# US 10,500,032 B2 · Encapsulated absorber and temporal activation thereof > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 10,500,032 B2 - Document ID: US10500032B2 - Status: Granted - Kind: B2 - Application number: 16/096,581 - Filed: 2017-05-04 - Published: 2019-05-09 - Granted: 2019-12-10 - Earliest claimed: 2016-05-23 - Assignees: BIOTRONIK SE & Co. KG - Applicants: Biotronik AG - Inventors: Fabian Risch; Matthias Wesselmann; Stefan Wessbecher; Bodo Quint - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US10500032B2 ## CPC - A61F 2/0095: {Packages or dispensers for prostheses or other implants (for intraocular lenses A61F2/1691; for dental surgery A61C19/02)} - B65D 81/268: {the absorber being enclosed in a small pack, e.g. bag, included in the package} - A61B 50/30: Containers specially adapted for packaging, protecting, dispensing, collecting or disposing of surgical or diagnostic appliances or instruments (for wound clamps A61B17/10; for ligaturing clips A61B17/122; packages or dispensers for surgical gloves or finger-stalls A61B42/40) - A61M 25/002: {Packages specially adapted therefor (combined with means for introducing catheters, e.g. dispensers, A61M25/0113); catheter kit packages (for surgical articles A61B50/30)} - A61F: FILTERS IMPLANTABLE INTO BLOOD VESSELS; PROSTHESES; DEVICES PROVIDING PATENCY TO, OR PREVENTING COLLAPSING OF, TUBULAR STRUCTURES OF THE BODY, e.g. STENTS; ORTHOPAEDIC, NURSING OR CONTRACEPTIVE DEVICES; FOMENTATION; TREATMENT OR PROTECTION OF EYES OR EARS; BANDAGES, DRESSINGS OR ABSORBENT PADS; FIRST-AID KITS (dental prosthetics A61C) - B65D: CONTAINERS FOR STORAGE OR TRANSPORT OF ARTICLES OR MATERIALS, e.g. BAGS, BARRELS, BOTTLES, BOXES, CANS, CARTONS, CRATES, DRUMS, JARS, TANKS, HOPPERS, FORWARDING CONTAINERS; ACCESSORIES, CLOSURES, OR FITTINGS THEREFOR; PACKAGING ELEMENTS; PACKAGES - A61B: DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; IDENTIFICATION (usefulness limited to only animals A61D) - A61M: DEVICES FOR INTRODUCING MEDIA INTO, OR ONTO, THE BODY (introducing media into or onto the bodies of animals A61D7/00; means for inserting tampons A61F13/26; devices for administering food or medicines orally A61J; containers for collecting, storing or administering blood or medical fluids A61J1/05); DEVICES FOR TRANSDUCING BODY MEDIA OR FOR TAKING MEDIA FROM THE BODY (surgery A61B; chemical aspects of surgical articles A61L); DEVICES FOR PRODUCING OR ENDING SLEEP OR STUPOR {(Electrotherapy, e.g. producing anaesthesia by the use of alternating or intermittent currents A61N1/36021)} ## Abstract Packaging has an outer sleeve, which surrounds an interior space for receiving an object, such as a sterilized medical implant. A separate container is arranged in the interior space and surrounds an absorber in a gas-tight manner, such that a gas present in the interior space cannot pass to the absorber. The container is configured to be opened by the application of force when the outer sleeve is closed, such that a gas disposed in the interior space can pass to the absorber and can be absorbed thereby. In preferred embodiments, the absorber absorbs air with the reactive constituents O2 and/or H2O. Depending on the application, however, other gases can also be absorbed by the absorber. A method for packaging is also provided. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A packaging for an object that is to be sterilized, said packaging comprising an outer sleeve surrounding an interior space sized and shaped to receive the object, a container arranged in the interior space and surrounding an absorber in a gas-tight manner, such that a gas present in the interior space cannot pass to the absorber, wherein the container is designed to be opened while the outer sleeve is closed with the object in the interior space, such that a gas disposed in the interior space can pass to the absorber and can be absorbed thereby. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The packaging according to claim 1, wherein the container is formed as a rigid capsule or as a flexible pouch. ### Claim 3 (depends on 1) The packaging according to claim 1, wherein the container comprises an inner container surrounding the absorber in a gas-tight manner and a gas-permeable sleeve surrounding the inner container. ### Claim 4 (depends on 1) The packaging according to claim 1, wherein the container is fixed in the interior space to the outer sleeve. ### Claim 5 (depends on 1) The packaging according to claim 1, wherein the container has a different form in an opened state and a closed state, in such a way that the state of the container can be determined haptically or visually through the surrounding outer sleeve. ### Claim 6 (depends on 1) A packaged object, comprising a packaging according to claim 1, wherein the packaged object is the object arranged in the interior space. ### Claim 7 (depends on 6) The packaged object according to claim 6, wherein the object is a medical implant. ### Claim 8 A method for packaging an object that is to be sterilized, said method comprising the following steps: placing a container and the object in an interior space of an outer sleeve, wherein the container surrounds an absorber in a gas-tight manner, sterilizing the object before or after placing it in the outer sleeve and closing the outer sleeve after the sterilizing and the object being placed in the outer sleeve, and opening the container after the outer sleeve is closed such that a gas disposed in the interior space is absorbed by the absorber. ### Claim 9 (depends on 8) The method according to claim 8, wherein the container is sterilized before it is arranged in the interior space. ### Claim 10 (depends on 8) The method according to claim 8, wherein the container comprises an inner container, which encloses the absorber in a gas-tight manner, and also comprises a gas-permeable sleeve surrounding the inner container, wherein the container is sterilized together with the object in the interior space. ### Claim 11 (depends on 8) The method according to claim 8, wherein the opening comprises applying force to the container through the outer sleeve after the outer sleeve is closed.