Patent ID: 7993602

Claim:
An endoscopic system comprising: an endoscope having openings to communicate with an inner region of the endoscope; a sterilizing container that is adapted to house the endoscope and that has a plurality of pits on at least a side surface of the sterilizing container, and ventilation holes for communicating with an outside space of the sterilizing container, said ventilation holes being formed respectively in the pits; and a sterilizing package which is formed from a steam-permeable filter and an optically-transparent film in at least one portion of an outer periphery of the sterilizing package, and is adapted to house the sterilizing container inside at the time of autoclave sterilization such that the optically-transparent film faces to the ventilation holes, wherein in the sterilizing container, a plurality of gap portions of predetermined volumes are formed at positions to which the openings face when the endoscope is housed in the sterilizing container, and a steam entrance path, which communicates the gap portions with an outside space of the sterilizing container, is formed so as to guide steam fed from the outside space at the sterilization to the inner region of the endoscope via the gap portions and the openings; and a cross-sections area of each of the gap portions and the steam entrance path in a plane perpendicular to an entering direction of the steam is equal to or larger than a cross-sections area of each of the openings.