Method for vaporizing a fluid using an electromagnetically responsive heating apparatus
AssigneeSTERIS Inc.
InventorsMichael A. Centanni, Aaron L. Hill, Francis J. Zelina
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Abstract
A method of microbially decontaminating at least one of a defined area and an item within the defined area. The method includes the steps of (a) inductively heating a block comprising an electrically non-conductive material and an electromagnetically responsive material; (b) passing an atomized liquid into an interior passage defined by the block, wherein the inductively heated block vaporizes the atomized liquid that contacts walls of the passage to form an antimicrobial vapor; and (c) flowing the vapor out of the block to the defined area to microbially decontaminate at least one of the defined area and the item.
Claims6
A method of microbially decontaminating at least one of a defined area and an item within the defined area, the method comprising:
- inductively heating a block comprising an electrically non-conductive material and an electromagnetically responsive material, the block defining an interior passage;
- passing an atomized liquid into the interior passage, the inductively heated block vaporizing the atomized liquid which contacts walls of the passage to form an antimicrobial vapor;
- and,
- flowing the vapor out of the block to the defined area to microbially decontaminate at least one of the defined area and the item.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.