Patent · US Expired

Sterilization tunnel

US6413481B1 · kind B1 · utility

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4Claims

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Assignee

Robert Bosch GmbH · DE

Inventors

Ingbert Pennekamp · Crailsheim, DE
Manfred Windsheimer · Germering, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Oct 8, 1999
Grant date	Jul 2, 2002
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Oct 8, 2019

Classification

Technology area (CPC A)Human Necessities
CPC primaryA61L2/04
WIPO fieldMedical technology
WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

A sterilization tunnel for pharmaceutical containers such as vials has an inlet zone, a sterilization zone, and a cooling zone. A conveyor belt for the vials is disposed inside the sterilization tunnel. An emptying device that can be raised and lowered is disposed in the vicinity of the cooling zone. In order to empty the sterilization tunnel, the frame-shaped emptying device is lowered onto the conveyor belt and then pushes an emptying slider, which is being moved through the sterilization tunnel together with the last vials disposed on the conveyor belt, out from the sterilization tunnel. The emptying device permits a particularly simple operation of the sterilization tunnel.

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