Patent · US Expired

Sterilization chamber for sterilizing objects

US7229590B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

Ruediger Haaga GmbH · DE

Inventors

Peter Awakowicz · Munich, DE
Robert Frost · LaGrange, US
Gernot Keil · Braunweiler, DE
Peter Scheubert · Munich, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Jan 20, 2004
Grant date	Jun 12, 2007
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Jan 20, 2024

Classification

Technology area (CPC A)Human Necessities
CPC primaryA61L2202/122
WIPO fieldMedical technology
WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

Described is a sterilization chamber for sterilizing objects for application in a process in which a vapour composite, composed of water vapour and hydrogen peroxide vapour, is guided without a carrier gas flow into the sterilization chamber in which a vacuum prevails, whereby the vapour composite settles on the surfaces of the objects to be sterilized and on the surfaces of the sterilization chamber in the form of a condensation layer, which is suctioned off by means of further evacuation of the sterilization chamber after a certain reaction time. In accordance with the present invention, the surfaces of the sterilization chamber consist of poor heat-conducting, water-repellent material.

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