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US 2014/0208541 A1Published application
Self-sterilizing door handle
OwnerDerek Cowburninventor
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Abstract
A system, comprising: a handle including a first portion and a second portion; a housing configured to: expose at least part of the first portion and conceal at least part of the second portion when the handle is in a first state; and expose at least part of the second portion and conceal at least part of the first portion when the handle is in a second state; and a sterilizing source disposed within the housing and configured to substantially sterilizing a portion of the handle concealed by the housing in at least one of the first state and the second state.
Claims1
A system, comprising:
- a handle including a first portion and a second portion;
- a housing configured to:
- expose at least part of the first portion and conceal at least part of the second portion when the handle is in a first state;
- and
- expose at least part of the second portion and conceal at least part of the first portion when the handle is in a second state;
- and
- a sterilizing source disposed within the housing and configured to substantially sterilizing a portion of the handle concealed by the housing in at least one of the first state and the second state.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.