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| Year | Description |
| 1989 | Invention patented by Masafumi Kawahara on June 28th, 1989. Abstract: A bubble detecting apparatus for an infusion pump, including a set of ultrasonic sensor constituted by an ultrasonic oscillator and a receiver provided, respectively, at opposed locations on an outer face of a liquid transport tube for feeding liquid such as medicinal liquid by a predetermined pumping operation of a pumping mechanism such that air bubbles produced in or mixed into the liquid in the liquid transport tube are detected by the ultrasonic oscillator and the receiver. In the apparatus, at least three sets of the ultrasonic sensors are arranged along the liquid transport tube at different intervals. |
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