US 11,986,567 B2
Plasma treatment device and method of treating a surface
Julius Regalado, Gainesville, FL (US); Xin Zhou, Gainesville, FL (US); Kenneth Cherisol, Lake Mary, FL (US); and Miles Clark, Lake Helen, FL (US)
Assigned to BLUEWAVE TECHNOLOGIES, INC., Orange City, FL (US)
Filed by BLUEWAVE TECHNOLOGIES, INC., Orange City, FL (US)
Filed on Jan. 16, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/097,297.
Application 17/074,664 is a division of application No. 15/537,961, granted, now 10,821,199, previously published as PCT/US2015/067437, filed on Dec. 22, 2015.
Application 18/097,297 is a continuation of application No. 17/074,664, filed on Oct. 20, 2020, granted, now 11,554,189.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/129,533, filed on Mar. 6, 2015.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/095,629, filed on Dec. 22, 2014.
Prior Publication US 2023/0211029 A1, Jul. 6, 2023
Int. Cl. A61L 2/14 (2006.01); A61L 2/10 (2006.01); A61L 2/18 (2006.01); A61L 2/22 (2006.01)
CPC A61L 2/14 (2013.01) [A61L 2/10 (2013.01); A61L 2/22 (2013.01); A61L 2/18 (2013.01); A61L 2/186 (2013.01); A61L 2202/122 (2013.01); A61L 2202/14 (2013.01); A61L 2202/16 (2013.01); A61L 2202/26 (2013.01)] 11 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A treatment device comprising:
a treatment chamber, configured to treat a surface to kill microbes and/or reduce odor, the treatment chamber comprising at least one conformable wall for forming a volume in which to receive the surface;
at least one pump operably connected to the treatment chamber, such that at least a portion of ambient air in the treatment chamber is removable by the at least one pump, thereby creating a negative pressure causing the conformable wall to collapse and at least partially conform to the surface, so as to reduce the volume of the treatment chamber, such that there is a working volume of air in the treatment chamber;
an effluent chamber that receives, by the at least one pump, and sequesters the ambient air removed from the treatment chamber;
a secondary effluent chamber that receives, by the at least one pump, at least a portion of the working volume from the treatment chamber and from which the at least one pump moves the working volume to the treatment chamber; and
an aerosolizing mechanism comprising a nozzle and a reservoir, configured to contain a material,
such that, when the at least one pump moves the working volume into the treatment chamber, the nozzle aerosolizes the material, which is incorporated into the working volume and carried into the treatment chamber to treat the surface.