Cassette for treating medical instruments
AssigneeSiemens Aktiengesellschaft
InventorsRalf Sutter, Lutz Beerstecher, David Hruza, Raimund Stetter-Alle, Karl Trackl
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Abstract
A cassette for the acceptance of medical instruments, and preferably dental instruments, to enable a hygienic treatment of the instruments when the cassette is placed into a chamber of an apparatus that is capable of being closed pressure-tight. The cassette contains at least one adapter for holding at least one instrument. The adapter will have line channels for the delivery of treatment agents to the interior of the instrument and the adapter can contain a control valve that will close the line channels given an adapter not occupied with an instrument.
Claims14
In a cassette having an interior for receiving medical instruments including dental instruments for purposes of hygienic treatment, said cassette being placeable in a pressure-tight closable chamber of a treatment apparatus wherein the interior of the cassette is subjected to a treatment process, the improvements comprising the cassette having at least one adapter for holding at least one instrument, said adapter comprising line channels for delivering treatment agents into the interior of the instrument and means enabling a direct spraying of all external surfaces of each instrument with treatment agents from a plurality of nozzles or nozzle arms arranged around each instrument.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.