CLEANING STERILIZATION APPARATUS

• US 20120167926A1
• Filed: 06/15/2011
• Published: 07/05/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 06/18/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Acp Japan Co., Ltd., Shoichi Nakamura
• Original Assignee: Acp Japan Co., Ltd., Shoichi Nakamura
• Inventors: Nakamura, Shoichi
• Application Number:
  US13/261,003
• Publication Number:
  US 20120167926A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 134/100.1
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 90/70 Cleaning devices specially adapted for surgical instruments
• CPC Class Codes: A61L 2/183 Ozone dissolved in a liquid
• CPC Class Codes: A61L 2202/14 Means for controlling sterilisation processes, data processing, presentation and storage means, e.g. sensors, controllers, programs
• CPC Class Codes: A61L 2202/17 Combination with washing or cleaning means
• CPC Class Codes: A61L 2202/24 Medical instruments, e.g. endoscopes, catheters, sharps
• CPC Class Codes: B01F 23/2323 by circulating the flow in guiding constructions or conduits
• CPC Class Codes: B01F 23/237613 Ozone
• CPC Class Codes: B01F 25/422 between stacked plates, e.g. grooved or perforated plates
• CPC Class Codes: B08B 3/02 Cleaning by the force of jets or sprays
• CPC Class Codes: C02F 1/78 with ozone C02F1/4672 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: C02F 2209/42 Liquid level
• CPC Class Codes: Y02W 10/37 using solar energy

Abstract

To provide a cleaning sterilization apparatus capable of sterilizing an object to be cleaned such as a medical instrument effectively in a short time by generating and using ozone water containing ozone with particle diameters hard to disappear in water, the cleaning sterilization apparatus is provided with cleaning water supply means, ozone water generating means, and squirting means for squirting cleaning water and ozone water toward the object to be cleaned inside a container, where the ozone water generating means is provided with a mixing pump which takes in ozone and water to mix and generates ozone-mixed water, ozone supply means for supplying ozone to the mixing pump, stirring means for colliding the ozone-mixed water from the mixing pump sequentially with a plurality of protrusions with running-water pressure applied inside an enclosed running-water channel with the plurality of protrusions arranged therein, and thereby making ozone contained in the ozone-mixed water finer to generate ozone water, and a line mixer which causes the stirring means to circulate and stir the ozone-mixed water generated by the mixing pump and thereby adjusts particle diameters of ozone contained in the ozone-mixed water.

Claims

1. A cleaning sterilization apparatus which cleans an object to be cleaned by squirting cleaning water with the object to be cleaned held inside a container, while sterilizing and disinfecting the object to be cleaned by oxidation-decomposing organic substances such as a virus, bacteria or the like adhering to the object to be cleaned using ozone water, comprising:

cleaning water supply means for supplying cleaning water;

ozone water generating means for generating ozone water to supply; and

squirting means for squirting the cleaning water and the ozone water toward the object to be cleaned inside the container,

wherein the ozone water generating means is provided with a mixing pump which takes in ozone and water to mix, and generates ozone-mixed water with ozone mixed into water,

ozone supply means for supplying ozone to the mixing pump,

stirring means for colliding the ozone-mixed water supplied from the mixing pump sequentially with a plurality of protrusions with running-water pressure applied inside an enclosed running-water channel with the plurality of protrusions arranged therein, and thereby making ozone contained in the ozone-mixed water finer to generate ozone water, and

a line mixer which causes the stirring means to circulate and stir the ozone-mixed water generated by the mixing pump and thereby adjusts particle diameters of ozone contained in the ozone-mixed water.

2. The cleaning sterilization apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the cleaning sterilization apparatus squirts the ozone water to the object to be cleaned by the squirting means while circulating the ozone water, and thereby sterilizes and disinfects the object to be cleaned inside the container.

3. The cleaning sterilization apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the cleaning sterilization apparatus circulates the ozone water at a predetermined flow rate with the object to be cleaned immersed in the ozone water, and thereby sterilizes and disinfects the object to be cleaned inside the container.

4. The cleaning sterilization apparatus according to claim 3, further comprising:

ultrasonic vibration means for vibrating the ozone water at a frequency of an ultrasonic band inside the container.

5. The cleaning sterilization apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the stirring means has a circular stirring plate with a plurality of protrusions spaced circumferentially formed therein, collides the ozone-mixed water sequentially with the plurality of protrusions, and thereby makes ozone contained in the ozone-mixed water finer.

6. The cleaning sterilization apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the stirring means has a stirring block in the shape of a cylinder with a plurality of protrusions spaced circumferentially formed in a tapered inner surface of the cylinder, collides the ozone-mixed water sequentially with the plurality of protrusions, and thereby makes ozone contained in the ozone water finer.

7. The cleaning sterilization apparatus according to claim 3, wherein particle diameters of ozone bubbles inside the ozone water are controlled to within a desired size range by adjusting the running-water pressure inside the stirring means by the mixing pump and time of circulation stirring by the line mixer.

8. The cleaning sterilization apparatus according to claim 7, wherein a discharge pressure of the ozone-mixed water by the mixing pump which is supplied to the stirring means by the mixing pump ranges from 3 to 8 atmospheres.

9. The cleaning sterilization apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the desired size range of particle diameters of the ozone bubbles ranges from 4 to 50 μ

m.

10. The cleaning sterilization apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the mixing pump takes in the cleaning water and mixes the cleaning water with the ozone water, and the squirting means squirts the cleaning water and the ozone water toward the object to be cleaned.

11. The cleaning sterilization apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the cleaning water contains a hydrogen peroxide solution as well as the cleaning agent.

12. The cleaning sterilization apparatus according to claim 1, wherein as well as the cleaning agent, the cleaning water contains a photocatalyst, apatite or photocatalyst-apatite alone or a complex thereof.

13. The cleaning sterilization apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the ozone supply means generates an ozone gas with an ozone concentration ranging from 70 to 120 g/m3 to supply to the mixing pump.