Ethicon, Gmbh

Ken Orii

Katsumi Takahashi

Keiji Fujii

In a sterilizing agent capsule container and a sterilizer using the sterilizing agent capsule container where a vacuum sterilizing housing is filled with a chemical vapor obtained by the vaporization of a sterilizing agent to sterilize an object to be sterilized, a plurality of sealed sterilizing agent capsules are accommodated in the axial direction of a needle for removing a sterilizing agent in a capsule accommodation chamber of the sterilizing agent capsule container and the sealed sterilizing agent capsules are made of a material through which the needle can pass. A plurality of the sealed sterilizing agent capsules in the sterilizing agent capsule container can be gradually punctured by the needle in sequence. Thus, a moving device for horizontally moving the sterilizing agent capsule container and displacing sealed sterilizing agent capsules to a removal position corresponding to the needle, and a pressurizing device for compressing and pressuring the sealed sterilizing agent capsules at the removal position are not particularly required. As a result, the space occupied by the sterilizing agent capsule container can be reduced and the structure thereof can be simplified with a decrease in cost.

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Yamanashi, Japan

Ken Orii