Sterilizing container

US5176884A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Aesculap AG · DE

Inventors

• Wolfgang Taschner · Tuttlingen, DE
• Wilfried Wolfle · Bad Dürrheim, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jun 18, 1991
• Grant date: Jan 5, 1993
• Expiry date: Jun 18, 2011

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10T137/7737
• WIPO field: Medical technology
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

In a sterilizing container with a perforated zone which can be covered over in relation to the interior of the container by a filter designed so that it can be displaced and covered over, in order to improve the protection of the filter, on the one hand, and the sealing-off of a bypass under different operating conditions, on the other hand, it is proposed that force elements be used for displacing a covering disc of the filter and the filter itself which change the displacement forces acting on the covering disc and on the filter, respectively, as a function of the temperature.