US 11,753,287 B2
Aseptic filling apparatus and method of decontaminating the same
Atsushi Hayakawa, Tokyo (JP); and Ryuichi Tamagawa, Tokyo (JP)
Assigned to Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd., Tokyo (JP)
Filed by Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd., Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Mar. 24, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/210,730.
Application 17/210,730 is a division of application No. 15/745,819, granted, now 11,014,797, previously published as PCT/JP2016/077249, filed on Sep. 15, 2016.
Claims priority of application No. 2015-184339 (JP), filed on Sep. 17, 2015; application No. 2015-226088 (JP), filed on Nov. 18, 2015; and application No. 2015-226089 (JP), filed on Nov. 18, 2015.
Prior Publication US 2021/0206614 A1, Jul. 8, 2021
Int. Cl. B67C 3/00 (2006.01); A61L 2/04 (2006.01); A61L 2/18 (2006.01); A61L 2/20 (2006.01); B08B 3/02 (2006.01)
CPC B67C 3/001 (2013.01) [A61L 2/04 (2013.01); A61L 2/18 (2013.01); A61L 2/208 (2013.01); B08B 3/02 (2013.01); B67C 3/005 (2013.01); A61L 2202/17 (2013.01)] 4 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of decontaminating an aseptic filling apparatus,
the aseptic filling apparatus comprising various kinds of stations including a content filling station arranged from an upstream side to a downstream side of a flow of a preform or container fed by rotation of wheels in a wheel train, and each of the various kinds of stations being covered by a chamber,
wherein a CIP of the content filling station is performed after rotation of a wheel in the content filling station is stopped, a COP or SOP of the content filling station is performed while the wheel in the content filling station is rotating immediately after the CIP is completed, an SIP of the content filling station is performed with rotation of the wheel in the content filling station being stopped immediately after the COP or SOP is completed, and one or both of the COP and SOP of the other stations is performed in a predetermined order while wheels in the other stations are rotating in a period from the start of the CIP to the end of the SIP, and
wherein the SOP of the content filling station and the SOP of the other stations are performed in parallel between the stations.