Apparatus for the sterilization of plastics material containers by means of medium-controlled electron beams

US8961871B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• KRONES AG · DE

Inventors

• Josef Knott · Schierling, DE
• Hans Scheuren · Bad Kreuznach, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Oct 12, 2012
• Grant date: Feb 24, 2015
• Expiry date: May 29, 2033

Classification

• Technology area (CPC H): Electricity
• CPC primary: H01J2237/31
• WIPO field: Medical technology
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

An apparatus for sterilization of an inner wall of containers has a charge carrier source for generating charge carriers, with an acceleration device by which charge carriers are capable of being accelerated in the direction of a charge carrier emission window. The charge carrier emission window is arranged on a treatment device for introduction through an opening into the container along an insertion direction, in order to act upon an inner wall of the container with the charge carriers issuing from the charge carrier emission window. A medium is flowed into the region of the charge carriers issuing out of the charge carrier emission window for changing the dimension of a charge carrier cloud formed by the discharged charge carriers.