Switch sanitizing device
AssigneeUniversity of South Carolina
InventorsJay Moskowitz, Michael Randall
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Abstract
The invention relates to a family of devices to be used for sanitizing switches. The device is placed around the periphery of the switch and contains a means for exposing the switch touch surfaces to UV light source local to the switch in order to maximize the exposure of the switch to the UV light source. Because the light is localized and directed toward the switch contact surfaces, the device may be used continuously while humans or animals are present without detrimental exposure to the UV light, ensuring a sanitary switch contact surface so as to reduce or prevent infection or disease resulting from transference of contamination from one person to another via contact transference with said switch surface.
Claims20
A switch sanitizing device, comprising:
- a plate defining a switch aperture;
- a switch extending through the switch aperture, wherein the switch is moveable between an off-position and an on-position;
- a first sanitizing source positioned on the device such that UV electromagnetic radiation from the first sanitizing source is directed to a first contact surface area on the switch;
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- a second sanitizing source positioned on the device such that UV electromagnetic radiation from the second sanitizing source is directed to a second contact surface area on the switch.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.