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US 2025/0082189 A1Published application
Method and arrangement for pre-cleaning an endoscope
AssigneeOlympus Winter & Ibe GmbH
InventorBenjamin Ottens
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Abstract
A method for pre-cleaning an endoscope. The method including: drawing liquid into at least one channel of a plurality of channels of an endoscope for transporting fluids, wherein each of the plurality of channels extend from a respective connection port, for connection of a fluid hose, to a distal end of the endoscope; and determining an electrical parameter of fluid or fluids in at least one of the plurality of channels into which liquid has been drawn.
Claims20
A method for pre-cleaning an endoscope, the method comprising:
- drawing liquid into at least one channel of a plurality of channels of an endoscope for transporting fluids, wherein each of the plurality of channels extend from a respective connection port, for connection of a fluid hose, to a distal end of the endoscope;
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- determining an electrical parameter of fluid or fluids in at least one of the plurality of channels into which liquid has been drawn.
An arrangement for pre-cleaning an endoscope, the arrangement comprising:
- a device for determining an electrical parameter of fluid or fluids in at least one of the channels of a plurality of channels of an endoscope for transporting fluids, wherein each of the plurality of channels extend from a respective connection port, for connection of a fluid hose, to a distal end of the endoscope.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.