Patent ID: 7500498
Filing Date: 2009-03-10
Classification: A61J,A61L,B29C,B29L,B65B,B65D

Abstract:
1. A method comprising the following steps: providing a laser source that transmits laser radiation at a predetermined wavelength and power; providing a sealed, empty device defining a sterile chamber sealed with respect to ambient atmosphere and a resealable portion in fluid communication with the sterile chamber, wherein the resealable portion includes a body defining a predetermined wall thickness that substantially absorbs the laser radiation at the predetermined wavelength and power and substantially prevents the passage of the radiation therethrough, and a penetrable region that is penetrable with a filling member and that defines a predetermined color and opacity that substantially absorbs the laser radiation at the predetermined wavelength and power to hermetically seal an aperture therein; penetrating the penetrable region of the body with a filling member coupled in fluid communication with a source of a substance; introducing the substance through the filling member and into the chamber of the device; withdrawing the filling member from the penetrable region of the body; applying laser radiation from the laser source at the predetermined wavelength and power to an aperture formed in the penetrable region of the body; substantially absorbing within the penetrable region of the body the laser radiation at the predetermined wavelength and power and substantially preventing the passage of radiation through the predetermined wall thickness of the body; and hermetically sealing the aperture in the penetrable region of the body with the laser radiation within a predetermined time period and, in turn, hermetically sealing the substance within the chamber of the device.