Patent ID: 6348151
Filing Date: 2002-02-19
Classification: C02F,E03B

Abstract:
Device for sterilizing and filtering water flowing through a sanitary appliance, having:a) a housing, which comprises an inlet and an outlet for the water; b) a filtering apparatus, which is disposed in a treatment chamber inside the housing and subdivides the treatment chamber into at least two sub-chambers and through which the water travelling between the inlet and the outlet of the housing has to pass; c) a UV lamp, which is disposed inside the housing and the radiation of which is directed towards the water flowing through and towards the filtering apparatus; characterized in that d) the housing is so dimensioned that the device is installed in the water channel of a sanitary appliance; e) the filtering apparatus is a single sintered body which transmits UV radiation; f) the sub-chambers of the treatment chamber are subdivided into two sets, of which at least one comprises a plurality of sub-chambers, g) the sub-chambers of the one set communicate with the inlet of the housing and the sub-chambers of the other set communicate with the outlet of the housing, wherein h) the sub-chambers of the one set are separated from the sub-chambers of the outer set by active filter regions of the filtering apparatus.