Endoscope reprocessor

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9968973-B2
Application number	US-201615373576-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 9, 2016
Priority date	Sep 2, 2015
Publication date	May 15, 2018
Grant date	May 15, 2018

Abstract

An endoscope reprocessor includes: an endoscope information reading section configured to read endoscope information from each of endoscopes; a treatment tank in which the endoscopes are disposed; a number detection section configured to detect a number of the endoscopes disposed in the treatment tank; a determination section configured to determine whether a first number that is the number of endoscopes read by the endoscope information reading section is equal to a second number that is the number of the endoscopes detected by the number detection section; a notification section configured to execute error notification; and a control section connected with the determination section and the notification section, and configured to drive the notification section when the determination section determines that the first number is different from the second number.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An endoscope reprocessor comprising:
an endoscope information reading section configured to read endoscope information from a plurality of endoscopes;
a treatment tank in which the plurality of endoscopes are disposed;
a liquid supply section configured to supply liquid to the treatment tank;
a first connector disposed in the treatment tank, and including a first valve configured to be put into an open state from a closed state through connection with an endoscope or a cleaning tube;
a second connector disposed in the treatment tank, and including a second valve configured to be put into the open state from the closed state through connection with an endoscope or a cleaning tube;
a liquid supply conduit connecting the first connector and the second connector with the liquid supply section;
a flowrate sensor disposed in the liquid supply conduit;
a number detection section configured to detect a number of the endoscopes disposed in the treatment tank, the number detection section being connected with the flowrate sensor, the number detection section detecting, based on a measurement value of the flowrate sensor, a number of connectors whose valve is in an open state from the first and second connectors, and converting a result of the detecting into the number of endoscopes disposed in the treatment tank;
a notification section configured to execute error notification; and
a control section connected with the notification section and configured to:
take a quantity of endoscopes read by the endoscope information reading section as a first number and the number of endoscopes disposed in the treatment tank as detected by the number detection section as a second number, and determine whether the first number is equal to the second number; and
drive the notification section to execute error notification when the control section determines that the first number is different from the second number.

Assignees

• Olympus Corp

Inventors

• Kosugi Aiko

Classifications

• A61B1/123 Primary

  using washing machines · CPC title

• A61B1/12

  with cooling or rinsing arrangements · CPC title

• A61B1/00055

  for alerting the user · CPC title

• A61B1/00059

  provided with identification means for the endoscope · CPC title

• G02B23/24

  Instruments {or systems} for viewing the inside of hollow bodies, e.g. fibrescopes · CPC title