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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 03, 2009
Filed:
Jul. 09, 2002
Kurt Burger, Friolzheim, DE;
Guenter Schneider, Besigheim, DE;
Thomas Beck, Kirchberg, DE;
Wolfgang Szczerba, Murrhardt, DE;
Bernd Wilke, Leutenbach, DE;
Johannes Rauschnabel, Stuttgart, DE;
Sascha Henke, Weil der Stadt, DE;
Bernd Goetzelmann, Rot Am See, DE;
Heinrich Van DE Loecht, Rudersberg, DE;
Wolfgang Schmitt, Schorndorf, DE;
Kurt Burger, Friolzheim, DE;
Guenter Schneider, Besigheim, DE;
Thomas Beck, Kirchberg, DE;
Wolfgang Szczerba, Murrhardt, DE;
Bernd Wilke, Leutenbach, DE;
Johannes Rauschnabel, Stuttgart, DE;
Sascha Henke, Weil der Stadt, DE;
Bernd Goetzelmann, Rot Am See, DE;
Heinrich Van De Loecht, Rudersberg, DE;
Wolfgang Schmitt, Schorndorf, DE;
Robert Bosch GmbH, Stuttgart, DE;
Abstract
A method and device for sterilizing containers in which a plasma treatment is executed through excitation of an electromagnetic oscillation so that the plasma is excited in a vacuum in the vicinity of the container regions to be sterilized. Between arrival and discharge, the container regions to be sterilized are moved closer to the oscillation-generating device in the chamber, with continuous movement of the container and/or of the oscillation-generating device for one or more predetermined time intervals in such a way that a plasma is excited in these regions inside and/or outside the container. The chamber is provided with a transport apparatus inside it, which produces an essentially rotating motion of the container during the transport from the arrival to the discharge in the chamber.