US Patent Issued to Dai Nippon Printing on July 28 for "Method of sterilizing drink filling apparatus and drink filling apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,691,188, issued on July 28, was assigned to Dai Nippon Printing Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Method of sterilizing drink filling apparatus and drink filling apparatus" was invented by Atsushi Hayakawa (Tokyo) and Shuta Ito (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To reduce the time required to start a drink filling operation or the time interval between productions.In a method of sterilizing a drink filling apparatus that includes drink supply piping that feeds a drink into a filling machine through a heating sterilization part, a heated liquid or heated steam is fed to the drink supply piping, temperatures of the drink supply piping at a plurality o...