US 11,712,321 B2
Apparatus and method for adjusting a volume of a basin of a treatment apparatus
Navid Omidbakhsh, Irvine, CA (US)
Assigned to ASP Global Manufacturing GMBH
Filed by ASP Global Manufacturing GmbH, Schaffhausen (CH)
Filed on Oct. 17, 2019, as Appl. No. 16/655,649.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/767,775, filed on Nov. 15, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2020/0155267 A1, May 21, 2020
Int. Cl. A61B 90/70 (2016.01); A61B 1/12 (2006.01); A61L 2/18 (2006.01)
CPC A61B 90/70 (2016.02) [A61B 1/123 (2013.01); A61B 2090/701 (2016.02)] 11 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of adjusting a void volume in a basin of a treatment apparatus, the method comprising:
introducing a device into the basin of the treatment apparatus, the basin comprising the void volume which is suitable to receive the device and a treatment agent;
introducing a liquid treatment agent into the basin; and
adjusting the void volume to an adjusted void volume by at least one of expanding and contracting an expandable member positioned in the basin; and
treating the device with the liquid treatment agent, wherein treating the device comprises contacting the device with the liquid treatment agent to at least one of clean, disinfect, and sterilize the device.