Patent ID: 6730923
Filing Date: 2004-05-04
Classification: A61L

Abstract:
An apparatus for carrying a target object having a plurality of surfaces, within a pulsed light sterilization chamber, the pulsed light sterilization chamber including a treatment zone within which pulsed sterilizing light is emitted, the apparatus comprising:a thin film transmissive carrier within the treatment zone detachably coupled to the target object, the thin film transmissive carrier having a transmissivity of at least about 10% to light within the 250 to 350 nm wavelength range; and moving means coupled to the thin film transmissive carrier for moving the target object on the thin film transmissive carrier through the treatment zone, the plurality of surfaces of the target object being sterilized by the pulsed sterilizing light in the treatment zone, at least a portion of the pulsed sterilizing light passing though the thin film transmissive carrier before reaching the target object.