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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 19, 2001
Filed:
Feb. 14, 2000
Applicant:
Inventors:
Van Nguyen Tran, Bundoora, AU;
Christopher Chia Shyong Pan, West Footscray, AU;
David Lee Carew, St. Albans, AU;
Assignee:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H05B 6/64 ; B65B 5/508 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H05B 6/64 ; B65B 5/508 ;
Abstract
Method and apparatus for preferential heating of a material are based on exposing the material to high intensity, pulsed, non-ionizing electromagnetic radiation. The method can destroy microorganisms, sterilize packaging, or sterilize moist food. An embodiment uses microwave radiation with pulse duration of less than 0.1 second with an average power of at least 1 kW to sterilize open-ended metal can prior to packaging.