Patent ID: 7282176
Filing Date: 2007-10-16
Classification: B01L,B25J,G21F,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A method for sterilizing by mounting handling equipment on an interface of a confinement chamber including a fixed flange defining a chamber opening sealed by a chamber door, the method comprising: preparing an assembly including the handling equipment, mounted on a moving flange defining an equipment opening sealed by an equipment door; coupling the assembly onto the interface, to connect the moving flange to the fixed flange and the equipment door to the chamber door; opening a double door formed by the equipment door and the chamber door connected to one another; wherein the confinement chamber is configured to contain a sterile atmosphere, and the preparing of the assembly is followed by: sterilizing the confinement chamber and a hidden part of the interface, after coupling impervious tooling onto the fixed flange and partial opening of the chamber door, wherein imperviousness of the handling equipment is controlled by connecting a control unit to the fixed flange, after coupling the assembly and the double door opening.