WO2010053463A1

WO2010053463A1 - Surface disinfection device

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Publication number: WO2010053463A1
Application number: PCT/TR2009/000134
Authority: WO
Inventors: Genç ERTÜRK
Original assignee: Ertuerk Genc
Priority date: 2008-11-06
Filing date: 2009-11-05
Publication date: 2010-05-14
Also published as: TR200808380A2

Abstract

The Surface Disinfection Device keeps the drugs, chemical substances and gases sent to the tent room ( 1 ) through the disinfection duct ( 20 ) in the application area for a desired time and in a desired concentration by vacuuming the air in its peripheral ventouse ( 2 ) and confining such drugs and substances in the closed tent room ( 1 ) constituted by means of the ceiling ( 6 ) of tent room. It does not leak out of the tent room. The adverse or unnecessary effects of the drugs that cannot go out of the closed system are prevented for the other tissues. The Surface Disinfection Device is used for the cleaning and drying of high buildings' windows without scattering the liquid detergents sent to the tent room( 1 ) around.

Description

SURFACE DISINFECTION DEVICE

Related Technical Field of Invention

Its usage in the medicine for the purpose of surface disinfection;

This invention is used in the application of drugs used for the diagnosis and treatment of the infections of easy accessible areas such as skin ( burnt skin, infected skin, preoperation antisepsis of skin ), gingiva, buccal mucosa, tongue, lips, nasopharynx, oropharynx, nasal and vaginal mucosa, the front zone of the eye globe and the precancerous and cancerous lesions (local chemotherapeutics, radiosensitizers, photosensitizers, cryogenic agents, chemosurgery agents, substances such as the ionized argon used in the argon plasma technique, liquids used for the thermochemotherapy and thermochemosurgery, liquid local hemostatics, antimicrobial drugs for treating the persistence infections, antimycotic drugs, some drugs and dyes used for the diagnosis and, liquid, gas or pomade substances that will accelerate the tissue healing).

In Industry (For the window cleaning):

It can be used in the window cleaning of high-rise buildings. Window cleaning can be done by water, detergent, moist hot air sent for cleaning and hot dry air sent fro drying into the tent room ( 1 ) of devices with the ventouse edges suitable for the peripheral shapes of windows. Present Common Condition of Technique

Surface disinfection in medicine

There is not any local application in some cancers that are in the usage area of Surface Disinfection Device, except for the intratumoral injection. Even though the lesion is on an easy accessible surface, since there is not any areal drug application device that well limits the drug administered, the systemic high dosing applications are carried out in order to attain the desired concentration of drug in the lesion area. While the systemic chemotherapy causes the significant reversible and irreversible adverse effects, high dose of antibiotherapy can cause superinfections. Increase in the amount of drugs used increases the destruction in the organs in which the drugs are decomposed and discarded.

Pomades are relatively effectively used only for the skin and, the liquid drugs are used in a staining way. In the intraoral application, mobility of the saliva and tissues inhibits the drug to stay in the application area for a long time.

The photosensitizers used for the cancer treatment are administered systemically and require 1-5 days to become effective in the body (delay in the treatment) and, their photosensitizing adverse effects for the patients lasts for weeks. The patients exposed to the light can have critical problems.

Thermotherapy and thermochemotherapy agents cannot be applied, since the liquid spread cannot be limited to single area because of the heat.

The leucoplasias and some oral lichen planus are considered as the precancerous lesions by some specialists and nonselective cryotherapies are performed.

Ring ventouse system is used for fixing the eyeball in the eye surgery (Hessburg- Barron Vacuum Trephine). However, there is not any adherent membrane that makes the system a closed tent on the upper part of this ring ventouse. It is hypaethral and the surgical operations are made from this open area. By this device, it is impossible to keep the drugs fixed in that area. But, by the Surface Disinfection Device, the upper part of peripheral ventouse, including the area in the center of ventouse ( 6 ), is covered by an elastic membrane. Thus, a closed tent room ( 1 ) is formed. When a Surface Disinfection Device is placed on a tissue ( 3 ) and the air in the peripheral ventouse ( 2 ) is vacuumed, the device firmly adheres to the lower tissues and does not drain the drugs and chemical substances sent into the tent via the disinfection duct ( 20 ), unless it is desired.

The invention named medicinal component delivery system moves the skin upward-downward significantly in the medicine application zone with the discharge pump and ultrasonic module. This causes burnt skin, infected skin and an unacceptable case for medicine application on the front zone of the eye globe. Our device does not apply positive or negative pressure on and does not disturb the medicine application zone in any manner.

In the said device, the medicine application zone is only the sub-part of the structure #31. In our device, the medicine application zone is the entire surface in the inner tent area ( 3 ).

Such kind of an ultrasonic module is not required to apply many medicines. This module increase the price and weight of the system. As the weight increases, it will be required to increase the negative pressure needed to keep the system attached to the tissue, which means edema, hemorrhage and hematome on the tissue.

In Industry (For the window cleaning)

For the cleaning of multi-storey buildings' windows that are difficult-to-reach, the cleaning is done directly by hand by the people on the structures suspended from top of the building.

Window cleaning is sometimes tried to be done by robots adhered to and fixed on the windows by ventouses. However, pouring of the detergents is unavoidable in all these systems. Detergents falling down from 50 m. will affect the objects and people which are 10 m. around of the building and cause the environmental pollution.

Advantages of Surface Disinfection Device

90 In Medicine:

1. Drugs are applied only to the desired area and, do not spill to the surrounding tissues.

2. The device ensures that the desired drug concentration is attained and maintained in the desired area. This ensures an increase in the success of

95 treatment and a shorter treatment time. It is impossible to attain this concentration in the application of systemic chemotherapy and systemic antibiotherapy.

3. The device allows very little amounts of drug to pass to the systemic circulation by passing through the skin and mucosa in the application area.

100 This provides:

• Less systemic adverse effects (it is very critical for chemotherapies.).

• No superinfections in antibiotherapy

• Less strain and destruction in the liver and kidneys.

• Since the amount of drug that will pass to the systemic circulation is 105 very little, even if the drug is substantially toxic, it can be used in safe in such cases as the cancer treatment.

4. By local using ofphotosensitizer drugs used in the cancer treatment:

While the effect of drug posteriorly starts in systemic use of the drug, this period significantly shortens by direct application of the drug on the mass 110 • areally.

• Photosensitization that is seen in the systemic use and lasts for weeks is not seen, after the areal applications by the Surface Disinfection device, since the relevant area can easily be protected against the light, because of the fact that whole body surface is not photosensitized.

115 5. The radiosensitizers that areally applied become effective further and in a shorter time.

6. Since the application of Surface Disinfection Device is easy and safe, prophylactic drugs can be applied in the precancerous lesions.

7. Areal corticosteroid treatments can be performed in the pemphigus and 120 aphtha.

8. It is not possible to areally administer the drugs of cryogenic and thermotherapy - thermochemosurgery treatments by specifically limiting through the present common methods in the usage areas of Surface Disinfection Device. The Surface Disinfection Device ensures this easily by

125 confining the drugs into the tent room ( 1 ).

9. The administered drug can be kept in the area as long as desired. This means that the drug efficiency will continue as long as desired. For example, some microorganisms should be kept under influence by the antimicrobial drugs for dying. This is ensured in the systemic applications by frequently, long

130 and dense drug administering. In the areal application, for instance, if the microorganism dies by an X-density drug as a result of interaction of Y minutes, a definite result would be obtained by single application at the end of Y minutes, since the X-density can be attained by an areal application and it will be easy to keep the drug there for Y minutes.

135 lO.The area may be deoxidized in order to kill the aerobes. To do this, the air in the tent room ( 1 ) is vacuumed and instead, substances in the aerosol form that will kill the microorganisms and will not harm the underlying tissue can be given.

11. The microorganisms can be killed by making the pH of area

140 inconvenient for the microorganisms by the drugs to be administrated. In Industry (For the window cleaning):

■1. The detergents sprayed to the tent room ( 1 ) for the purpose of window cleaning cannot scatter around and thus, will not pollute the environment. 145 2. Since the detergent granules will not splash to the heads of people, it is not necessary to prevent the building's entrance and exit.

3. If the detergent does not become disposable after the cleaning of one window, the remaining detergent can be retrieved from the disinfection duct ( 20 ) and used in the cleaning of next window. 150

Formal and structural properties of the system In Medicine

The peripheral ventouse ( 2 ) is designed as factory made in various geometric figures and various diameters according to the application area.

155 In the labial applications, the peripheral ventouse system is U-shaped and able, to grasp the lips.

The outer edges of those that will be used in the buccal mucosa should be appropriate for the area's anatomy. It should be designed in different circumferential lengths according to the age. Again, it should be designed as 160 factory made in different dimensions by considering that some people may have bigger or smaller mouths.

Whole system should be made of transparent material in order to watch the incidents in it, providing that the drug to be administered is not likely to be affected by light.

165 In the applications of thermochemotherapy and thermochemosurgery, whole system is made of heat resistant materials.

The height of peripheral ventouse ( 5 ) should be as short as possible. Thus, the required amount of drug decreases and then, the cost and negative pressure that is enough to overcome the severity of drug are also reduced. The height of

170 peripheral ventouse ( 5 ) should be high enough not to cause the tent part will touch the application surface. Non-touching of tent surface to the application surface should not be ensured by drug administering with pressure. Otherwise, it will be required to create more negative pressure within the peripheral ventouse system ( 2 ) in order to overcome such pressure.

175 The peripheral ventouse 's lips ( 7 ) adhering to the tissue shall be elastic so as not to irritate the tissue and so as can adapt to the surrounding anatomic structure.

In long-term applications, the devices of which peripheral ventouse system's width ( 15 ) is wide should be preferred.

180 In Industry

Whole system shall be made of elastic and transparent materials that will not be affected by the chemical substances to be used in the application and harm the structure of such substances. Its edge's form should match up with the form of window's edge.

185 There are disinfection duct ( 20 ), vacuum duct ( 17 ), and air bleed duct ( 18 ) in the ducts system ( 4 ).

Functions of Parts in System:

190 a. Tent room ( 1 ) : It is the application area of the drug of which upper part is surrounded by an elastic membrane forming the ceiling ( 6 ) of tent room, lower part is surrounded by the tissue and edges are surrounded by the inner wall ( 14 ) of ventouse. ( Figure 1 ) b. Peripheral ventouse ( 2 ) : Vacuuming in this area sticks the Surface 195 Disinfection Device to the tissue. As a result of this adherence, the drugs administered to the tent room cannot leak out. ( Figure 1 ) c. Application area ( 3 ): Floor section of the tent room. ( Figure 1 ) d. Ducts system ( 4 ): It is the system including the vacuum duct ( 17 ), air bleed duct ( 18 ), disinfection duct ( 20 ), and observation duct

200 ( 19 ). ( Figure 1 ) e. Height of the peripheral ventouse ( 5 ) : It is the section between the contact area of ventouse to the tissue and the adherence area of ceiling ( 6 ) of tent room to the ventouse. The height that is as lower as possible to meet the amount of drug intended to be administered 205 should be preferred. This will prevent the severity of system and therefore, unnecessary high vacuuming. This means less edema. ( Figure 1 ) f. Ceiling of tent room ( 6 ) : Thin, elastic structure forming the ceiling of system. ( Figure 1 )

210 g. Adherence lips of ventouse ( 7 ) : Ventouse' s area adhering to the tissue during vacuuming. ( Figure 1 ) h. Outlet of Vacuum duct ( 8 ) : It is located on the outer edge of ducts system ( 16 ), and connects to the vacuum device through a connector. ( Figure 2 )

215 i. Outlet of air bleed duct ( 9 ): It is located on the outer edge of ducts system ( 16 ). ( Figure 2 ) j. Outlet of disinfection duct ( 10 ): It is located on the outer edge of ducts system ( 16 ) . ( Figure 2 ) k. Outlet of observation duct ( 11 ): It is located on the outer edge of

220 ducts system ( 16 ). This place is able to be connected to the observation instrument through a connector. It does not have to be in the devices to be used in the applications that the incidents inside can easily be watched. ( Figure 2 )

1. Inlet of air bleed duct ( 12 ) : It is located in the middle, on the

225 ceiling of tent room ( 6 ). It is the edge of air bleed duct ( 18 ) that opens into the tent room ( 1 ). Its location varies according to the application area by calculating where the air in the tent will be accumulated according to the gravity. This hole is in the center of tent where the base of Surface Disinfection Device will be located in

230 parallel with the ground. In the applications of buccal mucosa, it is on the upper part of tent room. Of course, its duct will have a different course, accordingly. Its function is to bleed the air in the tent room ( 1 ) during the drug administering and ensure the area to be fully filled with the drug. ( Figure 2 )

235 m. Inlet of vacuum duct ( 13 ) : It is in the middle of ceiling ( 15 ) of peripheral ventouse ( 2 ). It is the inlet port of vacuum duct ( 17 ) (

Figure 6 ). Vacuuming can be performed from 1, 2, 3 or 4 points according to the size of ventouse system. n. Inner wall of peripheral ventouse ( 14 ) : It is the inner wall ( 14 ) of

240 peripheral ventouse ( 2 ). The device ends here( 21 ) in the devices with an observation instrument in an area of this wall close to the tent( 6 ), in the inner part fronting on the tent room( 1 ). Again, there is the inlet of disinfection duct ( 22 ) in the part of this wall close to the ground. The observation duct ( 19 ) and disinfection duct ( 20 )

245 . navigate in this wall after going out of the ducts system (4). ( Figure >

1) o. Width - ceiling of peripheral ventouse system ( 15 ) : It is the distance between the vertical walls constituting the peripheral ventouse. While it increases, the vacuum-related edema decreases. 250 The inlet ( 13 ) of vacuum duct ( 17 ) exist on its ceiling, in the middle. ( Figure 1 ) p. Outer edge of ducts system ( 16 ) : It is the out-of-body edge of elastic structure that connects the system to the out of body and includes the ducts. Here exists the outlet of vacuum duct ( 8 ), outlet 255 of disinfection duct ( 11 ), outlet of air bleed duct ( 9 ) and beginning of observation system( 21 ) in which the observation instruments are located. ( Figure 1 ) q. Vacuum Duct ( 17 ) : It is the duct vacuuming the air in the peripheral ventouse ( 2 ) ( Figure 6 ). It is located within the ducts system ( 4 ). 260 Vacuuming can be performed from 1, 2, 3 or 4 points according to the size of ventouse system. In this case, the branches from the vacuum duct or additional vacuum ducts are constituted. r. Air bleed duct ( 18 ) : It is the duct that ensures the air in the tent room to be bled to the external environment. Thus, inside of the room 265 is filled with the drug. It prevents the positive pressure generation in the tent room ( 1 ) during the drug administering. This duct also ensures that the drug is activated by aerating the drug, where the drug in the tent room ( 1 ) is desired to be activated from time to time.

Whenever necessary, it can be used as a backup drug drainage duct by 270 connecting to an aspirator. It is located within the ducts system ( 4 ).

(Figure 3) s. Disinfection duct ( 20 ) : It is the duct that carries the drug from outside to underneath of the tent during the drug administering and from inside of the tent to outside during the drainage. It is located 275 within the ducts system ( 4 ). ( Figure 5 ) t. Observation instrument duct ( 19 ) : It includes the systems for observing the tent room ( 1 ). It is located within the ducts system

( 4 ). ( Figure 4 ) u. Inlet of Disinfection duct ( 22 ) : It is the outlet port of drug 280 administering and drainage duct opening into the tent room (1). It is on the side of inner cylinder ( 14 ) constituting the peripheral ventouse, fronting on the tent room ( 1 ) and in an area of tent close to the application area ( 3 ). ( Figure 5 ) v. Beginning of observation system ( 21 ) : It is located over the inner 285 . wall ( 14 ) of peripheral ventouse and in an area close to the tent ( 6 ).

The fiber optic systems that can observe the application area can be located close to the upper part of ventouse' s wall fronting on the tent area or in the middle of tent. ( Figure 4 )

290 APPLICATION OF SURFACE DISINFECTION DEVICE

Selection of application device: 295 In Medicine

The device of which shape is optimal for the area of lesion is selected. If the drug is a hot liquid, the physical structure of device should be suitable for that. If the drug is likely to be affected by light, a device that is light-proof is used or, during the drug administering, the tent is covered by a light-proof cloth.

300 In Industry (For the window cleaning)

A device that will match up with the surface of window is selected. It is made of transparent materials. Since the ventouse edges will constitute the frame, they are made of thicker elastic materials such as the rigid plastic. Application in Medicine

305 • Before administering the drug, the patient is located so as that the drug will reach the target tissue in an easiest way according to the gravity. This will be different for the liquids and gases.

• The Surface Disinfection Device is located in the lesion area. While it is kept in a condition slightly pressed through a finger or a tool, the vacuum

310 device is started. A negative pressure is generated in the peripheral ventouse area.

• When it is understood that the Surface Disinfection Device is fully adhered to the tissue, the drug is started to be administered by an injector from the outlet of disinfection duct ( 11 ). In the meantime, the outlet of air bleed duct

315 ( 9 ) is open. Once the drug starts to come from the outlet of air bleed duct

( 9 ), the drug administering is stopped. The mouth of outlet of air bleed duct ( 9 ) is closed. If the application plane is in parallel with the ground and the inside of net is clearly visible, when the sufficient drug is administered, the drug administering can be terminated without waiting for the drug coming

320 from the outlet of air bleed duct ( 9 ). • The tent room ( 1 ) is not fully filled where the liquid drug is required to be activated from time to time by aerating.

Drug Drainage

325 • The inlet of disinfection duct ( 11 ) and the mouth of outlet of air bleed duct

( 9 ) are opened. The drug leaks out of the device. This drainage may be performed by retracting an injector piston inserted to the inlet of disinfection duct ( 11 ).

• For the risky drugs, a full drainage is achieved by inserting a vacuum device 330 to the inlet of disinfection duct ( 11 ).

Termination of application

After the drug is drained, the negative pressure in the peripheral ventouse ( 2 ) is relieved by opening the outlet of vacuum duct ( 8 ).

Description of Figures

335 Figure 1 - General view of device

Figure 2 - Edge of ducts system to be connected to a connector

Figure 3 - Air bleed duct and inlet of air bleed duct

Figure 4 - Observation duct and beginning of observation system

Figure 5 - Disinfection duct and entrance of disinfection duct

340 Figure 6 - Vacuum duct and entrance of vacuum duct Names of Parts Enumerated in the Figures

I- Tent room

2 - Peripheral ventouse

3 - Application area

4 - Ducts system 5 - Height of peripheral ventouse

6 - Ceiling of tent room

7 - Adherence lips of peripheral ventouse to the tissue

8 - Outlet of vacuum duct

9 - Outlet of air bleed duct 10- Outlet of observation duct

I I- Outlet of disinfection duct

12- Inlet of air bleed duct

13- Inlet of vacuum duct

14- Inner wall of peripheral ventouse 15- Width - ceiling of peripheral ventouse system

16- Outer edge of ducts system

17- Vacuum duct

18- Air bleed duct

19- Observation duct 20- Disinfection duct

21- Beginning of observation system

22- Inlet of disinfection duct

Claims

DEMANDS375

1. Whereas the Surface Disinfection Device; it is characterized by its property of being composed of a tent room ( 1 ) that is the area in which the drug is applied and confined, a peripheral ventouse ( 2 ) that fixes the devices on the application area by negative pressure and prevents the leakage of drugs out of

380 the tent room, a disinfection duct ( 20 ) that sends drug to the tent room ( 1 ) and drains the drug in the tent room(l), an air bleed duct ( 18 ) that will ensure that the air in the tent room ( 1 ) will be bled during the drug administering, an observation duct ( 19 ) that includes the systems by which the progress in the tent room can be observed, and a vacuum duct ( 17 ) that

385 ' will bleed the air in the peripheral ventouse ( 2 ).

2. Whereas the disinfection duct ( 20 ), air bleed duct ( 18 ), observation duct

( 19 ) and vacuum duct mentioned in Demand 1, they are characterized by their property of being located within the ducts system ( 4 ).

3. Whereas the tent room ( 1 ) mentioned in Demand 1, it is characterized by its 390 property of being limited to the ceiling ( 6 ) of tent room and inner wall ( 14 ) of- peripheral ventouse.

4. Whereas the ceiling ( 6 ) of tent room mentioned in Demand 1, it is characterized by its property of containing the inlet of air bleed duct ( 12 ) on its side fronting on the tent room ( 1 ).

395 5. Whereas the peripheral ventouse ( 2 ) mentioned in Demand 1, it is characterized by its property of being limited to the inner wall ( 14 ) of peripheral ventouse, width - ceiling ( 15 ) of peripheral ventouse system and peripheral ventouse' s adherence lips ( 7 ) to the tissue.

6. Whereas the peripheral ventouse ( 2 ) mentioned in Demand 1, it is 400 characterized by its property of having the inlet of vacuum duct ( 13 ) on the width - ceiling ( 15 ) of peripheral ventouse system.

7. Whereas the inner wall ( 14 ) of peripheral ventouse ( 2 ) mentioned in Demand 1, it is characterized by its property of containing the beginning of observation system ( 21 ) close to its upper bound and inlet of disinfection duct ( 22 ) close 405 to its lower edge.

8. Whereas the peripheral ventouse ( 2 ) mentioned in Demand 1, it is • characterized by its periphery's property of being in different geometric figures in accordance with the anatomies of application areas.

9. Whereas the Surface Disinfection Device; it is characterized by its shape's 410 property of being that will grasp the application area, like the device to be used in the labial applications is U-shaped.

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