STERILIZATION VESSEL

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a sterilization vessel uniformly sterilizing an object to be sterilized, stably providing the sterilizing effect and safely performing the sterilization. SOLUTION: A vessel 1 as the sterilization vessel is provided with a water storage part 2 and an ion elution unit 3. The water storage part 2, in its inside, is stored with liquid which contains metal ions eluted from electrodes 11 and 12 of the ion elution unit 3, as sterilizing water. When only the object to be sterilized is immersed in the liquid in the water storage part 2, the metal ions in the liquid uniformly permeate in the entire object to be sterilized. The contents in the liquid as the sterilizing water are metal ions, so that some temperature rise/lowering of the liquid neither fluctuates the quantity of the metal ions nor induces massive evaporation of the liquid itself. This constitution can prevent great fluctuation of the metal ion concentration and generate no toxic substance. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI