Sterilization of an object using low energy electron beam
AssigneePharmalab India Pvt. Ltd.
InventorM Nageswara RAO
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Abstract
A sterilization device has been disclosed. The sterilization device comprises a toroidal housing having an outer wall, an inner wall, and a central cavity to receive an object to be sterilized. The toroidal housing comprises a thermionic cathode to release primary electrons, an anode grid to attract and accelerate the primary electrons to obtain accelerated primary electrons, and an anode wire to pull additional electrons released from a gas plasma discharge within the toroidal housing. The anode wire may accelerate the additional electrons and the accelerated primary electrons to create a spray of accelerated electrons that may be released through the inner wall. The spray of accelerated electrons may collide with the object to sterilize the object.
Claims12
A sterilization device to sterilize an object, the sterilization device comprising:
- a toroidal housing having an outer wall, an inner wall and a central cavity defined by the inner wall, wherein the central cavity is to receive the object to be sterilized, the toroidal housing comprises:
- a thermionic cathode to release one or more primary electrons;
- an anode grid to attract and accelerate the one or more primary electrons to obtain accelerated primary electrons;
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- an anode wire to pull one or more additional electrons,
- wherein the one or more additional electrons are released from a gas plasma discharge within the toroidal housing,
- wherein the anode wire is to accelerate the one or more additional electrons and the accelerated primary electrons to create a spray of accelerated electrons, wherein the spray of accelerated electrons is to be released through the inner wall towards the object to be received by the central cavity, and
- wherein the spray of accelerated electrons is to collide with at least one surface of the object to sterilize the object.
A system comprising:
- a conveyor unit to receive an object to be sterilized;
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- a sterilization device for sterilizing the object,
- wherein the sterilization device comprises a toroidal housing having an outer wall, an inner wall and a central cavity defined by the inner wall, wherein the central cavity is to receive the object to be sterilized, wherein the toroidal housing comprises:
- a thermionic cathode, placed in close proximity with the outer wall, to emit one or more primary electrons;
- an anode grid, placed in close proximity to the thermionic cathode, pull the one or more primary electrons to obtain accelerated primary electrons;
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- an anode wire, placed adjacent to the anode grid, to attract one or more additional electrons released from a gas plasma discharge within the toroidal housing,
- wherein the anode wire accelerates the one or more additional electrons and the accelerated primary electrons to create a spray of accelerated electrons,
- wherein the spray of accelerated electrons is to be released through the inner wall towards the object to be received by the central cavity and is to collide with at least one surface of the object to sterilize the object.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.