US 11,931,517 B2
Germicidal UV light device
Herman David Palmieri, Pittsburgh, PA (US)
Filed by Herman David Palmieri, Pittsburgh, PA (US)
Filed on Mar. 13, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/120,795.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/320,498, filed on Mar. 16, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0293844 A1, Sep. 21, 2023
Int. Cl. A61M 16/10 (2006.01); A61K 39/215 (2006.01); A61L 9/18 (2006.01); A61M 16/00 (2006.01); A61M 16/06 (2006.01); C07K 14/165 (2006.01)
CPC A61M 16/10 (2013.01) [A61K 39/215 (2013.01); A61L 9/18 (2013.01); A61M 16/0045 (2013.01); A61M 16/06 (2013.01); A61M 16/1055 (2013.01); C07K 14/165 (2013.01); A61L 2209/12 (2013.01)] 9 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An apparatus, comprising:
a housing;
an accessible compartment of said housing;
an inaccessible compartment of said housing;
an at least one screened opening of said accessible compartment;
an at least one screened opening of said inaccessible compartment;
an access door of said accessible compartment;
an electrically powered far-UVC germicidal lamp mounted within said accessible compartment;
a ballast of sufficient power to power said electrically powered far-UVC germicidal lamp mounted partially within said inaccessible compartment;
a connector of said ballast that connects to receive an electrical current;
an ON and OFF switch of said ballast that controls received electrical current;
an AC power cord connected to said connector of said ballast at one end and connected to an electrical outlet at the other end;
said far-UVC germicidal lamp and said ballast are electrically connected;
a sufficient power supply to electrically power said fa r-UVC germicidal lamp;
an opening in said accessible compartment, positionally located in close proximity to said far-UVC germicidal lamp;
an at least one hollow right-angle connector;
a first connected and a second connector;
a particular end of said at least one hollow right-angle connector is inserted into and through said opening of said accessible compartment;
a connectable mask having an unrestricted bidirectional air passageway;
a hollow connectable flexible tube;
said connectable mask, said first connector, said hollow connectable flexible tube, said second connector and said hollow right-angle connector are consecutively assembled together for use;
said electrically powered fa r-UVC germicidal lamp is configured to convert within seconds an active infectious virion(s) from exhaled breath of an infected person, when in use, into a far-UVC inactivated virion(s) for the purpose of being immediately inhaled by the person wherein said far-UVC inactivated virion(s) are captured by Dendritic cells (DCs) and presented to lymphocytes to initiate and regulate the person's adaptive immune response; and
wherein said electrically powered far-UVC germicidal lamp mounted within said accessible compartment stands ready to convert an active live SARS-CoV-2 virion into a far-UVC inactivated SARS-CoV-2 virion.