Patent ID: 7790022

Claim:
An ultra-pure water treatment system comprising: a host ultra-pure water treatment apparatus including an electronic circuit, and a separable water treatment component, said component being useable in the host apparatus, wherein the water treatment component has an electronic circuit adapted to co-operate with the electronic circuit in the host apparatus for communicating and/or transmitting data between the separable treatment component and the water treatment apparatus when the separable water treatment component is mounted to the apparatus; and means for sanitizing one or more parts of the host apparatus by channeling a sanitizing agent from the means for sanitizing and into the host apparatus, the means for sanitizing being a separate sanitizing component that is adapted to be incorporated into the apparatus in place of the separable water treatment component, the means for sanitizing being separable from the host apparatus for permitting sanitizing of the parts of the host apparatus when installed, the component that includes the means for sanitizing having an electronic circuit that communicates with the electronic circuit in the host apparatus; wherein the electrical circuit in the host apparatus includes a central processor, and the electrical circuit in the water treatment component includes a data chip; and wherein the electronic circuit on the host apparatus being operable upon recognizing the electronic circuit on the sanitizing component commences a sanitizing operation of other components on the host apparatus.