CN217489349U - Personnel disinfection equipment - Google Patents

Abstract

The present disclosure provides a personnel disinfection apparatus. The disinfection apparatus includes an apparatus body, a disinfection system, and a sensing system. The device body includes an inlet, an outlet, a top, and a bottom, and includes a spray region. The sterilization system includes: a spray device configured to provide a mist of disinfectant to a spray area; and a hand disinfection device disposed at an intermediate position between the top and the bottom of the apparatus main body, including a hand disinfection container for containing a disinfectant to disinfect hands of a person who enters the hand disinfection container. The sensing system is configured to sense the action of a person in or near the spray area.

Description

Personnel disinfection equipment

Technical Field

Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a sterilization apparatus and a sterilization method using the same.

Background

Along with the improvement of the production and living standard of people, the problem of biological safety of a pig farm is more prominent. Personnel entering and leaving the pig farm should strictly enforce sterilization regulations to prevent import and diffusion internally. However, current sterilization devices are poorly operable, lack regulatory means, and have difficulty in effectively performing sterilization protocols.

SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL

At least one embodiment of the present disclosure provides a personnel sanitizing device comprising a device body, a sanitizing system, and a sensing system. The device body includes an inlet, an outlet, a top, and a bottom, and includes a spray region. The sterilization system includes: a spray device configured to supply a mist of disinfectant to a spray area; and a hand sterilizing device disposed at an intermediate position between the top and the bottom of the apparatus main body, including a hand sterilizing container for containing a sterilizing liquid to sterilize hands of a person who enters the hand sterilizing container. The sensing system is configured to sense the action of a person in or near the spray area.

For example, in some embodiments, the disinfection device further comprises a controller. The controller is communicatively connected with the sensing system, is configured to receive the sensing signal from the sensing system, and determine whether the person meets the disinfection requirements based on the sensing signal.

For example, in some embodiments, the sensing system comprises: a first sensor configured to sense the presence of a person in the spray area; and a second sensor provided at the hand sterilizing container and configured to sense whether a person's hand enters the hand sterilizing container.

For example, in some embodiments, the first sensor comprises a weight sensor disposed at a bottom of the apparatus body corresponding to the spray area and comprising an elastic member and a displacement switch connected to the elastic member.

For example, in some embodiments, the second sensor includes at least one of a weight sensor, a photosensor, and a contact sensor.

For example, in some embodiments, the controller is communicatively connected with the first sensor and the second sensor and configured to: receiving a first sensing signal from a first sensor indicative of the presence of a person in the spray area; receiving a second sensing signal from a second sensor indicating whether a person's hand has entered the hand sanitizer container; and determining whether the person meets the disinfection requirement based on the first sensing signal and the second sensing signal. The controller determines that the person meets the sterilization requirements when the first sensing signal indicates that the person is present in the spray zone for a first dwell period of time and the second sensing signal indicates that both hands of the person enter the hand sterilization container for a second dwell period of time.

For example, in some embodiments, the sensing system further comprises a third sensor configured to sense at least one of whether a person passes through the entrance and whether a person passes through the exit.

For example, in some embodiments, the controller is further communicatively connected with a third sensor, and is further configured to: receiving at least one of a third sensing signal from a third sensor indicating whether a person passes through the inlet and a fourth sensing signal indicating whether a person passes through the outlet, and determining whether the person passes through the disinfection apparatus without meeting the disinfection requirements based on the at least one of the third sensing signal and the fourth sensing signal and based on the first sensing signal. The controller determines that the person has passed the disinfection apparatus without meeting the disinfection requirements when the third and fourth sensed signals indicate that the person has passed at least one of the inlet and the outlet and the first sensed signal indicates that the person has not ever been present in the spray area.

For example, in some embodiments, the third sensor comprises at least two pairs of reflective photosensors, one pair of reflective photosensors disposed at the entrance of the device body and configured to sense whether a person passes through the entrance, the other pair of reflective photosensors disposed at the exit of the device body and configured to sense whether a person passes through the exit.

For example, in some embodiments, the controller is configured to generate a cue instruction. The disinfection device also includes a user interface communicatively coupled to the controller and configured to communicate the reminder instructions generated by the controller to a person approaching the disinfection device.

For example, in some embodiments, the controller is configured to perform a disinfection operation when the sensed signal indicates that a person is beginning to be present in the spray area, the disinfection operation comprising: generating a first prompt instruction for prompting a person to place a hand into a hand disinfection container, and controlling a spraying device to be started to provide atomized disinfectant liquid for a first spraying time period to a spraying area; and generating a second prompting instruction that prompts the person that the disinfection requirements have been met and that the person can exit the disinfection apparatus when the sensed signal indicates that the person is present in the spray area for a first dwell period and the hand of the person enters the hand disinfection container for a second dwell period.

For example, in some embodiments, the controller is configured to: generating an instruction to alert the person that re-disinfection is required when the sensed signal indicates that the person has not left the spray area for the first dwell period or that the person's hands have not entered the hand disinfection container for the second dwell period, and re-performing the disinfection operation when the sensed signal indicates that the person is again present in the spray area.

For example, in some embodiments, the apparatus body includes a body frame defining an inlet, an outlet, a top, and a bottom. The spraying device comprises a spraying generator for generating the foggy disinfectant, at least one spraying opening and at least one spraying pipeline for connecting the spraying opening and the spraying generator, and the at least one spraying pipeline is arranged in the main body frame.

For example, in some embodiments, the at least one spray outlet includes at least one top spray outlet disposed proximate the top portion and at least one intermediate spray outlet disposed at an intermediate position between the top portion and the bottom portion. The controller is communicatively connected to the at least one spray outlet and configured to control the spray device to provide atomized disinfection solution to the spray area using only the at least one intermediate spray outlet or using both the at least one intermediate spray outlet and the at least one top spray outlet, in accordance with a preset or input from the user interface.

For example, in some embodiments, the disinfection apparatus further comprises: foot degassing unit, it sets up in the bottom of equipment main part, including the foot disinfection container that is used for holding the antiseptic solution in order to disinfect to the personnel's that get into foot disinfection container foot.

For example, in some embodiments, the sensing system further comprises a fourth sensor disposed at the foot sterilization container to sense and configured to sense whether a foot of a person enters the foot sterilization container.

For example, in some embodiments, the disinfection device further comprises a foldable step, the foldable step being transformable between a folded state and an unfolded state. In the folded state, the foldable step is inside the main body frame. In the unfolded state, the foldable step extends out of the main body frame to expand the area of the bottom. The foot sanitizing container is form fitted with the foldable step in an unfolded state to fit over the foldable step.

Some embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method of monitoring sterilization of a person using a sterilization apparatus. The sterilization apparatus includes: an apparatus body, a sterilization system, and a sensing system. The device body includes an inlet, an outlet, a top, and a bottom, and includes a spray region. The sterilization system includes: a spraying device; and a hand disinfection device which is arranged at the middle position between the top and the bottom of the equipment main body and comprises a hand disinfection container for containing disinfectant. The method comprises the following steps: sensing with a sensing system an action of a person in or near the spray area; providing a mist of disinfectant to a spray area by using a spraying device; disinfecting the hands of the personnel entering the hand disinfection container by using a hand disinfection device; receiving a sensing signal from a sensing system; and determining whether the person meets the disinfection requirements based on the sensing signal.

For example, in some embodiments, a sensing system comprises: a first sensor; and a second sensor provided at the hand sterilizing container. Sensing the action of the person in or near the spray area with the sensing system includes: sensing the presence of a person in the spray area with a first sensor; and sensing whether the hands of the person enter the hand disinfection container by using the second sensor. Receiving a sensing signal from a sensing system includes: receiving a first sensing signal from a first sensor indicative of the presence of a person in the spray area; and receiving a second sensing signal from the second sensor indicating whether a hand of a person has entered the hand sanitizing container. Determining whether the person meets the sterilization requirements based on the sensing signals includes determining that the person meets the sterilization requirements when the first sensing signal indicates that the person is present in the spray area for a first dwell period of time and the second sensing signal indicates that both hands of the person enter the hand sterilization container for a second dwell period of time.

For example, in some embodiments, the sensing system further comprises a third sensor. The act of sensing, with the sensing system, the person in or near the spray area further comprises sensing, with a third sensor, at least one of whether the person passes through the inlet and whether the person passes through the outlet. Receiving the sensing signal from the sensing system further includes receiving at least one of a third sensing signal from a third sensor indicating whether the person passed through the entrance and a fourth sensing signal indicating whether the person passed through the exit. Determining whether the person meets the sterilization requirements based on the sensing signals includes determining that the person has passed through the sterilization apparatus without meeting the sterilization requirements when the third sensing signal and the fourth sensing signal indicate that the person has passed through at least one of the inlet and the outlet, and the first sensing signal indicates that the person has not ever been present in the spray area.

For example, in some embodiments, the disinfecting device further comprises a user interface, and the method comprises generating a reminder instruction and communicating the generated reminder instruction to personnel within the spray area using the user interface.

Drawings

To more clearly illustrate the technical solutions of the embodiments of the present disclosure, the drawings that are required to be used in the embodiments will be briefly described below, it should be understood that the following drawings only illustrate some embodiments of the present disclosure and therefore should not be considered as limiting the scope, and for those skilled in the art, other related drawings may be obtained from the drawings without inventive effort.

Figure 1 shows a perspective view of a disinfection device according to an embodiment of the present disclosure from one side,

figure 2 shows another perspective view of a disinfection device according to an embodiment of the present disclosure from another side,

FIG. 3 shows a block diagram of a disinfection apparatus according to an embodiment of the present disclosure, and

fig. 4 shows a flow chart of a sterilization method according to an embodiment of the present disclosure.

Detailed Description

Hereinafter, a sterilizing apparatus, a sterilizing system including the sterilizing apparatus, and a sterilizing method using the sterilizing apparatus according to embodiments of the present disclosure will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. To make the objects, technical solutions and advantages of the present disclosure more clear, the technical solutions in the embodiments of the present disclosure will be clearly and completely described below with reference to the drawings in the embodiments of the present disclosure, and it is obvious that the described embodiments are some, but not all embodiments of the present disclosure.

Thus, the following detailed description of the embodiments of the present disclosure, presented in conjunction with the figures, is not intended to limit the scope of the claimed disclosure, but is merely representative of selected embodiments of the disclosure. All other embodiments, which can be derived by a person skilled in the art from the embodiments disclosed herein without making any creative effort, shall fall within the protection scope of the present disclosure.

The singular forms include the plural unless the context otherwise dictates otherwise. Throughout the specification, the terms "comprises," "comprising," "has," "having," and the like are used herein to specify the presence of stated features, integers, steps, operations, elements, components, or groups thereof, but do not preclude the presence or addition of one or more other features, integers, steps, operations, elements, components, or groups thereof.

In addition, even though ordinal terms such as "first," "second," etc., are used to describe various elements, the elements are not limited by the terms, and the terms are used only to distinguish one element from another.

Pig farms are often provided with showers for persons entering and exiting the pig farm to shower for disinfection of the persons. However, such a disinfection regimen is difficult to avoid personnel entering or leaving a pig farm without meeting disinfection requirements, lacks regulatory means, and is difficult to effectively implement disinfection regulations. In addition, frequent daily showering of the person for disinfection can cause damage to the skin.

Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a personnel sterilization apparatus that enables personnel to perform whole body sterilization without bathing and enhances supervision of personnel, thereby effectively executing sterilization regulations. The sterilization apparatus includes: an apparatus body comprising an inlet, an outlet, a top, and a bottom, and comprising a spray zone; a hand sanitizer system including a spray device configured to supply a mist of sanitizing liquid to the spray area, and a hand sanitizer device disposed at an intermediate location between the top and bottom of the equipment body and including a hand sanitizer container for holding sanitizing liquid for sanitizing hands of a person entering the hand sanitizer container; and a sensing system configured to sense the action of a person in or near the spray area.

Through the disinfection system including atomizer and hand degassing unit, personnel can utilize the spraying to disinfect whole body to the antiseptic solution that utilizes hand degassing unit soaks the disinfection to the hand emphatically. Therefore, the bathing is avoided, the disinfection process is greatly simplified, and the damage to the skin of a person is reduced.

Further, the disinfection device may further comprise a controller communicatively connected with the sensing system. The controller is configured to receive a sensing signal from the sensing system and determine whether the person meets the disinfection requirements based on the sensing signal.

By utilizing the sensing system and the controller to determine whether a person meets the sterilization requirements, the person utilizing the sterilization apparatus can be effectively supervised to effectively execute the sterilization specification.

It should be noted that the sterilization apparatus of the present disclosure is not limited to be applied to a pig farm, and may be applied to any place where sterilization of persons is required, such as other types of animal farms, animal laboratories, biological laboratories, operating rooms, and the like.

Fig. 1 illustrates a perspective view of a sterilizing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present disclosure, viewed from one side, fig. 2 illustrates another perspective view of a sterilizing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present disclosure, viewed from another side, and fig. 3 illustrates a block diagram of a sterilizing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present disclosure.

As shown in fig. 1-3, the disinfection apparatus includes an apparatus body 140, a disinfection system 120, a sensing system 130, a user interface 150, and a controller 110 communicatively connected to the apparatus body 140, the disinfection system 120, the sensing system 130, and the user interface 150. The apparatus body 140 includes a body frame 143 defining an inlet, an outlet, a top, and a bottom, and the body frame 143 further includes a spray region inside thereof. The sterilizing system 120 includes a spraying device 121, a hand sterilizing device 122 disposed at an intermediate position between the top and bottom of the apparatus body 140, and a foot sterilizing device 123. The spray device 121 is configured to provide a mist of disinfectant to the spray area. The hand sanitizer 122 includes a hand sanitizer container for holding a sanitizing liquid for sanitizing the hands of a person entering the hand sanitizer container. The foot disinfection device 123 includes a foot disinfection container for containing a disinfection liquid to disinfect feet of a person who enters the foot disinfection container. The sensing system 130 is configured to sense the action of a person in or near the spray area and transmit a sensing signal to the controller 110. The controller 110 is communicatively connected with the sensing system 130 and is configured to receive the sensing signal from the sensing system 130 and determine whether the person meets the sterilization requirements based on the sensing signal.

If the person does not meet the disinfection requirements, the disinfection device may prevent the person from passing through the exit and may prompt the person to continue or resume disinfection; if a person passes through the disinfection device without the controller 110 determining that the person meets the disinfection requirements, the disinfection device may record and record the identity of the person in an internal storage medium and/or upload to a remote management server, as will be described in detail later.

Herein, "communicatively connected" may refer to being connected to transmit signals by wireless communication means such as mobile cellular data, WIFI, or by wired communication means such as wires.

For example, the spray area is defined as the area which is substantially entirely accessible to the disinfecting liquid from the spraying device 121 when a person is present in the area.

The controller 110 includes, for example, a microprocessor, a digital signal processor ("DSP"), an application specific integrated circuit ("ASIC"), a field programmable gate array ("FPGA"), or the like.

It is noted that the inlet and outlet of the disinfection apparatus may be used interchangeably. The inlet is defined as the passage of a person to the side of the disinfection apparatus to be disinfected and the outlet is positioned as the passage of a person to the side of the disinfection apparatus to be disinfected. That is, when shower disinfecting a person who enters a place, a passage on the side far from the place is an inlet, and a passage on the side near the place is an outlet. When disinfecting persons leaving the site, the passage on the side close to the site is the entrance and the passage on the side far from the site is the exit.

During the disinfection, the mist-like disinfecting liquid (i.e., mist droplets) supplied from the spraying device 121 falls on the person in the spraying area, the person steps on his feet in the foot disinfecting container, and the person's hands are inserted into the hand disinfecting container. The sterilizing liquid supplied from the spraying device 121, the sterilizing liquid in the foot sterilizing container, and the sterilizing liquid in the hand sterilizing container may be the same or different, and these sterilizing liquids may be selected from conventional sterilizing liquids or dedicated sterilizing liquids, and the disclosure is not limited thereto.

The spraying device 121 comprises a spray generator 1211 for generating a spray of sterilizing fluid, at least one spray opening 1212, 1213 and at least one spray conduit (not shown) connecting the spray opening with the spray generator 1211. The at least one spray conduit may be provided in a frame, which may save space and improve aesthetics. The at least one spray outlets 1212, 1213 may include at least one top spray outlet 1212 disposed near the top and at least one middle spray outlet 1213 disposed at an intermediate position between the top and bottom. At least one top spray nozzle 1212 is a first distance from a bottom surface on which a person is standing and at least one intermediate spray nozzle 1213 is a second distance from a bottom surface on which a person is standing. For example, the first distance may be in the range of 1700-2000mm, and the second distance may be in the range of 350-700mm, preferably in the range of 400-600 mm. In addition, the spraying apparatus 121 may further include an internal water tank connected to the spray generator 1211 for storing the sterilizing liquid for the spray generator 1211 to generate the atomized sterilizing liquid. In some examples, the spray device 121 may also include an external water tank instead of or in addition to the internal water tank for storing the sanitizing liquid.

When using the disinfection apparatus, the person needs to wear waterproof clothing and waterproof shoes. Therefore, the fog drops falling on the human body can be ensured not to permeate clothes to contact the skin of the human body, and the disinfectant in the foot disinfection container can not contact the skin of the feet of the human body.

The controller is communicatively connected to the at least one spray opening 1212, 1213 and is configured to control the spraying device 121 to provide a spray of sanitizing liquid to the spray area using only the at least one intermediate spray opening 1213 or using both the at least one intermediate spray opening 1213 and the at least one top spray opening 1212, according to preset or input from a user interface. For example, if a waterproof garment can be applied to the neck and head above the shoulders, the user interface can be used to select both the use of at least one intermediate spray opening 1213 and at least one top spray opening 1212 for whole-body spray disinfection. For example, if the waterproof garment cannot cover the neck and head above the shoulders, the use of at least one intermediate spray opening 1213 may be selected using the user interface without using at least one top spray opening 1212 for whole body spray disinfection.

The sensing system 130 may include a first sensor 131, a second sensor 132, a third sensor 133, and a fourth sensor 134.

The first sensor 131 is configured to sense the presence of a person in the spray area. The second sensor 132 is disposed at the hand sterilizing container and configured to sense whether a person's hand enters the hand sterilizing container. The controller 110 is connected with the first sensor 131 to receive a first sensing signal from the first sensor 131 indicating the presence of a person in the spray area. Also, the controller 110 is connected with the second sensor 132 to receive a second sensing signal from the second sensor 132 indicating whether a person's hand has entered the hand sanitizing container. The controller determines whether the person meets the sterilization requirements based on the first sensing signal and the second sensing signal. Specifically, the controller determines that the person meets the sterilization requirement when the first sensing signal indicates that the person is present in the spray zone for a first dwell period of time, and the second sensing signal indicates that both hands of the person enter the hand sterilization container for a second dwell period of time. During this first dwell period, the person can be spray sterilised by means of the spraying device 121. In this second dwell period, the hands of the person may be disinfected by immersion in a disinfecting liquid contained in a hand disinfecting container. Only if the person stays in the spray zone for a first stay period and both hands of the person stay for a second stay period can be considered to meet the disinfection requirements, thus effectively supervising the disinfection of the person.

In the present embodiment, the first sensor 131 is a weight sensor, and therefore, the presence of a person in the spray area can be reliably sensed, and particularly, the continued presence of a person can be reliably sensed. The weight sensor is disposed at the bottom of the apparatus body 140 corresponding to the spray area. In this example, the weight sensor is provided at the bottom of the apparatus body 140 below the spray area, below the foot disinfection container. The weight sensor includes, for example, an elastic member and a displacement switch connected to the elastic member. When a person is present in the spray area, it stands above the weight sensor and causes the displacement switch to be displaced by the resilient member. A first sensing signal indicative of the presence of a person in the spray zone is generated when the displacement of the displacement switch exceeds a predetermined threshold.

But the disclosure is not limited thereto. In another embodiment, the first sensor 131 may be a pressure sensitive sensor. In another embodiment, the first sensor 131 may be a photoelectric sensor with its sensing area in the spray area. In another embodiment, the first sensor 131 may be at least two photosensors whose sensing regions are at the entrance and the exit, respectively. When the at least two photoelectric sensors sense that a person passes through the inlet but does not pass through the outlet, it can be judged that the person is present in the spray area. The above-described photoelectric sensor may be a reflective photoelectric sensor including a receiver and an emitter which are provided together or a photoelectric sensor including a receiver and an emitter which are provided opposite to each other.

In the present embodiment, the hand disinfection device 122 includes two hand disinfection containers, and at least one pair of second sensors are respectively disposed in the two hand disinfection containers to respectively sense whether the hands of the person respectively enter the two hand disinfection containers. The second sensor is a reflective photoelectric sensor mounted in the hand disinfection container. When the hand of a person enters the hand disinfection container, the light generated by the light emitter of the reflective photoelectric sensor is reflected by the hand and is sensed by the light receiver of the reflective photoelectric sensor.

In other embodiments, the second sensor may also be other types of photoelectric sensors whose sensing area is in the hand sanitizing container. Alternatively, the second sensor may be a weight sensor arranged at the bottom of the hand sanitizer container. When the weight sensor is triggered by the hand of the person pressing on the bottom of the hand disinfection container, a second sensing signal generated by the weight sensor as a second sensor indicates that the hand of the person enters the hand disinfection container. Alternatively, the second sensor may be a contact sensor provided in the hand sterilizing container, and when the hand of the person comes into contact with the contact sensor, the second sensing signal generated by the contact sensor as the second sensor indicates that the hand of the person enters the hand sterilizing container.

In the present embodiment, the sterilizing device includes the foot sterilizing device 123, but the present disclosure is not limited thereto. The foot disinfection container of the foot disinfection device 123 is provided at the bottom of the apparatus main body 140, and when a person steps into the apparatus main body 140 and is in the spray area, the feet of the person can be considered to be placed in the foot disinfection container. In other embodiments, the spray device 121 may be used to spray disinfect the feet of a person, for example, the spray device 121 may include a bottom spray outlet disposed at the bottom.

In some embodiments, the fourth sensor 134 may be utilized to sense whether a person's foot has entered the foot sanitizer container to sanitize the foot. Only if the fourth sensing signal from the fourth sensor 134 indicates that the foot of the person enters the foot sterilization container for the third stay period, i.e. the foot is sterilized for the third stay period, the sterilization requirement can be judged to be met. For example, the fourth sensor 134 may also be a weight sensor mounted below the foot sanitizing container, such as where the first sensor is not a weight sensor. For example, the fourth sensor 134 may be a contact sensor mounted in the foot sanitizer container or a photoelectric sensor such as a reflective photoelectric sensor.

Furthermore, in order to prevent a person from passing over the disinfection device without stepping into the bottom of the disinfection device, the sensing system 130 comprises a third sensor 133 configured to sense at least one of whether a person passes the inlet and whether a person passes the outlet. In this case, the controller 110 is also communicatively connected with the third sensor 133 to receive at least one of a third sensing signal indicating whether a person passes through the inlet and a fourth sensing signal indicating whether a person passes through the outlet from the third sensor 133, and to determine whether a person passes through the sterilizing apparatus without satisfying the sterilization requirements based on the first sensing signal and based on at least one of the third sensing signal and the fourth sensing signal. Specifically, when the third and fourth sensing signals indicate that a person passes through at least one of the inlet and the outlet, and the first sensing signal indicates that a person has never been present in the spray area, the controller 110 determines that the person has passed through the sterilizing apparatus without satisfying the sterilization requirements. Therefore, the third sensor 133 prevents the person from crossing the illegal operation of the disinfection apparatus without meeting the disinfection requirements, ensuring effective supervision.

For example, in the present embodiment, when the third and fourth sensing signals indicate that a person passes through both the inlet and the outlet, and the first sensing signal indicates that a person is not present in the spray area, the controller 110 determines that the person has passed through the sterilization apparatus without satisfying the sterilization requirement.

For example, in the present embodiment, the third sensor 133 includes at least two pairs of reflective type photosensors, one pair of reflective type photosensors being provided at an entrance of the apparatus main body 140 and configured to sense whether or not a person passes through the entrance, and the other pair of reflective type photosensors being provided at an exit of the apparatus main body 140 and configured to sense whether or not a person passes through the exit. The sensing directions of the two pairs of sensors may be offset by an angle (e.g., 30 °) with respect to the vertical direction toward the center line of the body frame 143 in the lateral line direction such that their respective sensing regions intersect at a middle position of the outlet in the vertical direction. Pairs of sensors can ensure reliable sensing of the passage of a person. For example, it may be set to judge that a person passes as long as one sensor of the paired sensors senses the passage of the person, and thus, it is possible to effectively judge that the person passes even if the other sensor fails. For example, it may be set that the paired sensors each sense the passage of a person and determine that the person passes, and therefore, erroneous determination may be prevented. But the present disclosure is not limited thereto. In further embodiments, the third sensor 133 may be provided only at the inlet or only at the outlet, and only one or more may be provided. Alternatively, the third sensor 133 may be a weight sensor, a pressure-sensitive sensor, a contact sensor, or the like provided at the inlet or the outlet.

In addition, the disinfection device may also interact with the user to guide and prompt the user. The controller 110 is configured to generate alert instructions and the user interface 150 is configured to communicate the alert instructions generated by the controller 110 to a person approaching the disinfection device. In the present embodiment, the user interface 150 includes a speaker mounted on the main body frame 143. But the present disclosure is not limited thereto. Additionally or alternatively, the user interface 150 may include a display panel, input devices such as a keyboard and buttons. The prompting instructions may be communicated to the person by one or more of sound, text, animation, or the like.

For example, the controller 110 may transmit prompt instructions to personnel in the spray area via the user interface 150 to guide the personnel in the disinfection. In particular, the controller 110 is configured to perform a disinfection operation when the sensed signal indicates that a person is beginning to be present in the spray area. The sterilization operation includes: and generating a first prompt instruction prompting the person to place hands into the hand disinfection container, controlling the spraying device 121 to be started to provide the mist-shaped disinfection liquid to the spraying area for a first spraying time period, and generating a second prompt instruction prompting the person to meet the disinfection requirement and to leave the disinfection equipment when the sensing signal indicates that the person exists in the spraying area for the first staying time period and the hands of the person enter the hand disinfection container for a second staying time period.

For example, the first prompt instruction includes a voice prompt of "please place hand in hand disinfection container", and the second prompt instruction includes a voice prompt of "disinfection is completed, can leave".

The disinfection is carried out by guiding personnel, the operability of the disinfection equipment is improved, and the disinfection effect is ensured.

The controller 110 may prompt personnel through the user interface 150 that the sterilization requirements have not been met. For example, the controller 110 is configured to generate an instruction that prompts personnel to require re-sterilization when the disinfection personnel exit the spray area from the outlet based on the sensed signal determining that the disinfection personnel do not meet the sterilization requirements. Situations where the person does not meet the disinfection requirements include, for example, the person not being present in the spray area for a first dwell period and/or the person's hands not being present in the hand disinfection container for a second dwell period. Further, the controller 110 is configured to re-perform the sterilization operation when the sensing signal indicates that a person is again present in the spray area. For example, the instruction to require re-sterilization includes a voice prompt to "sterilization is not complete, please return to spray area re-sterilization". For example, when the first and fourth sensing signals indicate that a person passes through the outlet without staying in the spray area for the first staying period, it is determined that the person does not satisfy the sterilization requirements and leaves the spray area from the outlet. For example, when the second and fourth sensing signals indicate that the hands of the person pass through the outlet without staying in the hand disinfecting device 122 for the second staying time period, it is determined that the person does not satisfy the disinfection requirement and leaves the spray area from the outlet.

The controller 110 may have an external communication interface for connecting to a management server, either wired or wirelessly. For example, the controller 110 may be connected to the management server by wires that are routed through in-line outlets 111 at the top of the device body 133. In addition, connecting wires, such as the power wires of the disinfection device, may also be routed through in-line outlets 111. When the person leaves or passes the sterilizing apparatus without satisfying the sterilization requirements and is not re-sterilized according to the prompt, the controller 110 records the identity information of the person in its memory or uploads the identity information of the person to the management server through the external communication interface. These people will be recorded in the black list.

Further, the apparatus body 140 may further include an entrance guard device 141 including an entrance guard member for opening and closing an exit. For example, the access control member may be a door or a railing. The controller 110 is communicatively connected to the access device 141 and is configured to allow the access member to open the exit when it is determined that the person meets the disinfection requirements; and when the judgment personnel do not meet the disinfection requirement, forbidding the access control component to open the outlet. Furthermore, access control means such as doors or railings may also be provided at the access opening.

The door guard 141 may further include an identification means 142 for acquiring identification information of a person. Identification member 142 facilitates management of personnel entering and exiting the facility. The identification means 142 may comprise two NFC means, which are installed at the entrance and exit, respectively, and the person may identify by swiping an access card to be sterilized with and through the sterilizing device. When the person identified by the identification member 142 is on the blacklist, the person is not allowed to enter the disinfection apparatus. For example, when a person identified by the identity identification component 142 is on a blacklist, the person is prompted through the user interface 150 that the person cannot enter the venue because of the presence of a violation record. In other embodiments, an image sensor such as a camera may be used to obtain the identity information of the person through face recognition.

The apparatus body 140 may also include a drape (not shown) disposed about the body frame 143 that prevents or reduces spray liquid spillage. The drape may be opaque, which is beneficial for protecting the privacy of the person.

The hand disinfection container and the foot disinfection container may each include a disinfectant outlet and a disinfectant inlet to facilitate replenishment and replacement of disinfectant within the disinfectant container. The sanitizing liquid inlet of the respective sanitizing liquid container can be connected to a tank for storing sanitizing liquid and can be communicatively connected to the controller to automatically replenish the sanitizing liquid. A liquid level sensor can be arranged in the corresponding disinfectant container to sense the liquid level of the disinfectant. In some embodiments, the foot and hand sanitizing containers are removably mounted to the body frame 143 to facilitate installation and to facilitate manual replacement of sanitizing solution.

The device body 140 may also include a stowable step 160 that is transitionable between a stowed state and a deployed state. In the stowed state, the stowable step 160 is inside the body frame 143; in the deployed state, the stowable step 160 extends out of the main body frame 143 to expand the area of the bottom. In the stowed state, the stowable step 160 may be housed at the bottom of the apparatus body 140. The stowable pedal 160 may be in the form of a drawer or a folding flap, to which the present disclosure is not limited. In some embodiments, the foot sanitizing container is form fit with the collapsible step in an expanded state to fit over the collapsible step. For example, the two retractable steps 160 on both sides form a recess having an inverted trapezoidal shape in cross section with the bottom of the main body frame 143, and the foot sterilization container may be formed to have substantially the same inverted trapezoidal shape in cross section. The retractable step 160 helps keep the overall size of the disinfection apparatus small for ease of installation and helps provide a larger use space for personnel.

Controller 110 includes control logic for controlling disinfection system 120, receiving sensing signals from sensing system 130, and determining whether a person meets disinfection requirements based on sensing signals including, for example, a first sensing signal, a second sensing signal, a third sensing signal, and a fourth sensing signal, as described above. In addition, the controller 110 may also include setting logic for a user to set parameters of the disinfection device. The setting logic is configured to receive a user input command from the user interface 150 and set the first dwell period, the second dwell period, etc. based on the user input command.

The present disclosure also provides a sterilization method using a sterilization apparatus, such as the sterilization apparatus described above. Fig. 4 shows a flow chart of a sterilization method according to an embodiment of the present disclosure. As shown in fig. 4, the method may include: step S1, sensing the action of a person in or near the spray area with a sensing system; step S2, supplying a mist of disinfectant to the spray area by the spray device 121; step S3, sterilizing the hands of the person who enters the hand sterilizing container by the hand sterilizing device 122; step S4, receiving a sensing signal from a sensing system; and step S5, judging whether the personnel meet the disinfection requirement based on the sensing signal. Furthermore, the method may further comprise sterilizing the feet of the person entering the foot sterilization container with the foot sterilization device 123.

The act of sensing a person in or near the spray area with the sensing system 130 may include:

sensing the presence of a person in the spray area with the first sensor 131;

sensing whether a person's hands enter the hand sanitizer container using the second sensor,

sensing with said third sensor 133 whether a person passes at least one of the entrance and whether a person passes the exit, and

the fourth sensor 134 is used to sense whether the foot of the person has entered the foot sterilization container.

Receiving the sensing signal from the sensing system 130 may include receiving a first sensing signal from a first sensor indicating the presence of a person in the spray area; receiving a second sensing signal from a second sensor indicating whether a person's hand has entered the hand sanitizer container; receiving at least one of a third sensing signal indicating whether a person passes through the entrance and a fourth sensing signal indicating whether a person passes through the exit from the third sensor 133; and receives a fifth sensing signal from the fourth sensor 134 indicating whether a person's foot has entered the foot sterilization container.

Determining whether the person meets the sterilization requirements based on the sensed signal may include:

when the first sensing signal indicates that the person exists in the spray area for a first stay time period and the second sensing signal indicates that both hands of the person enter the hand disinfection container for a second stay time period, judging that the person meets the disinfection requirement; and

when the third and fourth sensing signals indicate that the person passes at least one of the inlet and the outlet and the first sensing signal indicates that the person was not present in the spray area, it is determined that the person passed through the disinfection apparatus without meeting the disinfection requirements.

Determining whether the person meets the sterilization requirements based on the sensing signal may further include:

when the first sensing signal indicates that the person is present in the spray area for a first stay time period, the second sensing signal indicates that both hands of the person enter the hand sterilization container for a second stay time period, and the fifth sensing signal indicates that both feet of the person enter the foot sterilization container for a third stay time period, it is determined that the person meets the sterilization requirements.

Additionally, the method includes generating a cue instruction and communicating the generated cue instruction to personnel within the spray area using the user interface 150.

Further, the method may include various steps, such as a sterilization operation, performed by the controller 110 as described above.

The various steps described above may be performed in the order described, in other orders, or in parallel.

Furthermore, the present disclosure also provides a computer readable medium storing a computer program which, when executed by the controller 110, causes the controller 110 to perform the above-described method.

The scope of the present disclosure is not defined by the above-described embodiments but is defined by the appended claims and equivalents thereof.

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1. A personal disinfection apparatus, comprising:

an apparatus body comprising an inlet, an outlet, a top, and a bottom, and comprising a spray area,

a sterilization system, comprising:

a spray device configured to provide a mist of disinfection solution to the spray area; and

a hand disinfection device provided at a middle position between the top and the bottom of the apparatus main body, including a hand disinfection container for containing a disinfectant to disinfect hands of a person who enters the hand disinfection container;

a sensing system configured to sense the action of a person in or near the spray area; and

a foot sterilizing device provided at the bottom of the apparatus main body, including a foot sterilizing container for containing a sterilizing liquid to sterilize feet of a person who enters the foot sterilizing container,

the sensing system includes a first sensor configured to sense the presence of the person in the spray area.

2. A personnel disinfection apparatus as claimed in claim 1, further comprising:

a controller communicatively connected with the sensing system, the controller configured to receive a sensing signal from the sensing system and determine whether the person meets disinfection requirements based on the sensing signal.

3. Personnel disinfection apparatus as claimed in claim 2,

the sensing system further comprises:

a second sensor disposed at the hand sanitizing container and configured to sense whether a hand of the person enters the hand sanitizing container.

4. Personnel disinfection apparatus as claimed in claim 3,

the first sensor includes a weight sensor disposed at a bottom of the apparatus body corresponding to the spray area and including an elastic member and a displacement switch connected to the elastic member.

5. Personnel disinfection apparatus as claimed in claim 3,

the second sensor includes at least one of a weight sensor, a photosensor, and a contact sensor.

6. Personnel disinfection apparatus as claimed in claim 3,

the controller is communicatively connected with the first sensor and the second sensor and configured to:

receiving a first sensing signal from the first sensor indicative of the presence of the person in the spray area;

receiving a second sensing signal from the second sensor indicating whether a hand of the person has entered the hand sanitizing container; and

determining whether the person meets a disinfection requirement based on the first and second sensing signals,

wherein the controller determines that the person meets the sterilization requirement when the first sensing signal indicates that the person is present in the spray zone for a first dwell period of time and the second sensing signal indicates that both hands of the person enter the hand sterilization container for a second dwell period of time.

7. Personnel disinfection apparatus as claimed in claim 3 or 6,

the sensing system further includes a third sensor configured to sense at least one of whether the person passes through the entrance and whether the person passes through the exit.

8. Personnel disinfection apparatus as claimed in claim 6,

the sensing system further comprises a third sensor configured to sense at least one of whether the person passes through the entrance and whether the person passes through the exit,

the controller is also communicatively connected with the third sensor and is further configured to:

receiving at least one of a third sensing signal indicating whether the person passes through the entrance and a fourth sensing signal indicating whether the person passes through the exit from the third sensor, and

determining, based on at least one of the third and fourth sensed signals and based on the first sensed signal, whether the person has passed a disinfection apparatus without meeting disinfection requirements,

wherein the controller determines that the person has passed through the disinfection apparatus without meeting the disinfection requirements when the third and fourth sensing signals indicate that the person has passed through at least one of the inlet and the outlet and the first sensing signal indicates that the person has not been present in the spray area.

9. Personnel disinfection apparatus as claimed in claim 7,

the third sensor includes at least two pairs of reflective photoelectric sensors, one pair of reflective photoelectric sensors being provided at an entrance of the apparatus main body and configured to sense whether the person passes through the entrance, and the other pair of reflective photoelectric sensors being provided at an exit of the apparatus main body and configured to sense whether the person passes through the exit.

10. Personnel disinfection apparatus as claimed in claim 2,

the controller is configured to generate a prompt instruction,

the disinfection device also includes a user interface communicatively coupled with the controller and configured to communicate the reminder instruction generated by the controller to a person approaching the disinfection device.

11. Personnel disinfection apparatus according to claim 10,

the controller is configured to perform a sanitizing operation when the sensed signal indicates that the person begins to be present in the spray area, the sanitizing operation comprising:

generating a first prompt instruction prompting the person to place a hand into the hand disinfection container, and controlling the spraying device to be started to provide atomized disinfectant liquid to the spraying area for a first spraying time period; and

when the sensed signal indicates that the person is present in the spray area for a first dwell period and the hand of the person enters the hand sanitizing container for a second dwell period, generating a second alert instruction to alert the person that the sanitizing requirements have been met and that the person may exit the sanitizing apparatus.

12. Personnel disinfection apparatus as claimed in claim 11,

the controller is configured to:

generating an instruction to alert the person that re-disinfection is required when the sensed signal indicates that the person has not left the spray area for a first dwell period or that the person's hands have not entered the hand disinfection container for a second dwell period, and

re-performing the disinfecting operation when the sensed signal indicates that the person is again present in the spray area.

13. Personnel disinfection apparatus as claimed in claim 2,

the apparatus body includes a body frame defining the inlet, the outlet, the top, and the bottom,

the spraying device comprises a spraying generator for generating foggy disinfectant, at least one spraying opening and at least one spraying pipeline for connecting the spraying opening with the spraying generator, and the at least one spraying pipeline is arranged in the main body frame.

14. Personnel disinfection apparatus as claimed in claim 13,

the at least one spray outlet includes at least one top spray outlet disposed adjacent the top portion and at least one intermediate spray outlet disposed at an intermediate location between the top portion and the bottom portion,

the controller is communicatively connected to the at least one spray outlet and configured to control the spray device to provide atomized sanitizing liquid to the spray area using only the at least one intermediate spray outlet or using both the at least one intermediate spray outlet and the at least one top spray outlet, in accordance with preset or input from a user interface.

15. Personnel disinfection apparatus as claimed in claim 1,

the sensing system further comprises a fourth sensor disposed at the foot sanitizing container and configured to sense whether the foot of the person enters the foot sanitizing container.

16. Personnel disinfection apparatus as claimed in claim 1,

the apparatus body includes a body frame defining the inlet, the outlet, the top, and the bottom,

the disinfection apparatus further comprises a foldable step, which is changeable between a folded state and an unfolded state,

in the folded state, the foldable step is inside the main body frame,

in the unfolded state, the foldable pedal extends out of the main body frame to expand the area of the bottom,

the foot sanitizing container is form fitted with the foldable pedal in the unfolded state to fit over the foldable pedal.

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