A clothes dryer using an LED light source is proposed. Instead of using a heater, a blowing fan, and a heat exchanger, the clothes dryer employs a plurality of LED light source modules provided in a body and efficiently arranged therein and an air circulation structure of an air circulation part having a blowing fan arranged in the inner rear side thereof, and is configured to sterilize air through an air sterilization part, absorb and dry moisture by a ceramic filter, and then finally discharge the air to the outside through an exhaust fan. Therefore, without requiring a separate water discharge treatment process in an existing method, the clothes dryer can achieve efficient drying of clothes and drying of clothes without damage.

A standalone UV-C sanitizing apparatus and method is provided that is operable to sanitize and disinfect a user's hands or protective gloves. The apparatus includes a housing with light emitting diodes (LEDs) positioned to emit ultraviolet (UV-C) light connected to a circuit board which are individually connected to a power source. The apparatus is configured so that when the user positions the hands or gloves under the housing, the UV-C light is emitted for a predetermined period of time based on the distance to the hands and the power output of the LEDs. The UV-C light is emitted at a wavelength suitable to kill, destroy, or reduce growth of microorganisms/germs. The housing can be configured with a sensor to detect motion under the housing and include a limiter hand guard.

The present invention corresponds to a device in which garments such as clothing, personal objects such as wallets, watches, shoes, coins are placed among a large number of objects, which have been carried as personal objects by a user and that by some reason they were exposed to microorganisms such as viruses, bacteria and other pollutants found in the environment; Because these microorganisms use air or saliva, sweat, among other fluids that act as vectors and therefore personal objects have a high risk of being contaminated without the user noticing it visually or with any ease.

Disinfection devices are provided which include an enclosure comprising an interior cavity, a closable loading port for providing access to the interior cavity, a cold plasma generator, a fan, a nebulizer and optionally a heating element to heat the interior cavity. In some cases, the cold plasma generator, the fan, and the nebulizer are arranged in the disinfection device such that plasma species generated by the cold plasma generator are routed to an area to which droplets formed by the nebulizer are discharged and the interior cavity is exposed to a mixture of the droplets and the plasma species. In some additional or alternative cases, the disinfection device includes an electronic control system comprising a processor and a storage medium comprising program instructions executable by the processor for terminating operation of the cold plasma generator after a set time period subsequent to terminating operation of the nebulizer.

A decontamination system includes a housing having at least one inner surface defining a chamber. An irradiation system supplies ultraviolet germicidal irradiation (UVGI) to the chamber at a level effective to at least one of inactivate SARS-CoV-2 or inactivate at least 90% single-stranded RNA viruses present on an object positioned in the chamber in less than about 2 minutes.

An information processing apparatus includes a sound information generation unit configured to generate sound information in which a physiological sound of a body is extracted from an acquired sound, a sound direction detection unit configured to detect a direction of the physiological sound of the body based on the sound information, a facial state detection unit configured to detect a state of a face existing in the direction of the physiological sound of the body detected by the sound direction detection unit, from an image captured and generated by an imaging unit, and a contamination information generation unit configured to generate contamination information in which a predetermined area according to the state of the face is set as a contaminated area, based on the state of the face detected by the facial state detection unit.

Methods of the present invention comprise photoinactivation of catalase in combination with low-concentration peroxide solutions and/or ROS generating agents to provide antibacterial effects.

A personal protective equipment sanitizing assembly includes a cabinet that is comprised of a translucent material to pass light therethrough. An upper door is hingedly coupled to the cabinet and a lower door is hingedly coupled to the cabinet. A cart is rollably positioned in the cabinet and the cart is rollable onto the lower door when the lower door is opened for accessing the cart. A carousel unit is rotatably coupled to the cart and the carousel unit includes a plurality of suspensions to support a respective one of a plurality of face masks or other personal protective equipment. A plurality of light emitters is each coupled to the cart to emit light onto the carousel unit. Each of the light emitters has an operational wavelength ranging between approximately 10.0 nm and 400.0 nm for sterilizing the face masks.

The present invention relates to systems and methods for cleaning materials, such as flooring and upholstery. In some cases, the systems and methods use an electrolytic cell to electrolyze a solution comprising sodium carbonate, sodium bicarbonate, sodium acetate, sodium percarbonate, potassium carbonate, potassium bicarbonate, and/or any other suitable chemical to generate electrolyzed alkaline water and/or electrolyzed oxidizing water. In some cases, the cell comprises a recirculation loop that recirculates anolyte through an anode compartment of the cell. In some cases, the cell further comprises a senor and a processor, where the processor is configured to automatically change an operation of the cell, based on a reading from the sensor. In some cases, a fluid flows past a magnet before entering the cell. In some additional cases, fluid from the cell is conditioned by being split into multiple conduits that run in proximity to each other. Additional implementations are described.

An apparatus and method for masking or reducing undesired scents emanating from hunting and military gear, the method including providing a hand-held, cordless steamer having a reservoir, a boiler, a gas combustion device and a gas cartridge, adding a liquid cover scent preparation or a liquid scent reducing preparation to the reservoir, pumping the cover scent preparation or the scent reducing preparation from the reservoir to the boiler, using the gas combustion device to ignite and combust a gas delivered from the source of gas thereby creating heat which is used to convert the liquid in the boiler into a steam, and applying the steam directly to a piece of hunting or military gear.