Patent ID: 8435460
Filing Date: 2013-05-07
Classification: A61L

Abstract:
1. A sterilized connection apparatus comprising: sealing means for forming between a first sealed box having an opening sealed by a first cover body and a second sealed box having an opening sealed by a second cover body, a decontamination space used to isolate the first cover body and the second cover body from an external atmosphere; decontamination medium supplying means for supplying a vaporized decontamination medium to the decontamination space through a supply line; and a discharge pipe line for discharging the decontamination medium from the decontamination space, wherein cover body connecting means is provided for coupling the first cover body and the second cover body and forms the decontamination space as a circular decontamination space surrounding the periphery of the cover bodies, a shielding member for blocking circulation of the decontamination medium is provided on the inside of the circular decontamination space so that the circular decontamination space is divided to form a long and thin pipe line-shaped decontamination space having an end section constituted of the shielding member, and supply pipe lines are connected, respectively, to end sections of the long and thin decontamination space which sandwich the shielding member and the discharge pipe line is provided between connecting positions of the supply pipe lines.