Method for sterilizing surgical batteries

• US 9,314,542 B2
• Filed: 01/31/2012
• Issued: 04/19/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 01/31/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Phillip Bohnhoff
• Original Assignee: Phillip Bohnhoff
• Inventors: Bohnhoff, Phillip
• Primary Examiner(s): CONLEY, SEAN EVERETT
• Application Number:
  US13/385,056
• Publication Number:
  US 20140030145A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,540 Days
• Field of Search: 422/22, 422/292, 422/28
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: A61L 2/07 Steam
• CPC Class Codes: A61L 2/26 Accessories or devices or components used for biocidal treatment
• CPC Class Codes: A61L 2202/21 Pharmaceuticals, e.g. medicaments, artificial body parts

Abstract

The invention is an apparatus for sterilizing surgical batteries.

Claims

1. A method of sterilizing medical batteries, comprising:

affixing a plurality of medical batteries in a plurality of battery locks maintained in a sterilization tray;

each battery lock comprises

at least four sides that contour to substantially an entire perimeter of a medical battery, the sides for securing the battery into the battery lock, a base coupled to the at least four sides, the base having a top and a bottom, the top being defined as the side of the base being coupled to the at least four sides, and at least two pins coupled to the bottom of the base, the at least two pins sized to securely couple to a modular sterilization tray via holes;

protecting a plurality of sterilized batteries by enveloping said sterilized batteries with a vacuum sealed wrap;

exposing the medical batteries to a sterilizer;

ending the act of exposing to have a plurality of sterilized batteries.

2. The method in claim 1, wherein the sterilizer is a low temperature gas plasma sterilizer.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the low temperature gas plasma sterilizer is a Sterrad sterilizer.