HANDLING SYSTEM FOR STERILISING AGENT CARTRIDGE WITH DATA CHANNEL Russian patent published in 2011 - IPC A61L2/24 A61L2/26 G09F3/00 B65D5/00 

FIELD: medicine.

SUBSTANCE: invention refers to a method of tracing sterilising agent cartridges on a sterilizer or inside. Method includes the following stages: a cartridge is detected inside a cartridge processing section in a steriliser by transferring a non-optical electromagnetic signal from the cartridge to a receiver; data is identified transferring an electromagnetic signal from the cartridge to the receiver; the identified data describing the fact that an appropriate cartridge is inserted into the steriliser is verified; used cartridge box is detected by a non-optical electromagnetic signal; occupancy of said box is determined; the cartridge is rejected if expired, and delivered to the box on a space available basis. The exchange data contains an expiry date of the cartridge and sterilisation parameters.

EFFECT: invention allows to reduce service time of the steriliser by operator and incident downtime of the steriliser, as well as to provide more ease of used cartridge removal.

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