Patent ID: 8506726

Claim:
An endoscope reprocessor comprising: a basin for receiving an endoscope to be reprocessed; a rack which secures thereto a portion of the endoscope and moves vertically within the basin; a drive unit for vertically moving the rack, the drive unit comprising a motor capable of taking up a wire or letting the wire out to adjust the rack height in a vertical direction and a rack position sensor including a top dead center sensor and a bottom dead center sensor for detecting a rack position in the vertical direction; a positioning member for computing a stopping position target value of the rack and adjusting a rack stopping position when the endoscope is to be set on the rack by an operator; a drive control unit having a ROM which stores a correspondence relation between an operator's height and an optimal rack stopping position based on the operator's height, and information about a previous rack stopping position for the operator, the drive control unit computing an amount of rotation by the motor based on the rack position information detected by said top dead center sensor and said bottom dead center sensor and said stopping position target value, thereby moving the rack by rotating said motor for the computed amount of rotation; and a reading unit for reading information about the optimal rack stopping position for the operator, the operator's height data or an operator's identification number from an operator's IC tag; wherein the positioning member computes the stopping position target value of the rack based on the information about the optimal rack stopping position for the operator read by the reading unit or set according to the operator's height data read by the reading unit and the correspondence relation stored in the ROM, or the information about the previous rack stopping position for the operator retrieved from the ROM based on the operator's identification number read by the reading unit to adjust the rack stopping position in accordance with the operator when the endoscope is to be set on the rack by the operator.