摘要 |
<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an apparatus for a medical instrument being applied to any medical instrument and constantly grasping the number of sterilization times. <P>SOLUTION: This apparatus for the medical instrument is provided with a housing 2 having a space part 14 formed in a part of the medical instrument, a ventilation hole 15 communicating the space part 14 with atmosphere, an air chamber 6 formed in the space part 14 of the housing 12 and tightly sealing approximately same gas with the atmosphere with an elastic film 3, and a count device 12 counting the deformation of the elastic film 3 by a differential pressure between the atmosphere in the periphery of the medical instrument and the inside of the air chamber 6. The count device 12 counts and records the number of energization times by detecting the energizing state by a first electric contact 7 formed on the elastic film 3 forming the air chamber 6, and a second electric contact 9 facing the first contact 7 and formed in the housing 2. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI |