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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 03, 2015
Filed:
Mar. 10, 2010
Hirofumi Hayashi, Wakayama, JP;
Tomoyuki Hirose, Wakayama, JP;
Kazuhiro Kimura, Wakayama, JP;
Masaaki Mike, Wakayama, JP;
Ryuichi Iwasaki, Wakayama, JP;
Shigeru Masuda, Wakayama, JP;
Toru Tanibata, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Joongsoo Kim, Los Altos, CA (US);
Sang Hun Lee, San Ramon, CA (US);
Jae-mo Koo, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Orion Weihe, Fremont, CA (US);
Andrew Way, San Jose, CA (US);
Hirofumi Hayashi, Wakayama, JP;
Tomoyuki Hirose, Wakayama, JP;
Kazuhiro Kimura, Wakayama, JP;
Masaaki Mike, Wakayama, JP;
Ryuichi Iwasaki, Wakayama, JP;
Shigeru Masuda, Wakayama, JP;
Toru Tanibata, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Joongsoo Kim, Los Altos, CA (US);
Sang Hun Lee, San Ramon, CA (US);
Jae-Mo Koo, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Orion Weihe, Fremont, CA (US);
Andrew Way, San Jose, CA (US);
Noxilizer, Inc., Baltimore, MD (US);
Abstract
By focusing on the fact that nitrogen dioxide exhibits an increased sterilizing effect among other sterilant gases including nitrogen oxide, the present invention is made to provide a sterilization method which may be suitably used for sterilizing items to be sterilized such as medical instruments which require increased reliability by using a high concentration NOgas of 5,000 ppm or above, for example. An inside of a sterilizing chamber containing an item to be sterilized is humidified, and a concentration of NOin the sterilizing chamber is made to be from 9 to 100 mg/L by filling a high concentration NOgas.