US Patent Issued to Dai Nippon Printing on Sept. 23 for "Cap sterilization device and content filling system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,421,093, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Dai Nippon Printing Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Cap sterilization device and content filling system" was invented by Atsushi Hayakawa (Tokyo) and Yoshinori Satou (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cap sterilization device (50) includes an introduction unit (52), a sterilant spraying unit (53) that sprays a sterilant onto a cap (33) supplied from the introduction unit (52), an air-rinsing unit (54) that subjects the cap (33) onto which the sterilant has been sprayed by the sterilant spraying unit (53) to air-rinsing, and a conveyance guide (70) that is disposed to extend successively through the i...