US 11,981,587 B2
Disinfection device and method for performing disinfection cycles
Michael Schelch, Oberaich (AT); and Wolfgang Staber, Bruck an der Mur (AT)
Filed by Michael Schelch, Oberaich (AT); and Wolfgang Staber, Bruck an der Mur (AT)
Filed on Jan. 30, 2020, as Appl. No. 16/777,620.
Prior Publication US 2021/0238066 A1, Aug. 5, 2021
Int. Cl. C02F 1/46 (2023.01); A61F 7/00 (2006.01); C02F 1/461 (2023.01); C02F 1/467 (2023.01)
CPC C02F 1/4672 (2013.01) [A61F 7/00 (2013.01); C02F 1/46109 (2013.01); A61F 2007/0056 (2013.01); C02F 2001/46147 (2013.01); C02F 2201/46125 (2013.01); C02F 2201/46145 (2013.01); C02F 2201/4617 (2013.01); C02F 2303/04 (2013.01)] 17 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A disinfection device for performing disinfection cycles of water from at least one water circuit of a heating/cooling device, comprising:
at least one disinfection circuit through which the water from the water circuit of the heating/cooling device passes through,
means for detachably connecting the water circuit located in the heating/cooling device to the at least one disinfection circuit to establish a common and self-contained water circuit;
at least one electrolysis cell installed in the disinfection circuit and designed as a flow-through cell, the electrolysis cell configured to generate oxidizing agents in situ as the water from the water circuit of the heating/cooling device flows through the disinfection circuit, wherein the flow-through cell has an electrode packet having two edge-side contact electrodes supplied with DC voltage and at least one bipolar electrode which is arranged between the two edge-side contact electrodes and spaced therefrom;
means for connecting the water circuit to the disinfection circuit to form the common circuit;
electronics for controlling a number of the disinfection cycles until the water from the water circuit of the heating/cooling device is disinfected; and
means for supplying power to components of the provided disinfection circuits.