Disclosed herein is a scissors holder having a sterilization function. The scissors holder includes a loading part including a plurality of holding holes having a width larger than that of the blades of scissors and smaller than that of the handles of the scissors so that the scissors can be held therein in such a manner that the blades of the scissors enter thereinto and the handles of the scissors are supported thereon, a support part disposed on both lateral sides of the loading part so that the loading part can be disposed to be spaced apart from the ground or a surface of a piece of furniture by a predetermined distance, an internal space defined by the bottom of the loading part and the support part, and a sterilization part configured to sterilize the blades of scissors held in the internal space.

A self-sterilizing, face mask, respirator, open or enclosed face shield employs germicidal, far UV-C light safe for direct human exposure, mitigating risk of acquisition or transmission of respiratory pathogens, such as COVID 19. Device attachments or special lenses direct far UV-C light into the respiratory chamber and/or reservoir areas of infection including nasal, oropharyngeal or ocular areas to reduce or eliminate pathogens, serving also as a treatment modality. In a preferred embodiment the face shield has a removable front section, which can be exchanged or replaced with sections that include various functional attributes while maintaining germicidal protections and avoiding need to remove PPE during these activities including consumption of liquids, oral medications or food, as well as providing antimicrobial absorbent sneeze or cough guard or rhinorrhea secretion absorption, or a communication device to address communication deficiencies caused by respiratory protection barriers.

The Portable Sanitizer Spritzier Station as disclosed includes an undercarriage of frontward and backward motion rollers and sidewards rollers configured to ambulate the station in a first mode and to convey carts there through in a second mode and to collect used sanitizer for recycle and refuse. The disclosure also includes an upper structure of clear side panels and clear tarp ends and inside guide rails between conveyor belts and a sanitizer pipe network directing sanitizer upward from a floor thereof and downward from a ceiling thereof. The disclosure further includes a controller configured to determine one of the first and the second modes and to determine a time limit for the sanitizer to be sprayed through the sanitizer pipes and to control the rollers and conveyor belt.

A disinfectant concentrate devoid of phosphoric acid and method of using the concentrate. The concentration including a mixture containing: a) a major amount of hydrogen peroxide, b) a beta hydroxy acid, c) a minor amount of hydroxyalkane diphosphonic acid, one or more of a solvent and/or surfactant, and the balance water.

The present invention relates to a disinfection passageway with an alerting system. The passageway includes: a first sidewall; a second sidewall; and a top cover extending between the first sidewall and the second sidewall. The passageway also has a storage tank attached to the outer surface of the first sidewall. The storage tank stores sanitizing liquid for dispensing through a plurality of nozzles on the inner surface of at least one sidewall. A temperature sensor is also attached to the passageway, wherein the temperature sensor is adapted for measuring a body temperature of a user. Finally, a hand sanitizer dispenser on the inner surface of at least one side wall adapted for dispensing hand sanitizer.

A disinfection monitoring system and method for performing monitoring of a disinfection system is provided. The disinfection monitoring system may include one or more image capture devices configured to capture a set of images or videos of an object to be disinfected, such as a user's hands, fingers, and body during an disinfection procedure. An AI module performs detection and detection-based tracking from the captured image or video to determine a quality of the disinfection procedure. The detection and detection-based tracking is performed using keypoint or key area based detection of the user's hands, fingers, and body during the disinfection procedure. A disinfection data collection system generates a ground-truth score from the set of images or videos that indicate a quality of the overall disinfection procedure and/or a quality of each step in the overall disinfection procedure. The ground-truth score is used to train the disinfection monitoring system.

The invention relates to a lighting apparatus for a container device of a household appliance, in particular a washing machine, wherein at least one disinfection apparatus is integrated in the lighting apparatus, wherein the at least one disinfection apparatus comprises a first radiation source device.

An embodiment may involve obtaining a three-dimensional image map of m surfaces within an environment, wherein the surfaces are associated with importance weights that represent how frequently the surfaces are expected to be touched; determining a set of n vantage points for a light source within the environment; calculating an m×n irradiance matrix for each of the surfaces when the light source is in each of the vantage points, wherein each entry in the m×n irradiance matrix is determined by: (i) rasterizing the three-dimensional image map, (ii) identifying a set of visible surfaces, and (iii) calculating an amount of light-based power that would reach each of the visible surfaces; determining a set of n dwell times for the vantage points; and providing instructions, to a disinfecting agent, to traverse at least a subset of the vantage points, pausing at and illuminating at least some.

A method for decontaminating the outer integument of an animal without transferring contamination to the inner integument of the animal where the hazard can interact with the skin and harm the animal further. The animal has either fur, hair, or feathers and the inner integument is the skin and a skin-hazard material is present on the outer integument (the fur, hair, or feathers). The method uses a first porous dry wipe to sequester the skin-hazard material away from the contaminated animal by either wiping, blotting or rubbing the outer integument of the contaminated animal. The method avoids using free-flowing liquid in contact with the inner integument of the contaminated animal, and does not promote a liquid-phase transfer of the skin-hazard material from the outer integument to the inner integument.

The disinfecting lamp device is intended to provide a simple, quick, and effective disinfecting device, that can inactivate pathogens like viruses and bacteria from frequently used surfaces. To accomplish this, the device includes a germicidal UV lamp device that can kill pathogens and disinfect any surface that the lamp illuminates. Further, the device is a portable, lightweight, hand-held, battery powered product that uses photonic energy of a specific nano-meter range of light, i.e., UV light source. The lamp device may be used quickly and effectively on surfaces, documents, keyboards, etc. for quick disinfecting. Furthermore, the product is designed to minimize and reduce any potential risk the operator may have in using the product by inherent safeties regarding UV light. Thus, the device is a safe, effective, non-chemical, and easy to use product to render viruses and bacterial pathogens inactive and non-reproducible.