A system for sterilizing an object including a hollow cassette for containing the object, a sealable opening in the cassette for ingress and egress of the object, a seal for forming a fluid-tight seal around the opening, input and output ports in the cassette for receiving and exhausting a sterilizing fluid and a sealing check valve in the input and output ports for providing a fluid-tight seal when no connections are made to the input and output ports such that when the object is sterilized within the cassette, the cassette will maintain a sterilized atmosphere for the object until the cassette is opened to allow use of the object.
申请公布号
US5534221(A)
申请公布日期
1996.07.09
申请号
US19940282228
申请日期
1994.07.29
申请人
AMERICAN STERILIZER COMPANY
发明人
HILLEBRENNER, H. WILLIAM;SHETH, VIPUL B.;STACK, JOSEPH M.;CURTIS, CHARLES T.;BUTLER, KEVIN H.;SHOFF, DAVID E.;PETKO, ROBERT S.;LITTLE, WILLIAM C.;MIELNIK, THADDEUS;ZELL, PETER