US 12,472,276 B2
Combined air purification and object sterilization apparatus and method of use
William DeCamp, Cincinnati, OH (US); and Katarina DeCamp, Cincinnati, OH (US)
Assigned to Radiant Solutions Group, LLC, Cincinnati, OH (US)
Filed by Radiant Solutions Group, LLC, Cincinnati, OH (US)
Filed on Aug. 19, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/406,816.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/067,521, filed on Aug. 19, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0054676 A1, Feb. 24, 2022
Int. Cl. A61L 2/10 (2006.01); A61L 2/24 (2006.01); A61L 9/20 (2006.01)
CPC A61L 2/10 (2013.01) [A61L 2/24 (2013.01); A61L 9/20 (2013.01); A61L 2202/11 (2013.01); A61L 2202/122 (2013.01); A61L 2202/14 (2013.01); A61L 2202/16 (2013.01); A61L 2209/111 (2013.01); A61L 2209/134 (2013.01); A61L 2209/14 (2013.01)] 16 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An air purification and object sterilization apparatus comprising:
an outer housing that defines a volume therein, the volume being divided into a fan compartment and an air purification and sterilization compartment;
a fan assembly configured to draw surrounding air into the air purification and sterilization compartment then through a fan support wall that divides the volume into the fan compartment and air purification and sterilization compartment, the fan support wall configured to support the fan assembly within the fan compartment and extending from a top of the housing toward a bottom of the housing such that the air purification and sterilization compartment is entirely in front of the fan compartment between a front of the outer housing and the fan support wall;
a sterilization compartment located in the air purification and sterilization compartment, a portion of the outer housing being movable to access the sterilization compartment;
a lamp assembly comprising an ultraviolet light source located in the air purification and sterilization compartment that provides ultraviolet radiation to the sterilization compartment and to the air drawn into the air purification and sterilization compartment by the fan assembly; and
a drawer having a closed configuration inside the air purification and sterilization compartment and an open configuration at least partially outside the air purification and sterilization compartment, the drawer located on a same wall as an air intake structure comprising one or more openings through which air enters the air purification and sterilization compartment.