PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a cleaning and sterilizing apparatus of a medical instrument etc. capable of applying cleaning by cleaning water and hot water cleaning in one simple facility.SOLUTION: The cleaning apparatus includes: a storage tank 10 in which the instrument of a cleaning object is immersed and which has a pot part 12 provided with a heater 14 for heating a supply/discharge unit spray nozzles 20, 20 which jet the cleaning water heated in the pot part 12 toward a ceiling surface of a cover 18, and fill steam by causing the hot water jetted to the ceiling surface flow down and widening a steam generation area as large as possible an ultrasonic wave transmitter 16 which applies ultrasonic cleaning a pump which heats the cleaning water, stored in the storage tank 10 so that a part of the instrument that has been cleaned ultrasonically is exposed, in the pot part 12, and feeds the cleaning water to the spray nozzles 20, 20 and a control means which controls the supply and discharge means to store in the storage tank 10 a prescribed amount of the cleaning water used for each cleaning.COPYRIGHT: (C)2013,JPO&INPIT【課題】洗浄水による洗浄と熱水洗浄とを同一の簡易な設備で施すことができる医療器具等の洗浄殺菌装置を提供する。【解決手段】洗浄対象の器具が浸漬、且つ加熱するヒータ14が設けられたポット部12を具備する貯留タンク10と、給排出手段と蓋部18の天井面に向けてポット部12で加熱された洗浄水を噴射し、天井面に噴射された熱水が流下するようにして水蒸気発生面積を可及的に広くして水蒸気を充満させる噴射ノズル20,20と、超音波洗浄を施す超音波発信装置16と、前記超音波洗浄を施した器具の一部が露出するように貯留タンク10に貯留された洗浄水をポット部12で加熱して噴射ノズル20,20に送液するポンプとを備え、且つ貯留タンク10内に各洗浄に用いる所定量の洗浄水を貯留するように前記給排手段を制御する制御手段を具備する。【選択図】図1
