Sterilizer cassette handling system with data link

Details Sterilizer cassette handling system with data link Sterilizer cassette handling system with data link

2004-03-04

2009-10-13

Pope, Daryl (Department: 2612)

Communications: electrical

Condition responsive indicating system

With particular coupling link

C340S539320, C340S572100, C340S568100

Reexamination Certificate

active

07602284

ABSTRACT:
A cassette handling system for sterilant filled cassettes employs RFID or other electromagnetic signal technology to track the cassettes. A method for tracking the sterilant cassettes includes the steps of reading for the presence of a cassette within a cassette processing area of the sterilizer by transmitting a non-optical electromagnetic signal between the cassette and a receiver on the sterilizer, via the electromagnetic signal transmitting identifying information between the cassette and the receiver, and verifying that a proper cassette is loaded into the sterilizer based upon the identifying information.

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