Patent ID: 8298494

Claim:
An endoscope cleaning/disinfecting apparatus connector that connects an endoscope and an endoscope cleaning/disinfecting apparatus, comprising: a cleaning/disinfecting apparatus connection section connected to the endoscope cleaning/disinfecting apparatus; a circulating section, one end of which communicates with the cleaning/disinfecting apparatus connection section, and in which a fluid supplied from the cleaning/disinfecting apparatus circulates; and a discharge section that is provided at another end of the circulating section, is freely connectable to a pipe sleeve of the endoscope, remains inside the pipe sleeve after the connection and thereby discharges the fluid which passes through the circulating section to the endoscope, wherein the discharge section comprises: a first channel that communicates with the circulating section and discharges the fluid that passes through the circulating section into the pipe sleeve of the endoscope; and an opening/closing section that is provided to be positioned between the first channel and an inner wall of the pipe sleeve when the discharge section and the pipe sleeve are connected, the opening/closing section being freely expandable/contractible according to a flow rate of the fluid, expanding when the flow rate of the fluid is a predetermined amount or higher, and closing a second channel that is formed between the first channel and the inner wall of the pipe sleeve and discharges the fluid discharged from the first channel to a periphery of the pipe sleeve of the endoscope, and the discharge section comprises: a water control section that is provided in the first channel and repels the flow of the fluid; and an opening that is provided in the first channel and exhausts the fluid repelled by the water control section.