US 8,754,385 B1 · Advanced system and method for ozone containing packaging for sanitizing application

Abstract

A method and system for providing a sanitizing treatment for a product or object while inside a package. The system provides an atmosphere inside a contained environment that reduces, or eliminates, oxygen from the atmosphere, the contained environment containing at least one product or object packaged inside a package. At least one UV energy source transmits ultraviolet energy through the atmosphere inside the contained environment and toward the packaged product or object contained therein, the ultraviolet energy providing at least one of a sanitizing, disinfecting and sterilizing treatment to the packaged product or object by converting oxygen in an atmosphere between an inside surface of the package of the packaged product or object and the surface of the product or object to ozone in the atmosphere therebetween.

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Dependent claims

A multi-compartment package for providing at least one of a sanitizing, disinfecting, and sterilizing treatment to a product or object inside the package, comprising:

a main compartment for containing a product or object therein;
and
at least a first compartment adjacent to the main compartment and being separate and divided from the main compartment by packaging material comprising a composition that allows ultraviolet energy from at least a first ultraviolet energy source in the first compartment to pass through the packaging material and into the main compartment, the first compartment being filled with an atmosphere comprising nitrogen such that there is little to no oxygen molecules in the first compartment and containing at least a first ultraviolet energy source therein, the at least a first ultraviolet energy source being controllable to emit ultraviolet energy from the first compartment, through the packaging material, and into the main compartment thereby providing at least one of a sanitizing, disinfecting and sterilizing treatment to the product or object inside the package.

A package for containing a product or object inside the package, comprising:

a main compartment for containing a product or object therein;
and
at least a first compartment adjacent to the main compartment and being separate and divided from the main compartment by packaging material comprising a composition that allows ultraviolet energy from at least a first ultraviolet energy source in the first compartment to pass through the packaging material and into the main compartment, the first compartment being filled with an atmosphere comprising at least one of nitrogen, a noble gas, Argon gas, helium gas, and an inert gas, such that there is little to no oxygen molecules in the first compartment and containing at least a first ultraviolet energy source therein, the at least a first ultraviolet energy source being controllable to emit ultraviolet energy from the first compartment, through the packaging material, and into the main compartment thereby providing at least one of a sanitizing, disinfecting and sterilizing treatment to the product or object inside the package.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Advanced system and method for ozone containing packaging for sanitizing application

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Advanced system and method for ozone containing packaging for sanitizing application

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Abstract

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