US 12,329,868 B2
System for vehicle sterilization
Kirk D. Hanna, Portland, OR (US); and Derek J. Hanna, Milwaukie, OR (US)
Assigned to Our Shields LLC, Government Camp, OR (US)
Filed by Our Shields LLC, Government Camp, OR (US)
Filed on Jul. 29, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/389,168.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/187,005, filed on May 11, 2021.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/161,839, filed on Mar. 16, 2021.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/148,014, filed on Feb. 10, 2021.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/105,048, filed on Oct. 23, 2020.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/059,681, filed on Jul. 31, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0031889 A1, Feb. 3, 2022
Int. Cl. A61L 2/20 (2006.01)
CPC A61L 2/202 (2013.01) [A61L 2202/11 (2013.01); A61L 2202/14 (2013.01); A61L 2202/25 (2013.01)] 8 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A sterilizing system for sterilizing a vehicle comprised of:
(a) a tower, said tower further comprised of:
(i) a chamber for collecting air, the chamber having an air intake opening and an air output opening interconnected to a tubular hose configured for engagement with an interior of said vehicle;
(ii) one or more fans configured to pull air into the chamber through the air intake opening and configured to blow air out of the chamber through the air output opening and through the flexible hose in a manner configured for providing said air to the interior of said vehicle;
(iii) an ozone generator that generates ozone within the chamber that comes into contact with the air collected by the chamber, wherein said chamber, said one or more fans, and said ozone generator are enclosed by said tower;
(b) said tubular hose interconnected to the air output opening and configured to selectively extend between the air output opening and the vehicle;
(c) said one or more fans configured to blow said air that has been exposed to ozone from said ozone generator as ozonized air out of said chamber through the air output opening and through the flexible hose to the interior of said vehicle;
(d) said sterilizing system configured to automatically stop blowing said ozonized air through the air output opening and through the flexible hose to the interior of said vehicle after a first predetermined time period has elapsed from initiating said blowing said air that has been exposed to ozone to the interior of said vehicle;
(e) said sterilizing system configured to automatically stop blowing said ozonized air through the air output opening and through the flexible hose to the interior of said vehicle for a second predetermined time period while previously blown air exposed to ozone in the interior of said vehicle sterilizes the interior of said vehicle after the first predetermined time period has elapsed from stopping said blowing said air that has been exposed to ozone to the interior of said vehicle;
(f) said one or more fans configured to automatically pull said ozonized air that has been exposed to ozone from said ozone generator from of said interior of said vehicle through the flexible hose into the air output opening for a third predetermined time period after the second predetermined time period has elapsed from said stopping said blowing said air that has been exposed to ozone to the interior of said vehicle, and said pulled ozonized air being discharged from said tower;
(g) wherein said blowing air into said vehicle for said first predetermined time period, said stopping blowing said air to the interior of said vehicle for said second predetermined time period, and said pulling said ozonized air from said interior of said vehicle, are each automatically initiated without user intervention upon starting said sterilization system to said blowing ozonized air into said vehicle.