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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 14, 1981
Filed:
Feb. 06, 1979
Richard C Bainbridge, McKean, PA (US);
Ronald P Krahe, Girard, PA (US);
American Sterilizer Company, Erie, PA (US);
Abstract
Sterilizing apparatus and control arrangement providing for selective operation of a plurality of differing types of sterilizing units including sterilizers capable of carrying out a plurality of differing steam and/or gas sterilizing cycles are disclosed. An electronic microcomputer controller is provided on a plurality of circuit boards, at least one of which is an integrated complete controller for at least one type of sterilizer; expander circuit boards extend control to remaining differing types of sterilizers. Also, provision is made for automatically identifying each differing type of sterilizer upon interconnecting an integrated control system with a selected sterilizer.