Patent ID: 7303073
Filing Date: 2007-12-04
Classification: A61L,A61M

Abstract:
1. A package intended to be used to transport objects which are sterile or to be sterilized, comprising: a box intended to accommodate the objects; a covering sheet made of a selectively leaktight material which is fastened onto the box so as to seal the box in a leaktight manner; a layer of a material forming a screen which is capable of at least one of passing a decontamination gas and being able to absorb the decontamination gas; the layer having a shape and dimensions such that the layer can be placed in the box along the covering sheet above objects contained in the package, one of said layer and the objects being mobile between a diffusion position wherein unrestricted diffusion of a sterilization gas in the package is allowed, and a nondiffusion position wherein diffusion of at least a portion of the decontamination gas is prevented from entering the package; the package further comprising a plate provided with projections, the plate being shaped in order, in said diffusion position, to allow unrestricted diffusion of the sterilization gas in the package, and, in said nondiffusion position, to prevent at least a portion of the decontamination gas from diffusing in the package.