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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 02, 2019
Filed:
Dec. 27, 2016
Webb Medical Llc, Philadelphia, PA (US);
Daniel Hyun Shin, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Steven B. Krupnick, Philadelphia, PA (US);
Casey Clark, Philadelphia, PA (US);
Other;
Abstract
Disclosed are apparatus and a method for sterilizing an internal surface of a lumen in a medical instrument, e.g., an endoscope. The apparatus is in the form of an elongated UVC light guide, e.g., an optic fiber, having a central longitudinal axis and which is configured to be extended down the lumen in the instrument, and a housing including a source of UVC light. The UVC light guide includes a distal end portion and is configured to carry UVC light internally from the source of UVC light to the distal end portion. The distal end portion includes a reflective surface for directing the UVC light radially outward with respect to the central longitudinal axis, whereupon when the UVC light guide is extended into the lumen in the medical instrument the radially directed UVC light impinges the internal surface of the lumen to sterilize it.