Process for microbial barrier vent to a foil package

US6021625A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Ethicon, Inc. · US

Inventors

• Robert J. Cerwin · Wantage, US
• Robert A. Daniele · Flemington, US
• Clifford Dey · Flemington, US
• J. Mark Findlay · Pieter Appelplein, US
• Konstantin Ivanov · Edison, US
• Matthew E. Krever · New Brunswick, US
• Jervis P. Lynch · Iselin, US
• Robert Nunez · Phillipsburg, US
• William R. Reinhardt · Montgomery, US
• Mehmet Reyhan · Plainsboro, US
• David Szabo · Doylestown, US
• Manfred Reiser · Winnenden, DE
• Rolf Grotehusmann · Michelfeld, DE
• Manfred Hild · Schorndorf, DE
• Bernhard Frey · Schaffhausen, CH

Key dates

• Filing date: Nov 24, 1998
• Grant date: Feb 8, 2000
• Expiry date: Nov 24, 2018

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B65B31/06
• WIPO field: Handling
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A process for applying a biobarrier member to a vent opening in a foil member used for medical device packaging. The process provides for cutting a biobarrier member from a roll of stock and sealing the biobarrier member about the vent opening in the foil member. The seal is tested for integrity and the biobarrier member is tested for porosity.