Scican Ltd.

Dorin Cioraca

Eduardo C Ghelman

Andy Kwan-Leung Sun

Winston Lei Zeng

Gabriel Neagoe

William Stefanuk

Neil McPhail

Xiang-Dong Yin

Darko Vilotijevic

Edward House

A sterilizer for medical instruments is compact and designed to be placed on a table top. The sterilizer provides includes a cavity for receiving a cassette holding the instruments to be sterilized. A stream circuit provides steam to the cassette for sterilization, and the time required for sterilization is reduced by withdrawing air from the cassette by application of a vacuum. The cavity is evacuated at the same time as the cassette to prevent application of high stresses to the cassette during the vacuum-assisted withdrawal of air. The time for sterilization is further reduced by use of dual heat exchangers to reduce the volume removed from the cassette.

Sterilizer with vacuum-assisted air removal

A steam on demand generator uses a stainless steel cup and cap arrangement and hollow cone spray nozzle. The nozzle directs a cone of water onto a wall of the cup. A heating device and a thermocouple are brazed to the cup, with the thermocouple positioned on a part of the wall to enhance control of the operation and steam generation.

Apparatus for steam sterilization of articles

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Dorin Cioraca