Patent ID: 6488889
Filing Date: 2002-12-03
Classification: A61L

Abstract:
An arrangement for carrying out a process for evacuating a reactor, in which process at least one object is sterilized by low pressure plasma, from atmospheric pressure to plasma discharge pressure, wherein at least two successive, but separate, evacuation stages are provided, whereby the reactor in the first evacuation stage is evacuated to an intermediary pressure and in the last evacuation stage the reactor is evacuated at least to the plasma discharge pressure, said arrangement comprising:a plurality of reactors which are each provided with devices for taking up at least one of the containers to be sterilized and to which at least two vacuum chambers of differing pressure levels are arranged, and to which the reactors are successively connectable, wherein the reactors are arranged at the periphery of a round runner, which travels through a plurality of stationarily arranged sectors, at each of which a sector vacuum chamber of differing pressure levels is arranged.