PROCÉDÉ DE COMMANDE D'UNE POMPE À VOLUME CONSTANT, DISPOSITIF PERMETTANT DE COMMANDER UNE POMPE À VOLUME CONSTANT, NÉBULISEUR ET DISPOSITIF D'ANESTHÉSIE
[Problems] To provide a driving method for a metering pump, a driving apparatus for a metering pump, a vaporizer and an anesthesia apparatus which are capable of suppressing a pulsation in the metering pump, and lowering the costs and reducing the sizes of the vaporizer and the anesthesia apparatus. [Means for solving the Problems] A metering pump 16 is joined to the stepping motor 15, includes an eccentric mechanism converting a revolving motion of the stepping motor 15 into a reciprocating motion of a plunger 16A, and makes a constant liquid delivery by sucking and discharging an anesthetic agent through variations in the cubic volume of a cylinder 16D caused by the reciprocating motion of the plunger 16A. The control section 12: calculates a suction and discharge cycle T of the metering pump 16 on the basis of a set anesthetic-gas concentration and a fresh-gas flow rate； sets a discharge period T2 of the cycle T to be longer than a suction period T1 of the cycle T； and controls the revolution speed of the stepping motor 15 so that the travelling speed of the plunger 16A is kept constant during the discharge period T2.
