Hand held sterilization devices
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1. A hand-held device for sanitizing a surface comprising:
- a hand-held light source housing comprising an ultraviolet light source in a receptacle in the housing, with a light-emitting face of the housing having an opening for emitting light from the light source;
a covering housing rotatably mounted to the light source housing, with the covering housing having a niche for receiving the light source housing and comprising a covering face parallel to the light-emitting face of the housing;
wherein the light source in the light source housing is rotatable from a covered position inside the niche with the opening being covered by the covering housing to a deployment position outside the niche with the opening not being covered by the covering housing, with the covering face and the light-emitting face being parallel as the covering housing is rotated out of the niche to the deployment position.
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Abstract
Convenient mobile sterilization devices are described herein that, in certain embodiments, provide secure storage in a niche in a protective housing and one-button action to automatically deploy and activate the device for quick and powerful destruction of germs on a surface using one hand. Users can hold the UV-light device and move it across a target surface to sterilize or disinfect the surface. The device may be compact, easily deployed, provided with a durable cover for secure storage, and equipped with safety shut-off features to prevent unwanted uses.
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1. A hand-held device for sanitizing a surface comprising:
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a hand-held light source housing comprising an ultraviolet light source in a receptacle in the housing, with a light-emitting face of the housing having an opening for emitting light from the light source; a covering housing rotatably mounted to the light source housing, with the covering housing having a niche for receiving the light source housing and comprising a covering face parallel to the light-emitting face of the housing; wherein the light source in the light source housing is rotatable from a covered position inside the niche with the opening being covered by the covering housing to a deployment position outside the niche with the opening not being covered by the covering housing, with the covering face and the light-emitting face being parallel as the covering housing is rotated out of the niche to the deployment position. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)
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9. A device for sanitizing a surface comprising:
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light source housing comprising a light source, with a light-emitting face of the housing having an opening for emitting light from the light source; a covering rotatably mounted to the light source housing, with the covering having a covering face parallel to the light-emitting face of the housing; wherein the light source housing is rotatable from a covered position with the opening being covered by the cover to a deployment position with the opening not being covered by the cover, with the covering face and the light-emitting face being parallel as the light source housing is rotated. - View Dependent Claims (10, 11, 12)
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13. A method by a user of sanitizing an object comprising:
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moving a light source in a light source housing from a niche inside a covering housing to a deployed position to thereby uncover the light source and to activate the light source to emit ultraviolet light from the light source housing onto the object that a user intends to sanitize, and moving the device by hand to emit the light onto the object and thereby kill organisms on the object to sanitize the object, with the light source being recessed in a light-emitting face of the light source housing and the covering housing comprising a covering face that is parallel to and opposed to the light-emitting face in the covering position and that is parallel to the light emitting face in the deployed position. - View Dependent Claims (14, 15, 16)
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