Cassette for treating medical instruments

US5543119A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Siemens Aktiengesellschaft · DE

Inventors

• Ralf Sutter · Weinheim, DE
• Lutz Beerstecher · Borex, CH
• David Hruza · Bad Waldsee, DE
• Raimund Stetter-Alle · Ulm, DE
• Karl Trackl · Langenau, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jul 13, 1994
• Grant date: Aug 6, 1996
• Expiry date: Jul 13, 2014

Classification

• Technology area (CPC A): Human Necessities
• CPC primary: A61L2/26
• WIPO field: Medical technology
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A cassette for the acceptance of medical instruments, and preferably dental instruments, to enable a hygienic treatment of the instruments when the cassette is placed into a chamber of an apparatus that is capable of being closed pressure-tight. The cassette contains at least one adapter for holding at least one instrument. The adapter will have line channels for the delivery of treatment agents to the interior of the instrument and the adapter can contain a control valve that will close the line channels given an adapter not occupied with an instrument.