Patent ID: 8373138
Filing Date: 2013-02-12
Classification: A61L,B65B,G21K

Abstract:
1. A vessel sterilization apparatus comprising an electron beam irradiation device, a vessel conveying device, a sterilization chamber, an irradiation chamber, a discharge chamber, a gas supply means for supplying aseptic dry air into the irradiation chamber and maintaining it in a dried condition and a pressure control means for controlling and maintaining the pressure in the discharge chamber to be higher than the pressure in the irradiation chamber, the vessel conveying device being disposed in the sterilization chamber and the sterilization chamber preventing the exiting of X-rays and electron beams therefrom, the electron beam irradiation device having an electron beam irradiation surface positioned for irradiating a conveying path of a vessel conveyed by the vessel conveying device so that the vessel is irradiated with an electron beam and sterilized during its conveyance within the sterilization chamber, the irradiation chamber having a vessel inlet and a vessel outlet and being formed within the sterilization chamber to surround the irradiation surface of the electron beam irradiation device and the vessel to be irradiated and the discharge chamber communicates with the vessel outlet of the irradiation chamber and covers a conveying path of the vessel after the vessel has been sterilized.