Cleaning method with improved long-term hygiene effect
AssigneeMEIKO Maschinenbau GmbH & Co. KG
InventorsMarkus Braun, Thomas Peukert
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Abstract
A method for cleaning and/or disinfecting an item to be cleaned is proposed. The item to be cleaned is exposed to at least one cleaning fluid, heat equivalents to which the item to be cleaned is exposed being recorded. The heat equivalents are added up, the heat equivalents additionally being weighted with a compensation function during the summation of the heat equivalents. The compensation function can be a function of the temperature at which the heat equivalents were recorded. The compensation function can be adapted to provide heat equivalents recorded in at least one exceptional temperature range with a lower weighting than heat equivalents recorded in other temperature ranges.
Claims16
A method for cleaning and/or disinfecting an item to be cleaned, the method comprising:
- exposing the item to be cleaned to at least one cleaning fluid;
- recording heat equivalents to which the item to be cleaned is exposed;
- summing the heat equivalents;
- weighting the heat equivalents with a compensation function during the summation of the heat equivalents, the compensation function being a function of the temperature at which the heat equivalents were recorded;
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- adapting the compensation function to provide heat equivalents recorded in at least one exceptional temperature range with a lower weighting than heat equivalents recorded in other temperature ranges.
The method according to claim 5, wherein the regrowth temperature is selected so that delayed regrowth of apparently killed and/or only partially killed and/or at least temporarily inactivated test germs and/or at least one predetermined target germ takes place at least in a reduced fashion.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.