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Self-Inflating Heat Sanitizer

[Category : - Appliances and houseware- HEALTH- PET PRODUCTS]
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The Self-Inflating Heat Sanitizer offers a quick and convenient means to prevent bedbug transmission to the home after travel. Travel which involves a hotel stay currently presents a significant risk of a bedbug encounter (0.6-24.4% of hotel rooms required treatment for bedbugs according to the survey involving 700 client hotels of the pest-control company Steritech - reference: USA Today "Bedbugs take a bite out of travel comfort" 9/15/2006). Bedbugs occur in every type of hotel from the most economical to the very upscale. Nearly every major well-known hotel chain suffers from widely accessible reports (Internet source: Bedbug Registry) of mild to severe bedbug encounters by patrons and several of these adverse experiences have resulted in multi-million dollar lawsuits with damaging publicity.
The Self-Inflating Heat Sanitizer consists of an inflatable section which starts about the size of a sleeping bag and self-inflates to a 5by4by3 foot volume from the action of a separate small heater blower unit (approximately 1by1by1 foot size) - the entire system weighs approximately 15 pounds. Once activated, the Self-Inflating Heat Sanitizer will fully inflate to allow a traveller to place luggage, then the automatic heating cycle uses 160 degree Fahrenheit chamber air temperature with convecton and re-heating to achieve an internal (core) luggage temperature of 122 degrees Fahrenheit (which is lethal to all begbug stages: egg/nymph/adult). The system requires only a single standard 15 amp household electrical outlet and total treament time requirement is approximately 4 hours. The entire system treatment cycle is completely automatic (similar to a household dryer).
The Self-Inflating Heat Sanitizer also offers the ability to heat sanitize sleeping bags/backpacks/stuffed toys against bedbugs/lice/ticks/fleas. The Self-Inflating Heat Sanitizer also offers the ability to heat sanitize pet beds against fleas/ticks.

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I would consider outright sale and/or license with royalties.

Patent publications:

US 8742296

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10,000 USD

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bermudez (United States)

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