USHIO INC.: Collaboration with Toshiba Lighting & Technology: Care222TM light source module
to increase the use of ultraviolet rays that suppress viruses!
Ushio Electric
August 26, announced that it will collaborate with Toshiba Lighting & Technology on the development of UV sterilization and virus suppression equipment.
Ultraviolet (UV) light having a wavelength of 222 nanometers (nano is one billionth) is used.
Has a sterilizing and virus inactivating effect and is gentle to the human body.
Application fields:
Use ultraviolet rays (UV) to prevent new coronavirus infectious diseases in cars and railways.
Cooperate in the development of general lighting equipment. It aims to launch a product that can be installed on the ceiling in January 2021.
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Ushio Electric and Toshiba Lighting & Technology: Joint development of UV sterilization/virus inactivation device
-Business alliance with equipment for in-vehicle/railroad vehicles and general lighting-
Usio Electric and Toshiba Lighting & Technology:
We will jointly develop an ultraviolet sterilization/virus suppression device equipped with “Care222TM light source module”.
We have agreed to form a business alliance with regard to the development of equipment and general lighting equipment to be installed in automobiles and railway vehicles.
Care222TM:
A new UV light source that is safe for human skin and eyes and that retains the virus’s original virus inactivating and sterilizing ability.
Conventionally, ultraviolet rays with a wavelength of 254 nm have been used for virus inactivation and sterilization by ultraviolet rays, but there is a high risk of skin damage and the like, and direct irradiation to the human body has been avoided.
This time, “Care222TM” irradiates only 200-230nm ultraviolet rays, which is safe for the human body, by combining a special optical filter with our own excimer lamp*.
It is possible to inactivate and sterilize viruses by directly irradiating them with viruses and bacteria.
Ushio Electric