Patent ID: 7419645

Claim:
A medical device with a disinfecting and cleaning agent connection device, said connection device comprising: a connection line configured to connect a fluid chamber for holding or transporting fluids with a disinfecting and cleaning agent container; a buffer chamber with a cross section preferentially larger than a cross section of parts of the connection line connected to the buffer chamber; a sealing element in an upper section of the buffer chamber connecting it to the fluid chamber; a channel which opens into a bottom of the buffer chamber and has a siphon-type section which, proceeding from a channel opening into the buffer chamber, has a section pointing upwards, an upper section, and a section pointing downwards, the end of the section pointing downwards lying lower than the floor of the buffer chamber; and a fluid sensor in the buffer chamber which is arranged at a level lower than the upper section of the siphon section and higher than the channel opening of the channel in the buffer chamber.