Ozone infection control device
AssigneeDenco, Inc.
InventorsIvars V. Ivansons, Dudley W. C. Spencer
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Abstract
An infection control device includes a plurality of air inlets spaced around the device's peripheral skirt. A negative ion ozone generator having a plurality of spaced pointed projections is inwardly of the peripheral skirt with a ground disk inwardly of the generator. Air flows through the inlets to the generator, to the disk and to a catheter exit site.
Claims19
An ozone infection control device comprising a body portion having an exit passageway, said body portion having a downwardly extending peripheral skirt, a plurality of air inlet openings spaced around said peripheral skirt, a negative ion ozone generator having a plurality of spaced projections within said body portion spaced inwardly of said peripheral skirt in a path of flow of air flowing though said inlet openings to generate ozone from the air at said ozone generator, a ground disk within said body portion inwardly of said ozone generator, and the path of flow in said body portion extending from said inlet openings and to said ozone generator and then to said ground disk and then exiting at said exit passageway for bathing a site under said device with ozone.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.