Patent ID: 8176771

Claim:
An endoscope washing and disinfecting apparatus comprising: a connecting portion for transmitting driving force, the connecting portion being connected to a bending transmitting portion of an endoscope comprising a distal end portion, a bending portion, an insertion portion, a grasping portion, and the bending transmitting portion provided at the grasping portion to provide the bending portion with bending motion, wherein the connecting portion comprises, at least one gear and a motor, the motor controlled by a control unit and wherein the bending transmitting portion comprises one or more gears operatively connected to a plurality of wires, the plurality of wires configured to produce the bending motion of the bending portion; a distal end driving portion for transmitting driving force to the bending transmitting portion through the connecting portion; a fluid supplying unit for supplying gas into an inner space of the endoscope; a pressure detecting portion for detecting pressure in the inner space; and the control unit for controlling the distal end driving portion to provide the bending portion with bending motion, and for determining occurrence or nonoccurrence of water leak of the endoscope by comparing the pressure detected by the pressure detecting portion with a preset threshold.