endoscope-side connector being connected to a conduit cap of an endoscope conduit; a valve element provided in the endoscope-side connector, the valve element being configured to move toward a side of the conduit cap by a supply pressure of the fluid to thereby watertightly connect the endoscope-side connector and the conduit cap; a spring configured to bias the valve element toward an opposite side of the conduit cap; and a buffer unit configured to delay the movement of the valve element toward the side of the conduit cap.

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OLYMPUS MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPTOKYO JAPAN TOKYO METROPOLIS

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Mitsueda, Kazuya Hino, JP 1 0
Onishi, Hideto Hachioji, JP 29 224
Tsuzuki, Takumi Kawasaki, JP 1 0

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