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AssigneeOlympus Winter & Ibe GmbH
InventorHannes MIERSCH
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A medical endoscope is an instrument having an elongate, tubular shaft. The instrument is commonly provided with a flushing device. The flushing liquid can be guided through corresponding separate liquid channels. In order to be able to control the flow of the liquid, the liquid channels have a stopcock. The stopcocks here are of complex construction, and for this reason both the production thereof and the cleaning thereof are complicated. The invention includes a stopcock and also a housing and a method for producing the housing, by way of which the production and the cleaning of the housing are simplified. This is achieved in that a housing and at least one spring element for form-fitting fixing of a plug in a position in the interior space of the housing are manufactured integrally from a single part, that is to say in one part.
A housing of a stopcock for producing and breaking a fluidic connection between at least two connection parts, the housing having at least one spring element, and having an interior space in which a plug of the stopcock can be mounted in a rotatable manner, wherein the at least one spring element is provided for form-fitting fixing of a position of the plug in the interior space of the housing, wherein the housing and the at least one spring element are manufactured integrally from one part.
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