US 12,220,494 B2
Ultraviolet light emitting disinfecting device
Jamie J. Childress, Mercer Island, WA (US)
Assigned to THE BOEING COMPANY, Arlington, VA (US)
Filed by The Boeing Company, Chicago, IL (US)
Filed on Jul. 2, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/366,476.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/089,105, filed on Oct. 8, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0111089 A1, Apr. 14, 2022
Int. Cl. A61L 2/10 (2006.01); B64D 47/02 (2006.01); B64F 5/30 (2017.01)
CPC A61L 2/10 (2013.01) [B64D 47/02 (2013.01); B64F 5/30 (2017.01); A61L 2202/11 (2013.01); A61L 2202/14 (2013.01); A61L 2202/25 (2013.01); B64D 2203/00 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A system for disinfecting, the system comprising:
a disinfecting device comprising:
a housing having an attachment surface and an illumination surface that are opposed along an axis, wherein the housing is a cylinder with the attachment surface at one end of the cylinder and the illumination surface at the opposite end of the cylinder; and
a plurality of adjustable ultraviolet (UV) emitters disposed at the housing that have fields of illumination that are adjustable along multiple axes via rotational couplings to illuminate an enclosed space that the illumination surface faces, wherein each adjustable UV emitter comprises a base coupled with a head via a corresponding rotational coupling, and wherein the base of each UV emitter comprises a power supply for said each UV emitter.