Plasma sterilizing process with pulsed antimicrobial agent treatment
CA 2050368 C · Owner: Campbell, Bryant A. (Deceased) · Inventors: Campbell, Bryant A. (Deceased); Moulton, Kern A.; Caputo, Ross A.
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A process for plasma sterilization including exposing an article in a sterilizing chamber to at least one combination sterilizing cycle. Each combination sterilizing cycle includes a pulsed treatment with gaseous antimicrobial agent, removal of the gaseous antimicrobial agent, and a plasma treatment. The pulsed treatment includes one or more pulse-vacuum cycles each, pulse-vacuum cycle includes the steps of evacuating the sterilizing chamber and exposing the article to the gaseous antimicrobial agent with a predetermined pressure profile during a predetermined time. The gaseous antimicrobial agent is preferably carried in a gas mixture with a nonreactive, carrier gas. In one embodiment, the …
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- Filed August 30, 1991 and granted March 21, 2000. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended August 30, 2011.
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